If they said he had Asperger's or some sort of social-cues issues, I think I wouldn't mind it that much. I do believe that he really wasn't into Felicity romantically in the beginning of the season. Which is why their interactions in episode 7 felt staged. It only served to prevent Oliver and Felicity to get together…

I honestly don't understand how Merlyn of all people would let Oliver go to the sanctified thing and not make sure things were going according to his plans. It makes no sense. And now we have YET another character who doesn't know that their family members is dead. Thea and Captain Lance are going to create a support…

An Oliver-bot would mean that Felicity would be AWOL most of the episode, you know, "testing" the bot. For the sake of science, that is.

You forget all of Roy's parkour actually being useful. That alone baffled me.

Where the fuck was that mountain though? It was so weird. One scene, Thea asks Malcolm to look for Oliver (so what, Malcolm actually thought Oliver stood a chance and didn't follow through? WTF Malcolm?), next scene: "hey team Arrow, how's it hanging?", next scene "What is this sword doing in the mid… ooohhh", next…

I'm surprised by how much I took Brick seriously considering the fact that I kept expecting him to burst into songs and ask where his friend King Dickie is. Vinnie Jones is perfect.

What was that, this Batman comic glimpse in the episode? It seemed so weird that there might be a comic about a super hero that might be an actual thing in their world (you know, if Gotham ever gets cancelled).

When Maseo showed up in the League he mentioned "losing" his wife. Weird words if she was kidnapped. He could have said "disappear".

I replied to you earlier in the thread (there was a joke in there too). Felicity pings the phone of criminals so Oliver can arrest them and hand them to the police.

Okay, but still. I'm no genius but I can say without a doubt that Oliver is not in my top 50 of the smartest men I know. But like I said, in the past 6 months Digg has hung out with Oliver and Roy and that's it. The bar's not that high.

"The hammer is my penis"

otherwise called as "the best retcon ever". That's the way to go, show!
But yes, I wholeheartedly agree.

I'm not saying it's not possible. I'm saying it's a lame cop-out, because Merlyn manipulating his daughter to trick her half-brother into killing his arch-enemy… I mean…

This reminds me of this story: http://worldnewsdailyreport…

You misspelled Anakin. ;)
Otherwise, I agree.

It depends whether you like to go about your life and have a person you barely know ping your phone to figure out where you go on your free time. Also depends on how much you appreciate when that same person buys the company you work at so you are forced to work for them.

I'm legit confused. Was it explicitly said in the episode? That he knew he was being lied to and he'd make Oliver pay for that? Without having the truth before executing Oliver?

Didn't he say he believed him? Even Nyssa seemed to be buying it. But somehow, Ra's knowing that Oliver's lying and allowing that makes it even lamer. Oliver and Ra's have a common enemy (= Merlyn) and yet Ra's prefers killing the guy he knows hasn't done the deed just because he's there? I'd think Ra's would be the…

Exactly. But the "brain-washed by herbs" explanation still felt like a lame cop-out.

I'm impressed that we were spared the traditional "I saw you kiss him" confrontation scene.