Sure, but he’ll need to go eventually, right?

:Oliver looks around the room, sees Thea in a coma, then sees Curtis waving at him:

I’m okay with it. They threw in some new characters, saw who worked (Wild Dog) and who at least has the potential to work (Canary, Fourth of her Name) and dumped the rest. Now we have okay characters, but the show as a whole has no direction, which is marginally better than having no direction and crappy characters…

The FBI agent, at least, had the Hood photo tacked up next to some Green Arrow stuff. So incredible geniuses like here are capable of making the connection, but yes, most people in their world seem unbelievably stupid. Kind of like their TV media just accepting the “proof” that Oliver’s GA photo was doctored based on…

Fingers crossed for Stephen Amell getting to play Ollie’s long lost evil twin brother, Revilo, who is clean-shaved and smiles a lot

I can’t believe that in a show/universe where no fewer than, what, five cast members have come back from the dead, they can’t find a way to fix Diggle’s little nerve damage problem. If it weren’t supposed to be a main plot point, I’m sure Curtis could have rigged up some nanotech or something.

I really liked the FBI lady. Great dynamics and chemistry with everyone she interacted with. Definitely interested in where that’s going. Seems like she might start picking on everyone on Team Arrow which should be good.

Oliver pays Wayne a franchise fee.

Ha! I watched the gif loop like 30 times before I got it! Barnum also called Nate a “Man of Steel” and he liked it. Nate sucks, though, I’m annoyed he’s still on.

Was anyone else bothered by the fact that the FBI agent wanted to compel a child (not to mention one whose MOTHER HAS JUST FREAKIN’ DIED!!!) to testify about his father and got upset when the father was against it? I don’t see it as a threat by Ollie but rather an appropriate parenting decision.

Some nice gentleman made a mash up of all the Batman references in the Arrowverse:

William being reluctant to embrace Oliver and his Green Arrowness makes sense both psychologically and dramatically. But Ollie trying not to be the star of the show is always such a drag of a plot. I wish they’d get to a place where they could use William as a grace note, not a plot obstacle - the thing Oliver comes…

Which I totally get, but it’s curious that they seemed to have no long-term goals for the character. He had nothing to do with the last act of season five.

I also think the addition of Dinah - who I like - was pretty forced last year. It felt like they were obligated to have a Canary on the team.

The Bruce Wayne namedrop was very “hey, look at our show!” It would have been fine here, but this week you had Stephen Amell and eventually the show’s social media pushing the namedrop like it means anything other than, well, just a namedrop.

So is Ragman just off the show now, forever? It feels weird that they introduced a super-powerful character only to toss him aside (it didn’t help that he looked so much like Prometheus during missions).

“I have a son now, so I can no longer be the Green Arrow. You, Diggle, also have a son. A toddler son, in fact.

So I’m gonna need you to be the Green Arrow; we’ll just ignore your child.”

While it was nice to hear that Bruce Wayne namedrop, it was kind of weirdly forced and didn’t even fit the argument so well. Yeah, Ollie, Bruce hasn’t left Gotham, but you were in the city where the photo was taken.

As funny as that bit was, I kept thinking it was because they weren’t allowed to use the real Barnum’s trademark.

[She] belongs in a museum!

Nate, I realize that you’re sprung on Amaya but you really being selfish by being a puss about her going back to where she belongs in the timeline. You’re a historian, for God’s sake!