Yeah, agreed. I just find their relationship repetitive at this point.

I like Thea too but I've had enough of her with Malcolm. He's got to go!

Um…no thank you! lol

This! We definitely need more Lyla.

Wow. You do realise she wasn't the one who actually released the nukes, right? Damien is the mass murderer. She tried to stop them and couldn't and I just realised I'm probably wasting my time here lol.

You're kidding, right?

haha they lied! They tricked us! But this is Arrow so it was never really gonna be lighter.

lol I know. The flashbacks are just useless. We learned nothing new in this episode because we already saw terrible flashback lady succumb to the idol's powers in Oliver's vision last week.

Well, you don't nuke the ocean. And I don't think she could direct it there anyway. I think she could only change the GPS to something close.

Poor Felicity having to direct the nuke to that town though. I know that was her only option but she's gonna feel the weight of that. I kinda love that she had to make that decision though. Following on from Diggle's decision to kill his brother last week, there's some real great character stuff and it gives Oliver…

Lyla continues to be badass and awesome. She just so no-nonsense. She's great.

I really enjoyed this episode, though the flashbacks dragged things down a bit. We finally got some good Oliver stunts in the field too. I've missed seeing him fight. That stairwell scene was awesome.

I'm guessing those yellow pills he was taking helped with that. They probably just told him to not tell Thea and because they make people susceptible to suggestion, he obeyed.

Couple more to add:

Nah. One of the themes of the season - bought up by something Oliver said in the premiere - is Oliver learning to overcome the darkness within him. So he's definitely gonna be the one to defeat Damien with his own light (and with the help of the magical tattoo totem). Felicity was mentioned because she's always…

Me. I enjoy it. I haven't liked every episode and it has its problems but I felt the same in earlier seasons too. Arrow is not flaw free and never has been. (It actually makes me laugh when people want Arrow to be like it was in Season 1 and Season 2 because those seasons had bad episodes too.) But I enjoy the show…

Haha, fair enough. Forgive me, but I've just seen so many people say they're done with Arrow and they're never gonna watch again and yet they still comment for some reason. I just find that odd!

I'm actually the same. The darker tone has never really bothered me but I prepared for it to get lighter because comics, apparently.

That's fair enough.

Maybe. But then the story would have focused on Laurel getting revenge for her father's death and this season was supposed to be more focused on Diggle and his link to HIVE, something we've been building to since season 1.