1.) The Huntress Strikes Again.
So The Huntress returned this week. Spoilers for those who didn’t read the title. First, she takes up the only job rogue women out for revenge are allowed to get in fiction and pretends to be a stripper so she can interrogate her father’s attorney as to where Mr. Bertinelli is located. Helena then heads over to Star City where she performs a bunch of shenanigans like beating up Tommy and getting arrested in order to get Ollie to help her kill her dad. He doesn’t. She shoots Ollie’s new cop girlfriend by accident and leaves. Ollie is flustered by all this and bids farewell to cop girlfriend as she leaves for Coast City for physical therapy and bro hugs Tommy.
2.) Trypanophobia
Over in the B-Plot, Thea is hanging out with Roy Harper, the disadvantaged youth who stole her purse the other week. You can tell he’s a disadvantaged youth because, while he may look like an Abercrombie model who got lost in the bad part of town on his way to a water polo championship, he’s walking out of a Starbucks with just normal coffee, not a soy latte decaff bagel flavored iced tea. Thea offers to get him a job as a valet at Ollie’s club which he eventually accepts. Before he can work however, he needs to get a vaccination. I don’t think there was any reason for the audience to need to see that scene other than Roy revealing that he’s afraid of needles.
Afraid
of
needles. Heh. Good one, Arrow writing staff.
3.) The Island
The Island segment was fairly boring this week. Ollie and Slade punched some soldiers, stole a thing, and told other soldiers they’d give back the thing if they could get off the island. A few punches and kicks here and there but it was mostly just moving the plot along.
4.) In out of nowhere Doctor Who cameos…
There’s also this other subplot about how Laurel’s sister, who supposedly died in the yacht wreck along with Ollie’s father. That’s not important right now though, because holy crap Laurel’s mom is River Song.
First John Barrowman, now Alex Kingston, I sincerely hope that, from now on, anyone who’s been mentioned but remained off-screen shows up, it’s just someone from Doctor Who. If Deathstroke takes off his mask and turns out to be Mickey Smith, I’ll give The CW my firstborn child.
5.) Wow, Young Jack Nicholson
Quentin Lance unironically said “You are quit the hunter Miss Bertinelli… or should I say… HUNTRESS?” I love it when TV shows awkwardly implement the origins of character’s names, but I expected better from a show that managed to call someone “Deadshot” with a straight face.
Review Score: 5/10 – A pretty unremarkable episode. Definitely a dip in quality compared to the last few weeks.
