I'm just so tired of this season. It's gotten to the point of me contemplating even watching the episodes on a week to week basis. Arrow is one of my favorite shows of all time, but there's little reason to tune in.
This past episode dealt with Team Arrow and New Team Arrow putting their differences aside and teaming up for the greater.... oh wait nope that didn't happen. My mistake, that conflict (or lack thereof) has been ongoing for just about 8 episodes it feels like, and it doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon. What this show has done to get me to hate Rene, Curtis, and Dinah is absolutely unprecedented. It blows my mind that the same writers who worked so hard to get me to like those 3 newbies the last 2 years is writing this same crap over and over again. The only good part of them on screen in this episode is watching Oliver beat the crap out of Rene. The fact that this episode was positioned as Civil War type conflict is laughable.
Oh and not to mention the fact that they were fighting over the rights of Black Siren. This entire 'Laurel' arc is diminishing any importance they ever built up for the real Laurel Lance. They made it incredibly easy to hate Laurel in season 2, and they're making a renewed plea for us fans to despise Katie Cassidy's portrayal of Earth-2 Laurel now. Oh my gosh the writing is so lazy. It's almost as bad as these last few paragraphs I've put together.
The one thing I loved in this episode was Thea's line about this conflict being "insane", because it is. What is it honestly trying to prove? What is going to come out of this? Will someone die from it? Or will it all be wiped away by the end of the season and we'll be a happy family in season 7? Either way, I just don't care.
5.0/10
