Collision Course

This entire plotline with the old team vs.the new team is annoying. after this episode I would be very excited to see Curtis, Rene and especially Dinah never appear on the show again They are not necessary.

Seriously, they're the worst. Acting like 5 year olds.

THE NTA LITERALLY ARE THE BIGGEST HYPOCRITES IN THE WORLD! I USED TO LIKE DINAH AND RENE BUT NOW I HATE THEM!!! THEY DO THE EXACT SAME THING THAT THEY WERE BEING BABIES ABOUT! THE OTHER THING IS THAT OTA DOESN'T EVEN RESPOND BY SAYING THAT THEY JUST TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY. God I really hate this season so far.

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

The subplot this mid-season of a once great superhero team fighting itself internally might have been an interesting storyline, if there was a real main plotline this season to begin with. There is just no plot direction going on here at all.

Original Team Arrow vs. Original Team Loser When the two teams are compared, first you have Oliver who is so strong not only in the fighting skills but in strategy and archery skills with the long history of being the Green Arrow. Diggle and Felicity are also masters in their areas as well as having a long history of working with Oliver. But, why does Original Team Loser have such thick heads?

***Rene is a loser who cannot keep Oliver's secret to save his life - on top of being the true definition of a "Wilddog", he is a lose cannon in every way (emotionally/intellectually). ***Mr. Terrific/Curtis - it is amazing the salmon ladder did not kill him, let alone last season. There are no skills that OTA does not already have themselves. ***Dinah -- well if there is any hope that Laurel could return as the only true Black Canary --then Dinah falls in the loser category too. She is so emotionally unstable and just generally unlikable this season anyway. Time to give up completely on Original Team Loser -- give them their own show on CW the Moe, Larry, Curly of the DC Comic World. Then maybe there can be focus on a true season 6 storyline. The season had strong promise at the very beginning after the Lian Yu battle, but it was derailed by focusing on the Losers. Time to get back on the track for season 6 here.