Collision Course

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

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

I only bother with Arrow anymore because it crosses over with the Flash and other DC series. Oliver, Felicity and Quentin are still great characters but the rest of the show has just completely gone off the rails, continuously downhill from season 4 past.

A civil war plot only works if you care about characters on both sides. The mini arrow wannabes introduced last season aren't characters I give a damn about. Dinah is practically off the rails crazy, her holier than thou attitude is grating when all she is is a meta human killer that belongs in Iron Heights. Or did we forget what she was spending her time doing when Oliver found her? Rene is a glorified thug, his character is two faced and unlikable. Curtis is annoying and naive and none of the three are capable of being accountable for their own actions. Not only do I so not care that they left the team, I think the show would greatly improve if their characters weren't a part of it.

Laurel makes a horrible villain and the actor playing Ricardo Diaz worked much better as a cop on Fringe than he does as any sort of super villain. It's hard to care about the show anymore when I barely care about any of the characters. I know I'm way behind, I've caught up on every DC show but this one but honestly while I loved this show in its first three seasons, the only reason I'm suffering through this now is to get to the next crossover.

This episode had some amazing fight scenes and choreography but the new team is really frustrating. I used to love these characters but now they are annoying and just total hypocrites. +Great fight scenes +Great Choreography -New team need to sort their problems out fast

This episode tries to increase the division between the teams, but it still all feels forced and unnatural. Dissapointing.

It doesn't help that the they're still dragging out the Lance/Laurel relationship while using the same old plot points without adding anything new to the table.