5x16. Late.
Sorry I was gone so long, but Holy ******* shit. Something was keeping me from watching this episode. I was writing part 2 of my conversation between Oliver and Felicity when something just brought me to watch it. And wow.
Checkmate.
This episode was a lot of things. Oliver being pushed to the brink, was just so crazy. It was just so unimaginable. When Oliver was in Pike’s room with him and he started to name all the people that died ever since he came back, Oliver was literally shuddering.
Adrian. (AKA Simon Morrison)
What the fuck. This game that he’s playing, is crippling. I’m just in awe of how he’s forcing Oliver to make moves. And all these moves, he knows what they are, and it’s not like he’s getting ready to defend against it. It’s more like he needs for them to happen. He has me shuddering in my seat too. SMH LEAVE MY BB ALONE. Seems like everyone has daddy issues these days.
Talia/More Adrian.
What a bitch. I was just waiting for it. It was a little odd to find her picking a side because Oliver killed Ra’s (I mean come on Talia you left LOA to do all this shit and because you had disagreements with your Dad, but you get all protective when he’s dead. Even Nyssa knows how crazy he is. You’re a shame) But seriously this was probably the thing that was the most obvious (Aside from Adrian killing Doris. That was pretty obvious too. Well, I kinda thought he would run with her, but then when we got up to the part where she said turn yourself in, I was like oh my god. Never mind then. I was kind of on the edge of my seat for that one. The fact that Adrian did kill Doris actually made me sad. A lot of emotion in this episode. And A LOT of shuddering too. Wow. She was so sweet too. I was expecting Diggle to kidnap someone else to be honest. Because to me, they sorta made a big deal out of ‘oh I have someone he cares about’ but at the same time I was like who else do we even know about? He didn’t even say I love you before he stabbed her.) >_>.
Felicity.
This is a confusing one. She’s officially one with Helix. What I don’t like so far, is how she’s using it. I mean of course, its helping them find Prometheus so far, but I’m beginning to wonder when it’ll start becoming solo with her and Helix. But then again, what specifically is she looking for. She felt a little absent this episode (I’m only saying this solely because of screen time. Otherwise, she kind of was the whole backbone to this episode. Psh. She always is.). She helped the team find Susan, and now she’s eventually going to find Oliver (don’t even get me started on that trailer. I kind of died inside.). But is Adrian expecting her to find him? I never really though about this, but did Adrian set up the murder of Billy to get Felicity into Helix? Up until this point, I assumed that, but what if Adrian solely killed Billy just to get GA under fire at the Mayor’s office, and he didn’t really think about what Felicity would do. Maybe he doesn’t know about Helix. Maybe he doesn’t even know All in all, to me, it feels like whatever Felicity has started hasn’t really like, geared up yet in a sense. I want to know how far she’s going to go to avenge Billy. Bottom line, I’m greedy.
Oliver.
Oh. My. God. Oliver in this episode just felt like such a roller coaster. I can’t even talk about it right now. What is he going to do? And poo, I didn’t understand what Adrian said about Susan in the last scene. You convinced her to what? UGH I have a thing about Damsel in Distress tropes, but fuck Susan you were more useless than Laurel in Season 1 (woops). Still waiting to see how important of a puzzle piece she is, because right now, I just see a silly little pawn (ok forget what I just said about her). And I’m pretty sure I’m going to procrastinate about watching this Wednesday because of that trailer. I am definitely not ready to watch him like that. Don’t think I ever will be, but everyone’s gotten things they aren’t ready for, right?
I feel like the synopsis for 5x17 purposely left out the part where it was supposed to say “Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) continues to turn to Helix to find Oliver”. I mean that was crap, but something like that would’ve been... reassuring.
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