#arrow 7x20

[lucyyh]

Felicity and her food cravings.

Bonus:

[smoakmonster]

[feilcityqueen]

#married

[allthingsarrow]

Felicity continuously eating while being interrogated is a BIG MOOD

[juneaugustine]

Arrow 7x20–We interrupt this broadcast of Arrow to bring you BuzzFeed Unsolved.

All in all, I enjoyed this episode. I’m a big fan of true crime. But I also really didn’t appreciate some parts of it.

I think the first thing that needs to be addressed is Oliver and Felicity.

- The events of this episode would have been extremely triggering for both of their PTSD.

- For Oliver, being in an interrogation room again, on the losing side of the law again. Being stared down and threatened.

- For Felicity, having her husband in legal trouble again. Being told that she’s “abused her food privileges enough for today” after worrying about meals as a kid, while definitely being legitimately hungry; she’s pregnant.

- For both of them, having a building collapse. Not hearing from Oliver after it happened. Both of them remembering Tommy and the Undertaking.

- I mean, come on.

Anyway

- Oliver kicked a TON of ass in this episode. It was lovely. Friendly reminder, this is his show.

- Next week’s promo doesn’t look good.

- Oliver on Emiko “at some point, people need to accept responsibility for their actions.”

- I don’t know how they expect us to believe that Oliver lives after that. He’s literally the meat in a concrete sandwich.

Dinah + the SCPD

- This Bilingsley guy can suck my dick.

- But really, good coverup work. Grade A corruption right there.

ROY HARPER.

- I loved having him back.

- I knew something was up, though.

- Me, defending Roy every time Rene took a dig at Roy.

- “He’s really good at parkour” ya think?

- Oliver, John, Felicity, Roy...the OGs back together!

- I’m happy that Thea’s happy.

- “How did you die?” Ugh. Incredible acting from them both.

Emiko

- I really, really hate her.

- Sea Shimooka is incredible. She’s genuinely made me hate Emiko.

- I mean, she’s cold. She rubbed letting Robert die in Oliver face. I mean shit.

- That cut deep.

Peace for Oliver Queen and his family 2019. Please y’all.

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[allimariexf]

Having Roy and Oliver and Felicity interacting in 7x20 really just reinforced my second point in this post: that in the past two+ seasons, Arrow has failed to create storylines where all the characters are relevant to the plot - so that we have a reason to care, where focus on character actually forwards the plot.

Seeing interactions between characters we care about individually? whose scenes conjure up memories of everything they have done for each other, everything they have been for each other? It was like a revelation. I didn’t realize just how little I have cared about interactions involving NTA until I felt my heart start beating again when Roy showed up.

No member of NTA (or Emiko, or any character added after season 4, if we’re honest) has been given any sort of character foundation, nor any emotional connection to any of the characters we already cared about. When they deliver their lines, they honestly could be anybody. So it’s no accident that when Oliver and Rene interact, or Dinah, Curtis, or any of them - I simply don’t care. Because I’m only watching with my head, and not my heart. 

This show was so good when it remembered that it’s the heart, and not the head, that matters.

[olicitybishop-clairmont]

Did that final shot of Oliver remind anyone else of Tommy during the Undertaking?

[msbeccieboo]

“We have to protect him”

YES OLIVER!!! 😍