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Arrow Review and Easter Eggs - "My Name is Oliver Queen" S3E23

Arrow's Season 3 finale "My Name is Oliver Queen" ended too neatly for it to sit well with us. Here's our review:

This season of Arrow has been jam-packed with so much character development, action, death and surprises, but when the credits rolled on another season of the show, I was a little more relieved than I was saddened. Whether it’s been the show’s fault or my own, Season 3 just has not been as engaging as Season 2. That’s not to say Arrowhasn’t been good, or even spectacular, but the story felt so…

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Arrow Review - "Al Sah-Him" S3E21

Get your refrigerators ready, Arrow fans. Last night's "Al Sah-Him" proved CW has no interest in a strong Felicity

Pros:

Ever-changing intro: While it’s not that big of a deal, I like the attention to detail that the series shows by changing up the “My name is Oliver Queen” bit in the opening segment.

Al Sah-Him: Oliver’s brainwashed transformation into an agent of the League was alarming. I kinda like him better as this cold, blooded killer. A lot of the episode is spent reeling over how he’s been “lost” to…

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Arrow Review - "The Fallen" S3E20

Olicity fans were rewarded in Arrow's "The Fallen," but we want more focus on the depth of the League of Assassins:

It seemed like a natural progression for the show, but much of this episode was spent saying hello to Nanda Parbat and the Lazarus Pit, and goodbye to Oliver Queen as he is finally forced into a corner to accept the mantle of Ra’s al Ghul. Oliver has essentially lost Roy Harper, and his reputation in Starling City, to keep away from the League of Assassins, so it’s natural that losing Thea would…

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