- This is being written as I watch Season 2 so will be my initial thoughts on what's happened instead of trying to remember things after watching the whole season, so far i'm 4 episodes in.
- Not much time, about 5 minutes, was dedicated to getting Oliver back off the island after he willingly returned, that was a slight let down.
- It seems to me that Shado may end up coming between Slade and Ollie, also re Slade we see him going down screaming after catching aflame during a bombing of the plane and am I too assume this is where he loses his eye?
- The Doll Maker came across as a creepy villain and for me was better than the run of the mill villains of the week from last season and I also like the 180 by the Lance's in terms of for/against 'The Hood', though Paul Blackthorne seems more comfortable in his role.
- Black Canary's reveal as Sara wasn't much of a surprise though the mention of Ra's Al Ghul certainly was an intriguing one as was the reveal that Ollie knew Sara survived.
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- Caught the next two episodes last night 'League Of Assassins' and 'Keep Your Enemies Closer' both of which were yet more strong entries in a stellar season 2. I have enjoyed Sara (Caity Lotz) in her Starling City debut so far.
- Keep Your Enemies Close had Amanda Waller in and this and the way she spoke to Diggle about getting by Lyla smells to me like Suicide Squad. I really liked this episode as Diggle was pushed as the front man as he went into a Russian prison to save Lyla who had gone in as she was searching for Deadshot for Diggle and found him within, we didn't know he was in there until Diggle did as they were chained up in a freezer style place with each other and Diggle was forced to work with his enemy, Deadshot killed his brother, to get out back to Oliver, it was outside where Diggle found out that Deadshot meant to kill his brother, he always assumed Andy Diggle was protecting a client but Deadshot reveals H.I.V.E ordered the hit, H.I.V.E have links to Deathstroke so this may bring him into Starling City. Speaking of Slade we saw him and Shado again with Slade now burnt and Shado helping him recover.
- Professor Ivo, here a Doctor, has also shown up in the flashbacks as Oliver is a prisoner on his ship and Sara is there as his assistant of sorts and Dylan Neal brings an unnerving presence to the role also he's looking for a Super Soldier Serum and I'm guessing that these deformed corpses that Oliver, Slade and Shado found are the failed experiments.
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- Malcolm's back and revealed that Thea is his daughter but instead of retreading season 1 and having Moira hold back a secret from Queens due to Malcolm she one upped him as she has got word to Ra's al Ghul, do they have a signal in Nanda Parbat? and for Malcolm's sake I hope Ra's doesn't find him.
- Barry Allen debuted and I haven't seen Flash yet but based on his appearance here I do wonder if he has leading man capabilities as he was good but didn't stand out on his own, also why on shows do the two 'geeks' always catch each others eye? Do writers not know that we can find love with non-geeks?
- In the flashbacks Slade is on his last legs following the explosion but was injected with the serum stuff but without a sedative and seemingly died aboard the sub that contains the serums however I'm pretty sure he's not dead and think that this will lead to Deathstroke from the comics.
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- Only caught one episode but it was a doozy 'Three Ghosts' was the episode and during the TV run this was the mid-season finale and we found out that Shado died on the island as Ivo shot her when Oliver went in front of Sara, Ivo told him to pick who got shot and Slade didn't die from the injection/serum and going by what we saw is now the Deathstroke from the comic as he kicked some heavy duty booty, also I think he's the first to survive the injection.
- Shado, Slade and Tommy showed up in present day as ghosts, it was nice seeing Slade and Shado with Arrow and not pre-vigilante Oliver, Slade's ghost beat up Oliver in his hideout/base, though they turned put to be psychological problems for Oliver i'm unsure how that would beat him up.
- The man who injured Ollie in present day, Arrow landed with needles in him and Barry Allen saved him as Felicity revealed Ollie's secret identity, was named Cyrus Gold who in the comics was Solomon Grundy in the 19th century hence Solomon Grundy rhyme being in Arrow.
- Roy got injected with the Serum but was saved by Arrow and I did think that he was about to reveal his true identity to Roy but alas he did not.
- Two big things happened though towards the end as Barry Allen was struck by lightning when weather caused the particle accelerator to explode it seemed and Brother Blood's boss was revealed and this person is the source of the blood needed for the Serum and it's an eye patch wearing Slade Wilson, his burns were healed by the serum but i'm hoping Arrow took out his eye as in an earlier episode Arrow revealed to Diggle that he'd beaten a super human before and I assume it's Slade.
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- 'Blast Radius' was a good episode but did feature the poor villain of the week which Season 1 was chock full of, a good episode but not on the levels of the previous episodes.
- Roy is superpowered after being injected with Mirakuru and I hope he somehow loses the super strength as Arrow has been grounded so far in terms of Super powers eg Canary's sonic screaming thing is from a device and not her, now I can accept Slade having these powers but as stated I hope Roy somehow loses them.
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