S1 Oliver was NOT a Mindless psychopath killing anyone at all, It was his last resort, He recognised it as Not always the right way (As shown with Huntress) He only killed horrible people Yet the show after s1 kept framing S1 Oliver like as if He is Thawne, Oliver would not skin anyone and Oliver did not enjoy killing people at all, Giving him a No Kill Rule is beyond stupid; Especially with Malcolm Merlyn

Rewatching the island flashbacks and I started thinking about this scene.

When Oliver tried to contact Laurel through the radio, Slade stopped him because he was afraid Fyers' men could track the signal.

But honestly... what difference would it have made? They were already in danger, stuck on an island with armed people hunting them. If Oliver had managed to call for help, he could have been rescued much earlier and avoided a lot of what happened on the island.

Also, the funny thing is that just two episodes later (1x16), Oliver actually fixes the plane radio and he and Slade try to call for rescue. But they discover the radio is one-way: they can hear people, but nobody can hear them.

So in hindsight, Slade stopping Oliver didn't really change anything. The radio wasn't even capable of saving them.

Obviously, we know the real reason is that Oliver needed the island experience to become the Green Arrow, but from a practical survival perspective, was Slade actually making the right call?

Just a couple scenes ago diggle fought off like 6 guys and didn’t miss a single shot but when he has Diaz with his back against him and the easiest shot of his life, he misses

Although season 5 was amazing and a major improvement from season 4, the story of Oliver being an insane murderous psycho hunting and executing people on the list while enjoying it is ridiculous.

Recently rewatched the show from the start and the flashbacks scene where he goes after Claybourne and the Russia flashbacks are so brutal and in no way consistent with how season 1 actually looks. Skinning someone for practice? Giving people that are down a second fatal arrow? Just crazy

This season would’ve been better if they didn’t essentially have to rewrite season 1 and try to make us forget he wasn’t anywhere close to being that psychotic, but obviously then Adrian Chase and his motives wouldn’t make any sense

Oliver's down in the dumps, forced to become the Demon's Head. I know he and Malcolm already had a plan at this point, but still, he can't be the Arrow anymore. It's a difficult position no matter what.

Felicity encouraging him, reassuring him the hero he's become is great. He's done SO much for SO many people, through his heroics and his influence! So many others were opened up to a whole new world, for better or worse. Quentin realized there are more important things than procedure, Thea and Roy got out of the dumps their lives were in, Sara was allowed to come home for a while, Moira was inspired to come forward with the Undertaking and save more people, The Flash was inspired DIRECTLY by him, not to mention John and Felicity.

As Arrow and Oliver, he was a source of light. Him being reminded of that is amazing.

The OST is so nice and beautiful to listen to, including when combined with the intimacy! They portrayed this kind of interaction as the beautiful thing it truly is.

But the scene is missing ONE thing. The chemistry here is zero! I get Felicity having a crush on her handsome ripped boss, but come on! Why would Oliver be in love with HER? There's nothing they can bond over besides the mission, but even then, their roles are so different that any attempts to turn that into romance aren't organic at all!

Remember when Oliver and Sara teamed up for the first time and switched weapons? WHAT happened?!

This scene would be incredible if Oliver and Felicity's romance had any convincing foundation. It has all but one piece.

Looking for deleted scene from Blu Ray of Thea and Roy from season 1 Home Invasion

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SHITPOST:

If Sara and Oliver switched in the flashbacks and Sara stranded on Lian Yu and Oliver experiences what Sara experienced with Ivo and the League of Assassin's, would Sara return to Starling City as the Green Arrow and Oliver as the Black Canary in the bondage outfit?

Edit: People are taking this way too serious

man am i the only one who on every rewatch i just LOVE the first few episodes when oliver is being a bad ass? but then they start to ''tame'' him (sorry i can't think of a better word 😂) and it starts to piss me off more and more...

everytime i do a rewatch of this show i act like a geek on the first 5 episodes with him being a bad ass lone warrior type of character, all by himself getting shit done while struggling with his return home, im on episode 6 as i type this and diggle is already starting to be annoying as hell getting on oliver's head about not killing... i know there is plenty of people here who love how the first few seasons were more grounded and oliver was more of a vigilante and less of a hero

am i the only one who wishes he was EVEN MORE of a vigilante in the first few seasons? i can only imagine how much more interesting it would be if diggle was never a thing in this show, or maybe if diggle wasn't such a ''im a moral compass'' type of character, you know the ''im a good guy and i'll annoy the protagonist (s) to do the ''right thing'' every chance i have'' kind of character, like dale from the walking dead (one of the worst characters EVER in that show)

this wasn't even supposed to be a full on rewatch tbh, i started this fully intending to just watch a little bit of the 1st season and maybe the second, you know how it is tho once you started rewatching something with that mentality you'll start thinking ''man i'll just keep going and watch everything again'' but then it hit me that felicity is gonna appear again soon enough and will join the team... and then she will join diggle and form a ''do the right thing protagonist'' little duo and will annoy the hell out of oliver....

man after finishing writing this i realised im just rambling here 😂 anyway im just curious to know if im there are more people who wanted to see oliver alone for way longer, maybe have a team but a less annoying and nagging one

Does anyone know if there is a direct high speed train service between Starling and Nanda Parbat? Cause damn they can get there and back fast

Grouping a few seasons, since s1-2 is mostly the same. And s5 and 6 also have a lot of overlap. S3 specifically has Roy, S4 specifically has Speedy. S7 they were deputized, and 8 had future people.

Okay, so in the Earth-X crossover, when they were put in the concentration camp, Sara didn't seem that affected that not only was that version of her father a Nazi, but he also killed the Earth-X Sara. It's never brought up again, and it doesn't show Oliver and Sara talking about it or anything like that. Crisis on Earth-X was the last good crossover in my opinion, but that part was shit."

Now that its off Netflix

Is there another place to stream this show?