Arrow, Season Opener ‘The Calm’: Thoughts, Spoilers Ahoy!

SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS!

Having just watched the new episode of Arrow, I am pretty happy with the way they have decided to kick off the season.

Let’s get the big news out of the way first, with Sarah having 3 arrows put in her, and falling numerous stories suffice to say, Arrow has killed off another one of its prominent characters.

Firstly, with Sarah just turning up out of the blue, I wasn’t sure what they were thinking, just running in unannounced and helping Arrow deal with the bad guys, having a quick chat to Oliver about his personal life, a quick meet up with her sister and then BOOM, put down.

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For now, R.I.P Sarah

I knew the show would of wanted to start off the new season with a bang, and through out the episode there were times that I had thought other members of the Arrow crew were in jeopardy, with Felicity in the restaurant, Diggle with his incoming child leaving him open to perishing to further the story and even Laurel walking through that darkened ally towards the end seemed vulnerable before seeing her sister plummet to the ground. I think it is an interesting choice of character and only time will tell if it will pay off, but knowing she is part of the League of Assassins and the girlfriend of Nyssa, stuff is bound to get a bit messy.

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“Who of my loved ones will be killed off next?”

The other parts of the show were also pretty interesting, I’m really not into this whole Oliver/Felicity thing and found myself cringing every time there was a romantic moment between the two. So hopefully they move away from this quick smart. With Ray Palmer entering the scene, there may be a new person for Felicity to latch her wagon to, especially with him offering her a new job.

I’m starting to get pretty over Vertigo being a ‘thing’, however with the introduction of the fear compound, maybe an opening for Scarecrow to be introduced (however for me, nothing will top Cillian Murphy’s Scarecrow from the Nolan Universe).

The flashbacks from Hong Kong didn’t explain a hell of a lot, but I think I will enjoy Oliver being off the island for a little bit, a change of scenery never hurt anyone, and a possible Katana sighting.

Lastly, I’m glad to see Roy as a working part of the Arrow quartet now, as opposed to the Mirakuru jacked individual for the majority of last series. He seems to be pretty handy with a bow now, and has some class moves on the battlefield. Hopefully we see episodes in the future which involve Roy a lot more.

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Keep slapping water Roy, your time will come.

‘The Calm’ was a really nice foundation for hopefully what is an excellent season of Arrow to come. I am excited to see where they take this season and who the main antagonist will end up being.

I will probably be “red wedding’d” after this.

Firstly, enjoy how I made red wedding a verb?

So the new season has started from Game of Thrones. I can tell because every second person has decided to clog my Facebook and Twitter feed up with it.

Someone knowing my love for all things TV and nerd had come up to me todau and said “Oh, you must be excited about Game of Thrones!”

I stopped, paused and pondered and then replied.

“I actually don’t enjoy it THAT much”

I’ll take a second as you process this as you clean up the blood splatter from your head exploding.

Now don’t take this as a hate speech on it, I actually don’t hate it at all. I have watched the first couple of episodes a while ago, and it was alright, it just didn’t resonate with me on a deeper level. I can’t pinpoint why this is? If I was to boil it down to a singular reason, it is the fantasy/medieval setting. I have never been a fan of that setting, I don’t find it interesting or enthralling at all.

I find myself more excited over stuff like ‘House of Cards’ or ‘Orange is the new black’ coming back. But what does this say about me? 

One day I may find the time to actually catch up with the whole series. But until then I will be the tramp on the outside looking into a warm goose dinner that is the Game of Thrones universe.

P.S I know I used a GOT reference at the start there, but even not seeing it, thanks to the kind people of Twitter and Facebook I have had it spoiled for me and understand what happens on that fateful blood coloured marital celebration.