Diggle has a rough start as the new Arrow, Felicity and Curtis look to start their start-up, Oliver looks for help of William, and a new threat emerges from the City Council.....
I'm honestly not sure how I feel about the whole "Diggle as the Green Arrow" thing. I mean, I get why Oliver is doing it, but Diggle really does need to find a better way to deal with his tremors than just shooting something into his arm. That is never a good sign. The problem is that Dinah is right, if Oliver knew how badly Diggle had been injured on Lian Yu, he would never have handed the hood over to Diggle. Now that would have caused a whole new set of problems, but I think Oliver could have dealt with it.
Given all of that, I do think it was a good thing that Wild Dog went to Oliver, because Diggle did need that talk with Oliver. Thanks to Diggle's problems, he was hurt, Dinah was nearly killed, and several civilians were injured by the truck. I am not entirely sure why Diggle is freezing up now, after all, he has led people into battle before. I guess it might be some sort of PTSD, but that doesn't seem super likely. That is the one point in all of this that is sticking in my craw a bit. Diggle has never had this sort of major problem making decisions before, so why now? I did love the way Canary used her scream to redirect Diggle as he was jumping in the beginning, that was pretty cool.
As for the whole police thing, I have to say that they have been more or less useless the entire time that the show has been on the air. I'm sorry, but it took the Hood to make the city safe again for people to live in and only then could the police even start to do anything. So, forgive me if I don't shed too many tears if the police are feeling like they've been shoved to the side. If they were halfway useful, then the Hood would never have been needed in the first place.
That being said, I do get where this bill is coming from. While the Hood and the Arrow and the Green Arrow have all tried to keep collateral damage to a minimum, there have been some serious casualties among the civilian population over the years. I'm not sure that putting the issue to a city-wide vote is the best solution, but it could make for some interesting drama, particularly since that method is Oliver's idea.
Watching Felicity help out William was just cool. I honestly thought that is why Oliver was going to her in the first place. Yes, he did need advice, but she is also one of the most mathematically and scientifically inclined people he knows, so going to her for help for William in math or science should be a no brainer. Let's face it, Oliver is not terribly scholastic. He's not dumb by any stretch of the imagination, but he is not scholastically inclined. Felicity is. So going to her for help is the most obvious route. The added bonus is that sort of gets William used to her as a friend of Oliver's which will (hopefully) make the transition to girlfriend easier in his mind.
And Felicity and Curtis still haven't even come up with a concept for their startup, so trying to pick a name strikes me as the bass-ackwards way of doing everything. Come up with what you want to do first and then create a name to fit it.
Until Wednesday!
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