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caffeinenby · 3 years
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Roland: don’t fuck with me. I have the power of god and anime on my side
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Arrowverse Re-Watch: Arrow season 1, episode 3 “Lone Gunmen”
***Disclaimer: I recommend you read the tags before digging in to this review.
So I’m doing my annual Arrowverse re-watch (where I go back and watch all the Arrowverse shows in chronological order) and this year, I decided I would make these reviews/commentaries about each episode as I re-watch them.
So here goes… WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD
Request for season 7: Can we see Oliver doing this thing that he’s doing right now again? Standing shirtless and bathed in a single spotlight while he pulls a chain that lifts some pretty heavy-looking weights. God just look st those muscles ripple as he moves. (I don’t have a gif for it, just watch the episode and see for yourself.)
God and that ass!
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Stephen, I’m so sorry for objectifying you. You’re a wonderful actor and you seem like an amazing person.
(Okay, hopefully that will ease some of my guilt.)
Okay but what the fuck even is this pool?
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Look at how tiny it is!! Who has a pool that small?!
Okay and here’s the pool from a different angle.
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I just cannot get over the pool guys. A pool that small is just impractical.
Okay I feel like I should talk about these voiceovers because there’s something really interesting about them.
So if you go back and watch the first three episodes, you’ll notice that Oliver does a lot of voiceover all throughout the episode. But after this episode, there are no more voiceovers except the “My name is Oliver Queen” thing at the beginning.
Now I could be (and probably am) way overthinking this and reading too much into it but...at the end of this episode is when John finds out Oliver’s secret and then he becomes Oliver’s partner in the next episode.
So it’s like the voiceovers are because Oliver is working all alone, but then once he has a partner he doesn’t need the voiceovers because he’s not alone anymore.
Does that make sense? Probably not...but it makes sense to me and that’s all that matters I guess.
Anyway, from a storytelling/character development point of view I find it really interesting.
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How can he look so good in just a plain white t-shirt?
(Also, I miss seeing Willa Holland’s name in the credits.)
LL: I hate Oliver and I wish that he had died on the island!
Also LL: *trolls the internet for articles about him*
Me:
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Also, does anyone else notice that she’s chewing on a blue pen while she’s trolling?
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Now I know this couldn’t have been done on purpose since this episode was supposed to be Felicity’s one and only appearance but because the red pen has become such a big thing in the Olicity fandom...
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...it’s just interesting that LL would be chewing on a blue pen.
Oh my god look at Oliver ninja his way up that wall. This man is remarkable.
I love Quentin in this episode so much! And the reason for that is because, even though he hates the Hood, he’s not so blinded by his hatred that he would just ignore contradictory evidence in order to catch the Hood. It shows how much he truly cares about justice and not just letting personal feelings get in the way. Of course, this will totally change in the next episode (as the Lances turn), but I’m just gonna ignore that for the time being and enjoy this version of Quentin.
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This. Mother. Fucking. Pool.
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Walter: So if I was taking out the competition, I’d have a lot of killing to do in a very short amount of time.
Walter Steele is honestly a legend. It sucks that we’ll probably never get to see him again. Ugh I miss him so much!
So Tommy and Olivear show up at Poison (the nightclub) and what are the odds that LL (and Joanna) and Thea are also at the same club at the same time? Only in TV land I guess.
Oliver: *finds out that LL (the supposed “love of his life”) is sleeping with his best friend*
Oliver: *literally no reaction whatsoever*
Later...
Oliver: *sees Felicity kissing Ray*
Oliver:
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(I’m sorry I used this gif twice in one post [and so close together] but it was necessary.)
I’m just saying. If we are really supposed to believe that LL is Oliver’s once and future love, then maybe he should actually act like she is.
(On that note, though, I actually blame the writers for that because honestly I felt like Stephen was working his ass off to make the audience believe that Oliver was in love with LL while KC just gave him nothing in return. She played every scene between them so angry and bitchy even when it was totally unnecessary and didn’t fit with the tone of the scene [but more on that later].)
So LL is able to kick the crap out of Max Fuller in this episode and she did it just because his guys were beating up two people she doesn’t even really like? But literally one episode before this, when people broke into her home she just stood there not doing anything and then ran into the arms of her big, strong man.
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Is LL a kickass, independent woman who can take care of herself or is she a helpless damsel in distress that needs Ollie to come and save her? I’m starting to get whiplash from all this character inconsistency.
Oliver Jonas Queen what the fuck do you think you’re doing? I know Yao Fei shot you but that was only to see if you were a threat or not. He saved your life and gave you food and water and shelter. How dare you run away from him.
Okay so I know a lot of people apparently do, but I have to admit, I actually don’t completely hate that frat boy hair Oliver has in these early flashbacks. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely prefer his present-day hair. But I don’t think the frat boy hair looks that bad.
(Then again, Stephen could probably make a mullet and a porn stache look good.)
When was the last time we saw the characters just hanging out at Big Belly Burger? That’s another request for season 7.
Argh! Oliver gets into a shootout with Lawton and Lawton destroys a perfectly good piece of technology!
Oliver Queen there is no Kevlar in that suit, you could’ve gotten seriously hurt or even killed or—
Oh hey, bb, what’s going on?
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How’s your day?
I wonder how many times a day she has to ask “have you tried turning it off and then back on again”?
I wonder if she still owns this pink blouse and if it makes her smile whenever she wears it. Although, if you notice, in all 6 years of the show, she’s never worn the same outfit twice. It drives me crazy. I know that she has a lot of money from her days at Palmer Tech but it’s not unlimited. (Although apparently she and Ir*s clothes-swap now? For the record, I thought that sweater looked better on Felicity.)
And Felicity’s chewing on a red pen. Interestingly, it looks like it’s the same kind of pen as the one LL is chewing on, just a different color.
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Also, I didn’t talk about this earlier when the scene actually happened, but I find it kinda great that this episode where Oliver finds out that Tommy and LL are sleeping together (and he has no reaction) is also the episode where Oliver meets Felicity. Honestly, if I didn’t know it was just a coincidence, I’d probably think the writers actually planned it all along because it’s just so damn perfect.
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Okay so I know that Felicity mentions to William that she’s loved Oliver since this moment. However, since I don’t believe love at first sight is a real thing, I think that she wasn’t head over heels in love with him at this moment, but she could clearly see through all his bullshit and his Ollie Queen persona and she could see his heart. Which is why she helps him even though he’s lying out of his ass.
Because just think of where Felicity is in her life in this moment. Her father had abandoned her and never looked back and, at this point, she probably still believes that she’ll never see him again. She still has a pretty strained relationship with her mother. She still believes that Cooper is dead (I like to think that Cooper was the first guy Felicity was really in love with and that, after he died, she took a job in IT [despite being grossly overqualified] because she wanted something mundane and safe and she probably closed herself off to everyone; I can’t imagine she’s gone on many dates in the last 3 years). So I think Felicity’s pretty used to being lied to and yet, despite all that, she still decides to help Oliver anyway. Everyone always talks about this moment from Oliver’s perspective and how it’s the first time he genuinely smiles and all that, but I like to think about Felicity’s perspective. I mean, she hasn’t had the easiest life either and here comes yet another person with more lies and yet, deep down, she just has this gut feeling that he’s actually a good guy, so for the first time in probably a very long time, she takes a chance. She decides to open up her heart to this guy, whose practically a stranger, but she just knows. Because they’re kindred spirits really, and even though Oliver doesn’t know anything about her past yet, I think he can tell that too. Kindred spirits can always recognize each other.
Also, one more little note. Can we just talk about this for a second: So far, this show has been so dark—literally and metaphorically—and grim. And then...this beautiful bespeckled blonde bathed in bright daylight. Once again, if I didn’t know this was a coinincidence because this was supposed to be her only appearance, I would think the writers planned this all along. She’s the one that harnesses the light inside of him...and when they first meet its bathed in bright sunlight.
I just love this scene so much! In a way, it almost makes it better that all these things were basically accidents. Because it fits so well with the story. Oliver came back from the island with a very specific purpose and plan in mind. He never planned on meeting Felicity but now he can’t imagine his life without her. Emily was only supposed to be in one episode, but now she’s become such an integral part of the show.
This story Moira tells Thea about when she brought home a cat and Robert convinced her to let it go is so wonderful. But it also makes it that much more painful when Thea rejects Robert as her father and starts calling Malcolm “dad”. The whole time I kinda just wanted to scream at Thea and be like “BUT ROBERT LOVED YOU! He knew you weren’t his but he loved you and raised you as his own anyway!!!!!”
I was just so happy when that Malcolm/Thea storyline more or less came to an end and Thea started calling Robert “dad” again. I mean, I think Malcolm is a great character but I couldn’t stand it how he just got away with manipulating her. I don’t blame the characters, of course. I blame Guggenheim for his misogynistic writing. (And I’m pretty sure that MG is the reason Willa left which really sucks because not only did we lose a beloved character, but now MG is gone but we’ll never get to see Thea treated the way she deserves. It kinda makes me wonder if Willa decided to leave before she knew that MG was leaving too and if she would’ve stayed if she knew).
Okay I just gotta ask...with Felicity’s low ponytail and the way the hair totally covers her ears...did they do that on purpose to cover up Emily’s industrial piercing?
And if that’s so, why didn’t they just have her not wear the piercing for this scene? I may not have my ears pierced at all but I’m sure it wouldn’t be a big deal if she took the piercing out for, what, it maybe took an hour or so to film her scenes?
Ugh whatever. I’m just a very detail-oriented person so I always hyper-focus on these things.
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Okay I’m sorry, but how did Quentin not recognize Oliver’s voice in this scene? It just doesn’t make any sense!
Tommy: By being better. By being someone that you deserve and that you wanna be with.
Oh Tommy, bb, you’re alreasy too good for LL, okay? She is the one that doesn’t deserve to be with you.
Yay John knows!!!
Okay that’s it for episode 3. To be continued with episode 4.
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caffeinenby · 3 years
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[Ik the gymnastics they do in bakuten is rhythmic and that mashiro joined his third year of junior high] but imagine if the both schools’ groups had done gymnastics together as kids. my main point is that I did gymnastics for a year when I was a kid and the one of maybe three things I remember is jumping into this foam pit & I think there was a rope thing you could swing from (my memory may be wrong idk).
like this kind of:
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I could imagine the chaos but imagining the bakuten characters as kids doing gymnastics together without the competition part is wholesome
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caffeinenby · 3 years
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them 🎨
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caffeinenby · 3 years
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Bestie imma just be honest .. I had no idea you were sage for an actual month straight...
like my name or? bc Ik there’s another person in the bakuten fandom/bakugang named sage but that’s not me. I just have a name hoard and went by olivear for awhile and now scythe on here
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