This show has reached greatness with the last 2 episodes of 2013 but now is getting worse and worse, and I don't know what is in Greg Berlanti's mind that he keeps turning this show into a soap opera with bad plot and acting. This episode is far the worse of this show so far, and one of the worst episodes I've ever seen.
Let's start with the first scene where we see a woman(Nyssa), who is not introduced into the show properly. We don't see how she was sent or how she has the power to release Sarah at the end, this should have shown without necessarily showing Ra's Al Gul, but no, Greg keeps bringing new characters without proper introduction.
Then we have a very predictable acting from Stephen Amell and Caity Lotz, who have child replies and quotes, which I could have guessed from the start of the episode. Are they ever gonna grow up?
Next, useless flashbacks that have no point what so ever, showing things we already knew. Instead they could have shown how Sarah got into the league and her relationship with Nyssa, but no, they show childish acting from Katie Casidy and Caity Lotz.
The worst thing in the episode was Sarah's love for Nyssa. Really? Was that the best thing Greg Berlanti wrote to introduce Nyssa into the episode? This was awful and the scene where they kissed was horrible.
Useless things like Oliver hitting wheel rubber are shown and not how Arrow and the canary found out about how and where Nyssa would travel.
The league member dies instantaneously, but Sarah goes through a longer process in order to die at the end. This poison needs to make up it's mind as to how and how long it takes to kill people.
Oliver suddenly has the antidote for canary's poison. How did he get it? I guess no one will ever know, except Greg Berlanti who surely knows but decides not to show us.
In the end Nyssa suddenly has the power to release Sarah from the league even though she was sent only to bring back Sarah into the league. And how does Oliver knows stories about Ra's Al Gul, who told him? Diggle? Nothing in this episode seems to make sense whatsoever.
In the end having Sarah and Oliver make love is terrible. This is getting more like a soap opera, ending just like Desperate Housewifes.
I only gave 5 to this episode because of the good acting from Diggle, Felicity, Walter, Slade, Sebastian, Laurel and Quentin Lance, who saved some of this episode with their acting, and for the good scenes between Felicity and Walter, Quentin and Sarah at the bar, Oldaman and Moira, Oliver's speech, Oliver and Moira, Laurel,Sarah and family and, Slade and Sebastian. So sorry about this episode, but my vote is 5/10. Unless this show will go somewhere with all the plots and end well the second season, I'll leave it and try something better.
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