User blog:Nobody700/Arrow Reviews: Episode 9; Merry Christmas Oliver... You'll need it.

In today's review, one of the biggest episodes in Arrow season 1 is now! Let's see how it goes. It's also a Christmas episode! So drink your eggnog people, wear a Santa hat, and make love to a midget!

Years End
At a shitty motel, Adam (the original E.R.W.M) is calling people when someone goes at him. He seems to thinks it's Oliver, but the man kills him! With arrows! Diggle and Ollie have sexual tension battle, where Ollie explains that now bad guys give up just by him saying hello. Diggle tells Oliver Christmas is here, and Ollie explains how he didn't have Christmas on the island. Seems like Santa is afraid of the island. Diggle tells him to rest, and even tells him he's on Santas nice list. Knowing this series, Santa is canon. On the flashbacks, Yaoi Fei finds Oliver is alive, and gives him food and water. Nice guy. He also gives him... Fyers. It is Christmas! He gives him a chance to murder Fyers, or to go home. I remember that when I was a kid. 'Son, murder this man, or get a pony. One or the other!' I... Had a strange childhood.

Oliver heads home to learn that Christmas is gone in the Queen home. Damn it, Hanukkah ruined it. So republicans have time in the Queen home, and they talk of the hood. Ollie hates the hood. Malcolm thinks he should be called the Green Arrow. Ollie says it's lame. 4 years later, he steals the name and calls it cool. What a dick. Felicity calls Walter, and tells him the Vigilante is going after people on that list. Cop comes in to tell the chief Adam is dead. Ollie gets called, and leaves. Lance comes to see Adam, and points out that this isn't the hood, it's a copy cat due to the arrows being black. Smart man.

Diggle and Oliver explain who did it, and Ollie says the guy has skill from the way he shot him. Oliver, decides to get help from the Popo. Lance gets a new phone, and it's shown Ollie gave it to him. Arrow Phones, as fast as an arrow and as sharp as one. Only $99.99, and if you buy it now, get the Season 1 Arrow case for the phone, with either Oliver firing an arrow or Diggle digging the phone. It's is 100% percent Diggle approved. Back to something not stupid, Oliver tells him he needs help to taking down the copycat. Walter sees Doug (Pfft, a critic named Doug...) and tells him he thinks Ollie will get him.

So Oliver learns Thea has a boyfriend. Oh man, he is so dead. Thea tells Ollie they rob banks and smoke crack together. Thea, don't tell that joke when you have a legitimate crime record. Thea explains that after the island, they stopped having Christmas parties. Ollie comes in, saying he wants to manage the party. Moria agrees, and I like how Ollie wants to make a party to cheer everyone up.

Points: 6

So Fyers explains he knew Oliver was a good an after being tortured. Douche. He says that the island is a prison for super criminals. Yaoi Fei probably went there for being gay. He also says Yaoi Fei killed dozens. But Ollie doesn't believe him. Wonder why?! Malcolm says that Walter knows too much, and warns Moria that someone he knows will get him. So a rich guy is killed by the Black Archer. The police captain says that he wants the Hood to be blamed. Lance says no, and is taken off the case because he believes in capturing the right criminals. He calls Ollie, and tells him how to get the arrows.

So Ollie points out the arrows are special made, and looks to sexy IT blonde, who tells him he has a 'friend' and wants her to find the arrows and where they came from. She in returns, insults arrows. She finds him in the company in extreme quickness, and tells her Merry Christmas. She responds with I'm Jewish. Yeah, that's a thing. Jews in tv only say they are Jews for Hanukkah. Laurel seems to have flip flopped in her opinion of the Hood... Offscreen, and Tommy comes in. He asks how he is, Lance says good with guns. Hah.

Points: 7

Tommy explains he wants Laurel to come to a party at Olivers (THANKS FOR RUINING THE PARTY, TOMMY!) and she says yes. Tommy gives her a gift of her, Lance, and Sarah. Sara, had to go to the bathroom while the picture was being taken. The mother most likely took it. At a building where the arrows are made, it's a trap set up by the Dark Archer. He sets up a cool looking chemical bomb, but Ollie escapes by the skin of his teeth. Ollie heads to the party, and Thea's boy toy comes in. Diggle warns him to stay alive. Can I say he never appeared or was mentioned after this epiosde? Yeah, Oliver killed him.

Moria wants to talk with Walter alone, and Ollie tries to stop his sister from being plowed, but Laurel and Tommy block him from cock blocking. Walter and Moria fight over the stuff of where she lied all the time about Robert and the company. She explains that her enemies are too powerful to stop. They make up though. Laurel explains that the reason she isn't close to Tommy, is because of Oliver. How she held back because he died, and how he is opening old wounds. Ollie explains he's happy for them though. Also, Ollie sees Thea and the guy about to bone, and gives him a death glare so epic, I have to give him a point.

Points: 8

Also, again, he is dead. Series finale, we find his corpse somewhere wth an arrow in his heart. Thea acts like a bitch, but I would be a bitch if I was cock blocked. Diggle comes in to tell Oliver the copy cat has hostages, and is willing to kill them. On the island, Fyers reveals he was bait, and not Deathstroke and his cronies appear to attacks Yaoi and Oliver. They fight, but Yaoi loses. Back the city, the hostages have bombs around them, but Ollie comes in to save them. He saves the people, and meets the Dark Archer. They have an archer off that is cool as shit.

Points: 9

Despite Ollies skills, the Dark archer beats him. Guy kicks him through a wall, twice. Ollie barely escapes, and is forced to has to call Diggle to save him. Diggle takes him to the hospital, and tells everyone he had a motorcycle crash. Thea apologizes, and gives him a little game because he wanted it at the beginning. Nice scene.

Points: 10

At the Dark Archers place, we found out he is... MALCOLM MERLYN! Umm... So what? Really, they act like its a huge thing, but the bad guy being evil isn't that huge. Walter being kidnapped though? Now that's big. Moria seems to know about it, and wants him safe. Malcolm explains that in 6 months, their plan will be set. Moria says thousands will die. But Malcolm says that's a good thing. Now that's how you do an intimidation scene. Oliver, back home tells Diggle that he failed the city. Diggle tells him he saved people, and tells him they'll get the bad guy. But Ollie says that the list wasn't made by his dad, that he thinks someone is pulling the strings. Who we know is Malcolm, who is the archer. Still nice.

Score: 10! An epic episode and must watch. https://youtu.be/wDajqW561KM

Thoughts: Oh man, this was the mid season finale, and oh boy, was it good. Oliver losing to the Dark Archer is scary, the other scenes promise of more to come, the flashbacks come back with a fury, and we know that the evil group has a master plan involving lots of dead people. Could things get better, or for our heroes, any worse? Oh yes they will.