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Arrow: Monument Point (2016)
Could have been much better
Let's start with my grievances.
1)Felicity and Momma smoak have a total of 13 minutes(36% of the episode) of screen time(this only includes when they are talking!) For example, why was the scene of Felicity and her mom talking needed. Why did we need to focus on her saying goodbye to her loved ones? We didn't see diggle go kiss his daughter on the head in case if something happened, we didn't see Oliver even try to get in touch with Thea.
2)Instead of asking Curtis for help(someone who has helped them before) they decide to break into the Smoak building
3)While I like that Felicity wasn't able to fix it herself, isn't it really convenient the only person who can stop it is her dad? Like come on. Not even the entire NSA(a group of people who dedicate their lives to national security, and have much more experience than "I used to hack in college, and then I became an IT girl")?
4)Felicity's dad took a bullet for her. Some how I imagine this will change everything, Felicity will say something like "Dad I don't approve of the choices you've made, but you're still my father".
5)Felicity was mad at her father for stealing from her company. She wasn't mad about him betraying her mother, trying to kill thousands of people, or shutting down the internet.
6)Momma smoak gets mad at Lance for saying that he is going to say he didn't know Laurel was the black canary, when this could very well mean he never becomes a cop again(what he believes is his purpose in life) all because it's a lie.
7)Momma smoak goes into his house when he isn't home. She proceeds to snoop around the entire place. I assume Lance didn't have this out in the open, so that means she probably went into all the rooms in his house, reading through various personal documents. WTF? This isn't normal. If anything Lance should be mad at her. It's not like they've been dating for 3 years, they've barely been dating for long at all, and she did this super creepy thing.
8)Oliver shoots 4 arrows. just 4. One doesn't even get the guy down for the count. one is used to escape. One more is shot into another guys leg, then one more is used to tie him up. This show is called Arrow, however, Oliver queen seems more like a back seat character lately.
9)The fate of the world is at risk. What do they do? Argus spares 7 men to try to defend the "only person" who can stop them. They don't send in the military, not the national guard, not the navy seals. Just 7 Argus agents.
10)The united states has a lot of defenses against Nuclear missiles, you're telling me they couldn't shoot a single rocket at it? You're telling me they couldn't have sent a plane to shoot it down? You're telling me they couldn't have asked the flash to make a whirlwind in the air to send it off course? They could have done anything. But no, Felicity needs more screen time to blame herself for everything that happened, it's all about felicity.
For the sake of keeping this review short I'll stop there.
This episode was not all bad though. Here's what I thought was good.
1)Thea got a fight scene, while there were parts of it that were stupid(Thea laying on the ground while Alex gets tazed then proceeding to get up 2 seconds too late.) it was still a decent fight scene.
2)Felicity got fired. I'm not saying this is a pro because I hate felicity. This just makes sense. She is constantly skipping work, skipping meetings, and taking company tech. Not to mention also taking money. It makes sense that she be kicked out, just like Bruce Wayne in batman.
3)Arrow did some sort of Arrow things. He did flips, and so on. But he still took way too long to take down brick.(Oliver has been training for months, Brick has been in jail(and Brick took an arrow to the hand like 3 hours ago)).