Awesome. That was an incredibly well-directed episode. "It's a beautiful morning". Darkness all over but you can't lock it up, can you? It was amazing but that ending was just incredible. I'm not gonna talk about the ending now because, otherwise, this would be endless.
Stephen Amell is such a good damn actor. The way he said "would you just go, please" pierced my cold heart and broke it into pieces. You can tell how much he's in pain. Damn he's in pain, but mostly afraid. His breaking voice, his gestures, the way he talks, you can hear the pain in his voice. Never have I seen him so broken and beaten down. Seriously, Arrow is fucking killing it and so is Amell.
Slade: "I put you at the lowest point of your life, Oliver"
Adrian: hold my beer
Every single time I looked at Ollie in my mind he was wearing a label saying "Ollie broken, please fix". That was certainly heartbroken. The was he said "would you just go, please" at the beginning
It's so good to see Dig being the voice of reason again in the present time and Anatoly in the flashbacks. RIP Ollie and Anatoly's summer of love. I really like Anatoly, he's like a father figure. If someone hurts the KGbeast I swear I become ever more psycho than Chase. I guess now Team Arrow got undisbanded. I guess Anatoly has no more favourite Americans.
And Vigilante, fir a couple of weeks I've been thinking it's Paul. And I just found it curious Chase asked Curtiss about his husband. Shame we won't know his identity until season 6. That sucks.
That ending was one of the most badass scenes that I've ever seen. Man, Adrian is so goddamn.... He should never die. I'm gonna miss him so bad when he dies. He's fucking brilliant. He's a legit psychopath. And the badassery os Chase's scenes can't end. And Josh Segarra, he deserves award after award. He's such a goddamn actor.
When Adrian strode away from Oliver's desk and said "you can keep the knife", did anyone else have the compulsion to yell at Oliver to get rid of that knife as completely and immediately as possible. Could be nothing, but given the depth and complexity of Adrian's plans, on even the smallest chance that that knife is somehow associated with evidence of some other crime that, if found in Oliver's possession...
I suppose it's something of a testament to the brutal effectiveness of Promethius's writing and execution that some us -- okay, maybe it's just me and the voices in my head -- can be made so paranoid by details seemingly so small.
Great episode. The scene between Oliver and John is incredible! Master piece in script writing, wow.
Bloody Chase driving out of town listening to happy radio music without any trouble while whistling to a great song brought me Patrick Bateman's vibes in Marzipan psycho when he listens to "Walking on Sunshine". That's how a psychopath looks like. That was a fitting save ending for one of the most savage motherfuckers in the Arrowverse. That ending was the funniest and scariest things I've ever seen in my life. I didn't know if I should laugh or be horrified and yet, I let out one of those nervous laughs.
He killed that guy with a freaking pencil for God's sake. And he strangled the other fed while profusely bleeding from his gunshot and his face. He just doesn't care, just wanted to kill the other fed, just because he wanted to, and he liked it!!!
I have a feeling Chase knows about Helix and he's just waiting to go on a murder spree.
All in all, the episode was incredible as the season and that ending just made it better. I love psycho Chase, so calm down and methodical. I wish he sticks longer because it's a pleasure to watch Josh Segarra acting as a freaking psycho savage murderer. I'm really anxious to know what happens next and I can't wait for April 26th to come. it's gonna be a long break.
I think if Oliver had a good cry he'd feel much better.
Dos dumbass blind cops completely ignored Chase who apparently covered completely in blood
Oliver the end does not justify the means, and to agree with the devil neither
Review by Aniela KrajewskaVIP 8BlockedParentSpoilers2017-03-30T15:48:42Z— updated 2017-08-19T10:10:16Z
There are all kinds of villains. So many that I could probably spend the next hour trying to list them all. But by far the worst one is a smug motherfucker who taunts the heroes because he knows they can't do shit to him. I absolutely detest Adrian Chase, which, I suppose, is a complement to the writers. They've given us the most well-written, complex, unpredictable bad guy since Slade Wilson. That ending scene with Chase driving away with a bloody face and a happy song in the background was absolutely fantastic.
Season 5 in general has been a major improvement from the previous two. Everything's back on track now. This episode didn't really have any weak points. All the storylines worked very well, whether it was Oliver dealing with the fallout of Chase's torture, the team trying to carry on with their mission, the confrontation with Bratva or Felicity's more lighthearted, yet crucial to the plot Helix arc. I'm genuinely impressed.
There were a lot of little moments that I liked here, like Dinah bickering with Rene over who should be the new Diggle or sleep-deprived Felicity coming up with an insane plan of getting to Chase's scrambler. I also love Oliver and John's relationship and they had a lot of great scenes in this episode. I'm very excited to see how the rest of the season will play out.