6x12 All for Nothing

Is it me or has this season got better since the mid-season finale? The episode started out a bit slow and it got its paced real soon, with a entertaining second half. The action scenes were real good, especially the rooptof one with Ollie kicking ass. Savage and ruthless Ollie will always be my favourite Ollie. As for the other fight scene, well, I don't know what's their goal with that shaky camera, but doing that makes me dizzy and takes all the fun out if the fight.

I saw that ending coming. In fact, Dinah going to the dark side is something I was expecting since they introduced the redemption for Black Siren arc. It seems as if they want to change sides. I love Dinah and her relationship with Vince. That's one of the things that got me going. However, this new storyline seems interesting enough for me. In all honesty, I don't see it lasting for so long but Dinah embracing a dark side is promising enough, even if it lasts a couple of episodes.

I've always loved Juliana's acting, especially in the scenes she shared with Vince, she was really amazing. But in tonight's last scene she was stellar. You could actually she the fire and anger in her eyes. I'm so hyped for what comes next.

As soon as I saw the first flashback I knew Vince was gonna die, although I didn't expect the graphic death we've got. The misuse of certain character on the show really worries me. We spent half of season 5 trying to figure out who the hell was Vigilante. A couple of episodes ago they reveal that he was Dinah's presumed dead partner whom we only saw once and then, after trying to develop his character through his relationship with Dinah, they kill him off. All the build-up last season lead to write him off to push Dinah's arc forward.

I've got mixed feelings with Dinah and Oliver. None of them were completely wrong there. On the one hand, Oliver was selfish in saying that they needed to find the bomb instead of saving Vince because if it had been Felicity, he wouldn't even have hesitated. Dinah, on the other, let her emotions take the best of her and acted in a selfish way when she decided to go and save Vince. To me it was way too obvious that it was a trap and if she hadn't got there, Vince would probably still be alive. So all things considered, none of them were completely wrong. Oliver knew that however they tortured Vince, he was not gonna die, so that bought them time. It's not like it's life death situation with an unkillable guy. At first I was so hyped for team newbies but now they act as if they were they were the only ones with moral.

Oliver coming to Dinah's at the end was a dick move. Her boyfriend died right in front of her (again) killed by Black Siren and Oliver, whom she blames for Vince's death, comes right to her house. I highly doubt she would be in the mood to talk, especially after telling her that you didn't come all the way there to apologize, but to talk about the guys who killed her boyfriend. That wasn't real smooth. There was a point in their conversation when I thought she was gonna shoot Ollie.

The Quentin-Thea scenes always get me and always make me emotional. I loved Quentin's heart-to-heart talk to Laurel. That scene was absolutely fantastic. The montage was perfect and seeing Laurel hesitate was enough for me. By the way, that superposition of the real Laurel in Black Siren's face was outstanding. It reminded me to that shoot earlier this season when Slade was pointing his sword to Ollie's eye and it reflected the darkness. Amazing! Seeing Quentin like this is realy heartbreaking. By the way, Willa Holland seems to want off the show. Since she came back from the comma it seems as if she was just wandering from one scene to another. If it's true she wants out, I wouldn't blame her, the writers haven't given her an interesting storyline in ages. It would be a shame, cause I love The so damn much.

Let's get to the interesting part. Cayden James is not the biggest fish in the aquarium. That brought a smile to my face. James doesn't seems as menacing as he could be and the bomb plotline is getting really tiresome. I just hope it ends next episode. So now someone close to James has altered the footage in order for James to go after Oliver for some reason. And like that, it just got more interesting. I doubt it's Laurel and Anatoly. He could be a lot of things, but he'll never do that. So the logical answer is Richard Dragon. I really hope it's him. He's the other big bad we've got left and we barely know what he can do so yeah, my money's with him. I just love so much that someone's fucking with Cayden.

After last season's continuous "I'm 10 steps ahead" reminders, I'm inclined to believe that everything odd that happens is related to Chase. At first I thought the video was his idea but after seeing how sloppy video footage, I'm inclined to believe it has nothing to do with Chase. He takes his job very seriously and that was a stupid video. I couldn't help but laugh. How does Cayden James not know that it's a montage? He's supposed to be the best hacker in the world and doesn't suspect something's odd with the video.

Anatoly saying "Okie-dokie" right before picking some tools up to torture Vince is my new favourite thing.

Anyway, it wasn't all for nothing. We got some interesting plotlines for next episodes and the promising idea that someone's even a bigger bad that we expect.