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  I've been thinking about Flashpoint's effects on Arrow. Why is only Diggle affected?  Will it be explained?  Those are questions have run through my  mind.  At first I thought, no, it didn't affect Felicity or Oliver, because at the end of 501 Oliver is Skyping John, and John asks him about himself and Felicity.  If they had no relationship, then why ask, right? However, the writers are pretty good at their job, so they  lead us to think  one way and it ends up another.  I remember season 3 thinking Felicity would be the one Oliver married, but nope it was Nyssa. Are the writers giving us the slip?  Will Oliver and Felicity have to find each other all over again?  Hum, that might be fun.  Or, do are we playing into the writers' capable hands and we  shall be laughing over our speculations?  Either way, it's fun. There is a spark there. Oliver shows concern when Havenrock is mentioned.  He also made it clear that he didn't lie to her, so that leads me to be

 Tonight Oliver breaks Diggle out of prison. The episode theme is Penance, voluntary self-punishment for a wrong done.  Diggle is wrongfully in a military prison, but he thinks he belongs there because of Andy. Prison serves as penance. Oliver knows that even though John did kill Andy, and should pay for it, he wants him to do penance as  Spartan, and not for a crime that he did not commit.  So Lyla enlists Oliver to help.  I love the relationship she has with her husband. She stands behind him, and wants to save him. Lyla wants to save her husband from himself, even  if they have to live a life on the run.  I love her persistence, and isn't that what love in a marriage is all about.  Does anyone else wonder if Tobias Church  is somehow involved with John being in prison?  Not that he knows who John Diggle is, but perhaps he has a connection with the one did. Did anyone else wonder that? As  I have said before I think trust is a sub-theme of Arrow.  In season four John didn

Quick  thoughts on  the Flash: The New Rogues, before heading off to bed.  First, Barry Allen was so cute as he trained Jesse Quick. "...I have become Oliver"  Haha, not quite, Barry! The title intrigues me rogue means villain, so does the title refer to Top and Mirror Master, or could it be a double entendre? Could the new Harrison Wells be a villain?  Certainly not Caitlin Snow,  or could it? No, that cannot be, but... Share your thoughts and comments. Tom Cavanagh plays Harrison Wells to perfection in any alternate earths. Not sure the "new"  one is going to work out, but he'll be fun. The Flash needs Tom Cavanagh, and Wells brings so much to the team.  I wonder if Cisco will miss the old one. I am not sure I want to see Caitlin Snow becoming "Killer" Frost.  What about you? What do you think?  Did you catch what Harry said to Cisco, that they weren't the ones who got Barry out of the mirror?  How will Caitlin's powers play out?  Why

Since the Flash  is on tonight, I've been thinking a lot about the Flashpoint episode the repercussions of Barry going, yet again, back in time.  In season 4 episode 8 Barry tells Oliver, "When I mess with time, it doesn't end well."  You would think the boy  would learn, but when matter's of the heart are at stake, Barry doesn't listen to his head, does he?     So, in Flashpoint, Barry's time travel affected  John Diggle, and in  way  Felicity, because she knows what Barry did.  David Ramsey  did reveal a little insight into  his  character's  dilemma, when he said, "I can't miss something I never had."  He never knew baby Sara  the way  we did,  and he only has  his son, John, now, so he has vaild point.  Does that mean Barry  will stay in the current time line, and there will never be a baby Sara?  Also, I understand from  those who watch Legends of Tomorrow,  that John had a son who becomes the next Green Arrow, Connor Hawke.   If

Felicity has her own trust issues.     Her father abandoned  her as a child, so that is a huge trust issue.  Her mother kept things from her, for her own good, yet that also created broken areas of trust.  Our past  certainly shapes  our future, and we can see that in Felicity. Felicity knows Oliver.  She knows his past with women, she knows that he keeps secrets, and she knows that he hasn't  even shared all of his past with her.  She even understands this about him.  Yet, she hopes that she can open that secret part of his heart that he  doesn't allow anyone to see.  Women do  believe that they can  change their man, but of course no one can change another person unless that other person wants to change. There are men who think they  can change  their women, no bias here, folks.   In season 4 episode 14, we have a wonderful conversation between Donna and Felicity.  Donna says, "I want one man who wouldn't lie to me."  Felicity's answer, "Maybe he

Arrow has a main theme of being a hero in the light, which Jennifer Knutson talks wonderfully about in her  TV Fanatic posts and her tumblr posts.  If you  haven't checked those out, you  should. I think there is a sub-theme running through Arrow as well, and that is learning to trust.  This theme seems to run through all the seasons, and it isn't just about Oliver/Arrow learning to trust, other characters struggle with trust too.  To be a hero that one can trust, means first you are a hero that knows how to trust.  Oliver learned last season the consequences of not trusting the person you love, your partner in life.  He failed to trust Felicity with William, by keeping the secret to himself. Keeping secrets is way of keeping trust with yourself, and not allowing others in.  This was a big secret, it wasn't like keeping a Christmas present a  secret, this was a life altering secret.The kind that the person you want to spend the  rest of your life with ought to know about.

 Arrow 5 x 03 "A Matter of Trust" aired last evening, and it proved an  interesting episode. The theme of the episode is trust.  Oliver still (or as my  Irish grandmother would  say, "Again,  yet, and still)  has issues of trust.  Oliver's trust issues go back before the Island, and the  island experiences didn't help either.  But the matter  of trust wasn't all on  Oliver's  side, either, his  new recruits, Wild Dog, Evelyn, Rory, and Curtis  all have to  learn to trust him.  Wild  Dog and Evelyn find it more difficult to trust  Oliver than  the others.  The young recruits feel trained  and ready to fight to save the city, and become frustrated that Oliver seems too slow to put them  out there. Is Oliver ready to let them go?  I think  Oliver still struggles over the lost team.  It took  him a long time to trust Diggle, Felicity, and Thea.  Now the team  he assembled  is gone, and it seems a personal  struggle for him.  Oliver always  fights  the urge w

Oliver Queen and Felicity Smoak an overview :  Oliver is a  complex character, and a hallmark  of good writing is creating complex characters.  Arrow writers Marc Guggenheim, Greg Berlanti, and Andrew Kreisberg have created wonderful characters on Arrow.  They know how to build  character over time. Even when Oliver was the playboy billionaire before he left on  trip with his father, he was  a  little brooding and dark.  This has only deepened over time. Oliver learned that you  can't always trust the people that you think you know and love.  His  family taught him that, and the Island  fermented  that within him.  The Island experience served to train him to become  the Arrow, but goodness and the darkness formed while still in Star City.  Oliver is an exaggerated version of  all us, and that is why we can relate.  Oliver feels he as to do things alone, and I think  this struggle to go it alone, has carried over even into this  fifth season,  but more that later. He has trouble le

If you are interested in music, television, music, books, and movies, this blog may be for you.  Here you will find my reviews on the things I listen to, read, and watch. I l hope you will find my  take on things  interesting, insightful, and perhaps slightly different. I welcome your reactions even if they differ greatly from mine. Dialogue  is always welcome, all I ask is keep it respectful. Arrow Preview : I came late to Arrow, starring Stephen Amell,  I first started watching it when it began it's third season.  I watched the Flash, because my kids had watched the original Flash when they were young, so we were curious to see how they would make the new version (more on that in another post), during a commercial break they advertised Arrow and decided to watch it.  I know nothing of the comic book version of the Green Arrow and never read a comic book, so I had no preconceived notions of how it should it be or of any of the characters. What made me stay was the on-scr