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            This ranks as one of my  all time favorite episodes.   The acting, the direction, by Ben Bray, the lighting, well, just about everything happened  like a  perfectly choreographed dance.  Stephen Amell played  his  role to perfection. I love old  movies, and one of the reasons I  do is  because so often the actors spoke pages of  dialogue  just with  their  face.  (If you've never seen Ronald  Coleman in Random Harvest, you should give it a  try.)  Very few modern actors do this with  success  and  emotion.  Stephen  Amell succeeded in this  episode.  My format will  be a little different in this review,  because this episode was unique in that I think this serves to set up the movement forward to the end  of the season. The action begins immediately.  We  see Oliver dressed as  sea...

           I enjoyed this episode because it was a thoughtful episode about what our parents leave us.  At least that is how I took it.  Encased in concrete in the body of man Robert Queen accidently killed.  His mistake was  in covering it up, because Malcom Merlyn used that to cause Robert to participate in the Undertaking.  It also lead to his charge to Oliver to right is wrongs. This one mistake lead to Oliver making his journey to becoming the Green Arrow.  No child can right any wrongs of a parent.  Our sins are our own. They aren't our children's.  Robert Queen should have understood that.  I think Robert wanted his son to be a better kind of man than he was. Every parent knows the strengths and weaknesses of their children.  Sometimes the things we see in our children that we don't like, are the very things that are weaknesses in ourselves.  Long ago in college I wrote a poem that about that, an...

                      In Dangerous Liaisons, Oliver, as we can see from the spoiler photo, still can't put on this Arrow suit.  He wears what he wore when he first came back from Ivy Town.  Remember he said he was happy, and he didn't want to suit up again, but out of his love for Felicity he came back.  He realized, with Felicity's help, that he could still do some good, so he put on his new suit that I am thinking Cisco designed for him.  So, here he is at the end of Season 5, still questioning his identity.  He can't bring himself to put on the Arrow suit, because there is still a part of him that believes when he does, he gets pulled in to the darkness.  Notice too, no arrows but a gun. When he suits up with his Arrows this time, it will be  because he will do it for himself.  He will believe in what he's doing, and I also think it will be because he will need to rescue Felicity. ...

        Lian Yu confirmed by Marc Guggenheim!    Well, at least one of my speculations turned out correct, the whole team will end the season in Lian Yu!  I am excited about this and of course we will have more of Manu Bennett as Slade Wilson, and Katie Cassidy as the Black Siren. With the title of episode 22 Missing, I am thinking that Felicity kidnapped and taken to Lian Yu, and the rest of the team will head there to find her.   Do you remember that twice Slade threatened Felicity?  Perhaps Chase knows Slade, and we know Chase knows Black Canary so I think we shall see more of that since we know that Katie Cassidy will be back in the last two episodes as the Black Canary,  and she will become a regular cast member next season. Frankly, I don't know that we need the Black Siren as a regular cast member, so that one puzzles me. If any of my readers know  why the showrunners are doing that, please post why.     With...