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Disbanded: Arrow 518 Review

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                Oliver:  Chase has wounded Oliver's mind, so that he believes what he told Chase, that he is a killer at heart and loves to kill. He disbands the team, because he doesn't want the team to be hurt or killed, and he's worried that they might become like Chase himself.  Oliver's tortured soul over his friends, reveals that he is not the killer Chase wanted him to believe.  Stephen Amell did a great job of showing us how tormented he was.  His eyes spoke of pain. How could Chase in six days of torture cause Oliver to believe he is a killer?  It's because Oliver has always believed that he was.  He had never been fully convinced that he was anything different.  He always took the blame for wrongs done to him.  That's why he let Felicity walk away from him. That's why he didn't tell her the decision he made about William.  He shuts off a part of himself and won't or wouldn't let anyone f...

Continued thoughts on Arrow 517 Kapiushon

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  Oliver's look of anguish when he thought Chase had done something to Felicity wrenched our hearts and we could see his pain.  I have read that some people wanted to see the same anguish on Felicity's face.  I think we did.  We saw anger and shock. Felicity couldn't look at Oliver's face, she just stared at his tortured body.  Now in the upcoming episodes  we see her fighting Chase the only way she knows how, her computer skills.  This will pull her deeper into Helix.   In Disbanded , she is going to learn something about Helix, and this might put her into conflict with herself and even with Oliver,because he is going to ask her to stop using Helix, and she will tell him why you can't do that.  She will not want Oliver to use Bratva to stop Chase, either, and he won't listen to her,  and she will have to trust him. One thing Oliver does is trust, and he trusts her. She has trouble trusting.  She holds back, but I think as she see...