You mean to tell me hacking isn't just bashing keys and typing really fast?
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Arrow Season 4 |OT| A Tale of Salt and Fire
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You mean to tell me hacking isn't just bashing keys and typing really fast?
Looking forward to watching GAF squirm at all the Olicity stuff while Arrow-GAF enjoys the show.
Arrow-GAF liked Olicity?
Rapscallion
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Last season had its moments. I thought the mid-season finale was pretty intense, but the second half of the season didn't capture the same steam. I'll be watching. As long as there aren't any flashbacks of Oliver running through generic streets in China being shot at, I'll be happy.
The microprocessor she pulled from her ass bothers me more
Septimus Prime
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I mean, last time I hacked into a fighter jet, it took three people jamming on the same keyboard to make it happen. I don't see how she can do it herself.
Ah yes, the quantum processor. Learn2fab, Intel. Scrub.
Wait, you're telling me that the people that cringed at Felicity going yandere in season 3 are in the minority?
I don't want to be a part of this fanbase anymore.
Yeah, but she built a super computer when she was like in utero, so it's cool.
PHOENIXZERO
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Felicity was best in small doses, the character just gets worse the more screen time (EBR's acting ability being as limited as it is doesn't help) she has and she's basically become the show's embodiment of the social media fan girls just as the character is the one they "live vicariously" though that the show runners and writers started teasing late in season two but being their "voice" if you will, has been apparent since she criticized Oliver's "relationship" choices. Like the eye rolling "why her" thing when Oliver hooked up with Isabel. I wonder how many of this show's shippers are or were Twilight fans.
Oh and yeah the hacking shit is annoying. It was bad enough when she's doing it in Starling but then she shows up on the Flash and does the same shit. They could at least explain that at least when it comes to the city and law enforcement she has a backdoor in or something, anything beyond just randomly keystrokes and she's in everything.
Am I still wrong in thinking that "The Secret Origin of Felicity Smoak's Hair" was one of the worst episodes of season three (where there's a lot to choose from) and the series?
Let's not mistake vocal with popularity now.
Oh and yeah the hacking shit is annoying. It was bad enough when she's doing it in Starling but then she shows up on the Flash and does the same shit. They could at least explain that at least when it comes to the city and law enforcement she has a backdoor in or something, anything beyond just randomly keystrokes and she's in everything.
Am I still wrong in thinking that "The Secret Origin of Felicity Smoak's Hair" was one of the worst episodes of season three (where there's a lot to choose from) and the series?
Let's not mistake vocal with popularity now.
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
I agree 100%, some characters just work way better in those quick and funny moments. Felicity was exactly that in Season 1, the Moneypenny to Oliver's James Bond. She helps him out, nice comedic moment with some hints of sexual tension, the story moves on.
Someone like Diggle makes more sense to me because he balances Oliver out. Felicity comes off more like a plot device. Deus ex machina with a laptop.
And yeah, I've always thought that her secret origin episode was the worst episode of Arrow we have ever gotten, by a huge margin. Nothing about it worked.
Arrow/Flash comic sale on Comixology.
If you haven't yet, for Green Arrow check out:
Vol 4: The Kill Machine
Vol 5: The Outsider War
even though it's not on-sale, Vol 6: Broken
Quiver
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If you haven't yet, for Green Arrow check out:
Vol 4: The Kill Machine
Vol 5: The Outsider War
even though it's not on-sale, Vol 6: Broken
Quiver
Sound of Violence
spot on post.
StopMakingSense
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Mom was totally cool until she told Felicity that she could tell F didn't really like Ray and totally still LOVED Ollie.
BKatastrophe
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Remember when she brought a Windows tablet on the raid to the Nanda Parbat to hack a jet that no one knew would be there?
I strongly disliked that episode. Especially given how they did Brother Eye.
They done did Brother Eye wrong.
Combat Wombat
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PHOENIXZERO
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gundamkyoukai
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If i remember right the ratings were still high or higher than before even with all the Olicity problems .
Either way hopefully we are past all that shit as we go into season 4 and things get better .
Jorok Goldblade
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I missed the part where she said "Oh-that makes more sense" after realising Malcolm killed the assassin, and not her Surface shurikun.
Hey, I actually enjoy that scene!
I'm talking about that scene in particular not the stupidity of hacking a jet before it, it's a nice piece of physical comedy and something the show needs more of.
http://tvline.com/2015/10/05/arrow-season-4-spoilers-felicitys-father/
They'll do less flashbacks not related to Oliver's plot this season.
They'll do less flashbacks not related to Oliver's plot this season.
It really makes the scene. A nice break in the action.
Her Instagram is quite something.
Even better.
Got juniored for this thread. No regrets. Someone on staff takes their Felicity really seriously it seems.
Done. Particular reason you left out the other volumes? Not interconnected stories?
And poster of Thea
awesome
PHOENIXZERO
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Ra's had a Windows phone and look where that got him.
Combat Wombat
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I don't mind humor and I agree that Arrow needs more of it. My problem with that gag is that it comes at the expense of the Assassins. They were already huge jobbers this season, so that scene just rubbed more salt in the wound for me.
But, she doesn't kill the Assassin, Malcolm does. She hits him with her MS Surface and thinks that is what killed him only to see the Arrow sticking out of his back and Malcolm standing behind him. I do think the Assassins becoming jobbers is a valid complaint though when like an episode before Laurel, Thea, and Diggle were dispensing them like chumps in hand to hand combat. Including all the shenanigans that happened in that episode. But, that scene by itself is fine and a good piece of comedy.
Combat Wombat
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I know Malcolm is the one who actually killed him, but combined with the rest of the issues I had with that episode, and the general attitude I have toward S3, it just didn't work for me. That's probably clouding my judgement.
I would've been ok with it if it was against some random street mooks or if the Assassins were actually competent threats.
I would've been ok with it if it was against some random street mooks or if the Assassins were actually competent threats.
Vol 1-3 of Green Arrow were pretty poor. Vol 4 was when Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino took over as creative team and created a decent enough jumping-on point, resulting in a damn cool GA run.
I hadn't personally read Archer's Quest or Straight Shooter so I can't speak for those, but Kevin Smith's run on the GA books are well regarded.
If the LOA were competent, they wouldn't need so many members in the first place.
Jason Frost
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Nice.And poster of Thea
Combat Wombat
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Fair enough. I can buy those arguments.
Spikematic
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Thea's costume looking dope! Now we can only hope Diggle's blackneto helmet was just a joke the showrunners were playing on us...
That and anyone who gets reasonably good starts getting lippy with Ray.
'OI, RAY, YOU SLAG, TRY KICKING ME OFF DA FARKING MOUNTAIN.'
She totaly has technocynesis .... she is the only superpowered hero on the show, I told you guys already
No matter how much of a super hacker you are, you can't just pull a quantum processor out of thin air
Won't be hard, Flash's premiere was pretty weak.
It's happening.
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