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So, Quentin's in the preview pics for 8x06, Dinah's missing her neck scar, but Laurel still has her new outfit and I'd-like-to-speak-to-the-manager haircut. 🧐

Arrow 8x07 - Purgatory

Yeah, I don't care about the wider Arrowverse - I don't watch any of those shows. I care about Oliver and his family and parts of his team, so as long as they're happy, I'm happy.

They showed the burned mansion in the background when Emiko was visiting Robert’s grave last season (not that they still couldn’t reset it somehow).

Baby's getting a statue. 😭 Hopefully it doesn't look like it belongs in an easter basket like Laurel's.

Posting this tweet because this lovely person has collected all the social media in one place so I don't have to do it.

Probably. He was wearing his S1 suit with the eyeblack instead of a mask when he posted about wearing the suit for the last time the other day. Seems like he's wearing it in this pic too, but I'm not 100%.

Wow, he sounds pretty sure of himself LOL. If he does happy to be right, that's one more scene than I was expecting, so.

Was Rick doing stunts or what

Agreed. I think there's definitely room for Oliver to be amused by her namedropping Nyssa, and room for him to put her in her place skills-wise, but that moment was 100% not it.

I hope we get lots of father/daughter content.

Ryan Choi? It is!

But what about the situation was amusing? She wasn't just sitting around bragging, he was worried she was going to go out and get herself hurt/killed.

He probably didn't laugh at her because he knows that the root of her attitude is anger at him for leaving and not actually based in thinking that she's better than him. He thinks her anger is valid - of course he's not going to laugh at it. He was also trying to de-escalate the situation and keep her from going out and being rash. The last thing you do to a pissed-off person if you're trying to get them to be less rash is laughing at them.

That was such a nothing little write up to lose his shit over, lmao.

Oh, I know - that was an attempt at sarcasm that failed. It was really late and I was in the middle of a bout of insomnia when I wrote it, haha.

Maybe Laurel does actually betray Oliver and get E-2 back, then it winds up affecting other things, so she does something to undo the bringing back of E-2, and that's the "reset" for her arc. IDK how it would pertain to Oliver's, unless maybe it's referring to him ending up on Lian Yu where this whole thing started.

Lyla, no! Does he end up on Lian Yu again? Or is that just in the following episode?

ARROW“Reset” — (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET) (TV-14, LV) (HDTV) YOU CAN’T FIGHT YOUR FATE – After being double-crossed by Lyla (guest star Audrey Marie Anderson), Oliver (Stephen Amell) finds himself facing a life or death situation that seems very familiar. Laurel (Katie Cassidy) has the opportunity to make amends with the past. David Ramsey directed the episode written by Onalee Hunter Hughes & Maya Houston (#806).

Well, that's my point. We don't know what "betraying" him would mean because we don't really know what his mission is, do we? It's just sort of a general "save the multiverse" thing. The Monitor gave Oliver two tasks and after that he's just been kinda doing what he wants. Is the Monitor just letting Oliver follow his own path to get to the conclusion The Monitor wants him to have so he has something to do until the crossover? Is a "betrayal" part of getting him to that place? I don't know!

Yeah, I can see that happening.

I'm not sure if she'll betray him or not. On the one hand I think no, because there aren't many episodes left until Crisis, and that seems like a big step back for someone who's going to a spin-off as (presumably) a hero. And unless the spin-off takes place on E-2, it seems weird that she would not be there, unless it winds up getting destroyed again during Crisis. On the other hand, this betrayal could be seen as a noble thing depending on what it is she's required to do, since it would be bringing back a whole earth's full of people. Plus, we haven't been given an idea of what Oliver's purpose really is since The Monitor seems to be basically letting him do whatever he wants, so...what specifically at this point in time could be a betrayal? Tipping people in Russia off to what he's going there to get?

This had better be in the present, in Star City, right before he takes it off for the last time and heads home to his family. SO HELP ME