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I tend to think that trying to make KC a place on the show had a ripple effect that did hurt the show pretty badly.  She's what turned Quentin stupid and into a creepy stalker.  So that wipes off the

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I have to say a big no thank you very much and goodbye to the idea of Felicity being kidnapped at the end of the season (which probably means it's more likely LOL). Felicity has been through so much this season, especially from an emotional viewpoint, and I'm just tired of the repeated knocks. Give the girl a break until October!

 

I do think the season will end on a cliffhanger though. But I'm wondering if it will be like a s2 finale cliffhanger where it cut away from OTA on the island to Oliver waking up in Hong Kong.

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kismet

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I wouldn't mind a cliffhanger as long as it is not a known kidnapping, because that is something that needs to be resolved if we know about it. But missing people for unknown reasons are fine with me. Perhaps they could reveal to the audience only that people who should be dead are now alive, or in prison are now set free. I would also take the reveal of someone we think is good is really bad, especially if it sets up s5. If only the audience is in on the cliffhanger, then the main characters can be happy & oblivious, so its the best of both worlds. 

 

I think the show has been pretty good with cliffhangers, especially since they have both the flashbacks and the present day threads. Only s3 was a little bit of a dud because they were wrapping up the first trilogy. I have enjoyed their pattern where they leave one in resolution and one with a cliffhanger. But both threads being left unresolved with a cliffhanger might be a nice change of pace, since I have a feeling the physical destruction of the city is not going to be how the season ends or at least it will be different from how its been in previous seasons. HIVE & DD have been more a mental chess game with TA than a physical match. I think we might actually get a positive/happy 423 at the beginning of the episode, so it might be nice to see the balance thrown off in few minutes of the finale.

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AyChihuahua

AyChihuahua

I'm okay with, say, the city council making Oliver interim mayor if Ruve is outed/killed.

 

I am also okay with  the season ending with Felicity kidnapped (or Oliver?) bc I'm tired of missing their happy times. But I totally understand why people would feel differently . I would strongly prefer no amnesia/brainwashing, though.

NumberCruncher

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The cavernous space might have something to do with the flashbacks

I think this is the most likely scenario ala S2. I remember MG saying that they like to do alternative endings year-over-year so I'm fully expecting that because we got a happy, present day ending for S3, we're due for another not-so-happy, flashback ending for S4.

 

I have to say a big no thank you very much and goodbye to the idea of Felicity being kidnapped at the end of the season (which probably means it's more likely LOL). Felicity has been through so much this season, especially from an emotional viewpoint, and I'm just tired of the repeated knocks. Give the girl a break until October!

Yeah, I don't need them to make Felicity the big cliffhanger. Not only are you right that she's already been dumped on plenty this season, but also it would serve their purposes better to not make it about her anyway if they want to avoid the appearance that she's usurping Oliver in importance. I think the show is always going to default to telling us where Oliver is at the end of each season either in the past or present.

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They ended S2 with OTA in a good mood, but with a bunch of smaller cliffhangers -- Thea left with Malcolm, Lance had a heart attack, bad hair Oliver woke up in Hong Kong.

 

The cavernous space made me think flashback Oliver waking up in Russia, yes. But if 422 ends up with happy stuff in present time, I'll be assuming crash positions about a cliffhanger for the present timeline.

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nksarmi

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I would swear that the word in that script pic before as we CRANE up is future.  Therefore, I would think the passage reads something like:

 

Let Twitter explode. We blah blah blah, that we see when Oliver is rescued in the future, as we CRANE up..... blank in the cavernous space.

 

If that word is future - I think the last scene will be of the flashbacks.

 

Now of course that doesn't mean that present day will end happily.  But the truth is that a good or bad ending could make Twitter explode so that's not telling one way or the other.

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nksarmi

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Well those who called Ruve winning and Laurel being offered the DA position were 100% right.  I wonder with 48% of the write in votes if something will happen to Ruve and Oliver will be mayor by the end of the season.

 

I can decide if it would be more fun seeing Oliver play mayor and GA in season five or seeing Ruve stay on as the evil mayor next season.

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apinknightmare

apinknightmare

Why on Earth did they assemble the idol back???

Also, LOL at it being the same idol of the flashbacks. And of course Oliver would wait until a convenient time to tell, haha.

I loved Laurel's comment about Oliver not liking it talk about Lian Yu. LIke...of course he doesn't? Haha.

Reassembling the idol is some next-level plot convenient idiocy. Yikes.

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I loved Laurel's comment about Oliver not liking it talk about Lian Yu. LIke...of course he doesn't? Haha.

Reassembling the idol is some next-level plot convenient idiocy. Yikes.

Haha,I was about to make another post to comment on that. There's a line missing, Oliver said something like

'...and that's why I never talked about it with you.'

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foreverevolving

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I loved Laurel's comment about Oliver not liking it talk about Lian Yu. LIke...of course he doesn't? Haha.

Reassembling the idol is some next-level plot convenient idiocy. Yikes.

ugh I hated it! that line was stupid - they should have used like and not love & per usual KC delivery was wayyy off the mark. she sounded as if she was resenting him for not sharing this super traumatic experience with her. Tonight is going to be super sweet!

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nksarmi

nksarmi

Ok Laurel's line is a little oddly worded but the snarky sentiment is 100% deserved.  I mean, come on - I get it - life altering, traumatic experience, yada, yada, yada - but Oliver really does have a tendency to withhold information about the island that would be important until plot dictates that he reveal it.  They should have a sit down with him and asked about all the special drugs, relics, and otherwise life endangering shit he encountered on the island and make a reference accordion so they can just look stuff up anytime something weird happens in the city.  In fact, considering he drove off into the sunset with Felicity last season - I'd say this is WAY overdue.

 

And also, I noticed he didn't follow up that little reveal with information about what he saw the idol actually DO. 

 

The thing that eats at me from season two was that Oliver so didn't want to talk about the island that he never came clean with his mom and sister about why he knew Slade was dangerous.  I know it was for plot but it seems so selfish and uncaring and stupid.  That only got worse when he couldn't remember that there was a mirikuru cure until the city was facing super solders and poor Roy had killed a cop when he was out of his mind. 

 

There really are ways to write around this stuff without making Oliver look so bad.

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Morrigan2575

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I don't mean to be nitpicky or anything, but why is Andy describing Malcolm Merlyn as "the head of the League of Assassins," instead of "that psychotic mass murderer who killed 500 people? I thought he was dead!"  The first was a temporary position that lasted less than a year. The second is still true!

because the show likes to pretend that never happened and that MM is just misunderstood?

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way2interested

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I don't mean to be nitpicky or anything, but why is Andy describing Malcolm Merlyn as "the head of the League of Assassins," instead of "that psychotic mass murderer who killed 500 people? I thought he was dead!"  The first was a temporary position that lasted less than a year. The second is still true!

Since Andy was "dead" when the Undertaking happened, I'm not that particular about him keeping up with affairs in Starling City. Since Darhk knew about the League and about Malcolm, and Andy seems to be higher up in the soldiers of HIVE, he probably knows Malcolm from that. Or at least that's how I rationalized it.

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Since Oliver confirmed that it is the same mask, I am surprised that it didn't occur to Oliver before 4.15 that DD might have had a totem channeling his powers just like Reiter much earlier in the season.  I mean how many guys did he see in his past with the same magic powers...I would have thought he might consider looking for the source of DD's powers since he's seen that kind of magic before...unless DD's magic is pretty common in the mystical world, I guess.

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Morrigan2575

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Since Oliver confirmed that it is the same mask, I am surprised that it didn't occur to Oliver before 4.15 that DD might have had a totem channeling his powers just like Reiter much earlier in the season.  I mean how many guys did he see in his past with the same magic powers...I would have thought he might consider looking for the source of DD's powers since he's seen that kind of magic before.

This is the same guy/show that new all about Mirakuru and it's cure and never said anything until the last 5-6 episodes of the season.  It's their Standard Operating Procedure, 

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way2interested

way2interested

This is the same guy/show that new all about Mirakuru and it's cure and never said anything until the last 5-6 episodes of the season.  It's their Standard Operating Procedure, 

Yeah, it's part of the reason why I wish that it was Diggle or Felicity who would have commented "Shocker," since this is the exact same position they were two years ago, but Diggle is concerned about his brother, Felicity's not in the cave, and Thea's the type to say it, even though it does kind of make her look like a hypocrite with Oliver's secret-keeping at this point.

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statsgirl

statsgirl

Those two clips just lost me most of my excitement about the episode.  The fact that the write-ins for Oliver were 48% when he wasn't even running shows just how much of an idiot he is, if Laurel is the DA why wouldn't she oversee DD's case anyway, and the lair sessions without Felicity were kind of boring.  Also they're all idiots for putting the magic totem back together.  Meh.

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Not watching any sneak peeks this week but reassembling that totem has to be the most stupid thing they've done and that's saying a lot.

 

I'm assuming they had to find a way to restore power to DD but it would have been better if Malcolm broke in and stole the pieces and put it back together himself. 

 

Haha I can't. So dumb.

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nksarmi

nksarmi

Maybe that's the "repercussion" of Felicity not being on the Team-- she's not there to tell everyone that they're being dumbasses for reassembling the totem.

 

I am honestly surprised Oliver survived the months without her before she joined the team.  He truly is the king of dumbasses.

 

As to how he survived the island before hand, well people like Shado, Slade before he went evil, Mateo/Tatsu, and even Constantine seem to be helping him with that.

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statsgirl

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Even if he was bored, how idiotic is to reassemble the way two bad guys channeled their evil magic?  Also, I want to know who is so good at puzzles that they could put that together again.

 

Why is Diggle surprised that MM is working with HIVE?  Oliver knows that Malcolm took William from his house and gave him to DD.  That's a stupid secret to keep from his Team.

 

Also, I don't trust Andy's "What shall I do?"  Pure manipulation of Diggle.

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