tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6678481478994191244.post8180467581576527333..comments2024-03-24T03:19:39.745-04:00Comments on Just About Write: Arrow 3x03 "Corto Maltese" (A Rescue is a Rescue Until It's Not)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6678481478994191244.post-19304519960246745842014-10-23T12:45:27.670-04:002014-10-23T12:45:27.670-04:00Ohh that's so smart! I keep wanting to get bac...Ohh that's so smart! I keep wanting to get back into reviewing things (besides Castle which I do for another website) but this month since TV has started back has been lacking in time, but maybe in November I will again and you've given me a great idea/way to not be up until 2 in the morning with the writing process! #bloginspo Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6678481478994191244.post-64290004575211139562014-10-23T11:45:49.809-04:002014-10-23T11:45:49.809-04:00I'm so glad you feel comfortable chatting here...I'm so glad you feel comfortable chatting here. That's what I hope this site can be -- just a place for some really great discussion! ;) (And in regards to your review question... I'm magic! Kidding, but I wish I had screeners. The secret is that I draft up a LOT of meta throughout the week in regards to what I know the episode will be about and the characters and when the show airs, I edit during commercial breaks. lol.)<br /><br />Your paragraph about Felicity is so perfect and everything I ever want to say about her, that all I have to add in response is this: *slow clap* I'm so glad that the Oliver/Felicity dynamic is going to get angsty and complex because Oliver is going to need to step up, wake up, and realize that Felicity is wanted BY EVERYONE. And, like you said, not just by men either. UGH, I AM READY FOR THE COMPLEXITY.<br /><br />I really am impressed by how sharp this show has been in the few episodes that have aired, which means big bangs for November sweeps ahhhhh. I cannot wait. :)Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11696902354009598893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6678481478994191244.post-39394930687067479382014-10-23T11:33:18.453-04:002014-10-23T11:33:18.453-04:00::blushes:: aww thanks! i always feel like i'm...::blushes:: aww thanks! i always feel like i'm rambling and have no order or sense, so I'm glad I come off intelligent! haha! Thanks for having a great space where I can ramble and seem smart and get my Arrow feels out and engaging with them lol! <br /><br />(side note: how in the world do you prepare your thoughts so fast, i feel like you must have screener access, but i've seen you tweet that you want them... you have these posts up so FAST after the episode has aired and are so detailed and thought out! I am amazed.)<br /><br />Yes to the call back on relying on Felicity but also getting the fandom wish to see her interacting with people other than Oliver. We know she and Diggle have a friendship (that I need to see more of like I need air) but she's also developing these more overt relationships with Roy and Laurel (and maybe even Thea?) and obviously Ray, but also the Central City team. Oliver needs Felicity, but everyone else does too, and that might be an interesting part to their developing dynamic as he sees that, yes, other men want her, but other people want her beyond that, they want her brains and her company, which is great for her character, but also good for Oliver to see. He sees Foundry Felicity, who works and tracks people and is funny, but it's only a portion of who she is and he hasn't really met the other parts of her fully yet. So being able to see glimpses of it as she chooses to live will probably further his resolve to 1. not die in the foundry and 2. finally suck it up and work towards being someone who can be with Felicity (and be the Arrow and Oliver Queen and whoever else he's becoming this season).<br /><br />This season is truly starting off fantastically and usually episodes 2 and/or 3 of a lot of series are filler (before the November sweeps period of the year where things pick up) but not Arrow! Everything has tied in to the overarching story and the theme of the season in a major way. I fall more and more in love with the writers and this show every week. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6678481478994191244.post-11044618930471085022014-10-23T10:24:57.336-04:002014-10-23T10:24:57.336-04:00CONNIE. I love your comments, first off, because y...CONNIE. I love your comments, first off, because you're so intelligent and they're always well-thought out. 1) I love Felicity more than words can say and her little "yeahhhh" about the Applied Sciences division was hilarious. I'm so happy my bb is getting the chance to succeed at something she's doing, even if Ray is being a weirdo sketchball, lol. 2) YES. I'm glad this show can survive without Oliver being the focus of every story. He's definitely the anchor of the show, but this episode focused so much more on Dig and Thea and Malcolm, so that was really welcome. 3) I AM super curious about Thea returning to Starling City and what it means for her. She can't go back to Verdant so I wonder if she's going to try to go to school or become a vigilante? That seems to be the family business, after all. Haha. 4) You know, I never really thought of the fact that now everyone Oliver's taken care of has kind of dispersed and are now pretty self-sufficient. Dig's got Lyla and the baby; Roy learned how to control his rage; Felicity has a new job... it's like all his bbs have left the nest. 5) I LOVED THAT FELICITY SCENE. It's so evident of how much she's needed by EVERYONE. They rely on her, like Oliver once told her. And it was nice to see Oliver try to stiffly avoid talking about her but still needing her help for things.<br /><br />I am so excited for next week and especially the week to follow, with Felicity's origin story. This season is shaping up to be pretty stellar already! AND NYSSA IS BACK.Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11696902354009598893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6678481478994191244.post-88318119266889287232014-10-23T00:02:56.414-04:002014-10-23T00:02:56.414-04:00Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention how much I LOVED ...Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention how much I LOVED the scene where fifty different people (ok two-ish) called Felicity for help. Because she's a genius BOSS who handles things, even when at work (I half wanted Barry to call and that be the segue to her appearance) but also it's great because it set up her identity crises for the season as well. <br /><br />She's on a mission (if not Team Oliver in general (bc she wants to live and not pine about the boy who refuses to be with her) but at least to find Sara's killer--I know she's certainly committed to that) but this is the first job not owned by Oliver Queen she's had since she started on Team Arrow, so she's gonna have to choose which is more important. And sometimes she's gonna have to choose her work at Ray's QC (is he gonna change the name at all, I wonder... or keep it as sweet torture for Oliver lol) instead of Team Arrow, and there will be repercussions. Or vice versa in a moment when it won't be so convenient/Ray won't be so chill about it. <br /><br />OR it'll be more high stakes and secrets will fly out of her mouth as she searches for important Arrow things while Ray is in hearing distance. No matter what, this sets up some great identity themes&things and potential conflicts. (man these writers are so great with establishing a clear theme and then having every episode and nearly every moment tie in in such great and varying ways.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6678481478994191244.post-81739736665744313882014-10-22T23:29:52.857-04:002014-10-22T23:29:52.857-04:00"And it's startling to Felicity because s..."And it's startling to Felicity because she's just accepted the fact, I think, that Oliver will keep her at arms length so she expects everyone else to do the same." HMM this! Ray is definitely sketchy and a "too" guy as you said, but yeah Felicity's been so used to being kept at arms length in the past 2 years, so now she's taking the attention she's getting and working it to her advantage either with Ray or visiting Barry (i'm sure this will tie in to her background in 3x05 and presumable stalker college boy). Also I think she was given Oliver's old office? Which is hilarious to me. Also I loved all the references to the blown up Applied Sciences division and Felicity's fake curiosity as to *why* someone might want to do that "I'm a bomber..." <br /><br />I feel like this was the least Oliver episode since Suicide Squad (more so than it not being his flashbacks; I feel like we spent more time with the other characters away from Oliver as well--Felicity at QC, John w/Lyla, Roy w/Thea, etc) and I'm so proud of the show that we're at a point where I noticed this but it didn't detract from the flow or movement of the story. I am so happy to have felt invested in every scene even the ones not including Oliver (and Felicity, you can never be bored when Felicity is in a scene). Every scene and every character is bringing it (even Laurel, who frustrated me so much last season. Here, I understand her pain and her journey and even her mistakes, which are more sensible than her foolishness last season). <br /><br />I wonder what Thea plans to do with herself now that she's back home. She doesn't seem interested in Oliver's secret as the Arrow just yet and she doesn't exactly have anything to do back in Starling. And she still doesnt know (unless Malcolm told her and she really doesn't care) that Oliver is the Arrow; will she find out? Will she be mad or want to join in? Will she want to work somewhere? What exactly made her choose to go home, aside from Oliver's admission about Robert? <br /><br />Poor Oliver. He has so many people to take care of; only original Team Arrow can handle themselves without his reluctant mentorship... Dig and Felicity are capable, but now Oliver has Roy and Barry and Laurel and probably future Thea as people he needs to watch over and clean up their messes and he's still only just coming into himself as a hero... I'm really excited for that aspect of his story this season. "i had a good teacher. a judgmental, occasionally temperamental one." "those are the best kind." CURMUDGEON!<br /><br />Next week looks so juicy! So many character interactions! ah! #isitnextwednesdayyet?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com