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Review: Arrow (1S03) Lone Gunman

We get an all new episode of Arrow in which rich guys are getting killed by someone named Deadshot who apparently likes to ink himself with his victims… and that’s a real shame, Deadshot seems like he’d be a cool character to get to know but instead he’s just there, a plot device for fan service and nothing else.

Instead of Deadshot goodness, we have to sit through more bad voice over and a sorta/kinda love triangle. And not only is Deadshot wasted in this story but he’s been killed off? Seriously? Just pick off the Rogue’s gallery one by one why don’t you? It doesn’t even leave anything that could be picked up later. I suppose they don’t want to leave everything opened ended, but there are more ways to close this up without killing off the character.

Oh, and another thing that bugs me about this series (other than its editing issues) is his face paint. Oliver runs up to the roof, gets dressed, applies all that face paint perfectly, then zip-lines over well before the police even think about getting into the building the shooter is obviously coming from? What? Seriously? The body guard gets over there faster than the cops and somehow I think he didn’t zipline but had to go all the way back downstairs then across the road and up that building. This makes no sense!

But there was some good moments. I like Dresden being a smart cop. I like the exchange between him and Oliver at the auction. I like how Oliver kinda forgot who he was talking to with the body guard, wish they would have played that out more before turning the body guard into the side kick, cause that’s basically what’s gonna happen.

Again, still listing this as ‘not a bad show’ but waiting for it to move up into ‘it’s a good show’ territory.