I don't know anything about the comics and the backstories to all the characters like everyone else seems to, but I'm loving everything. Shame Slade has to go bad. Also liking Felicity and Ollie slowly getting together. Laurel (whether its the character or the actress) just doesn't do anything for me, shes very grating.

Arrow is fast becoming my favourite show. I mean, when it first started, I was very meh about it. It was... OK. I intended to stick it out for a few more episodes, but wasn't impressed. But then, it got good. Then it got better. And by the end of season 1, it became superb.

Now, it's unmissable... in fact, it's the only show I watch live (I usually tape everything else to avoid adverts). I mean, they are juggling a lot of characters and sub-plots, yet seem to know exactly what they are doing, with the possible exception of Laurel. Having the Island storyline match up with the present day storyline was a stroke of genius, in my opinion. I mean, you've got the League of Assassins and Sarah, you've got Malcolm Merlin not being dead, you've got Diggle's search for his brother's killer, and you've got Blood's army of super-soldiers. And you've got where he's getting the serum from.

I'm thrilled they've finally brought Slade into the present day. I knew they had to eventually, as Manu Bennett is a series regular yet has, easily, had the least to do thus far. Now he's another villain the present day team have to face, as well as opening up an awesome storyline on the Island of how he and Oliver had such a massive falling out.

It's a testament to the writing on this show that, as well as all the above, they managed to introduce a Flash origin story and do it justice. How ironic: when DC remains on the small screen, it tends to do very well. When it goes to the big screen, Nolan Batman aside, you're left with a very rushed Justice League prequel thing out in 2 years. Go figure.

Very good way of summing this show up. Hope they keep it continuing in the same form, it's a show that stands up to it's own merits, not relying on anything else. Unlike Agents of Shield which seems reliant on the movies, personally think that would have been a better show, if it had gone on it's own direction, and maybe would have been better to set it before the movies.

The only other shows which I feel are as good, are Game of Thrones and also The Newsroom.

I'm sorry but I can only ever refer to Manu Bennett as CRIXUS - Champion of Capua!!!!

Thanks

By Jupiters C***!!

boring mid season finale but a great final 10 mins at least.

they have all ingredients to make a great tv show, i dunno why they find it so hard to get it all to click more than 8-9 episodes a season.

report card:good,sometimes great,consistency needed.

Well we all have our opinions, but as you find Marvel Agents of Shield very good, then this one I will take with a pinch of salt

take it with what you want, it wasn't an insult,its a tv show,no your football team.

i like arrow, i love it at times,but its all too infrequent for me, s2 picked up s1 left off but has got a bit boring again recently, from tommy scene onwards it was great so hopefully they can get this sort of form back consistently.

enough with the flashbacks already too...yawn.

Superb mid-season finale of Arrow. I've enjoyed the show since it started. It's a show that's learnt what works and what doesn't and fixes things along the way. It's one of my favourite new shows in a long time.

As for this break. Thursday (Why Thursday?) 20th February is almost 9 weeks away which seems like a desperately long time. It didn't break for that long last time around. Are they doing it so the second part of the season will be able to be seen in one continuous run? (which if the case, makes perfect sense). The breaks last year became very annoying. Even the first part of the season had a weeks break and that could have been avoided had they not started the season with a double-bill. Odd decision indeed was that.

Same here - but still loving every minute of it - for this is turning out even better then the first season.


But gutted Shado is no more.
.......why does Slade want Oliver to suffer - he couldn't do anything to save Shado.

And Roy, injected - but nothing happens - or will it.

It did Roy looked at his leg not only had it healed from where Oliver/Arrow shot him it had gained muscle mass

I assume they're holding it over for a month so they can show it without any breaks. It returns in the US on January 15th.

had healed, dunno about any muscle mass change.

Oh yeah it did.

We'll he did throw himself in front of Sarah, which effectively saved her over Shado. There was nothing which Oliver could really do, your right, but i doubt slade will see it that way.

Maybe the obvious answer is that the serum given to him, affects his logical understanding of the situation. Or he reacted badly to Shado's death by learning that Ollie had tried to save Sarah, which resulted in him attacking Ollie and Ollie shooting out Slade's eye with an arrow, hence thinking he had killed Slade.

Personally I think in the end it will sort itself out, with maybe Ollie saving Slade's life and then teaming up together, to take on Merlyn & the league of shadows, maybe not S2 but possibly S3.

As for Roy

The tv reporter from Central City was Linda Park who in the comics becomes the wife of Wally West, the third Flash

Also Robert Knepper aka T-Bag from Prison Break has signed up to appear in a forthcoming episode

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/s20...lock-king.html

And Katrina Law (Mira from Spartacus) has been signed up!

Oh, the last episode was a mid season finale? Shame we have to wait for the next episode but It does makes sense(I was wandering why s*** was going down! Haha)

This is easily my favourite show currently, during season one I thought it was good but I was never in a hurry to see the next episode. But the last few episodes(most of season two actually) have just been phenomenal. All the story lines are exceptional, all the characters are so strong, minus Laurel, I suppose, it's strange how there is one bad character when everybody else is so strong, I don't know if it's the writing or the actress but she is the only stain on the show.

holy crap ! i've just caught up on the mid season finale. bloody hell, talk about leaving you hanging!. Big shocker that Wilson is alive - wonder if they'll go full Deathstroke with him ?

Didn't realise we'd get to see Barry Allen getting zapped as well!

Easily my favourite show on at the moment. Just can't believe we've got to wait two months for it to come back.

It is good but it might get complicated if this is true:

http://omg.yahoo.com/news/arrow-scoo...000000216.html

Why would it get complicated?

I've lost count of the amount of times I've seen people online begin posts with something like "I respect others' opinion / we can all have opinions", etc, and then go on to mock the opinion straight after.

Also, taking something with a pinch of salt refers to when choosing whether to believe unlikely information, not whether or not you agree with someone's opinion.

They like AoS and found the Arrow mid-season finale boring. Nothing wrong with that.

Personally, after hearing amazing things, I was left underwhelmed. It was decent, but I wouldn't go crazy about it, but that's just my view.

It wouldn't necessarily have to...

Arrow could take place in a part of the DC Multiverse where Felicity
becomes the Black Canary. If her and Olly then got together then the comics would still being followed to some degree