Don’t read this unless you have seen tonight’s episode of Arrow, titled “Dead To Rights.”
Earlier today, we posted our interview with DC Entertainment’s Geoff Johns, author of this week’s episode of Arrow, but there was one thing we couldn’t post about at the time: How are things going to change between Oliver (Stephen Amell) and his best friend, Tommy Merlyn (Colin Donnell), now that Tommy knows the secret? Johns tells us that he feels Tommy’s reaction is different from what we have seen before in the series.
“I think you’ve seen how certain people reacted. Diggle, Felicity… but those aren’t life long friends. Those are people who are brought in relatively quickly in the relationship,” Johns explains to us. “I think you can see the pain on Tommy’s face at the very end of the episode, when Oliver answers that question, ‘Were you ever going to tell me?’ And Oliver answers that so honestly. You see Stephen just deliver one hell of a performance there, and he just said ‘No.’ I think that just crushed Tommy. I think it shatters him in a way that he’s never been hurt like that before,” he says.
Could that mean that Tommy Merlyn may be a Dark Archer himself someday? Geoff didn’t tell us anything, but stay tuned…
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This episode troubled me to no end. Already the people who know Oliver’s secret are: Diggle, the mobster’s daughter, Smoak, and now Tommy. What’s going to happen? Will all of Starling City know who the vigilante is except for the two police officers chasing him? Writers, take note: the ploy of spicing up an episode by having yet another person know who the vigilante is, is cheap and lazy writing. I’m giving this series one or two more episodes to get back on track or else I’m tossing it.
And while I’m waiting for my other comment to be moderated, let me add that I’m not a fan of having dead things and dead people come back to life. This is also a ploy that should be used rarely, if ever. Already we have that used for Oliver himself; now we have the poison-bullet shooter coming back from a rather obvious fatal arrow-in-the-eye, and based on the preview, it’s going to be possible that Oliver’s last girlfriend also, somehow, survived the wreck of the Queen’s Gambit. Might as well bring back Elvis.
what was to be made of the cannery reference????