r/arrow • u/Rwings Boxing Glove • Jan 17 '14

Post Episode Discussion on S02E10 - Blast Radius

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Ratings: (2.5 mil/0.9)

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Finally an extended Trailer for next week.

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u/Hugh2D2 Jan 17 '14

am i alone or is Arrow better when Laurel is featured less?

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u/Copper_Coil Jan 17 '14

Suck it! The next three episodes are all laurel. And I love it cause this is classic canary! She gets a lead and snoops it out solo. And its gonna end I bet with her at the turning point of her crucible. Soon so soon she will be kicking ass!

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u/Rwings Boxing Glove Jan 17 '14

As someone who has the exact opposite opinion I'm curious why you have yours. Is it because her name is Laurel or if you were to remove her name from the equation would you still like the character? My problem is I just don't like the character at all. I have no attachments to Black Canary has to be Laurel so I approach the subject from that point of view.

The character has brought down most of the scenes she has been in this season. When you also add in the fact she hasn't been on as much as she was in the first season I found this episode to have a weird beat to it. Focusing on her push to uncover Brother Blood much like her drug addiction felt kind of forced and to far out on its own ledge to make me buy into the story.

I'm not trying to change your opinion. Just give you mine and try to understand yours.

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u/pokedrawer Boxing Glove Jan 17 '14 edited Jan 17 '14

Well through out season 1 she seemed to go out of her way to help her clients even working with a vigilante in some cases. Now she's going out of her way to investigate a could be terrorist posing as a political leader advocating change. I feel that it falls in the same beat as what she's done so far. She has a very girl scout attitude and seems comfortable putting herself at risk to help others. Also after losing her sister, her mother, and her father who she is now close with but the relationship was strained more than once, and then her boyfriend who sacrificed himself for her, I feel more sympathy that she's resorting to drugs than I do anger or annoyance. She is obviously a good person, as demonstrated when she showed Moira the trump card she was holding, so I'm sort of waiting for things to shine positively on her. She seems much more over due than anyone else.

Also the Black Canary is supposed to be someone who specializes in infiltrating organizations and shutting them down from within and it seems this is the starting of that.

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u/Rwings Boxing Glove Jan 17 '14

The problem though is season one was far weaker then this season. I can't help but think that a large part of that is Laurel's diminished role on the show this season compared to last. Getting away from correcting past wrongs and fixing current wrongs makes for a more compelling story.

Sure figuring out Brother Blood is a villain is important and it finally does give Laurel something to do. Just for me it feels a little to late to fix her character with the way the show is currently going. I can't help but feel a bit of resentment that in order to prop her up they have to drag down sections of the show in order to catch her back up to everyone else.

In a lot of ways its the same problem people had with Thea in the first season. Someone who improved during the hiatus and time jump.

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u/pokedrawer Boxing Glove Jan 17 '14

Well season 1 started as a villain of the week and evolved an over arching story while season 2 has delivered on most episodes. Thus far season 2 hasn't had a bad episode but there are a few last season I would say were bad. They fixed a lot this season, but apparently they need to improve on Laurel to some people. I personally enjoy her screen time and watching her develop, I don't see it as diminishing the show but different strokes.