Promises Kept
- Episode aired Nov 16, 2017
- TV-14
- 42m
As Slade continues to uncover clues about his son's last few years, Oliver makes a big decision. Meanwhile, the Green Arrow leads the team into battle against "The Dragon," a villain who is ... Read allAs Slade continues to uncover clues about his son's last few years, Oliver makes a big decision. Meanwhile, the Green Arrow leads the team into battle against "The Dragon," a villain who is stealing valuable tech in Star City.As Slade continues to uncover clues about his son's last few years, Oliver makes a big decision. Meanwhile, the Green Arrow leads the team into battle against "The Dragon," a villain who is stealing valuable tech in Star City.
- Thea Queen
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- Laurel Lance
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- Quentin Lance
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn the scene were William (Jack Moore) and Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) are playing a video game, the game they are playing is a DC Comics video game called Injustice 2
- GoofsThe "experimental steroid" John is using is seen towards the end and is stored in crates labeled methylphenidate, which is not itself an illegal drug. Available in pill and capsule form, it is used to treat ADD and ADHD and is the active ingredient in drugs such as Ritaline, Attentin and Concerta. However, a producer and dealer of illegal steroids obviously wouldn't want to announce his products or its chemical names to anyone catching a glance, which explains why a common drug name is used on its crates.
- Quotes
John Diggle: The Scorpions? Yeah. I know 'em. But Diaz is on something different. New muscle, new crew. They're way too organized.
Rene Ramirez: I wonder when he got himself a new crew and how he got to be the boss of it.
Dinah Drake: And why he needs a weapons-grade 3-D printer.
Curtis Holt: I think I have the answer to that. Drugs. High-end ones. I cross-referenced the two models that were stolen. What they have in common is their capacity to simultaneously print inert polypropylenes and soft material catalyst composites.
Rene Ramirez: Did anyone understand a word of that?
Felicity Smoak: You think Diaz is making Reactionware?
Rene Ramirez: Anyone normal.
- ConnectionsFeatures Injustice 2 (2017)
The flashbacks were once again told using Slade, this time after his time on Lian Yu and before he brought rage upon Star City. Albeit these weren't overtly necessary sequences, they helped fill in the gaps of time where we didn't know what Slade was doing, and it also doesn't hurt to see Slade in full Mirakuru berzerker mode one last time. This helped inform us into why it is exactly Joe Wilson is doing what he's doing, it all leads back to Slade abandoning him years back to exact revenge on Oliver. Nothing special in these scenes either, but again, Manu Bennett can only do good things on this show.
Meanwhile, the team went after a villain known by dragon, AKA Ricardo Diaz. I'm not sure it was the best move to debut the supposed big bad of this season without having the main character actually appear in those scenes, and it also just wasn't a strong debut for the character anyway. If he's going to be the big bad this year, then there's still plenty of work to be done. Especially because selling drugs isn't the type of bad guy I would want to be the focus of this season.
On that note, it was nice to see Diggle finally own up to his questionable extra-curricular activities this season. It also nice to see Lyla back, you can always count on her to be the voice of reason for Dig, and with Oliver out it was a nice time for her to step in. Which brings me to a question: What was the "big" decision Oliver made tonight that is clearly stated in the synopsis for the episode. Was the decision to tell Felicity that he made the "right" choice by not being Green Arrow? To me, that's not much of a big decision at all, especially considering he's obviously going to break it in the next few weeks and it's not a new plot point. I just found that to be frustrating and confusing. Otherwise, it was an alright episode with some memorable Slade moments for sure.
7.8/10
- ThomasDrufke
- Nov 15, 2017
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Details
- Runtime42 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 16:9 HD