Arrow 2x17 Review

Hey guys,

the 17th episode of the second season of Arrow entitled Birds of Prey aired last night on the CW network.

Arrow has had one awesome episode after another and it was only a matter of time before we got a not so good episode. It's a shame because the hype for this episode was extremely high due to the title: Birds of Prey but it turns out that this was just a teaser title since only 2 members of a team don't make the team.

These are the main points of last night's episode

1) The Huntress is back and "Birds of prey"

Oliver discovers that Frank Bertinelli is back in town and so as a result it's only a matter of time before Helena Bertinelli aka The Huntress comes back to Starling city to kill his father.So the Huntress is back for this episode and she is dead set on revenge.

2) Roy's Anger connected to the "Speedy " thing

When Team " Arrow" finds out about the Huntress return, Felicity tracks down Helena  and  Roy Sarah and Oliver go after her. They track down a car in which they think Helena is but it turns out to be only a decoy. The man hired by Helena, however, shoots Roy in the hand and Roy nearly kills him. Thankfully Oliver stops him by calling him "Speedy"  which is Oliver sister's nickname but also Roy's alterego in the comics before he was called Red Arrow.

We know that Roy Haper throughout his comic book history has been called in different ways:

Speedy as Green arrow's sideklick ,

Arsenal in the Teen Titans and

Red Arrow in the Justice League of America.

We still don't know how they are going to call him in this new incarnation, but maybe Speedy will be a temporary name exactly as The Hood was for Oliver.

3) Thea-Oliver relantionship

After Roy once again lost control, Oliver tells roy to break up with Thea since he is not able to control himself and he can hurt her. In the episdode we clearly see Roy' love for Thea so he listens to Oliver and breaks up with her. After breaking up with Roy, Thea is very vulnerable and that is why she's the best target for Slade. One thing that I did not understand was why Roy had to break up with Thea. I mean he's never been a threat to her and in the last episode it was said that Roy was protecting Thea from Slade. What happened now? Did everybody forget about Slade? To me this was a bit of an inconsistency which I didn't like.

4) Few island scenes and strong presence of police officers

We always have had a lot of island scenes but this time around there were only a few. On the island Slade is trying to fix the engine of the boat in order to leave the island but the engineer escaped so Slade proposes a trade to Sarah: Oliver in exchange for the engineer but something tells me he's not gonna live up to his end of the bargain. In the present storyline, however, we see the rise of a sense of anti vigilante feelings within the police force and I think this will be one of the main themes of the upcoming episodes.

5) Laurel's situation

Laurel's situation has become much more important and we see her still struggling with her alchool dependence. I love her scene with Helena, to me that was the true essence of the title Birds of Prey because let's not forget that she's the true Black Canary. I also very much enjoyed Sarah and Helena fighting scenes and it is nice for once to have female superheroes.

In conclusion, the cliffhanger of Thea's jumping in the car with Slade makes us wonder what will happen next. Well if you are like me and you can't wait for next week then take a look at this sneek peek.

All hell is about to break loose!

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