Post by Katie on Oct 24, 2019 6:06:30 GMT -5
I've been hearing so many good things about Season 8, with the Felicity-less season.
My friend, told me, that she said these two episodes were the best in years. They captured the early seasons feel. Especially the first episode of season 8 mirroring the pilot.
Also Earth 2's Laurel is back in a role, and her teaming up with Oliver and Diggle has been perfect.
Recaps of first two episodes: credit to Wikipedia and Wiki
So what do people who watch think of S8 so far?
My friend, told me, that she said these two episodes were the best in years. They captured the early seasons feel. Especially the first episode of season 8 mirroring the pilot.
Also Earth 2's Laurel is back in a role, and her teaming up with Oliver and Diggle has been perfect.
Recaps of first two episodes: credit to Wikipedia and Wiki
801 "Starling City"
The Monitor sends Oliver Queen to Earth-2 to retrieve Dwarf Star particles, but they are stolen by this Earth's Tommy Merlyn, who is looking to use them to level the Glades with his own "Undertaking".
Oliver joins forces with Earth-1 John Diggle as well as Earth-2's Laurel Lance and Adrian Chase to stop Tommy and retrieve the particles. Just as Oliver and Diggle are about to leave, an anti-matter wave suddenly consumes all of Earth-2, barely giving them and Laurel time to escape to Earth-1.
In the 2040 flashforwards, Connor Hawke, Mia Smoak, William Clayton, and Zoe Ramirez encounter the Deathstroke Gang, led by Connor's adoptive brother John Diggle "J.J" Jr., who have grown more powerful since the destruction of the wall between Star City and the Glades.
This is the first episode of the series not to feature Emily Bett Rickards (Felicity Smoak) after being promoted to a series regular.
This episode feature many references to past episodes of the show, mainly from Season 1:
At the start of the episode, Oliver experiences events in extremely similar ways he experienced the same events on Earth-1 in "Pilot", but with a few changes, notably Malcolm Merlyn taking Walter's role as well as Tommy Merlyn taking Thea's role
.
The scene where Oliver is rescued from the island is mostly made of archive footage from "Pilot" with some changes notably such as Oliver's hair and beard and instead of having a Deathstroke mask, the island has a Batman cowl.
Oliver tries to escape Diggle's car but Diggle beats him to the chase, revealing he is the Earth-1 version. He tells Oliver that he fooled him once which refers to when Oliver first tried it and got away with it in "Pilot".
After Oliver leaves a party at Verdant, Diggle points out he's going the wrong way. The same thing happened in "Pilot". Also, Oliver ends up stopping Diggle the same way he stopped him in that episode, even pointing out that he always falls for that move.
Moira mentioned that Thea died from a Vertigo overdose on her 18th birthday. This is a reference to "Trust but Verify", where Thea drove after taking Vertigo on her 18th birthday which resulted in her going to court.
The fight scene in the hallway has some resemblances to the one Oliver had in "The Undertaking".
The first fight between Oliver (as the Green Arrow) and Tommy (as the Dark Archer) is similar to the fight between Oliver and Malcolm in "Darkness on the Edge of Town". When Oliver finds out Tommy is the Dark Archer, he reacts similarly to how Malcolm did in that episode when he found out Oliver was the Hood, except Tommy wakes up and promptly escapes.
802 "Welcome to Hong Kong"
The Monitor brings Oliver's party to Hong Kong to pick up biophysicist Robert Wong, who was forced to recreate the Alpha/Omega Virus. However, Laurel storms off to get her breach device fixed. While Oliver and Diggle learn more about Wong, Triad members attack them, though Tatsu Yamashiro comes to their aid and reveals she knows of the Monitor. Oliver locates Wong, only for China White to kidnap him.
After obtaining a sample of the Alpha/Omega Virus, Oliver arranges a trade with China. While Oliver rescues Wong, Tatsu engages China, who stabs her before Laurel blasts her away. After talking with Tatsu, Oliver plans to get more answers about the Monitor at Nanda Parbat.
Elsewhere, Lyla Michaels is revealed to be working with the Monitor as she delivers Wong to him.
In the flashforwards, William works on repairing a device obtained from the Deathstroke Gang while Mia, Connor, and Zoe head to a black market where J.J. plans to make a sale. When the Deathstroke Gang arrives, Connor and J.J. enter a parley, though the former's group is forced to let the latter leave when he reveals that he had his men raid the bunker.
The Monitor sends Oliver Queen to Earth-2 to retrieve Dwarf Star particles, but they are stolen by this Earth's Tommy Merlyn, who is looking to use them to level the Glades with his own "Undertaking".
Oliver joins forces with Earth-1 John Diggle as well as Earth-2's Laurel Lance and Adrian Chase to stop Tommy and retrieve the particles. Just as Oliver and Diggle are about to leave, an anti-matter wave suddenly consumes all of Earth-2, barely giving them and Laurel time to escape to Earth-1.
In the 2040 flashforwards, Connor Hawke, Mia Smoak, William Clayton, and Zoe Ramirez encounter the Deathstroke Gang, led by Connor's adoptive brother John Diggle "J.J" Jr., who have grown more powerful since the destruction of the wall between Star City and the Glades.
This is the first episode of the series not to feature Emily Bett Rickards (Felicity Smoak) after being promoted to a series regular.
This episode feature many references to past episodes of the show, mainly from Season 1:
At the start of the episode, Oliver experiences events in extremely similar ways he experienced the same events on Earth-1 in "Pilot", but with a few changes, notably Malcolm Merlyn taking Walter's role as well as Tommy Merlyn taking Thea's role
.
The scene where Oliver is rescued from the island is mostly made of archive footage from "Pilot" with some changes notably such as Oliver's hair and beard and instead of having a Deathstroke mask, the island has a Batman cowl.
Oliver tries to escape Diggle's car but Diggle beats him to the chase, revealing he is the Earth-1 version. He tells Oliver that he fooled him once which refers to when Oliver first tried it and got away with it in "Pilot".
After Oliver leaves a party at Verdant, Diggle points out he's going the wrong way. The same thing happened in "Pilot". Also, Oliver ends up stopping Diggle the same way he stopped him in that episode, even pointing out that he always falls for that move.
Moira mentioned that Thea died from a Vertigo overdose on her 18th birthday. This is a reference to "Trust but Verify", where Thea drove after taking Vertigo on her 18th birthday which resulted in her going to court.
The fight scene in the hallway has some resemblances to the one Oliver had in "The Undertaking".
The first fight between Oliver (as the Green Arrow) and Tommy (as the Dark Archer) is similar to the fight between Oliver and Malcolm in "Darkness on the Edge of Town". When Oliver finds out Tommy is the Dark Archer, he reacts similarly to how Malcolm did in that episode when he found out Oliver was the Hood, except Tommy wakes up and promptly escapes.
802 "Welcome to Hong Kong"
The Monitor brings Oliver's party to Hong Kong to pick up biophysicist Robert Wong, who was forced to recreate the Alpha/Omega Virus. However, Laurel storms off to get her breach device fixed. While Oliver and Diggle learn more about Wong, Triad members attack them, though Tatsu Yamashiro comes to their aid and reveals she knows of the Monitor. Oliver locates Wong, only for China White to kidnap him.
After obtaining a sample of the Alpha/Omega Virus, Oliver arranges a trade with China. While Oliver rescues Wong, Tatsu engages China, who stabs her before Laurel blasts her away. After talking with Tatsu, Oliver plans to get more answers about the Monitor at Nanda Parbat.
Elsewhere, Lyla Michaels is revealed to be working with the Monitor as she delivers Wong to him.
In the flashforwards, William works on repairing a device obtained from the Deathstroke Gang while Mia, Connor, and Zoe head to a black market where J.J. plans to make a sale. When the Deathstroke Gang arrives, Connor and J.J. enter a parley, though the former's group is forced to let the latter leave when he reveals that he had his men raid the bunker.
So what do people who watch think of S8 so far?
