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Best Friends: Arrow 1x19 Review (Unfinished Business)
āUnfinished Businessā takes a hard look at Oliverās friendships with Tommy and Diggle, as one relationship crumbles and the other finds stronger footing ā after a few missteps.
Prepare yourselves. I might write about the flashbacks this week because Shado provided an information download which was sorely needed.
Letās dig inā¦
Oliver and Tommy
Oliver revealed his true identity to Tommy three episodes ago and it feels like their friendship has been a bomb waiting to explode ever since. A girl who partied at Verdant dies from a Vertigo overdose, which puts Quentin hot on Tommyās trail and Oliver hot on The Countās. This poor girl sadly is the catalyst for the explosion between Tommy and Oliver weāve been waiting for.
The āevidenceā that convinces Quentin Tommy is dealing Vertigo isnāt exactly irrefutable. The girl texted Tommy before she died, which Tommy easily explains because he receives texts from hundreds of people every night trying to get into the club. Her request for a āhook upā is not for Vertigo as Quentin believes.
The second piece of evidence raises the eyebrows, but Tommy has an explanation ā albeit a shady one. There is ten thousand dollars missing from Verdantās operating budget. Quentin believes Tommy used it to buy Vertigo, but he used it to bribe the zoning commissioner into skipping their inspection. Bribery isnāt great, but itās a far lesser crime than dealing a deadly drug. L*urel could drive a truck through all that room for reasonable doubt.
This episode is another Merlance highpoint. L*urel believed in Tommy one hundred percent and he called her baby. Just leave me to my grave to die a happy woman.
After Tommy refuses Quentin entry into Verdant without a warrant, the detective comes back with one and it leads to a heart stopping moment. He wants to specifically look at the sub level not listed on the inspectionās floor plans. Ever the dutiful detective, Lance pulled the county records and knows it exists.
In my mind, I know this is not the way Oliverās vigilante hideaway is getting discovered, but the panic in Oliverās eyes always sends me to Stressville USA. Especially when he types the code!!! Heās shooting those panicked looks at Tommy who is as cool as a cucumber.
Quentin enters the The Hood's bunker and thereās no bunker! How Tommy moved all that equipment and replaced it with bottles of booze I will never understand. We simply have to believe in the magic of television yāall. Tommy is not going to rat Oliver out and he quite literally saves his ass.
Something Oliver should have known, but his lack of faith in Tommy is evident. Itās something Tommy cannot tolerate, not after everything thatās happened between them. He cannot believe Oliver thought he was dealing drugs out of the club.
Oliver doesnāt understand why Tommy wasnāt honest about the bribe. Oliver loses me right off the bat. Team Tommy all the way. Letās list out the things you have not told Tommy, Oliver and weāll see who has the longer list. YOU HID YOUR SECRET SUPERHERO LAIR IN THE CLUB YOU OPENED WITH TOMMY AND NEVER TOLD HIM ABOUT IT. A bribe is chump change in comparison to that lie.
Tommy: Let me ask you a question, pal. What have I done in the last six months since youāve been home that would lead you to believe that I would sell drugs?
Oliver:Ā In the last six months? Nothing. But before I left you played hard. You played with bad people who were into bad stuff.
Tommy: So, did you Oliver. But I changed just like you did. Now you put arrows in people who do bad things.
Oliver gets owned in this argument, because Tommy is right. He refuses to see that Tommy has truly changed, but still expects Tommy to understand he has.
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Oliverās changes are a tougher pill to swallow. Tommy cannot understand how Oliver can kill people so easily and, quite frankly, wasnāt one hundred percent sure he wouldnāt end up with an arrow in him if he told Oliver about the bribe.
Is this insane for Tommy to be wondering? No, I donāt think so. We know Oliver doesnāt kill easily. We know heās fighting a nightly war and there is a steep cost to this mission.
However, Oliver has not opened up to Tommy about what happened the five years he was away and heās not Mr. Joe Hereās What Iām Thinking about being The Hood today. Killing is something Tommy cannot understand, but Oliver expects him to accept it with little to no explanation. Then he has the nerve not to trust Tommy? Seriously?
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What Tommy thinks of him is a verbal gut punch to Oliver, but he deserved it. Unfortunately, this fight is not one Oliver can fix with a simple apology. Tommy has reached his limit and who can blame him.
Tommy: This club is important to me, but to you itās just a front. You want me to keep your secret, help you be this thing youāve become, but you refuse to see me for what Iāve become. Iāve got just a bit too much self-respect for that. I quit.
BOOM. YASSS MY SON!!! Way to stand up for yourself Thomas. I was so proud of him telling Oliver where to stick it.
Tommy: Iād prefer we skip the I-told-you-soās, but the nightclub wasnāt really working out. I guess I need something more boring, stableā¦ I guess what Iām saying is - I need a job.
TOMMY WHAT ARE YOU DOING??!!! WORST. DECISION. EVER.
Tommy is back in the arms of the Big Bad Malcom Merlyn. For one brief shining moment, Tommy stood tall on the moral high ground, but not five seconds later comes plummeting back down to work with the sludge of the earth.
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Tommy has every right to be pissed at Oliver, but his father is not the answer. That man is a hellscape. Whatever positive changes Tommy has made he is in real danger of a serious backslide. Now that Tommy is on the outs with Oliver, Merlyn can lead his son right to his very own villain origin story. And Tommy may lose sight of who he really is.
Oliver and Diggle (Felicity)
Oliver is firing on all cylinders tonight with his bros. After accusing his best friend of being a drug dealer, Oliver pitches a hissy fit over Diggle not being available the second heās needed.
John is distracted because heās consumed with avenging his brotherās death and killing Deadshot. While Oliver was trying to stop a hostage situation with a man high on Vertigo, Diggle was handing over information on Deadshot to a friend from ARGUS.
Hello Lyla! This is her very first Arrow appearance. These two had more chemistry in this single scene than any scene with Diggle and Carly.Ā I donāt know what obsession this show has about siblings dating the same people, but itās enough already. I have to deal with this crap on The Vampire Diaries.
Oliver is furious Diggle ignored Felicityās phone call. John hilariously tells Oliver not to get his panties in a twist. Heās completely fine. Oliver pretty much puts his hands on his hips and says, āYou couldnāt have known that!ā They sound like an old married couple.
John is a little put out Oliver is not more understanding. He thought Oliver would understand his vendetta against Deadshot, since Oliver is walking around with a whole damn list of names from his father! But thatās right. Itās a mission. Not a vendetta. Whereās Helena? We need her around if weāre debating this again.
Diggle chooses to be more specific and reminds Oliver The Count almost killed Thea, so his fervor over getting this drug and criminal off the streets may be a little personal too. Oliver says nothing because itās true.
Diggle: I canāt move on with my life knowing that heās still out there. I thought if anybody got that itād be you.
Oliver doesnāt say anything here either because thatās true too. #TeamDiggle.
Felicity and Oliver discover thereās a new antipsychotic drug added to Vertigo, which makes Oliver believe The Count didnāt break out of the asylum like he thought. Maybe he faked his escape like he faked the crazy.
Close, but no. The Count really is three paper plates short of a picnic. Itās his DOCTOR and a very burly orderly who are manufacturing Vertigo. Honestly, I did not see that one coming.
Itās a Vertigo episode, so Oliver is getting drugged, but this time Diggle does show up to save him. He takes out the horse sized orderly, and Oliver kills the doctor with three arrows. Itās not often The Hood requires more than one to get the job done, but his vision was a bit wonky, so he used three just to be on the safe side.
Both the orderly and the doctor had to die because they knew Oliver Queen was The Hood. Those are the rules. The interesting choice Oliver made was not to kill the Count, who is babbling like a toddler on a telephone.
Arrow uses this moment to draw a very important distinction between Diggle and Tommy. After the boys return home, Oliver wants to know if Diggle is ok. Heās the killer in this family, not John.
Diggle: Iāve killed before Oliver. Itās just been a while.
There is no judgment from either man. Itās just quiet acknowledgement that killing is necessary sometimes. But that doesnāt make it easy.
Tommyās anger towards Oliver makes him blind to his humanity. Oliver is not a psychopath. He does not kill for the enjoyment of it. He is doing what is necessary to save the city from some really bad people. Tommy takes it too far believing killing is easy for Oliver. Heās furious Oliver doesnāt see the change in him, but the truth is Tommy doesnāt see the change in Oliver either.
This is something Oliver never had to explain to Diggle. John does see the change in Oliver. He stood by quietly as Oliver grappled with killing The Count. Diggle didnāt make any speeches. He simply left space for Oliver to make that decision on his own.
If Oliver chose to kill The Count, John wouldāve understood that choice as well. He wouldnāt call him a murderer. John encourages Oliver to make different choices, but he also meets Oliver where heās at. Maybe Oliver would open up more to Tommy if he offered less judgment like John Diggle.
Diggle is curious why Oliver didnāt kill The Count and he tells him the truth. There just didnāt seem to be a point with the Count chained up and lost to madness.
There are two things Oliver is not saying. He was convinced earlier in the episode that he made the wrong decision allowing The Count to live and was just a teensy bit mad.
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But he couldnāt fire the arrow in the end.
Felicityās gentle reassurance that locking The Count up was the right call hit her intended mark. If killing is truly a last resort, then Oliver has to utilize other methods of dealing with criminals. Oliver has shown more restraint ever since Felicity joined the team. He hasnāt stopped killing, but he does listen to her.
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The second is Oliver believes killing an unarmed man in that condition would be wrong ā like stabbing someone in the back. Heās not a threat in that condition and The Count truly didnāt have anything to do with the Vertigo being unleashed on the city again. There are rules to war and those rules keep his humanity intact.
John Diggle has Oliverās back, so in return Oliver will have his and is making Deadshot a top priority. Couldnāt we have just done that from the beginning and skipped their couples fight?
Neither Oliver or Tommy can see the other for who they truly are. Yet, people Oliver met barely a year ago have more faith in him than his childhood best friend and vice versus. Sometimes history stops us from allowing change in the people we love.
You can see why Oliver is keeping his identity secret from his family and L*urel. It's not just about their safety. He's afraid they will all react like Tommy.
But there's no baggage with Diggle and Felicity, so Oliver has a clean slate. They can see Oliver for who he truly is. It's becoming clearer with every episode that Diggle (and Felicity) are Oliver's best friends.
Shado
Like Felicity, Shado is a breath of fresh air to Team Island. She is beautiful, kicks ass and knows a thing or two about a bow. Oliver has been helpless majority of the time. I am not expecting him to become a super secret agent man like Slade Wilson in a couple of months, but he does need to perform a function on this team other than dead weight.
Shado takes it upon herself to teach Oliver how to shoot, but she does not start with the bow. She begins by telling Oliver to slap a bowl of water. Like the idiotic American he is, Oliver is annoyed, but doesnāt really have anything better to do, so he slaps the water in the bowl. By episode end, his hand is strong enough to pull the bow string. This woman accomplished more in a day than Slade Wilson did in months.
She also provides some much-needed Yao Fei backstory. He was general in the Peopleās Liberation Army (the Chinese communist army).Ā The military committed a massacre and chose Yao Fei to take the blame. They sent him to Lian Yu for the rest of his life. Fryers knows this and wants Yao Fei to take the fall for whatever heās going to do.
And we thought The Count was nuts.
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As for Shado, she spent years searching for her father. A man told her he knew where Yao Fei was, but kidnapped her instead and brought her to Lian Yu as leverage over Yao Fei. It took nineteen episodes to get that information. Yeesh.
Shado: Iām worried, this island, what he must have had to do to survive. That it changed him.
If this sounds ominous itās supposed to. Not all change is good. Thatās true for all of us - even Oliver Queen.
Stray Thoughts
āYou couldāve just said he was nuts.ā I like sassy Quentin.
Maybe itās my whole Buffy history, but Shado and Slade sparring felt very sexually charged.
Budget cuts and the CAMERAS are the first to go in jail?!!!
This will always be one of Diggle's best lines.
TOMMY HAS FELICITYāS PHONE NUMBER. Oh, the fics this detail launched.
What did we ever do in the bunker without this perfect gumdrop of a human being?
āWhatās happening now isnāt your fault.ā Felicity shouldāve tattooed this on Oliverās arm. It would save a whole lot of time.
āMy mom does yoga.ā Ollie is just soā¦ Ollie.
1141 is the passcode to the bunker. The Green Arrow was created November 1941 (11/41).
Listen to theĀ Watchover podcastĀ reaction to 1x19!!!
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9-1-1 7x06 | "There Goes the Groom"
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Bonus:
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#local disaster bisexual being micromanaged by his boyfriends #yeah they share custody #it's a two person gig
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#Tommy said š¤Øāš³ļøāš
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What the hell was that
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honestly one of the best parts about bi buck and bucktommy is that i can literally FEEL Oliver's excitement in every single scene. that acting is done by a man who has been WAITING for the opportunity to do this story for literal YEARS and he's acting the hell out of it
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They're all freaks, I love them.
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āŖ 911 on ABC, 7.10 āAll Fall Downā
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How long have you been leaning in the other direction?
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oliver has been in basically every interview for ages practically saying nothing, and here is ryan 'we read your fic' guzman and lou 'i was supposed to kiss eddie' ferrigno jr
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Iām sorry I missed the ceremony. Thanks, Tommy.Ā
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S1.10 || S7.06 Ā· glass doors parallels Ā· wrong person out || right person in
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Tommy's dramatic entrance at the end and Buck kissing him !!
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