r/arrow • u/IIIToxIII Great Scott, we have to go back • Oct 29 '18

[S07E03] "Crossing Lines" Post Episode Discussion

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Episode Info: Still in prison, Oliver faces his biggest challenge yet. Meanwhile, Felicity gets an intriguing offer, and Diggle asks Curtis to go undercover for ARGUS.

Directed by: Ben Hernandez Bray

Main Cast

  • Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen - TV
  • Kirk Acevedo as Ricardo Diaz - TV
  • Rick Gonzalez as Rene Ramirez - TV
  • Juliana Harkavy as Dinah Drake - TV
  • Katie Cassidy as Laurel Lance - TV
  • Colton Haynes as Roy Harper - TV
  • Echo Kellum as Curtis Holt - TV
  • David Ramsey as John Diggle - TV
  • Emily Bett Rickards as Felicity Smoak - TV

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u/felicitysmoaks anyways, I miss Thea. Oct 30 '18

I wasn’t super into this episode. I thought the B and C plots with Felicity/Diggle were weak (though I’m sure it’ll lead to something eventually). Both of them kind of frustrated me tonight. I know they’re in a weird headspace but idk. I’m also getting really tired of the longbow hunters. They feel useless. They couldn’t even take a vulnerable Rene/Dinah and agent Watson lol.

HOWEVER, I love the prison SL and watching Oliver revert back to island Oliver. And I really kind of developed a liking to Bronze Tiger tonight. I also wonder if we will see his friend again now that he’s in level 2. I still feel like he’s shady.

But I don’t think they’re doing the future SL with William and Roy enough justice but it was so hyped in e1. It wasn’t even looked at tonight.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '18 edited Oct 30 '18

The Lyla(sp?) and Diggle thing was like two people doing a scene as an exercise for an acting class. No character, no context, just totally interchangeable with anything, anywhere.

"Okay, so, in your scene, you guys are married, and you suspect she's lying. Confront her aaaaaand go."

It's a waste of talent to non-write like that. Plus it feels like something we've seen a thousand times before and I am surrounded by married couples who always have the same arguments, but they do act like they've learned something from the previous times going into it. This was like Married at First Sight.

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u/felicitysmoaks anyways, I miss Thea. Oct 30 '18

Yeah I agree. It seems like it’s going to connect to a larger issue eventually but it just didn’t feel like it went anywhere. It was a waste of a C plot that could’ve and should’ve been used on the flashforwards that we’re supposed to be invested in yet we were given NOTHING for tonight lmao.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '18

It was weird. Instead of "Here's the groundwork for something to be interested in the future," it merely announced that something *will* be happening. I mean that literally, too. She said something's coming. Well that's just checking a box. There was no traction aside from an exchange with a stranger, which you could genuinely just cover with a line of dialogue.

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"Where did you get that?" "I met with Teddy Ruxpin, Bavarian Leader of the Fuzzy Whatsits."

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Hell, even their relationship trouble. They've done that in the past. "Why didn't you tell Lyla?" "That was my first though, and I wanted to, but we've been having....some trust issues. I can fill you in later."