r/arrow • u/Rwings Boxing Glove • Nov 16 '17
[S06E06] - 'Promises Kept' Post Episode Discussion
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u/darthdarkseid Nov 23 '17
Sort of confused, Joe said he first killed 6 months after the camping trip. Who did he kill? I was under the impression he killed Grant but apparently not?
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u/Squats4urmom Nov 23 '17
Shouldn't deathstroke have been ripping apart the punching bags in the "5 years ago" flashback? He was under the influence of mirikuru at that moment correct?
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u/ThesaurusBrown Nov 26 '17
Slade explains in the episode that "the Mirakuru faded for a while. But when it came back, it was like a storm [he] could not control."
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Nov 22 '17
Deathstroke really does make every episode better and of course there are dramatic Shenanigans going on behind the scenes were Oliver can't see
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u/Ajjaxx Nov 21 '17
I wasn't super duper paying attention - what was Dinah holding at the end of the ep? Something to do with her having a thing for Diggle, I assume? It seems like they're headed in that direction.
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Nov 21 '17
Her former partner, who is now Vigilante, kind of gave her that in last week's episode.
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u/somewherein72 Nov 20 '17
Probably the best episode of this season, thanks to Deathstroke. I do hate the lazy-ass writing involved in Diggle's drug addiction. Where he's in his apartment, realizes that he's out of the drug, and then gets a message right at that moment telling him that there won't be anymore of the drug. They had another instance of this when Slade and his son were camping, when they revealed the guy he was supposed to be killing on the camping trip, with Slade paying obvious attention to that guy. Arrow does this convenient bullshit to move it's narrative so much it's laughable. Most of the time, it's so unnecessary they could just leave out the part where they are hitting you over the head with the plot point they are trying to make. The writers of this show think that the viewers are so stupid and won't be able to pick up on plot points in any other way without obviously revealing them. I think that Arrow would be so improved if the writers would allow the story to develop organically, instead of spoon-feeding their narrative.
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u/HappyGabe Nov 23 '17
Wait, that last part you said. How... øgäñîç do you want it to be?
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u/somewherein72 Nov 23 '17
How... øgäñîç do you want it to be?
As much as it needs to be to appear to be more believable than it does as it is?
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u/COCAINE_ALL_DAY_BABY Nov 20 '17
I wanna see deathstroke as a series regular on legends!
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u/DannyBasham Dec 03 '17
I just want to see Deathstroke given his own series. Book it Netflix! It is time for you to move in to DC properties.
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u/headpool182 Nov 19 '17
So the drugs Dig was looking at was named Methylphenidate... that's ritalin... why tho?
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u/ArrowFan07 Nov 19 '17
I loved how when Oliver and Slade were talking in one of the scenes, half of Slade’s face was covered by redness, as though he was still conflicted. Thought that was a really great detail, as well as being the obvious deathstroke parallel.
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Nov 19 '17
When Joe captured Oliver and tied him to the chair, you see that a shadow is covering one of Oliver's eyes, which is the same eye that Slade lost.
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Nov 19 '17
If you liked Slade in these past two episodes, you should really check out manu Bennett in Spartacus. You can definitely get more of his sword wielding and kicks to the chest there. He was definitely channeling some Crixus / champion of capua there.
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u/FoxyMegan Nov 20 '17
Is he in all the series? I've been meaning to watch Spartacus and knowing Manu is in the show might make me start!
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u/JoeStorm Nov 19 '17
The first time we see him, he made references about Spartacus.
I believe he said, "I prefer swords". Not a cleeaaarrr indicator, but it was a throwback to Spartacus
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u/Eternal_Density Nov 18 '17
Wasn't expecting Charlie from Fringe. Or nested flashbacks!
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u/Sparrowsabre7 Nov 24 '17
Anyone notice that the prototype ASIS suit had only one eye hole? Way to reuse props CW.