Brothers in Arms
- Episode aired Apr 5, 2018
- TV-14
- 42m
Oliver and Diggle face their biggest challenge yet; Curtis is disappointed to find out his new boyfriend has a firm anti-vigilante stance.Oliver and Diggle face their biggest challenge yet; Curtis is disappointed to find out his new boyfriend has a firm anti-vigilante stance.Oliver and Diggle face their biggest challenge yet; Curtis is disappointed to find out his new boyfriend has a firm anti-vigilante stance.
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- TriviaThis is the series lowest viewed episode as of April 2018. It only received 0.87M live viewers. This is due to there being multiple CW networks around the US showing sports games on their CW stations. It initially was reported to have 1.37M live viewers, but they had to take away the viewers from those CW stations showing sports games.
- GoofsA criminal can be arrested without a warrant, as long as there is probable cause. In the opening scene, there was the existence of illegal drugs in a quantity sufficient to imply distribution, which could be considered probably cause.
- Quotes
John Diggle: If this isn't 100% for our city, then you are not the hero that it deserves, and you never will be.
Oliver Queen: Ricardo Diaz has God knows how much of our city in his grip, and you're picking now to lecture me or to whine about not getting a promotion?
John Diggle: Promotion? This isn't about a promotion, man. This is about you. And Diaz? You still can't see it.
Oliver Queen: See what?
John Diggle: He's already won, Oliver. He has the city wired, and it happened under your watch.
Oliver Queen: He showed up while you were the Green Arrow! You brought drugs from him, John! You funded what he is doing right now! The entire time I put you in that hood, and you hid having a drug problem!
John Diggle: And I was putting my body through hell for the sake of our city.
Oliver Queen: No. You put the team at risk by lying! I had to dive off a bridge to save Rene's life because you were in the field, you weren't 100%, and nobody knew it!
John Diggle: You really want to bring up Rene right now when he is still hospitalized for the beating that you put on him?
Oliver Queen: We were in the field against Dinah, Curtis, and Rene. He pulls a gun on me! You think he gave me a choice?
John Diggle: I think that you leave a trail of bodies every damn place that you go! Sure you've changed, but what comforts that to William, whose mother's dead because of bad decisions that you've made?
Oliver Queen: My trail of bodies doesn't include my own brother.
I went from writing down "this is a stupid fight" in my notes to start the episode, to writing in all caps "WOW!" as the episode drew to a close. It just goes to show you that for as much as I dislike Marc Guggenheim's decisions sometimes, they often have something up their sleeve. In many ways Diggle is right about Oliver not being a good leader, often contradicting himself about retiring/not retiring as the Green Arrow. But on the other hand, Diggle is as much at fault about the rise of Diaz as anyone and to see both characters go mono e mono was a real joy to watch.
Though I will say that the fight itself doesn't necessarily feel earned. In some ways, it feels as though the writers wanted to make Oliver once again work alone and break up the team and they needed a reason to get there. So, they made Diggle jealous of Oliver donning the hood once again. Is that really something his character would ever do? I'm not so sure. But if we had to create that decision in order to get perhaps the most well acted scene between these two gentlemen then I guess I'm okay with that.
So it looks as though we will get a throwback episode next as Oliver and Felicity are doing things on their own while there are two other separate teams doing things as well with Diggle now teaming up with Lyla at ARGUS. Whether or not the final 6 episodes can keep building on the momentum that they have the last few weeks is unclear, but if what Amell said about the finale being something "they will never be ever to undo" is any indication of the last arc, then I'm excited. My prediction has and will continue to be that Oliver is officially outed (or he reveals it himself) as The Green Arrow. No going back from that.
9.0/10
- ThomasDrufke
- Apr 10, 2018
Details
- Runtime42 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 16:9 HD