#arrow 1x08

Oliver extending some professional curtesy to Chien Na Wei and keeping her from getting killed (the least he can do really, since she keeps his secret). They go way back. 

Carly is judging Oliver so hard. and Pretty much always does that. Meaning she’s officially on the list of people who I would love to see their reaction when Oliver’s secret identity went public. ESPECIALLY because it would have to be followed up by a call to Diggle 

Oliver’s defense of Helena is another one of those times when he’s desperate to redeem someone so that he can believe that there’s redemption available for himself. “She’s a killer” Diggle says. And Oliver is surely feeling the weight of all the people he killed while in the Bratva, even if he doesn’t realize that that guilt is what’s driving him right now. Helena’s crusade against the Bertinelli’s bears a LOT of resemblance to Oliver’s mission to take down Kovar. 

“I haven’t changed, Walter. I’m still the woman you fell in love with and married. That person is just a very secretive manipulative shady person.” 

Ok but imagine an AU where Helena is aligned with her father and Oliver is still active with the Bratva and you just have a very complicated mob love story

“I started sleeping with Sara and I brought her on the yacht with me” okay so that phrasing definitely indicates that it was not a one time thing and it didn’t start with the yacht trip. Interesting. 

*flirtatious archery* 

Helena: Well any associate of Oliver’s- Diggle: Is absolutely nothing to you. Ma’am.  Savage Diggle is amazing. And Oliver sits there and grins. 

So in the season 7 episode where Oliver dreams up Tommy, Tommy says something about “angry face” or something similar and I saw people saying that didn’t sound like Tommy, it sounded too much like Felicity (some as a criticism, some saying it was Oliver’s subconscious pulling elements from different people) BUT in this episode Tommy says “you have thinky face. Why do you have thinky face?” long before Felicity says anything similar. So. It is in fact in character for Tommy to say that.

“Making me have dinner with the love of your life” YOU SUGGESTED IT HELENA. And Oliver and Tommy were clearly uncomfortable with it but you and Laurel insisted. 

“That kind of love doesn’t die” Oh it will Helena. Just not for you. 

Look at Tommy and Laurel communicating well, and expressing their emotional needs, and talking through the problem and apologizing to each other. They’re so good together. 

So I’m not ready to re-watch yet but I miss what was my favourite show - so I’m reflecting. Thanks so much for those who made the gifs!

I’m doing this based on how the gifs are tagged so it may not always be 100% accurate…

In honour of the 150th episode of Arrow I thought it couldn’t hurt to reminisce about some of my favourite moments of Arrow - based on the gifs available ;)  I’m starting to think this is simply stuff I miss BIG TIME.

Thanks to those who made the gifs!