Arrow 1X20: Home Invasion (Patreon)

I'm not happy with Oliver in this episode. I'm on Team Diggle here. I sort of get Oliver's justification, but the same could have been said for Deadshot. Both villains in this episode kill roughly the same number of people. And Oliver chose Laurel over Diggle. After he promised Diggle that this was his time. I'm not pleased.

Quintin really needs better cops. He keeps putting them on Laurel's house and they keep dying. Anyway, after the hitman (who I just now realized is Gunn from Angel) breaks into Olivers house to kill Tyler, Tommy realizes that Oliver still loves Laurel and she loves the vigilante, so he breaks up with her. It's a little convoluted. But, he does still go out of his way to keep Oliver's secret several times in this episode.

While I really like Thea and Roy, I so do not buy that he is the most important thing to her. Yeah, maybe, but they've never shown us that. We've seen them casually hanging out. One time we did actually see them be serious after Hood Guy saved Roy and he rushed to Thea, but that's it. I need way more show with the two of them (also because they are both pretty and I like to look at them) then tell here. In addition, I really wanna know why Roy is so obsessed with finding him. Does he want to join him? If Diggle quit (and while I don't think he's gone forever, I do think it might be a few episodes), we need a new member of the team and Roy seems to, inexplicably, have all these superhero qualities.

What is Yao doing?!? I can only assume this was to make sure his daughter was safe. Right? Right?