Arrow Recap: Thief of Hearts

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By fatcamp | Saturday, November 17, 2012 | 7:58 am | 6 Comments
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What’s up, Gasmii?  Let’s get ready for another week of Arrow, and let’s please all cross our fingers for some hot shirtless mens.  Last week, Oliver got all the vigilante charges against him dropped by having Diggle pretend to be Arrow, Moira ostensibly removed Oliver from suspicion regarding the secret corrupt organization the Queen family is involved with, and her husband Walter Steele pouted his way out of the Queen Mansion because Moira was a big old bitch and lied to him about pretty much everything.  Caught up?  Let’s do it.

We open with three masked and armed robbers busting into a bank to snatch all its money.  They all have different playing cards indicated on their Friday the 13th masks, which makes them the Royl Flush Gang.  I know in the comics there are many incarnations of them, and some had advanced technology and super powers, but I’m guessing they’ll keep it realistic here.

Super Donkey Punch!

Some silly civilian on the floor decides he needs to be a hero, and makes a move for the gun he keeps in his shoe.  He’s a cop, but I have a feeling this mofo is dead.  The Jack and King are cleaning out the safe, while the Ace (all of Spades) monitors the captives in the lobby.  Hm, I wonder where the Queen is.  I guess she’s the getaway gal.  Stay in the car, bitch!

Some awful hostage with bad bangs makes a scene over the cop reaching for his gun and gets him killed.

It should have been you.

The police arrive outside, and Ace wants to waste all the catpives, but King has enough sense to tell him that they need to vamoose.  I guess aces are low in this round.  The Ace eyes Bad Bangs, and I’m guessing maybe she is Queen of Spades and snitched on the cop in order to help the gang.  Always smart to have someone on the inside.  Not that I’ve ever robbed a bank.

The cops tell them to lay down their weapons and come out with their hands up.  Does that ever work?  Instead of that, the crowd of civilians from inside come streaming through the doors, all wearing similar masks to the RFG. 

Worst Eyes Wide Shut orgy ever.

The cops enter and find that the robbers have exited through a hole in the ground in the safe.  They sort of start removing their masks, and they’re just plain ass crackers.  King is pissed that Ace shot a cop.  I guess he’s a thief with a heart of gold.  They climb in a van and peace out.

Which brings us to some welcome shirtless training with Oliver.

It’s been far too long.

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6 Comments

  1. 1
    carol
    Posted November 17, 2012 at 3:22 pm

    I am watching to show still, simply for the shirtless Oliver parts. They need to have more of those, lots more. I really dislike Oliver’s hair, both his ‘present’ hair and the wicked bad wig they put him in for the island parts. Is it wrong to say that Oliver is hot when he has on the Green Arrow make-up?

    I think they are going to have Whaurel & Tommy develop more and get a little serious. Then she is going to dump him for Oliver. That will set up the whole Tommy becoming evil and hating Oliver story-line. I have never read the comics so that is purely my guess.

    How old is Thea? She was acting like a teenager, but for her to actually like Tommy, I am guessing 18, just finishing high school. I don’t know. All these 20-something actress playing teenagers makes it hard to guess age.

  2. 2
    Andrea
    Posted November 17, 2012 at 4:39 pm

    I am still loving the show, although some of my opinions on the characters have changed. I like Tommy a lot, and don’t want him to be an enemy of Oliver, but if it expands his role, it could be good! I love a good villain.

    What I don’t get is what is so great about Laurel…seriously, she’s a bit high and mighty for my liking. Why do all these guys fawn over her like she’s the greatest thing since sliced bread? Not sure it’s believable that both Oliver AND Tommy would want to give up their playboy ways for someone like her. I mean, at the very least they’d have an awful in-law to deal with!

    Thea actually intrigues me…with so many references to “Speedy” which is supposedly her comic book alter ego, maybe we’ll be seeing her in superhero form sooner than expected? And I’m starting to like Moira, even though she might turn out to be a huge bitch. I like characters with a lot of depth and motivations.

    Don’t like Dead Dad at all. Well, okay, I didn’t like Oliver’s hallucination of him. I’m pretty sure it isn’t Oliver’s problem if you fucked over the entire city, you don’t have to be such a royal prick about it, figment of Oliver’s imagination!

    Does him throwing some of the papers in the fire mean his list of who to take revenge on is incomplete?

  3. 3
    sagittariuskim sagittariuskim
    Posted November 17, 2012 at 4:55 pm

    I like this show. I’m watching for the Green Arrow parts though.

    I’m thinking Tommy’s going to become an enemy because Oliver’s going to go after his father.

    I don’t understand how Thea thought Tommy was talking about her. Nothing he said or did implied that it was her. And she knew that him and Laurel had a thing before.

    @Andrea I was thinking the same thing. As soon as I saw him throwing pages in the fire, I figured out what was going to happen. It bothered me the whole episode.

  4. 4
    fatcamp fatcamp
    Posted November 17, 2012 at 8:09 pm

    @carol I can still only see Thea as young Katilin Cooper on the OC, so my age range might be skewed.

    @andrea I’m poorly versed in DC, and I’m pleased to learn about the reference to Speedy! That could add some much needed depth to her character. Even if it is some ways down the line. And yes, Laurel does need a boost in likability and an injection of personality.

    @sagittariuskim I love your idea about Tommy/Oliver. That would be the only way to make a believable rift. I’m just hoping it’s not over Laurel.

  5. 5
    Pegalicious
    Posted November 19, 2012 at 12:25 pm

    I’ve willingly suspended my disbelief and really enjoy \Arrow,\ but I’m bothered by his apparent mad computers skillz. As a dyed-in-the-wool dilettante he would hardly have been a computer geek before the fateful cruise, and it doesn’t look as though there’s any electricity on the island.

    But one look at these workout scenes and I realize it doesn’t matter after all. I’ll definitely keep watching.

  6. 6
    Moli Moli
    Posted December 13, 2012 at 10:35 am

    No more Arrow recaps? I read them faithfully, but due to the current changes at work and how this site has become ad-central I don’t comment.

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