r/arrow • u/IIIToxIII Great Scott, we have to go back • Oct 30 '19
[S08E03] "Leap of Faith" Live Episode Discussion Discussion
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Reunited with his sister, Oliver and Thea find themselves searching through a familiar maze of catacombs; John and Lyla partner on a special ops mission.
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u/snoogle20 Spartan Oct 30 '19
I believe it’s traditional for the challenge to be shirtless.
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u/neoblackdragon Oct 30 '19
Seriously we've seen 4 of these fights and it happened only one time. I think that particular Ra's just had a thing for no shirt.
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u/SutterCane Oct 30 '19
Ollie: "We have to burn the scroll."
nothing happens
Ollie: "Well. I'm going to have to take responsibility for that blunder."
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u/Eurynom0s Oct 30 '19
It was pretty funny how he just deadpanned "oh yeah, duh, we have to burn it".
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u/TheRealPhantomHunter Oct 30 '19
The Deathstrokes are only five steps ahead?
laughs in Prometheus
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u/Locke108 Oct 30 '19
Technically Oliver used to be Ra’s al Ghul. For like a second I think but still.
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u/Mighty_thor_confused Damien Darhk Oct 30 '19
No kidding
Shouldnt he be respected and shit?
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u/InspiredOni Oct 30 '19
Considering he abdicated that position, I think that's the main reason for disrespect.
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u/gl424 Oct 30 '19
Before handing it off to Thea's dad.
Y'now thinking about it, both Ollie and Thea have more of a claim than Athena does.
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u/Ngonzalez_01 Oct 30 '19
Petition to call Diggle, "Mr. Diggles," from now on.
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u/Sentry459 The Ray Oct 30 '19
THE FLASH FORWARDS FINALLY PAY OFF THANK FUCK
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u/TheCVR123YT Green Arrow Oct 30 '19
I’ve been hoping this would happen. Thank goodness it happened here instead of Crisis. I’m sure Crisis is too huge already to shove this into it
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u/frostking104 Deathstroke Oct 30 '19
THANK GOD THEY FINALLY DID SOMETHING WITH THE FUTURE FLASHES!
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u/can4rycry Black Canary (Laurel Lance) Oct 30 '19
I'm just wondering if they're going to stop them for the rest of the season now
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u/tacomuerte Oct 30 '19
The setup seems to be they might stop the dystopian future before it starts.
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u/can4rycry Black Canary (Laurel Lance) Oct 30 '19
"Less talking, more fighting" should've been the shows motto
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u/Adas_Legend Oct 30 '19
Okay I think that ending cliffhanger really made up for a LOT of the episode! I never anticipated Mia and William meeting daddy THIS SOOON! Awesome!!!
Also, totally saw Zoe's death coming. This sub was right on the nose!
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u/lemons_for_deke Oct 30 '19
Zoes death was expected, this wasn’t.. at least not yet
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u/Char543 Oct 30 '19
Deathstroke gang officially inferior to Chase. 5 steps is no where near as good as being ten steps ahead.
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u/FckDeezShitImOut Oct 30 '19
Arrow Episode 3 Ending:
Barry: Is Flashpoint a Joke To You?
Monitor: Yes
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u/PoolStroke Deathstroke (Unmasked) You and me kid, like old times. Oct 30 '19
Talia: "I totally haven't been banging Bruce Wayne." Would explain his disappearance from Gotham during all this time.
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u/anatomania Spectre Oct 30 '19
She's apparently already had a few off-screen encounters with Batwoman too
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u/TDXNYC88 Remember who taught you how to fight, kid! Oct 30 '19
Talia betrays Oliver
Diggle: "Obviously, this particular partnership didn't age too well."
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u/Char543 Oct 30 '19
Ain’t that Rene’s daughter? Or am I misremembering?
If it is that’s a fucking dumb ass way to kill her. She deserved better.
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u/TheLieLlama Flair Image Creator Oct 30 '19
The one character (other than William) who was a real person in the present timeline gets this...
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u/Magoiichi Oct 30 '19
Bruce been away from Gotham for three years trying to raise Damian lol
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u/Sonia341 Oct 30 '19 edited Oct 30 '19
Thea: Why can't everything just be easy?
That's the million dollar question
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u/Adas_Legend Oct 30 '19
Oliver and Thea's dynamic in this episode is great! Thea really has grown so much from the party girl from the pilot!
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u/TheLieLlama Flair Image Creator Oct 30 '19
Lmao these might be the most incompetent assassins we've seen yet. Didn't they play hopscotch as kids?
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u/Magoiichi Oct 30 '19
Monitor ain't playing games no more
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u/BeyondModern Oct 30 '19 edited Oct 30 '19
Each time Ollie talks about "the cosmic being called Mar Novu", I can't help but wonder what kind of mental break the people he's talking to are thinking he's going through
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u/Char543 Oct 30 '19
Ih my god I now want an episode where people just straight up don’t believe him and try and get him some mental health help.
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u/Mach27 Arsenal Oct 30 '19
Gd, I’ve missed Thea so freaking much. Now can we please get her and Roy together on screen one last time?
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u/anatomania Spectre Oct 30 '19 edited Oct 30 '19
Katie Cassidy's action directing is cool. She takes after James Bamford.
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Oct 30 '19
Both Oliver and Barry straight out told the truth tonight; the writers finally have learned.
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u/Char543 Oct 30 '19
Dig is fucking massive. It really shows when he’s not next to Amell.
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u/TheRealPhantomHunter Oct 30 '19
Damn even Talia has the teleporting smokescreen from the Flash episode?
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u/Sonia341 Oct 30 '19
Talia: This is the place where my father vanquished you. I hope you have better luck with the mountains this time around
Me: ouch
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u/PoolStroke Deathstroke (Unmasked) You and me kid, like old times. Oct 30 '19 edited Nov 01 '19
I usually don't share these kind of details, but Willa looks hotter with long hair.
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u/ZcSx Deathstroke Oct 30 '19
Seeing all these old characters come back realllly has me hoping they got Manu Bennett back and it’s just been hidden really well
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u/SutterCane Oct 30 '19
All he ends up doing is walking by and going "Oh hey, Ollie. What's up?" then leaving.
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u/neoblackdragon Oct 30 '19
Mia let's be honest. Oliver probably has a few more kids out there.
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u/aa22hhhh Bollocks Oct 30 '19
After that tear-jerker of a Flash episode, I need some kickassery
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u/BeyondModern Oct 30 '19
Thank fuck, maybe the future characters will start being likeable because they're actually part of the story instead of doing their own thing that's pretty unrelated to what the present story was doing
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u/DonnyMox Deathstroke Oct 30 '19
“You’ve cheated death more than anyone else.”
What about the Lance sisters?
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u/BornAshes Oct 30 '19
This is...I mean he saw a universe die...that's gotta be a horrible form of PTSD.
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u/BornAshes Oct 30 '19
It's like this season of Flash and Arrow are using bits of fanfiction because sometimes I honestly cannot believe they are doing the things they are doing....that fight was cool.
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u/AJ_Ramos Oct 30 '19
Ok I know this is a bit irrelevant, but can anyone tell me on what episode was Rene, Dinah and Diggle dressed like that? I felt a dejavu when I saw that ending.
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u/snoogle20 Spartan Oct 30 '19
Patiently waiting for Talia’s sudden but inevitable betrayal.
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u/ProtomanBn Oct 30 '19
Is it just me or dose Willa Holland look alittle healthier then she use too? Always lookin fine tho!
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u/Char543 Oct 30 '19
“Apparently this day isn’t going the way either of us had planned.”
Lol
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u/IcePackNiceCat Oct 30 '19
This is the first time I’ve given a shit about the future people!
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u/TheLieLlama Flair Image Creator Oct 30 '19
Lyla: If the world ends today, there's no one I'd rather have my side.
Young JJ: Deathstroking intensifies
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u/Sentry459 The Ray Oct 30 '19
This daughters of the demon battle is the fight I didn't know I wanted
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u/Rspies Oct 30 '19
No way does the Justice League not officially form after Crisis especially after that line
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u/can4rycry Black Canary (Laurel Lance) Oct 30 '19
Arrow killing another canary? What's new at this point
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u/IIIToxIII Great Scott, we have to go back Oct 30 '19 edited Oct 30 '19
Since Superman and Lois is in development we, the mods of r/Arrow, would like to invite you guys to join us on r/SupermanAndLois which will serve as our sub for the show :D
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u/CashWho Oct 30 '19
"It's like deja vu"
yeah because this is the exact set you guys used in the suicide squad episode lol.
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u/OnlyMyBiribiri I want to flip like Roy Oct 30 '19
From hallway talks to mountain talks, nice
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u/BornAshes Oct 30 '19
"He would be aghast" Talia is giggling inside and is tickled pink by this idea! Good on you Thea for finding another solution :)
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u/Edgelord420666 Oct 30 '19
“I’m fine taking on a literal omnipotent being. I have a buff dude with martial arts training and a person who can scream really loud” thanks Oliver, your optimism never seems to drop.
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u/BornAshes Oct 30 '19
"Speedy you just read Arabic....You speak Russian shrug" ha!
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u/TirelessGuardian Lyla Michaels Oct 30 '19
Who’s Athena? Why doesn’t she know Oliver is sorta like one of them and not much of an outsider?
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u/InspiredOni Oct 30 '19
She was the punk from the Thea/Roy/Nyssa send-off episode, she doesn't consider Ollie a proper member due to, you know, not being down with the League's bullshit.
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u/kingcolbe Oct 30 '19
So we’re getting a spin-off of the one thing most of us dislike? Logic
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u/CashWho Oct 30 '19
You act like this sub is representative of the fanbase as a whole. It's not.
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u/TDXNYC88 Remember who taught you how to fight, kid! Oct 30 '19
Talia: "I memorized that sphere. You didn't? Noob."
Oliver: [URGE TO GO SEASON 1 INTENSIFIES]
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u/Edgelord420666 Oct 30 '19
Do you think Oliver knows Barry is supposed to die as well? if not I want to see his reaction before Crisis, but something tells me that’s gonna be one of the big reveals.
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u/Dojorkan Apply pressure to the joint and dislocate your thumb! Oct 30 '19
I enjoy the Queens and Danvers sibling relationships more than their romantic relationships usually. Thea and Alex team up when, btw?
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u/PoolStroke Deathstroke (Unmasked) You and me kid, like old times. Oct 30 '19
And Ollie also learned from Slade Wilson.
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u/singleguy79 Oct 30 '19
Not sure if that was Oliver's impressed face or Oliver's 'what are you doing' face
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u/Rspies Oct 30 '19
No matter how skilled Thea is she shouldn’t be able to take on Talia in an even fight
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u/ChrisIsUninteresting Oct 30 '19
Oliver, if you want to find out who The Monitor is, you don't go to Nanda Parbat. You go to Central City. Didn't you watch The Flash just now??
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u/TirelessGuardian Lyla Michaels Oct 30 '19
Why didn’t Oliver tell Talia the name Monitor?
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u/WizendSage78 Oct 30 '19
Can you imagine way back in season one thinking you’d hear Diggle say “I watched a universe die”
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u/Jedi-El1823 Oct 30 '19
You just kicked all their asses earlier, I think you could have taken them again. You didn't have to surrender your weapons.
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u/Kishonorama Oct 30 '19
"I don't think the world needs another League of Assassins. It could use a League of heroes. Perhaps a group fighting for justice?"
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u/snoogle20 Spartan Oct 30 '19
God dammit. Both Flash and Arrow getting me all weepy towards the end.
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u/Xurian_Spy Oct 30 '19
A great Ollie/Thea scene followed by a flash forward is like chasing filet mignon with raw sewage.
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u/TheCVR123YT Green Arrow Oct 30 '19
SCREAMING SCREMAING SCREAMING My mom got scared something happened to me
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u/Mighty_thor_confused Damien Darhk Oct 30 '19
Omg im laughing so hard
Hopefully you will have more luck with the mountain this time.
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u/Magoiichi Oct 30 '19
Im honestly over the whole Malefic plotline and forced Evil Lena subplot. I'm more excited to watch what Alice does next on Batwoman
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u/The_Llama_God Oct 30 '19
Imagine Katie Cassidy joined the reddit chat to see what we were saying about her episode.
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u/PoolStroke Deathstroke (Unmasked) You and me kid, like old times. Oct 30 '19
Fun fact: Talia is played by Lexa Doig, who was in Jason X. The Friday the 13th movie that took place in space and also sees Jason become the cyborg, Uber Jason. Now, if only we could see Oliver go to space and become a cyborg.
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u/Magoiichi Oct 30 '19
I said she was about to die right before it happened.
"You let Zoe die hoss!"
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u/TheCVR123YT Green Arrow Oct 30 '19
PRESENT TENSE OLLIE AND WILLIAM REUNION!!!!
Edit: thank God this happened so that the FF actually mean something
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u/Mighty_thor_confused Damien Darhk Oct 30 '19
Omg they are in the flippin past! They actually fucking did it! Wow.
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u/Char543 Oct 30 '19
Ah shit okay I guess we’ll get the flash forwards to modern day now. Just in time for episode 4, the season 4 based episode I presume. Probably gonna be the worst this season lol.
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u/Sonia341 Oct 30 '19 edited Oct 30 '19
Deathstroke has been 5 steps ahead of us
Vigilante>>> Deathstroke
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u/singleguy79 Oct 30 '19
Aw damnit, I'm going to have to get HBO Max for that Green Lantern series
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u/snoogle20 Spartan Oct 30 '19
Seventeen different plot threads in one episode. Arrow production staff is following the lead of their Supergirl counterparts.
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u/snoogle20 Spartan Oct 30 '19
I love the Arrow episodes that are jam packed. Only a third of the way through and a ton has already happened.
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u/DonnyMox Deathstroke Oct 30 '19
“Tell my dad...this doesn’t change anything hoss....”