Arrow Season 3

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Arrow

-Well, I promised to give this show up if Merlyn was still alive at the end of the season, and the show made him the new Ra’s al Ghul. Goodbye, show. A flight of angels sing thee to thy rest. Also, *raises middle finger*

-After a whole season of asking why Ollie doesn’t just call in Barry to deal with the League, he does–while Barry’s in the middle of Harrison Wells Time, so he can’t even help that much. If Ollie had just called while Barry was pining after Iris, this season would’ve been ten episodes long.

-Seriously, it’s like a Batman movie where he calls Superman for help–to deal with the Joker after, like, twenty killing sprees and before another ten killing sprees. But don’t worry, Superman took out Harley Quinn! Team-ups!

-It’s hard for me to see this season as a win when all Oliver accomplished was taking a terrorist network and handing its leadership over to someone far worse than the current management because he wants to go on a road trip with his gal. Just kill him, you fucking asshole. You didn’t have a problem killing Ra’s al Ghul. 

-So after making a point of how Ray needed WEEKS of training to effectively fly and operate the Atom armor–Felicity can do in sixty seconds? I know it’s a comic book moment, but… total rip-off of Iron Man 3, and there they made a point of how Tony was specifically designing the Mark 42 to do that for Felicity.

-The problem is his show THINKS that Merlyn is Wilson Fisk from Daredevil, a sympathetic but now destructive figure, when he’s actually Grant Ward from AoS–just a total cock. But AoS KNOWS that Grant Ward is Grant Ward. They give Ward comeuppances and don’t treat him as a lovable rascal with a heart of gold. Seeing a down but not out Ward decide to take over HYDRA made me INTERESTED in what this crazy bastard was going to do next, and look forward to SHIELD’s next match with him. Seeing Merlyn force Nyssa to kneel to him made me throw up in my mouth a bit. This is the big pay-off to Sara’s killing? Her murderer is more powerful and better off than ever, while everyone else gets a happy ending and is fine with there being absolutely no lasting repercussions to Merlyn’s actions?

-Seriously, Oliver giving the leadership of the League to Merlyn instead of Nyssa (who is probably the most noble character on the show at this point) is, like, ‘Captain America gets a motorcycle toy instead of Black Widow’ bad. 

-That scene where, in three minutes, we learn that Quentin has started drinking again before he conquers his drinking problem and goes back to loving the Arrow–if you get ‘mortifying’ in a game of Charades, you should be able to play that clip on Youtube for the win.

-Okay, so how did ‘da Chief’ know that Oliver and Ra’s were responsible for the bioweapon outbreak that just happened, and was able to order Ollie to be shot by a sniper? Like, they’re two guys fighting with swords. Send him a SWAT team, ya dinguses. And wasn’t this the exact same plot beat as Waller trying to nuke the city last season?

-The final fight comes down to Oliver and Ra’s–at night–in the same black costume. Impossible to tell what’s going on. Shouldn’t this be where Oliver triumphantly puts his trademark Green Arrow costume back on?

-Diggle’s leaving–or getting a costume–or something.

-Thea’s a superhero now, even though it makes far more sense for her character to go be with Roy. 

-I guess Damien Darke is going to be the new bad guy? Shit, we ran through the good Green Arrow villains really quick, didn’t we?

-Hong Kong flashbacks were pointless. We never did find out why Waller gave Oliver the assignment instead of literally everyone else. He didn’t even speak the language! But I guess now Ollie’s going to spend some time in Atlantis?

-Impressive how much of a bitch Felicity managed to be about Oliver’s fake, unconsummated marriage to Nyssa al Ghul. 

-So, at the end of the day, Oliver was more willing to trust Merlyn the Myss Myrderer than he was to just phone Barry and take out the entire League without any need for a long-con-alienate-all-my-friends-murder-a-dude plan? Yes. Yes, that makes sense.

Nurse Ginger VS Gamora

VS

I know what you are thinking, how can a shrunken nurse damsel compare to the cyborg assassin trained by Thanos?

Well, I'm comparing Action Girl Credentials here.
See, I went back and watched it again and you know what? When you think about it, Ginger is quite the badass all things considered.

Allow me to list her cred here.

First Scene With Her

Waking up on the shelf, tanning, eating, etc. A douchebag reporter pops up at the window and bothers her. Now, consider this. Ginger is very small, like, small doll size. Compared to her, this dude is a giant. Her reaction? Grab a knife and start threatening him. He isn't scared, but that took guts. She agrees to a later interview just to get him to go away.
Next, a giant spider pops out of nowhere. She screams from shock and surprise, understandable. Dollman pops up and shoots it with his super gun.

Meeting Officer Judith Grey

So, another human pops up in her house of nowhere and greets Ginger and Dollman. She asks for their help in dealing with the Demonic Toys and explains her story from the first movie. Ginger mouths off to her and they argue. Once again showing that Ginger isn't afraid of people of bigger size than her. She even agrees to come along just in case she can help out.

Toy Warehouse

So, they arrive at the warehouse with evil psycho toys. Judith is gunned down by the killer robot, which Dollman then destroys. Later, while Dollman is climbing up some boxes, Toy Soldier pops up and starts attacking him. So what does Ginger do? She climbs up above them, grabs some marbles and starts flinging them down at the Toy Soldier, hurting him and giving Dollman a chance to get away. She is then chased around the airvents by Jack Attack and is captured offscreen. Then again, Dollman gets pwned by Oopsy Daisy, so that one is a draw.

Captured

So Ginger is tied up to a giant toy clock and Ginger is tied by his hands and feet to remote controlled trucks. Oopsy explains his evil plan of evil and monologues about his past in between mocking them, etc. All this time, Ginger is untying her hands and frees herself, rips off one of the hands from the toy clock and cuts the rope holding Rick's hands before the trucks can tear him in half. The other truck drives off with him and, while Ginger is recaptured, she still saved the hero of the movie AGAIN!

VS Oopsy

So while Dollman is moving around the warehouse and fighting the remaining toys, Oopsy feels up a handcuffed Ginger who is trying her best to fend him and still mouthing off at him the best she can. Dollman shows up and holds a gun at him while Oopsy puts his hand on Ginger's throat, chocking her and telling Dollman to drop his gun or he'll break her neck. Despite this, Ginger still tells Dollman to just kill it and not worry about her. Dollman relents and drops his gun but when Oopsy mentions he 'has all the tools' Ginger immediately drives her knee into Oopsy's groin as hard as she can, causing the giant demon toy that is more than twice her size to scream in pain and back away from her, freeing Dollman to shoot it dead.

So. While she was captured twice, she saved herself both times and saved the hero more than once. She's no kung-fu badass, but she is a true action girl nonetheless, not afraid to fight or mouth off to giants.

GAMORA

First Scene

Bickering with her sister Nebula and then going rushing off after the gem. She meets up with Starlord, flirts with him a little and then kicks him and runs off. Starlord gets back up and goes after her and they fight. Groot and Rocket pop up and she fights them to. She does manage to cut off Groot's arms but she is eventually KOed and they are all captured by the police and sent to prison.
It's an okay intro. Gives you hope for the future, which will be squashed.

Prison

Despite being a super waif-fu cyborg trained by Thanos, Gamora spends her time in the prison scared for her life and visibly flinching when they are threatening her and banging on her door. That night, three mooks find her, overpower her, and drag her to the showers. Gamora is left screaming for help and helplessly struggling against them. She is cornered by them in the showers and they are about to kill her when Drax pops up and distracts them, Gamora knocks down the two thugs and she is then chocked and overpowered by Gamora, rendering her helpless once more. It takes Starlord negotiating with Drax to save her.
During the big prison fight, Gamora makes a big leap, beats some prison guards and cuts off a dude's arm off screen. Weird, considering her previous fight. It doesn't negate the screaming and needing help though.

Planet

On another planet, she and Starlord flirt until she snaps out of it and holds a knife to him and tells him to back off. Later, when Nebula arrives to try and kill them, they try escaping in ball ships. Rocket and Starlord improvise a way to take out the enemy ships, but Gamora is chased into space and her ship is gunned down and the gem stolen. Gamora is left hanging out in space and needs Starlord to save her again. Because, somehow, a simple helmet is enough for your body to survive in space just fine. They are then brought aboard the pirate ship and flirt some more.

Pirate Ship

Gamora and Starlord are grabbed by mooks and Starlord is beaten up while Gamora is held by her arms by two mooks and she can only scream at them to leave Starlord alone. Literally, she screams this while being helpless. Once again, it's up to Starlord to get them out of this one.

VS Nebula

So during the big climax of the movie on Ronan's ship, Gamora gets to fight Nebula finally. It's an alright battle, but noting spectacular. What's important to realize here is that she is on the losing end of the fight when a hole gets blown in the ship and Gamora gets the chance to throw her out. So even in her final battle, Gamora needed outside help to defeat her rival. Nebula cuts off her metal hand and bounces.

VS Ronan

Ooooh Child.

So. She has two badass moments, one of which was a decent intro and the other of which feels kind of tacked on considering the rest of her showings in the movie. In the prison showers, she needed to rescued. In space ship fight, she needed to be rescued. In the pirate ship, she needed to be rescued. In the nebula fight, she needed outside help. So yeah, despite her upgrades and years worth of training, Gamora still comes off as a real damsel in distress in this movie. Disappointing really.


WINNER
Nurse Ginger. Probably 12 inches tall, but with a feisty, fighter spirit that can stand with the greats, she towers over Gamora.

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