'Arrow' Season 3 Episode 5 'The Secret Origin of Felicity Smoak' Review

Non Spoiler Review- While this episode seems to go a little off tangent from the story of the previous episodes it has a few surprises although some of the episode is a little predictable. overall its a good episode just not a great one. However I'm looking forward to next weeks after this episode's reveal!

*******There will be Spoilers from this point on*******

Highlights of the episode

1. Did Roy kill Sara?- Definitely one of the best part of the episode where Roy wakes up after dreaming he had killed Sara. I'm about 99% sure that he did do it for multiple reasons. First, Sara recognized her killer and wasn't enraged by seeing Merlyn or someone that she would be scared by. Second, the list of suspects is shrinking each episode and Roy is one of the few candidates left. Third, This could be an after effect of the Mirakuru. I'm just confused because the mirakuru was removed from him. 

 2. Felicity saves the day- It was very cool to see Felicity defeat her psycho ex boyfriend and that her training is paying off. It was nice to see that Felicity can take care of herself and doesn't always need Oliver to help her.

3. Oliver vs. multiple auto machine gun turrets- This was a pretty cool scene where Oliver has to take out about 5 auto aiming machine gun turrets and he does it within about a minute which is awesome. 

4. Everyone is training- I loved that we got to see a cool training montage of Oliver training roy, Ted Grant training Laurel, and Merlyn training Thea and then Thea and Merlyn take a break and she makes the comment "I wonder what normal people do?" and it cuts to Felicity doing situps in her pj's to a workout video. I laughed so hard when I saw this because compared to everyone else Felicity is just exercising.

5. Oliver brings popcorn- Oliver brings popcorn to Thea after earlier in the episode asking if thats what she wanted hi to do. It also appears he will be living with her now which will make it difficult for both of them to keep secrets from each other. We see Merlyn grinning in the distance as he watches this so I wonder what he has planned. 

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