Arrow Recap: Uprising

Season: 3 / Episode: 12 / CW I’m not even going to bullshit y’all. This episode of Arrow wasn’t that exciting. Oliver is still away and trying to come back to Star City so we are focusing on the characters at home. This is a heavily influenced episode with Merlyn for the most part, front and center. We discover what being a killer is to him. I like having Merlyn around because at least we get to see someone still on his “anybody can get it” murda music genre. It’s discovered however that the person that actually killed Merlyn’s wife is Brick and not the person he originally killed. This sends us through flashbacks where we see how Merlyn was a contender for world’s greatest Dad until he got the news one night. The most trying part of these flashbacks is that Merlyn had the Christian Slater Broken Arrow Hair cut back in the day.

Merlyn wants to help Team Arrow take down Brick. The team been doing NO NUMBERS but they are all conflicted on if they should take dude’s help. Felicity does a whole speech on “What Would Ollie Do” and the vote comes down to some soft shit that they on. Diggle tells Merlyn fuck outta here and the answer they come up with is to fight Brick’s army with the residents of Star City. Captain Lance is the first to help out.

We then see Sin, Ted Grant The Golden Gloves Gawd don his Express Jacket and Ski Mask along with the rest of the glades all coming out to get a shot at Brick. This looked so large scale but just didn’t have the same feel as when Slade …