r/arrow • killing is no • May 12 '16

[S04E21] Arrow S04E21 Synopsis (OnBenchNow)

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u/OnBenchNow killing is no May 12 '16

Well that was fun.

/r/OnBenchNow

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u/ajdragoon May 12 '16

And that was quick!

Thanks so much for this one, haha! You certainly know your audience.

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u/shanswami May 12 '16

Agreed, i've stopped watching the show but i keep reading these synopses, and they make me smile. hopefully i can rewire the association my brain has with arrow to these synopses and then have fond memories of season 4 for the future

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u/Crankrune May 22 '16

A little late to this thread, I'm a bit behind. But, I have a couple of questions. One, what font do you use. And two, what program do you make these in?

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u/_Oisin May 12 '16

"I can't change the nuke's target, but I can change the co-ordinates it thinks the target is at!"

So you can change the target? am I missing something here?

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u/lobotnik99 May 12 '16

No, these are two different things. the one is where the nuke where the nuke will land and the other thing is where the nuke will land

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u/_Oisin May 12 '16

Oh that clears things up. I thought they might have just wrote nonsense dialogue to try convince viewer they're smart.

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u/exteus The Punisher May 12 '16

That's what they did, people are just trying to find explanations.

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u/tarsn May 12 '16

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u/Jeffeffery May 12 '16

This actually made more sense than anything Felicity said in the entire episode.

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u/UncreativeTeam May 13 '16

I can't for the life of me figure out if this is serious or not.

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u/tfg49 May 12 '16

nope, that shit actually happened. From the writing room all the way to the broadcast

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u/[deleted] May 12 '16

How about aiming it at a fucking ocean not a heavily populated city?

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u/Mullet_Ben May 12 '16

Felicity couldn't hack the missile and make the missile target somewhere else. But she could make the missile think that it was somewhere else. So the missile was still targeted on Monument Point, but the missile thought that Monument Point was somewhere else.

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u/romeo123456 May 12 '16

And she chose it to go west... and not east.. whyyyyy

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u/bridgecrewdave May 13 '16

Because fuck Rockhaven.

Fuckin pricks. Think they're such hot shit. WHO AIN'T SHIT NOW ROCKHAVEN SUCH A BAG OF DICKSOHWAITYOUCANTYOUREALLDEAD

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u/XlXDaltonXlX May 13 '16

Oh, you said East? I thought you said Weast!

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u/ContinuumGuy Long Live The Fastest Man Alive May 13 '16

Kind of bummed /u/OnBenchNow didn't use the opportunity to question why she didn't, I dunno... trick the nuke to land in the ocean.

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u/OnBenchNow killing is no May 13 '16

I figured by the time she realized what to do, there wasn't enough time to alter the nukes trajectory by THAT much.

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u/ContinuumGuy Long Live The Fastest Man Alive May 13 '16 edited May 13 '16

Ah, that makes sorta-sense.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '16

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u/_Oisin May 12 '16

Hacking.

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u/Magdiesel94 May 12 '16

It's the speed force of arrow

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u/Mullet_Ben May 12 '16

I don't think she actually relocated a satellite. I think she made the satellite think it was somewhere else, which made everyone receiving a signal from that satellite think they were somewhere else.

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u/SH4D0W0733 Reaching a new low weekly since 2015 May 12 '16

More importantly, after the nuke launched they should've had about half an hour before it struck. She really only thought about it with half a minute left on the clock?

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u/gerusz 🎵 harpsichord music 🎵 May 13 '16

OK, that is stupid. But. During the Cold War NATO was actually scrambling GPS to prevent non-NATO countries from using it. (Civilians didn't use it yet anyway.) GPS needs the clocks on the satellites to be in sync. If they aren't, the position it gives is shifted away. NATO GPS devices knew what the scrambling at the moment was; others didn't.

Of course it didn't work because Eastern-block countries used the obvious solution: put a GPS receiver at a point with known exact coordinates and get the scrambling from there. But A for the effort for NATO.

Now if Felicity reactivated this scrambling protocol (or activated the one in GLONASS, which is the system a Russian nuke would use), it could shift the given results by 20 km.

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u/ilovezam May 12 '16

I was wondering how he'd cover this scene while watching the episode. Turns out he didn't have to do anything LOL

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u/JewJutsu May 12 '16

I was reading it and I couldn't even understand it with how dumb the logic was.

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u/lastrideelhs May 13 '16

I just thought it was wrong colored lettering....damn that made the cut? Jesus.

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u/SlightlyProficient May 12 '16

I'd started to think he'd forgotten to use green text, then he hit us with that. Wow, just wow.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '16

as soon as she started talking i fast forwarded

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u/Kaimel May 12 '16

i was fastforwarding through pretty much everything this ep.

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u/Schnabeltierchen May 13 '16 edited May 13 '16

I did that the last two or three episodes with Felicity scenes. This time I just skipped the entire episode altogether and just watched that synopsis.. less wasted time and actually somewhat enjoyable

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u/XuBoooo FUCK THIS May 12 '16

It felt so good skipping that scene, not knowing what it was about. I thought bench was joking with the colours, but it was real. I was so better off not knowing.

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u/shunt31 May 12 '16

Is Donna wearing trousers a good foot longer than her leg?

Either that or she's had her foot amputated.

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u/Ignisiel May 12 '16

The fashion choices in this series are almost as inexplicable as the plot.

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u/seinnax May 12 '16

Felicity's jacket this episode was horrendous.

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u/Ignisiel May 12 '16

It was. Still better than the zit shirt.

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u/shanswami May 12 '16

i still can't stop myself from giggling everytime i see that panel

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u/wererat2000 May 12 '16

does that thing remind anybody else of the league of assassins uniforms?

...Anybody?

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u/Emptypiro May 12 '16

yeah they gave Maseo a $15 mask from party city or something stupid like that

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u/UncreativeTeam May 13 '16

I just liked that after getting riddled with bullets, Felicity decided to wear a jacket that looked like it had bulletholes all over.

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u/Makverus May 12 '16

Felicity's jacket is also, let's say, questionable

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u/Snikna May 12 '16

I guess it matches the sweater with pimples she wore last episode.

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u/Makverus May 12 '16

Those pimples actually got popped, this is the end product.

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u/Durzo_Blint Organic! May 12 '16

Are those grommets? What is that for, fucking tie down points? I thought Laurel was the one wearing BDSM gear.

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u/chainjoey May 12 '16

Well it's for when it's raining you only let in a specific amount of water.

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u/__d-_-b___ May 12 '16

Ventilation?

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u/UncreativeTeam May 13 '16

She's paying homage to that time when HIVE shot her several times.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '16

Charlotte Ross has this weird thing where she wears those ridiculous Courtney Stodden shoes. Clearly it's been written into her character.

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u/[deleted] May 13 '16

She probably fucked her ankles so bad she has to wear them.

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u/KipHackmanFBI May 12 '16

She wears platform heels a lot. Needs longer pants to compensate?

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u/XuBoooo FUCK THIS May 12 '16

What the hell?

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u/Shalaiyn May 12 '16

http://i.imgur.com/64XYq2v.jpg

The banter is getting harsh and real at this point.

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u/tarsn May 12 '16

Question as someone who didn't watch the episode... But wasn't it a Russian nuke that was hijacked? Russia isn't in NATO... in fact they're opposed to each other often.

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u/belkak210 May 12 '16

shhhhh, they arent supposed to know

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u/Fel1c1tyLoVeR May 12 '16

They said something like Russia, USA, and all of NATO in the show. The way they said it rather left me wondering whether they didn't realize that USA is a part of NATO. It also made me wonder whether they have forgotten that there are more sides in the world than Russia and USA+allies.

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u/tarsn May 12 '16 edited May 12 '16

Ok but ARGUS is a US government agency.... why would Russia give its nuclear codes to the head of a US organization?

And if it's not codes but a hack of some sort, wouldn't that throw the entire political side of the world into absolute chaos with USA controlling the entire world nuclear arsenal?

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u/[deleted] May 12 '16

They wouldn't.

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u/eragonisdragon May 12 '16

Another question I had: Why would a device that was designed to be able to stop nuclear launches be able to set them off?

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u/iHendy May 12 '16

Seriously though, where is Curtis? I thought he was going to be part of the team now but its like he doesn't exist any more. Have I missed something that explains this?

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u/McIgglyTuffMuffin Boxing Glove May 12 '16

When Barry went back in time and made Hartley a member of the SuperSTARS it probably knocked Curtis out of the Arrow good graces or something. I don't know.

But seriously how did not one person in the writer's room just go "Uh, guys, why don't they just get Curtis to give it to them?"

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u/Agnoman May 12 '16 edited May 12 '16

It's either they just didn't think of it - the easiest and most obvious solution to the problem - or they thought of it but decided that breaking in was the best way to create UNNECESSARY DRAMA which as we all know is STORY...

I'm really not sure which is worse.

But I'm betting on them just not considering it - if they had they could easily have had the characters shoot it down as an idea when they were considering plans. Would have taken like three seconds. No risk of it cutting into Mama Smoak's screen time.

I swear like half my issues with the show could be solved if the writers took just a moment to think things through. I'm not even asking for things to be properly planned out. It'd just be nice if they held up under a cursory glance.

Ugh. Sorry. This was my first rage post. Just had to get it out of my system.

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u/wererat2000 May 12 '16

It bugs me that they had plenty of ways of saying he couldn't do it.

"He's not working today and we can't wait" "The board knows he's your henchman and are keeping an eye on him" "He's not comfortable stealing company property" "he doesn't have the codes to that vault thingie" and many, many more.

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u/FKDotFitzgerald May 12 '16

I'll only forgive it if they reveal that Curtis and his husband were near the town that got nuked, but then of course that opens the door for Felicity's guilt trip arc so there's no real winning.

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u/SirVaksghn Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Felicity Arrow wgah'nagl fhtagn May 12 '16

But if Curtis got them the chip, How could we have our Goddess Felicity do her Mission Impossible thing? Also she had to discuss her daddy issues too. These vital plot points had to be covered so Curtis had to go.

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Felicity Arrow wgah'nagl fhtagn

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u/UncreativeTeam May 12 '16

Curtis said he won't be a hero anymore. So in the Arrowverse, that means he doesn't show up to work either and is off doing gay husband things. Did they ever mention he was gay? They were very subtle about that aspect of his character.

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u/wererat2000 May 12 '16

To be fair, it was as subtle and nuanced as the hetero relationships.

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u/CatTurdCollector May 12 '16

The actor who plays him has a demanding schedule because he works on another show. He'll be a regular cast member in Season 5 though.

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u/Ms_Mediocracy May 12 '16

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u/tarsn May 12 '16

That whole series of slides was amazing.

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u/nfleite May 12 '16

Completely LOL. I was reading and thinking "cm'on man SAY IT" and he did and it was amazing.

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u/JustAnOrdinaryGirl92 May 12 '16

I don't think Barrowman is the titty-fucking kind.

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u/tarsn May 12 '16 edited May 12 '16

Malcolm might be though, he did make 2 kids organically.

Edit: God damnit now you have an image of Malcolm/Moira tittyfucking sex stuck in my head.

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u/JustAnOrdinaryGirl92 May 12 '16

Edit: God damnit now you have an image of Malcolm/Moira tittyfucking sex stuck in my head.

To be honest i would fully expect Captain Jack Harkness to titty-fuck the Borg Queen.

This is not something i expected to say when i woke up this morning

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u/tarsn May 12 '16

Should've tittyfucked Seven of Nine

...

I'm sure we're giving some rule 34 enthusiasts some ideas.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '16

You brought this upon your self.

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u/GimmieDemWaffles Nobody likes you fefe May 12 '16

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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u/[deleted] May 12 '16

Barrowman is easily the only real reason to continue watching this travesty.

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u/tarsn May 12 '16

I mean there's also Willa Holland's assets.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '16

Yeah, but her instagram gives all you could want. Barrowman however is the man crush my wife worries about. That man is fabulous, I don't give a fuck who you are.

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u/tarsn May 12 '16

I loved him as Jack Harkness

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u/ajdragoon May 12 '16

Knew it was coming; still cracked the fuck up.

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u/In_My_Own_Image May 12 '16

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u/SlightlyProficient May 12 '16

Thea's expressions with Malcolm were one of my favorite parts of this.

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u/Durzo_Blint Organic! May 12 '16

So...what about the corn?

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u/Nhoj May 12 '16

The corn is there so hive can cash in on ethanol subsidies.

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u/Toahpt May 12 '16

The corn is growing there to feed all the people in the underground city. Corn isn't just a source of food, though. Scientists have also used corn to create other things, an important one being ethanol.

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u/loki1887 May 12 '16

An all corn diet for the survivors of the nuclear apocalypse. High fructose corn syrup for all.

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u/ramo805 May 13 '16

seriously haven't watched in like a month and decided to just read this one and that really helped...I guess i'll just watch the show through synopsiss

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u/ThornBird_116 May 12 '16

YOU WERE MEANT TO TAKE THE PAIN AWAY FROM THE MOMMA SMOAK AND LANCE SCENE NOT SHOW IT TO ME AGAIN

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u/the_letter_6 May 13 '16

All must share your pain!

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u/SockPenguin I got tired, Frank. May 12 '16

Quoting that Lance/Donna scene word for word was amazing. And I'm also thoroughly confused on what the fucking deal is with that loft; it's owned by Thea but apparently Felicity and Oliver both moved out and now Donna's there I guess?

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u/tarsn May 12 '16

We paid to lease it and we don't have money for any other apartments so god damnit any scene that takes place in a domestic environment will be filmed there!

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u/repete17 May 12 '16

I mean, to be fair, its a pretty bitchin' loft.

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u/Dellexe May break your bones May 14 '16

Owned by Thea.

Oliver and Felicity lived there, since Oliver was given it by Thea.

Felicity kicks Oliver out (despite it being his sister's place, not Felicity's).

Now the ol' folks are there for... reasons?

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u/SockPenguin I got tired, Frank. May 14 '16

I didn't even realize Oliver had been the one to move out the first time. Thought that was Felicity for some reason.

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u/klnm28 Ra's Al Ghul WANTS YOU DEAD May 12 '16

That curtis thing is fucking on point. Where the fuck was he? Lol.. Lance just drove in this ep.. Wtf.. Laurel dying over him is really making less and less sense.. Even though it doesnt make sense from the start.. Fuck.. Anyone else notice GA's arrows not flying out of his quiver when he is fighting ? Mama smoak is a controlling bitch. Dat scene was a joke. Good thing I skipped that

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u/Gauntlet May 12 '16

All they had to say was that Curtis was being locked out of the lab for a while for security reasons.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '16 edited May 12 '16

Right? "Due to the nature of your working relationship with Mr. Holt, we've decided that R&D must be temporarily re-purposed so as to avoid any... Transgressions with our property."

Wrote that in 15 seconds, it's not fucking hard to hand-wave away "shit we couldn't get this actor and we needed another action scene."

Edit: I know it's no "Tell that to Zod's snapped neck"

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u/Jeffeffery May 12 '16

I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt on his arrows staying in his quiver, and assume there's something keeping them in there. Otherwise, they'd be bouncing around a lot more when he's just walking around.

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u/loki1887 May 12 '16 edited May 12 '16

At least with Hawkeye in the Avengers movies his arrows are locked into his quiver that he can switch out the heads using the controls on his arm.

Seriously, what's the point having Queen Consolidated/Palmer Tech if not to solve problems like these.

Edit: Found a video of a dude who built a replica of Hawkeye's Bow and quiver from Avengers. It'd fucking dope. Palmer Tech can build magic spine fixing chips but not anything even slightly more realistic.

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u/DirtyDav3 May 12 '16

My favorite part of the episode was how Felicity decided to nuke a small town rather than changing the coordinates to say.... The ocean?

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u/Morningsun92 May 13 '16

That part of town tweeted their hate for olicitiy

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u/prettysorchastic May 12 '16

As someone who quit the show after Laurel died, this is greatly appreciated.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '16

Seconded.

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u/DonRobo May 12 '16 edited May 12 '16

Thank you for explaining the plot to us who stopped watching.

I don't like the show, but love your content.

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u/Agnoman May 12 '16

What a strange, sad world, where a parody cobbled together in a few hours (super impressed with the response time, btw) by one guy, is just so much better than the fully fledged TV show.

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u/DonRobo May 12 '16

Thankfully that's the exception and not the norm. There are many shows with great synopsis where the show is even better. Just watch any of the Marvel shows (ABC and Netflix) and the Flash.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '16

I haven't watched any episode past I think 9 of season 4 but I always make sure to check these out. This way I'm somewhat caught up for the sake of crossovers and its infinitely more entertaining.

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u/CrimsonSaint150 May 12 '16

Same here. I'll can still keep up with the show while saving time and being more entertained.

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u/blitzzardpls May 12 '16

Oh, I thought you forgot about greentext for a moment and this got me laughing so hard

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u/McIgglyTuffMuffin Boxing Glove May 12 '16

So this is the second time this season Felicity has gotten a large amount of people killed. Are we going to hold her as a war criminal now or what?

[The first time was the crossover when she got everyone killed with her fantastic betatape hacking skills. Or that is what I choose to believe.]

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u/NaijaBird May 12 '16

Just missing the shades to complete the 'Avengers Civilian' pack

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u/[deleted] May 12 '16

Maybe he's teamcap.

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u/SevaraB May 12 '16

"Shunuva..." I lol'ed so hard.

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u/Reverse_Grodd May 12 '16

Another thing - if the US and Russia got a 21 hour warning about loss of control over their nuclear weapons, why weren't onsite technicians not disarming the warheads and/or disabling the solid fuel spark igniters? No launchie a solid fuel ICBM without a spark igniter.

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u/Monkeyball69 May 12 '16

wait... they had a 21 hour warning?! For fucks sake.

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u/romeo123456 May 12 '16

For real man. And the lack of a us missile defense system.

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u/blamfablam May 12 '16

Should've touched on how "risky" it was to wear their gear in broad daylight even though they were doing it just a few minutes ago.....

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u/[deleted] May 12 '16

he's headed inside if only we had a bunch of trained soldiers and vigilantes acting as protection to the one fucking entrance

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u/JtheKillMachine May 12 '16

The "Arrow writers, i ain't gotta explain shit", perfectly resumes the last 2 seasons.

Fucking hilarious as always. Bravo, man.

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u/ThatFacelessMan May 12 '16

Oh my. I'm laughing so hard I'm in pain. It was worth watching the episode just for this one slide: https://i.imgur.com/dOTt5YY.jpg

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u/epraider May 12 '16 edited May 12 '16

Welp. That Donna and Lance scene finally sealed the deal for me. I'm done. I can't do it anymore. So long and thanks for all the fish Arrow.

I'll see you guys next week for the synopsis.

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u/Kuze421 May 12 '16

TIL that we all have our own particular breaking points proving that there are so many problems with this show that it has become irredeemable.

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u/Murrderer CHOOOOOOOOSE May 12 '16

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u/bigalsjams May 12 '16

And here I thought every plot hole, inconsistency, or stupid thing about last night's episode had already been exposed and laughed at in this sub...then you unearth so much more!

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u/Nexaz May 12 '16

When 90% of this episode had to do with Felicity and her Fucktard Family it probably would have been more prudent to change the name on the title slide to Felicity and Friends. You know /u/OnBenchNow, for the lols.

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u/fariha_s May 12 '16

The amount of things that should've been green text but were white text though...

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u/Axxah Felicity Smoak deserves her own show May 12 '16

OnBenchNow lol you must be glad CW is giving you so much good material to work with xD not even green text is needed

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u/Mullet_Ben May 12 '16

You know, "Electromagnetic wave generator" is just a fancy way of saying "radio..."

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u/the_letter_6 May 13 '16

Is that radio's display a sticker? Why would they zoom in on that thing?

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u/[deleted] May 13 '16

Why would they zoom

Zoom crossover confirmed

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u/[deleted] May 12 '16

What's the difference between changing the coordinates the target is at, and actually changing the target?
Full disclosure, I have not seen the last two episodes

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u/Mullet_Ben May 12 '16

She hacked the GPS satellite, rather than the missile. She couldn't hack the missile to get it to go off course. But the missile was being guided by GPS satellites. She hacked the satellite to make the missile think it was in a different location than it was. So then the missile adjusted course to get "back on target," when in reality that meant hitting somewhere else.

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u/romeo123456 May 12 '16

Why is no one talking about the fact she made it go 20 miles to the west and not the east?? Or 100 miles to the east.

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u/DarkSpikeX May 12 '16

Simplest explanation i can come up with:

target = house A located at coordinates 0,0,0 (x,y,z)

we now do some haxor magic to make the rocket think that house A is located at 100,100,100 thus changing coordinates but not the target as that didnt work for whatever reason.

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u/armeck May 12 '16

Right, because the missile was clearly saying to itself, "Oh shit yeah! Gonna fuck up Monument Point which is located at 34.44444, 39.0134!" As opposed to simply having the GPS location and having no clue what the target was... God I loathe love this writing!

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u/ajdragoon May 12 '16

Effectively, none.

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u/MapToTheStarsEddie May 12 '16

I can't believe I hadn't thought of looking for this sub until I watched last night's episode and was completely fucking baffled by goddamn everything. I've been sitting at work stifling laughs for a half hour reading through all of these posts. You guys are champs

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u/thepain73 May 12 '16

Knocked it out of the park again.

Love these.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '16

Thanks, I have been following the show only through your synopsis for a while now. Best decision ever.

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u/UncreativeTeam May 12 '16

Roofie's the one who wanted to Ruve him.

Oh god, my sides

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u/Tabular May 12 '16

So Barry doesn't like time travelling because it always Fucks with the future and makes things worse some how, but can you get much worse than a nuke? Or is it some kind of karmic balance where saving tens of thousands of people would make the future exponentially worse?

Man the superhero tendency to not call in your other super powered friends to help is really annoying at times.

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u/drhagbard_celine May 12 '16

You're the best, man. Thanks.

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u/metal_sensei May 12 '16

The only reason I don't want Arrow to get cancelled is so I can keep reading these hilarious synopses. You're the best!

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u/Anklebender91 May 12 '16

I used to think "why am I getting irrationally angry" at this show week in and week out. But that Donna/Lance conversation sealed it for me. I'm done at the end of this season. I'm just hanging on to see how awful the finale is. For season 5 I'll just be enjoying these synopses. They are much better than the actual show.

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u/Nathaniel0912 May 12 '16

That last caption killed me, I was waiting for someone to say that all episode. I mean even call Zoom, he's killed people for bitch slapping Barry, you think he's going to let someone annihilate the world with speed force Jesus and Jessie "the best booty" quick on it?

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u/[deleted] May 12 '16

Bro your the shit!

Reading your walk through is better than watching the actual show.

True story!

Keep it up.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '16

White and green text are both show quotes? I'm so confused.

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u/gcube5 May 12 '16

This is the first time I've read a synopsis without watching the episode. This may become a new standard.

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u/Kuze421 May 12 '16

Welcome to the club!

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u/[deleted] May 12 '16

The only good parts of arrow's decline are this subreddit getting funnier and the synopsis's getting even better!

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u/MyNameisAnsem May 12 '16

Are you fucking kidding me? Did she really acknowledge that it was in Curtis's lab, but they still broke in?

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u/_HJP_ May 12 '16

Hilarious as always. :D

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u/nikolai393 May 12 '16

I'm glad these exist. They're the only way I care to keep up with Arrow at the moment.

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u/omg_what_the_chuck The Punisher May 12 '16

Awesome work.

And Jesus am I glad I stopped watching that dumpster fire.

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u/Anubissama May 12 '16

I was cheering when they escorted her out of the building!

Definitely the best scene of the episode if not season.

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u/UncreativeTeam May 12 '16

I like how Felicity, after getting bombarded with bullets, wears a trench coat that looks like it has a bunch of bullet holes in it.

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u/pm_me_taylorswift May 12 '16

This is the first time I've consciously decided to read the synopsis before/instead of watching the show.

And of course the first time I do this it has a scene of Felicity getting fired godfuckingdammit.

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u/Razputin7 May 13 '16

Wait! In that case, don't watch any more! Maybe she'll keep getting called out!

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u/Razputin7 May 13 '16

Wait! In that case, don't watch any more! Maybe she'll keep getting called out!

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u/CJ_Jones 10,000 Killsteak! (AC130 awarded) May 12 '16

The Donna and Quentin stuff is so boring and irrelevant that I found myself skipping over it in the fucking synopsis.

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u/Kaylen92 Every show a needs Black guy May 12 '16

I actually liked the fight scenes this episode. Olly was kicking as, shooting arrows and doing crazy flips ( he really is the mentor of roy )

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u/TXTylerDurden May 12 '16

It makes me sad that I have no interest in watching this show anymore, as it used to be my favorite. But thank you for these, I get the (shitty) point of the episode with a lot of laughs.

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u/Zetaphrem May 12 '16

I didn't have time to read the post-episode thread but, was I the only one who yelled out loud when Oliver said, "It's too risky to wear that gear in the daylight?"

Like, it just reminded me of Justice League Unlimited when GA got recruited while busting up a roberry in the middle of the day...you know, the kind of shit I wanted a Green Arrow show to BE!?!?

God, I hate this show so much now.

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u/TheOneHanditBandit May 12 '16

If nobody has an actual job any more, how do they pay for anything?

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u/Slickner Black Driver May 12 '16

You are a fantastic human being. That is all.

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u/iAMA_Leb_AMA HACKERWOMAN May 12 '16

"This is for you guys that don't watch the show anymore"

Thank you based bench.

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u/ShhDontTellMyBoss May 12 '16

As someone who no longer watches the show and only reads your synopsis' to keep up to date- thanks for the quick panels catching us up on what the hell is going down in this train wreck of a tv show.

"wait so he's going to use death-corn to take over?... ohhh okay, secret lair, mass nuclear wasteland, rebuild, got it.."

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u/the_cunt_muncher May 12 '16

I think I figured it out, the writers are trying to either:

a) Make Felicity think that her dad might not be so bad after all, and then her, her mom, and her dad ride off into the sunset at the end of the season never to be heard from again

or

b) Same as 'A' except they kill them, never to be heard from again.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '16

I'm actually wondering how /u/OnBenchNow is still sitting through Arrow episodes to make these because I certainly wouldn't be

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u/AmbiguousPuzuma May 12 '16

I kind of expected a War Games reference. Well, I guess maybe it was before your time.

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u/neonrideraryeh Hello, kid. May 12 '16

Dang, Thea might have it even worse than Caitlin when it comes to guys.

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u/BeardedLogician May 12 '16

Thea tried to get off with her half-brother, then there was Roy, whom she met when he stole her stuff and then he became discount Hulk. Then there was DJ Nanda Parbeats, who tried to kill her and then killed himself. And now her present boyfriend got mind-controlled, and then killed.
And she may have had a thing for her dealer pre-S1, I don't recall.

Caitlin's fiancé died, and then came back. And then he exploded, but was alright. And then died in a wormhole. And then she found a nice, normal, Earth-2 metahuman, who got killed by himself and it turned out he was actually evil the whole time and now a serial killer is convinced he loves her and is holding her captive while threatening to kill her friends.

I think Caitlin's love life is still worse.

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u/WhatTheRickIsDoin May 12 '16

Arrow must easily be the easiest synopsis for him to make considering they give him all the material and he just has to apply it to the slides

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u/pcjonathan May 12 '16

Are you telling me every NATO ally aggreed to give total access over their nuclear systems to one person with no ability to override it?

To be fair, they specifically address this by saying that no one knows about it.

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u/DatWascallyWabbit You've failed this sub May 12 '16

This was wonderful! I seriously enjoyed it way more than the actual episode.

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u/rskoopa May 12 '16

Loved this one, but you didn't cover my favorite scene, where they clone a processor by taking a picture of it.

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u/Emsavio May 12 '16

Thea's boyfriend

I am kill

Love this

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u/WAisforhaters May 12 '16

"Do you have an electromagnetic wave generator?" "You mean... like... a flashlight?"

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u/[deleted] May 18 '16

These are honestly better than the actual show.