Cate Cameron/The CWWho run the world? Girls!
Arrow's season three finale had so much girlpower in it, we were screaming "Yaaasss, queen! Yaaasss!" pretty much every minute. Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards), Thea (Willa Holland), Laurel (Katie Cassidy) and even Nyssa (Katrina Law) all stepped up to save the day.
Seriously, Oliver who?! Starling City, threatened with a bioweapon by Ra's al Ghul (Matt Nable), lived to see another day thanks not to Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell), but all the ladies on Team Arrow (and, okay, Oliver a little bit). It was awesome. It was epic. It was the greatest episode of this show to date.
And it even ended with a happy ending! Oliver and Felicity literally drove off into the sunset together, after Oliver handed over his new title of Ra's al Ghul to Malcolm (John Barrowman)—which, uh oh—and retiring as the Arrow to be with his love, giving us all the Olicity feels in the world.
Our hearts. They are a-burstin'.
Obviously, this shakes up everything going forward. What will Arrow season four even look like without the Arrow? Will something happen to bring Oliver and Felicity back to Starling City, to suit up once more with Team Arrow? Or will we see a new kind of league protect the city from whatever is coming next?
Those are all questions that are going to have to wait until the fall when Arrow returns, but for now, let's count down all the reasons why we were all about the ladies tonight!
First, let's all take a moment to worship at the ground Felicity walks on. If it wasn't for her, Starling City would be a mass grave right now, and all our heroes would have failed.
The MVP of the night was able to find all four locations of the Alpha Omega virus in the city, figure out a way for Ray (Brandon Routh) to use his nanotechnology to disperse the inoculation to protect all the civilians from getting infected, convinces Oliver he can and will defeat Ra's without dying himself, gets Captain Lance (Paul Blackthorne) to spring the police into action...AND flies as the Atom to save Oliver!
This moment. I mean. Come on. Nothing was more epic than seeing that Felicity was the one to save Oliver this time, and not the other way around.
Just look at his smile!
Oliver knows that this one's a keeper.
But Felicity wasn't the only lady who threw down tonight. Every woman had her moment.
Thanks to Nyssa, Oliver is still alive even after getting shot by the SCPD. She convinced him to wear League Armor, meaning that if not for his new "wife" he would have died after defeating Ra's. And let's also give her props for how well she trained Laurel! After the Black Canary took down one of the men carrying the virus, Nyssa even got to toot her own horn. "I am a most excellent trainer." Yeah you are!
And that wasn't Laurel's only shining moment of the night either. She even gave her father the intervention he needed, right in the midst of all the chaos. Turns out, Lance has been drinking again, and Laurel gave him the tough love he needed despite their issues at the moment.
And then this happened:
Nope, that's not the new Arsenal. That's Speedy!
Thea finally got to suit up in a moment that felt totally deserved, taking out one of the men carrying the virus right when he was about to shoot Diggle (David Ramsey). And even though she wanted to be called the Red Arrow, Oliver made her realize that his childhood nickname for her suited her much better. Yaaassss!
We just want to hug this episode. Everything about it made us so, so happy.
Except for two things: Malcolm's new position as the leader of the League of Assassins (but at least Nyssa is in Nanda Parbat with him, vowing to get revenge on him). And the fact that when Ray tried to use his nanotech to miniaturize his Atom suit...he blew up the entire top floor of Palmer Technologies, himself included. Nooo!
Hopefully Ray is not dead, and this explosion is actually the catalyst for him to become the true Atom from the comic books. A tiny Brandon Routh is better than no Brandon Routh!
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