Doppelgänger
- Episode aired Mar 8, 2018
- TV-14
- 41m
IMDb RATING
8.0/10
2.2K
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Roy Harper returns to Star City and Oliver and Thea take action to save him when they discover the reason why he's come back.Roy Harper returns to Star City and Oliver and Thea take action to save him when they discover the reason why he's come back.Roy Harper returns to Star City and Oliver and Thea take action to save him when they discover the reason why he's come back.
Rick Gonzalez
- Rene Ramirez
- (credit only)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAs Thea zip-lines in to save Roy, you can see BC Place stadium in the background. BC Place is the model for STAR Labs in the Flash and is used for location shots.
- GoofsWhile Jean Loring is correct that evidence deemed to be "fruit of the poisonous tree" is inadmissible, she is wrong to assert that evidence obtained and released by a criminal in the course of committing a crime is automatically illegal. As long as there was no police misconduct in obtaining the evidence it is legal. By way of analogy, if the police arrest a burglar for robbing your house and recover a gun belonging to you that was used in a murder, that gun is admissible against you on a murder charge.
- Quotes
Oliver Queen: How many cars left the hotel in that time frame?
Felicity Smoak: Nearly 300. I'm tracking license plate numbers, but it's gonna take some time.
Thea Queen: If it takes more than an hour, I'm gonna start breaking fingers.
John Diggle: There's that Queen temper.
Featured review
Return to Form, for now..
After so many bad episodes of Arrow, 'Doppelganger' felt like a necessary step in the right direction, but that can easily be attributed to the fact that the focus was not on the inter Civil War between Team Arrow, but instead a trip back to how the show used to be structured. No Rene, only one brief scene of Curtis, and Dinah was dialed back a thousand percent to the insanely stupid maniac she's been the past couple weeks. Plus, we have the return of Colton Haynes' Roy Harper and Thea Queen as her vigilante alter ego, Speedy. Really, this episode would have had to try really hard to suck.
Luckily, it wasn't so bad. Haynes' return was so very welcome, especially in this bad season. He didn't get a whole lot to do, other than get punched around and mutter a few lines, but his presence always brings the best out of Willa Holland as Thea Queen. As she said in the episode, it does seem as though after he left the show, Thea took a turn for the worse. And out of anybody on the show, Thea deserves to have some peace in her life. If she does eventually leave Star City and go live with Roy, I won't be devastated. Holland is great and all, but she's clearly not had a ton of quality screen time, and it may be best to remove another unnecessary piece to the Arrow team.
Speaking of unnecessary pieces, the new team Arrow has been laughable this year. But perhaps even more unnecessary is the inclusion of Katie Cassidy's Black Siren this year. How many times are we going to have her betray/double cross characters for people to start noticing. Also, she's not Laurel so why is it even in consideration for the Team to give her a chance, particularly Ollie!?! I will once again contend that this arc is ruining Cassidy's legacy on the show.
A few other tidbits include: Some incredible fight scenes with Thea's return in the field, the sudden re-emergence of the League of Assassins as well as Nyssa for next week, some very convenient and annoying lines about making the case against Oliver go away. So wait, you're meaning to tell me both Flash and Arrow are going to ignore the pivotal parts of both seasons (Flash going to prison and Oliver being outed as the Green Arrow)? So although it felt like this was an episode where they were waiting for Roy's availability to sneak the story into this season's arc, it was a far more entertaining 42 minutes than we have seen from this show in months. Lastly, another 3 week break? Are we serious?
7.0/10
Luckily, it wasn't so bad. Haynes' return was so very welcome, especially in this bad season. He didn't get a whole lot to do, other than get punched around and mutter a few lines, but his presence always brings the best out of Willa Holland as Thea Queen. As she said in the episode, it does seem as though after he left the show, Thea took a turn for the worse. And out of anybody on the show, Thea deserves to have some peace in her life. If she does eventually leave Star City and go live with Roy, I won't be devastated. Holland is great and all, but she's clearly not had a ton of quality screen time, and it may be best to remove another unnecessary piece to the Arrow team.
Speaking of unnecessary pieces, the new team Arrow has been laughable this year. But perhaps even more unnecessary is the inclusion of Katie Cassidy's Black Siren this year. How many times are we going to have her betray/double cross characters for people to start noticing. Also, she's not Laurel so why is it even in consideration for the Team to give her a chance, particularly Ollie!?! I will once again contend that this arc is ruining Cassidy's legacy on the show.
A few other tidbits include: Some incredible fight scenes with Thea's return in the field, the sudden re-emergence of the League of Assassins as well as Nyssa for next week, some very convenient and annoying lines about making the case against Oliver go away. So wait, you're meaning to tell me both Flash and Arrow are going to ignore the pivotal parts of both seasons (Flash going to prison and Oliver being outed as the Green Arrow)? So although it felt like this was an episode where they were waiting for Roy's availability to sneak the story into this season's arc, it was a far more entertaining 42 minutes than we have seen from this show in months. Lastly, another 3 week break? Are we serious?
7.0/10
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- ThomasDrufke
- Mar 11, 2018
Details
- Runtime41 minutes
- Color
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- 16:9 HD
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