With another episode of Arrow in the books, team Arrow is still trying to find Sara’s killer, and Oliver has made some new enemies.  The addition of several characters—both new and familiar—helps keep the show fresh while still propelling the story as we search for who killed Sara and why. This episode has the most effective story telling we’ve seen yet this season.  The first episode seemed to shuffle the board, while the next few worked to re-set all the pieces.  Now we are starting to see everything played out. The changes they’ve made to both Thea and Laurel have been noticeable.  There were a few slides this episode, but…

Ok, remember how I was all down on the last episode of Arrow and wasn’t very confident of the direction they were taking the show?  I should have faithfully waited a week.  Episode 3, ‘Corto Maltese’, picked it up a notch, put some work into fixing some characters, and moved the show forward in a big way, once again. Minor spoilers to follow First of all, Laurel.  Laurel has been my biggest problem with the show since season 1.  She normally hasn’t dragged the quality of the show down too much, because they haven’t put too much weight on the characters shoulders, but it was starting to look like that…