First Impressions - Arrow: "Nanda Parbat"

This is by no means a deeply intense dissection of the episode.

It's just my quick comments and notes after seeing the episode only once (a la AoS).
Spoilers after the jump.

You've been warned...


Season 3 Episode 15: "Nanda Parbat"

The Good:

Felicity and Ray Palmer. I'm okay with this. I actually got into an argument with someone at work over this. She kept calling Felicity a home-wrecker.
First of all...

Ollie kept breaking her heart. Not the other way around.

Secondly, Ray needed to finish moving past his wife. He was heading in that direction, but someone had to be a part of his life to fully focus on the future instead of revisit the past. 

This relationship works for the here and now. Do I expect it to last? Absolutely not. Certainly not in terms of marriage. They may stay "friends with benefits" forever, 'cause let's face it -  they both need to be needed, and that's not necessarily a bad thing.

The Bad: Aside from the comment I made last Friday, there were two big bads...

1) What was all that "leaving the room" business? 

2) Why did Ollie shoot that arrow into the helicopter? Was it full of the nanites Ollie used to track them? Did Ollie plant nanites on Ra's when they fought? The f**k?

The WTF?: Nanda Parbat. What the hell is it? I always thought it was a country in the books. If not a country, at least a mystical city like K'un-Lun. (And lots of luck to Marvel Studios to make that realistic since the Mandarin fiasco...but that's another day's rant.) But according to this show, Nanda Parbat is actually a building.

A fortress for sure, but a building?

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What makes Laurel even think she can take on Malcolm. Especially after that fight with Brick. 

Idiot.

* Going back to Nanda Parbat for a minute - it sure is convenient that it and Starling City are in the same time zone isn't it?

Adorkification Moment: Was that a Lazarus Pit? I wanna say yes, but given that whole Dread Pirate Roberts thing who the hell knows?

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I'm not sure how I feel about the suit, but I like Ray's thought process. As for the final reveal - there really is no way to show the test run of a super-suit without channeling some Iron Man.