NOC Recaps Arrow: Don’t Stab Yourself in the Foot
“This is Your Sword” was another mixed bag of an episode. It had a lot of great moments, but as
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NOC Recaps Arrow: The Weight of Expectation
In which I attempt to be fair, yet critical of this episode of Arrow, while remaining hopeful about the road
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NOC Recaps Arrow: Pulling Out the Arsenal
I got several notifications during both the East Coast and West Coast airings of this episode that said, “You were
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NOC Recaps Arrow: Everybody Knows
Sadly, I’ve already used “The One Where Everybody Finds Out” as an subtitle, so I was forced to come up
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NOC Recaps Arrow: The Frustration of Justice
Well. That happened. This week’s Arrow threatens to turn the show in a whole new direction. I can’t even begin
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NOC Recaps Arrow: No Longer My Sister’s Keeper
What was immediately fascinating about this episode is how the flashbacks were in Starling City and the present time was
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In Defense of Felicity
Badass Digest recently wrote a piece explaining how Arrow has “failed” Felicity Smoak in its third season. It brings up
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NOC Recaps Arrow: The One Where Everybody Finds Out
Well, almost. But two of the biggest season reveals finally happened in this week’s Arrow: Thea found out Oliver is
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NOC Recaps Arrow: The Magician and the Monster
The end of this week’s Arrow gutted me (and Oliver) more than the literally torso-piercing mid-season finale did. As I
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NOC Recaps Arrow: Weekend at Ollie’s
The subtitle for this recap is two-fold. With Oliver gone, Team Arrow is like kids whose parents went out of town
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NOC Recaps Arrow: Pulled Apart, Brick by Brick
Where do I even begin? There’s the remains of Team Arrow (or whatever it may become without the Arrow to
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NOC Recaps Arrow: A Battle He Was Always Going to Lose
WHAT A (MID-SEASON) FINALE!! There are definitely some parallels to previous mid-season finales: Malcolm Merlyn, a tense battle, a moment
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Flash v Arrow: Dawn of Just Awesomeness
We conclude Flarrow Week at the NOC with our own special crossover featuring our Flash and Arrow recappers Constance Gibbs
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NOCs of the Roundtable: All the Flarrow Feels
Wow. It’s been two days since the epic crossover between The Fastest Man Alive and the Emerald Archer blew up
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NOC Recaps Arrow: A League of Their Own
*Mad props to my awesome Flarrow tag-team buddy Christelle for the subtitle. We are Flarrow. She’s The Flash, I’m Arrow
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NOC Recaps The Flash: Rainbows, Sunshine, and Flarrow Feels
You guys you guys you guys… IT’S HAPPENING. Some have been waiting for this crossover since the announcement this summer,
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Flash vs Arrow: Two Different Hero’s Journeys
The epic The Flash/Arrow crossover (henceforth called #Flarrow) is so close I can taste it! We’ve been getting teases all
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NOC Recaps Arrow: Shot Through the Heart
Seven episodes into season three of Arrow and one thing is clear: the universe that is being assembled on The
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Warner Brothers, You Have Failed This City
See, this is why Stephen Amell is my guy. We make no bones about the fact that we love DC’s
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NOC Recaps Arrow: Vigilante Soup
I want to go about recap this a little differently this week. We encountered a lot of vigilantes in tonight’s
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NOC Recaps Arrow: The Five Year Hacktivist Reunion
Arrow just keeps knowing it out of the park this season! This is the second Oliver-light episode of the season
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NOC Recaps Arrow: Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
The first four episodes of Arrow season three have been relentless in moving several plot lines forward. Ever since Canary’s
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NOC Recaps Arrow: Training Day
I can admit when I’m wrong. At the end of last week’s episode of Arrow, when it was revealed that
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