Arrow: An Innocent Man Review

You've heard the Batman voice! Now, prepare yourself for the Green Arrow voice!

Spoilers follow.

So who's on the list this week? A guy who framed another guy for murder. Arrow decides he needs a friend in the courts to pull through on this one. Three guesses as to who he picks.

That was the biggest thing in this episode, actually: Arrow confronting Laurel and wanting to use her as his friend in the courts. I'll say that if Arrow has anything over Smallville, it's that they've gotten a to a point in four episodes that Smallville took eight and a half seasons to reach. And I gotta say, this was really cool to watch. They worked well together, and it lead to some really badass stuff, most notably Oliver nearly forcing a guy to get hit buy a train, beating the crap out of a bunch of prisoners, and arrow-zipling off a roof (okay, now you're just showing off). This also eventually leads Laurel to realize that both Arrow and Oliver are selfish in their own ways, which could go down some interesting roads.

The real show-stealer this week though was David Ramsey's John Diggle. After Oliver reveals his secret to him and offers for him to be his Kato, Diggle takes a bit of down time to reevaluate his life. Ramsey does a fantastic job as always in his role, really selling his own inner conflict.

The whole Moira is evil thing gets advanced a bit this week after being more or less forgotten in the last two, as Walter finds the ship in a warehouse and Moira visits John "Fist Shakes" Barrowman in a limo. I'm intrigued.

And then we have the cliffhanger ending of Oliver getting arrested on the charges of being a vigilante. I'm very interested to see how he gets out of this one. Right afterwards we saw a trailer with Death Stroke in it, so you can bet I'm looking forward to next week.

There were a few issues, as was expected, mostly by way of Laurel and Arrow getting handed some pretty lousy dialogue and Thea being forced into the plot. I can't say I'm too fond of Thea so far; she's just kind of annoying, and I don't care if she is Speedy, these writers need to either get rid of her or come up with some stuff for her that isn't painful to watch. But hey, at least Tommy was nowhere in sight.

Final Rating: 83%