S3E21

Al Sah-him

Arrow · 2015-04-29 · 42 min

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from 15 comments

COMMUNITY

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YOURS

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what happens

Ra's sets out to transform Oliver into his perfect heir. Meanwhile, Nyssa and Laurel draw closer, but their mentor/student relationship is threatened when Ra's sends men to bring his errant daughter back to Nanda Parbat..

how it went

Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.

FUN

how good a time it was

MEANINGFUL

how much it moved you

Read from 15 comments — 7 said when.

Not enough to put a number on. The shape below is drawn from what there is, with the widest uncertainty band we use — it is the start of an answer, not one.

Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.

Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.

height: how intense it got, 0–100
gold above: how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
tension rail: how much was still unresolved
grey haze: how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it

openingending

what people actually wrote

Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.

Reddit16 read

“emotional Laurel looked while dipping her fry and starring at it during the end montage”
Chrono948▲ 532about 85–100% inread it ↗
“Removing the arrow from his arm was probably the coolest thing I've ever seen. The stare he did as he pulled it out, I got goosebumps.”
smwell22▲ 342about 50–60% inread it ↗
“I straight up laughed at that. The contrast of my feelings from seeing Felicity crying in the Arrow cave to watching Laurel develop a milkshake and fry complex over her lost friend was just too large.”
▲ 220about 33–66% inread it ↗
“Still think they have slowed the season down a bit, though.”

who made it

directed: Thor Freudenthal
written: Beth Schwartz

guest cast

Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.

Matt Nable as Ra's al Ghul
Karl Yune as Maseo Yamashiro
Rila Fukushima as Tatsu Yamashiro / Katana
Katrina Law as Nyssa al Ghul
Grace Fatkin as Liling
Simon Leung as Sobbing Man
Mike Li as Chinese Man

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