S5E8

Invasion! (III)

Arrow · 2016-11-30 · 42 min

FLICKFEEL

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from 19 comments

COMMUNITY

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nobody yet

YOURS

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what happens

Oliver wakes up to a life where he never got on The Queen’s Gambit. Robert and Moira Queen are alive and well. Laurel is his loving fiancée and their wedding is imminent. Everything seems perfect, but Oliver starts to notice small imperfections that make him question this new reality. Meanwhile, Felicity and the recruits take on a new threat with help from The Flash and Supergirl. The crossover starts on Supergirl S02E08 Medusa (I) and The Flash S03E08 Invasion! (II). It continues on DC's Legends of Tomorrow S02E07 Invasion! (IV).

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 19 comments — 6 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.

Reddit20 read

“Tommy, Roy, Moira, Laurel, Robert made me tear up”
ItMayBeWrong▲ 345about 75–100% inread it ↗
“I haven't actually felt myself tear up during Arrow since season 2 but they got me here.”
fullforce098▲ 271about 75–100% inread it ↗
“I didn't expect to get the feels but the Oliver scenes with his sister/parents Laurel/Sara made me tear up”
UnexpectedUrahara▲ 250about 0–100% inread it ↗
“It was a good mix of remembering the new while still focusing on the crossover”
UnknownJ25▲ 222about 0–100% in

who made it

directed: James Bamford
written: Greg Berlanti

guest cast

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

Katie Cassidy as Laurel Lance
Rick Gonzalez as Rene Ramirez / Wild Dog
Susanna Thompson as Moira Queen
John Barrowman as Malcolm Merlyn
Neal McDonough as Damien Darhk
Joe Dinicol as Rory Regan / Ragman
Nick Zano as Nate Heywood

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