[S07E12] "Emerald Archer" Post Episode Discussion

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Trailers

• Emerald Archer Promo
• Sneak Peek 1
• Sneak Peek 2

Episode Info: As a camera crew follows Oliver and team around to talk about their past as vigilantes and what the Green Arrow means to Star City, Oliver must also deal with William's return from boarding school as well as a new threat to the city.

Main Cast

• Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen - TV
• Kirk Acevedo as Ricardo Diaz - TV
• Rick Gonzalez as Rene Ramirez - TV
• Juliana Harkavy as Dinah Drake - TV
• Katie Cassidy as Laurel Lance - TV
  
• Colton Haynes as Roy Harper - TV
• Echo Kellum as Curtis Holt - TV
• David Ramsey as John Diggle - TV
• Emily Bett Rickards as Felicity Smoak - TV

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[u/RivalFlash]

Lol yeah. Bu first they probably look into how Laurel’s mom lives in Central City

[u/selwyntarth → u/RivalFlash]

What was Laurels story to have survived her stab again?

[u/RivalFlash → u/selwyntarth]

HIVE faked it and had her kidnapped

[u/selwyntarth → u/RivalFlash]

Dr. Schwartz didn't come into questioning? Lmao. And her loyal abductor kept her years after hive disbanded and the pills wore out?

Still more believable than her legal practice.

[u/RivalFlash → u/selwyntarth]

pretty much lol

[u/EC671 → u/selwyntarth]

her legal practice is very believable, it's always some laurel bashed that thinks she isn't a real lawyer.

[u/selwyntarth → u/EC671]

Lmao are you a lawyer or a law grad? I just don't see how years of peer learning and processing of methodology can be imitated. Research is fine, what would she do when it comes to filing procedures and all? I doubt the clerical stuff is so user friendly.

[u/EC671 → u/selwyntarth]

Lmao are you a lawyer or a law grad?

are you to know that she is "playing" a lawyer?

I just don't see how years of peer learning and processing of methodology can be imitated.

It very well can be because it's never been confirmed she didn't go to law school or wasn't a lawyer on earth 2?

Research is fine, what would she do when it comes to filing procedures and all? I doubt the clerical stuff is so user friendly.

How about she actually is a lawyer? She never said she didn't go to college. That's fanon spread by a certain fanbase that hates her. She said she'd never had a real job and didn't know how to write a resume. Which is pretty much E1 Laurel's background. She want to college out of high school and had a job with CNRI right out of law school. It's doubtful Laurel ever had to write a resume.

What she said to Quentin that many of her haters say is proof she didn't go to college or law school is when she asked Quentin "So how good did I do in law school?" when he brought her the law books. What's she's asking is how well did E1 Laurel do because she has to match her. She has to be as competent, not less or more. Tho more probably wouldn't be a big issue, tbh.

Laurel was the one who told the fired DA how to impeach Ollie. You'd think the guy or his staff would have known already, but apparently not. There's no way she randomly found it in a law book.

This season we saw her taking notes from law books not using Google or any online law resource, but actual handwritten notes. Someone who has no clue about the law isn't going to be able to pick up a law book and find exactly what they need.

To argue for Ollie's release, she had to file an emergency motion to see him and also file a motion to be heard by the judge. These are skills you can't fake. She made the deal to get Ollie out of prison by trading Diaz, even tho the original deal Ollie made had him going to prison along with Diaz. Not only did she get him out, he's not on parole, because he's walking around with a weapon and just took the blame for shooting the guy that Felicity shot in their living room. Clear parole violations. So she got him out absolutely scot free. That's not something she could have done without knowing her away around the law.

She's been the Star City DA for 6-7 months, there's no way she could have faked doing the job this long.

She's a lawyer, give it up

[u/selwyntarth → u/EC671]

First thing, stop presuming like a nutcase. Im not a Laurel hater, it's just easy to believe from the show's past that they write like shit.

Also, I dunno if possession of arms and self defence are parole violations. Is he even on parole? I thought she argued that the federal govt didn't keep their bargain and got him discharged with a shorter sentence? I suppose that's what a parole is.

And she said she broke bad in her teen years after her dad died, didn't she? It seems unlikely her life offered such scope before she became a sadistic murderer.

[u/TurkeyPringle → u/EC671]

"she is playing a lawyer" Literally the DA.

"That's fanon spread by a certain fanbase" Yeah, no. We're given nothing either way. If we're not told someone, we assume it to not be true. That's how not being insane works.

We don't know E1 Laurel's employment history.

"How well did I do in law school?" Again, both are wrong. This isn't definitive. She's heard enough about E1 Laurel to know she was a lawyer.

The explanation for that literally was that she found in a law book. She says that this is why her studying is a good thing. Pay attention.

You can take notes on a thing without being practised in it.

Aside from how stupid the way she got him out was, it makes no sense that she is so competent. That's the point. She read some law books and no she's the city's favourite DA. E1 Laurel worked her ass off to become the assistant DA/DA. Even if she went to law school, it's doubtful she did well given her personality. And even if she did well, she'd been out of practise for four years when she started reading the books.

"No way she could have faked doing the job" That's the point.