Episode Info:
The Ties That Bind is a reminder of what made Arrow great in the first place. It’s refreshing to see the team reunited and working together, and Lyla is always a welcome addition to the mix. Oliver’s feelings aside, it was fun to see Felicity in the field again, and to see some of her sense of humor come through with her, “sorry, not sorry!” line bringing some much-needed levity.
This episode gave us a great glimpse of the show’s couples fighting together, or at least cowering together. It’s too bad we couldn’t get more of it – John and Lyla’s reciprocal spin moves were among the cooler bits of fight choreography, and I’d love to see more of that kind of collaborative fighting between them or any other pair of people who are clearly so in tune with one another.