The aristocrats in question, the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, are former lovers.
The cast of ‘Dangerous Liaisons.’ Photo by Richard Anderson. Such is the backdrop of Les Liaisons Dangereuses (“ Liaisons”), the daring first production in Center Stage’s 2016/2017 theatrical season. With no work to do or real obstacles to overcome, a pair of très riche sociopaths entertain themselves with the seduction, manipulation and ruination of others. It’s the eve of the French Revolution and the crème of the French aristocracy – the “original one percent” so aptly described by Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah in his program note – are bored. While it did feel like the Felicity twist would be better served at a different point in the show’s history, fans shouldn’t let that diminish how interesting it ended up being to see our smartest, purest and, in my humble opinion, best hero be on the wrong end of a warehouse encounter.“Love and revenge, two of your favorites.” Instead, it traded off for a rather successful effort to bring drama and tension between characters that have pretty much been through every reasonable storyline at this point. Overall, this wasn’t the best episode, mostly because it lacked some solid blue collar beat downs. If a character as pure as Felicity is going to go through the ringer like this and flirt with villainy, shouldn’t it have been for the guy who murdered Oliver’s mother? Perhaps the man who can use literal freaking magic? Instead, she breaks ties with everyone she knows and loves over a man who took some MMA lessons between study sessions at law school. Why are we burning Rome in order to track down a villain that’s essentially only a threat to Team Arrow and those close to them? Think about it, Malcolm Merlyn has twice tried to destroy Star City, and he’s allowed to live in a crappy apartment with a pretty comfortable-looking chair. While Prometheus is dangerous, he’s no worse than Vigilante or other criminals still on the loose in this universe. There are no nukes at play, power grabs in government, or even specific lives at risk. Having said all that, he’s not holding a gun to Star City’s head like the previous villains on the list. He kills a lot of innocent people, he’s got Hannibal Lecter levels of crazy and he’s tortured our main hero on a deeply personal level. There’s no denying that you wouldn’t want to share an elevator with Chase.
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In any case, Felicity’s bold efforts got them the software that they need to track Chase, and before I get into that explosive reveal (nailed it), I think it’s important to talk about the larger issue that’s keeping this from being one of the coolest twists in Arrow history… Is Chase worth it? Fans can only hope that Helix returns sooner rather than later, otherwise this entire run feels a lot like plot magic, granted to the characters in order to move an ailing story along. To thank her, Helix freezes her out of the group. If we’re all being honest with ourselves, Felicity goes really rogue way too fast.ĭespite everyone’s best efforts, the super hacker wins and allows her cohorts to make off with the prisoner. It was an incredibly different look for her, and it was really exciting to see, albeit a little unearned.
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It was jarring to see our hero, who began as the petite blonde that Oliver made eyes at in her cubicle, was now dressed in all black with femme fatale makeup leading a group of people who know how to make guns do that scary cocking noise. Long story short, it became Team Arrow going up against Felicity and Helix. She’s not wrong, and she does have the whole “ability versus responsibility” thing to contend with given her skills. Felicity believes that everyone else has gone above and beyond and done way darker things than hacking to take down big bads like Malcolm Merlyn, Slade Wilson, Ra’s al Ghul, and Damien Darhk. has always been helpful to Team Arrow, especially given that it’s run by Diggle’s on-again-off-again wife, so this puts the team in a tricky situation. He’s the only one that can run his weird heartbeat-tracking algorithm that will determine Chase’s location, which means a good old fashioned prison break. In “Dangerous Liaisons,” the consequences of that came to a head when it’s revealed that the founder of Helix has been captured by A.R.G.U.S. That’s why it was hard for any of the people close to her to stop her from going further down the rabbit hole of villianny. It has taken her down some pretty morally questionable paths, but it always led to positive results that drove the plot forward. Felicity has been working with the dangerous super hacker group called Helix all season long.
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