Arrow Season 4: 16 WTF Moments From 'Restoration'

13. Language Barrier

This one€™s more of a bugbear of mine (and many others), but there was a moment during Restoration that had me literally shaking my head. As we€™re taken back to Lian Yu, we see a disgruntled captive mumbling to herself. Her nationality is never particularly revealed, although some sort of Eastern European is an educated guess. Not impressed with Oliver Queen€™s new role as part of Reiter€™s elite squad, this nameless woman starts to mumble under her breath about how Ollie has taken to things like a fish to water. The problem here is, why wouldn€™t this woman be mumbling to herself in her own language rather than conveniently using broken English so that the majority of viewers could understand her?
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