Arrow Season 5 Thread - Arrow is Back

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The only team members should be Oliver, Canary, and Diggle. I like Wild Dog but he is kind of redundant. Mr Terrific has been trash since he has been introduced. I was cool with Ragman but he was way overpowered for the team.

Read who Prometheus was and it makes sense. I still wanna know what they going to do with Vigilante. I mean saving diggle was cool and all but at the same time we haven't seen him in costume since that small scene in the crossover.
 
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Yeah I wasn't a fan of Ragman so im glad he's gone

Now they just need to throw that fakkit Curtis is the bushes

Hes so pathetic and everything he says is cringy

I like Rene and the new Canary

I liked the girl who betrayed them and went with Prometheus too

I also don't mind Thea not being around for a few episodes

They really need to cut the fat,its too many people on team Arrow

I thought thats what they were doing by having everyone go their separate ways last season but it feels like they added even more people

Really all they need is Oliver,Diggle,and the new Canary

Keep Felicity for the tech stuff and somehow find a way to get Lance back on the force so he can help from the police side
 

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'Arrow' Was Right To Kill Olicity

During the heady days of Arrow's fourth season, I made many enemies.

These enemies were not as terrifying as say, Slade Wilson, but they were every bit as spiteful. The superfans who "shipped" Oliver and Felicity's romance, colloquially known as Olicity, had just about as much verve as the Green Arrow's best villain. Love them or hate them, Olicity shippers had passion.

I stepped into the crosshairs of that passion when I wrote an article titled "For Arrow To Survive, Olicity Must Die." Then I turned the hyperbole up a notch by penning "Arrow Is Dead And Olicity Killed It" when Laurel Lance was killed, apparently to make even more room for Olicity.

Turns out, I was right the first time and wrong the second. Arrow is back in fighting shape, after all.

And I'm doing a happy little dance on Olicity's grave.

After all, one of the key reasons why the show has improved so much between Season 4 and Season 5 is that the showrunners took my advice. Maybe not my advice specifically, but they took criticism of the show's flaws to heart and did the right thing: They course-corrected. Righting the ship isn't easy, nor is admitting when you're wrong, but Arrow's fifth season is so much better than last season it's not even funny.

That's not all thanks to the timely death of Olicity. Partly it's that the show has ditched other issues as well. There is less silly drama and secret-keeping, though it's not entirely out of the picture.


I'm annoyed to no end by Oliver's new recruits calling him a "serial killer" and whining endlessly about not being coddled. They want Oliver to be a helicopter-tutor. Basically the writers are portraying Team Arrow in its new form as the ultimate millennial superhero team, with easily bruised feelings and heaps of entitlement.

If I were Oliver Queen, those crybabies would have been out the door post-haste. At least the new Black Canary seems legit, though it's still pretty early. (And a third "Dinah" in the show is...well, I get why they did it but still...)


Fight scenes have been better also, with more focus and higher quality choreography. Meanwhile, the villain Prometheus provides us with interesting mystery. At least there's not another plot to take out the city. We're doing much better in the villain department than either Damien Dhahrhhhk or Ra's al Ghul though I still find it painful that Ra's al Ghul was such a lackluster villain. I think the show simply played that card far, far too soon.

In any case, I'm late in saying it but I have to give credit where it's due. I have to give the showrunners and writers (the Team Arrow behind the scenes) credit for making many great changes. It's not up to late S1/S2 quality yet, but it's getting there, and you can see that the core cast feels it, too. Stephen Amell in particular has been absolutely great this season.

On a side note, I also really enjoyed the four-show crossover event "Invasion!" this season. Tying together Supergirl, Legends, The Flash and Arrow was great, though again: Too many whiny babies over Barry's Flashpoint screw-up. He didn't mean to do anything wrong people, get over it! Quit blaming your entire lives on him! At least Oliver was on Barry's side. I'm not surprised Walking Man-Child, Diggle, was upset but at least Oliver was cool.

Are you enjoying Arrow this season? Or are you sad that Felicity and Oliver couldn't keep staring dreamily into one another's eyes? Hey, at least they stayed friends! Super best friends!


 
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