User blog comment:Taw2541/Arrow's Biggest Problem (It's not Olicity)/@comment-1183010-20180519180919

I have to agree with you, the characters were treated pretty poorly it seemed to me as though the showrunners and writers wanted to cripple the show as much as they could when they leave. Each character has seemed to have lost their character development in this season.

The biggest was defiantly Rene as I actually liked his character by the end of Season 5 but then his arc in Season 6 was just dumb, it was like the writers and showrunners wanted people to hate him.

I have never been a big fan of Dinah, I've made that pretty well know, but I felt the showrunners and writers wanted people to accept her by pushing the whole Vigilante story-line being her ex lover, and her wanting revenge on Laurel because she killed him. The problem with that is a lot of people were never going to side with Dinah as Laurel is a popular character and is more liked then Dinah.

The best thing coming from the series was Black Siren but even she was held back. I have always said that Stephen Amell & Katie Cassidy has amazing chemistry just look at Season 1 of Arrow, but yet they hardly had any scenes together in this season. While it was to mostly focus on Katie & Paul's dynamic which was great the fact is that both Katie & Stephen have great chemistry and we should have got more of them together.

Now of course let's face it Olicity is one of the biggest problems of the series, while your points are true this relationship defiantly sucked the life out of the season. Them getting back together was so bad because everyone knows it was the main problem with Season 4, it hogged the spotlight and while it never took as much this time it still ruined several episodes. Them getting married they way they did was one of the most disrespectful things I have seen, it ruined the Crossover IMO as it was near-perfect and them getting married the way they did hogging Barry & Iris's moment was bad. Then there was the ten minute wedding reception, I mean I have tried to make do with Olicity but that was the longest ten minutes of my life that I will never get back. Felicity still ends up being an idiot with all the things she does and gets away with it scott free. I am hoping that this will be rectified in the upcoming season.

Overall I agree with your opinions and I think that the showrunners and writers wanted to cripple the series when they left because that is what it looks like to me. I am hoping Beth can redeem the series but she's going to have a tough job and considering that it could be the final season, she will have to do a lot.