User blog:TheDoctor230/Arrow Season 6 Review

Boy where to even begin with this season, the season of Bipolar character arcs that never felt like a season long struggle.

This season started off pretty badly, picking up from the events of Lian Yu and the fallout from the explosion turned out to be non-existant considering that only Samantha died on the Island and then we have to deal with the return of Olicity. On top of that we had Black Siren working for Cayden James for no real reason.

Things only got worse from there when Oliver gave up the Hood, got back together with Felicity, ruined Barry and Iris's wedding and argued with each other for the majority of the first half of the season. The story with Cayden James was dull and bored me to death as every episode in the first half was about stealing some piece of tech for a bomb and that was about it. The Vigilante reveal was also quite lackluster as it wasn't anyone we really knew. Also the introduction for Ricardo Diaz was pretty underwhelming considering that he turned out to be the season antagonist. Luckily in the first half of the season we got 2 good Deathstroke episodes to bring the show back and close his character's journey.

From about episode 10 and onwards the show did get a bit better with some drops every episode or two. The Cayden James conflict took centre stage and started to feel like a compelling story, Vincent Sobel was developed quite well and I was sad to see him go. Getting rid of Cayden James and making Diaz the villain of this season was one of the best moves that this season made as he made for a much more compelling villain.

Then we had the "Civil Bore" conflict that went on for way too long and was honestly pretty terrible done, despite the arguments I have had with people over this, I think that Oliver was completely in the right for kicking Rene out of the team because he couldn't be counted on as a member of the Team. This led to one of the stupidest episodes of the season when OTA and NTA fought each other which resulted in a side kick puting Rene in hospital and Felicity being shot point blank in the heart and being perfectly fine afterwards (That was stupid).Luckily then we got 2 episodes with Roy to make me like the show again and a great send off for Roy and Thea (Even though Roy is returning). Then we got a stupid episode with Diggle being pissed because he can't be Green Arrow so he left the team.

Then we got an amazing episode in episode 18 that just brought the season back to life and made me eager to watch the rest of the season. We then got an awesome Diaz episode and we finally see that Laurel will get her redemption arc. Then we got an awesome episode Oliver vs Diaz episode. Then we got a muddle but great Coutroom episode that pushed Laurel's redemption to the forefront in the end. Then we had a terrible episode where Felicity was just such a cow yet again. Then we had the season final which was nothing special but still a great sendoff for an OK season.

tl;dr This season is nothing compared to Seasons 1, 2 and 5 but the season ended on a strong finish with some good episodes that place this season just above seasons 3 and 4.