Board Thread:Arrow discussions/@comment-9346948-20180309045038/@comment-24152851-20180315235724

There's just no way for Oliver to directly fight him though. He has to deal with the trouble that Cayden unleashes, but he can't fight him one-on-one. The son thing didn't really work when we didn't even know who his son was until an episode (I think) before Cayden got ousted. There's no personal connection the audience can form with him when we just don't understand what's going on, which is the same problem with Savitar from Flash Season 3.

How about the fact that chessmaster Michael Emerson was a puppet to the real mastermind who had been orchestrating everything from the shadows? That seems an interesting enough quality for Dragon.