User blog:Konstant888/Arrow 6x18 "Fundamentals" - Review

Damn, I'm all about that Adrian Chase! Spoilers for the episode.

This episode was fine as hell. The part that I enjoyed the most were the hellucinations that Oliver had. The way that he started questioning himself about who he really is and stuff really reminded me of one of the best episodes of "Arrow", episode 5x17 "Kapiushon", where Adrian Chase completely broke Oliver. After that huge cliffhanger in "Lian Yu", I expected Prometheus to have a huge impact, but he was barely mentioned in Season 6. Now, he is back, and it felt like everything he did mattered. Josh Segarra is amazing and in this episode he was intimidating, he was evil and his interactions with Oliver where great. What makes it even better is that he was just a hellucination, a part of Ollie himself. And when he saw Laurel in Queen Mantion and then is the hospital, and his old teammates, it was so deep and emotional. I love it when "Arrow" explores Oliver's inner demons.

Oliver was the main focus of the episode. He was in nearly 90% of it. The other two characters that really mattered where Quentin and Felicity. Felicity was bad. She acted so bitchy. Instead of supporting Oliver, she desided to GET SOME SPACE! WHAT! And at the end, when she stopped him from fighting Diaz, I was so annoyed. Instead of giving us an awesome fight scene between Green Arrow (or the Hood) and Rickardo Diaz, they gave us a stupid scene between Oliver and Felicity, which was so disappointing. Quentin, on the other hand, was so good. I will really miss him if he ever goes away. He really felt like a father figure to Oliver and that was great. I hope he doesn't leave him too.

This episode had great callbacks to Season 1. Even better - it brought back plot points from Season 1. The whole "Return to the mission!" thing was great. It made so much sence. I love that Ollie is gonna keep on "flying solo". Now that he is not the mayor, it will be interesting to see where he will go. I think the show is headed towards a Season 1 vibe and I like that. Even though we didn't get to see the Arrow vs The Dragon fight, we got a badass, more violent fight scene at the very begining of the episode, with the old costume and it reminded me of the way he used to do things in Season 1 - alone, focused, violent. There was also that Oliver vs Chase fight that was pretty good too.

So overall, not a bad episode of "Arrow". The only main problem that I had with it was Felicity.