User blog:Konstant888/Arrow Season 6 - Review

Season 5 was arguably the best season of Arrow. It is definitely my favorite. Before Season 6 started I thought that the show was saved, that we can forget the dark days of Seasons 3 & 4. But unfortunately, it seems like Season 5 was just a happy coincidence. Because even though this Season was better that S3 and S4, it is not even close to S5, S2 and S1. From here on out, spoilers for this season of Arrow.

There were some great, even some amazing episodes this season. Those include “Tribute”, “Deathstroke Returns”, “Promises Kept” “Divided”, “The Devil’s Greatest Trick”, “Brothers in Arms”, “Fundamentals”, “Docket No. 11-19-41-73” and “Life Sentence” (although I am not too sure about that one). There was some hot garbage, like “Reversal” and “Next of Kin”. Everything else was OK.

The season kicked off with a garbage resolution to the Season 5 cliffhanger. That was the best cliffhanger EVER! And they messed it up! They should’ve killed one or two main characters, but they were too afraid to do that. Only William’s mother died, which opened up the door for the storyline of Oliver being a father, which sometimes worked, and sometimes didn’t. Felicity survived and went on to be an annoying bitch. Sorry for the strong language, but she is so bad. She is selfish, she is stupid and Emily Bett Rickards isn’t a good actress. Diggle survived and later became the Green Arrow. That sucked! It lasted way too long and he just wasn’t good at it. And Oliver didn’t have anything to do so it was bad. At least there was that one great episode with Oliver and Diggle fighting and that was such a great argument.

The villain of this season is…Felicity…because she ruined it. The secondary villain was Diaz. He was not developed well as a villain. I hear people love that episode that was all about him, but I didn’t. He is a boring villain and came in way too late. No motivation, no threat (for the most part) and only some great action scenes from time to time. The moment he killed Cayden James was really great tho. I think James worked better as a villain but wouldn’t have made a good season-long antagonist. He had some motivation and a legitimately tragic backstory, he felt threatening at times because of how brilliant he is, and he had his criminal cabal, which consisted of good villain such as Anatoly and Black Siren. However, hacking is boring and he never really made a big move until the last minute. Sooo, he is not the best.

Season 6 focused a lot on getting Oliver “back to basics”. So, first there was the “Civil War” storyline where New Team Arrow (Dinah, Curtis and René) faced off Original Team Arrow (Oliver, Diggle and Felishitty). Apart from the inclusion of that last character, this storyline was really entertaining to me. The conflict was set up…ehhh...OK, but at some point, it did work. Then Diggle left and Oliver pushed away Felicity. There was that amazing episode, “Fundamentals”, where Prometheus returned and Oliver went solo. That was great! In general, Green Arrow being alone is a good idea but it never really happened. We never got a chance to fully explore it.

There is one stand out character for me and that is Wild Dog. René also had to deal with being a father and it was done well. His best scene was at the courthouse in episode 21. You know what I am talking about! Roy returned, but he did nothing. Instead those episodes were given to Thea and her storyline wasn’t great at all. Deathstroke also returned and I love both of his episodes. He had one of the best action sequences in the entire show and the story with his son was great. I also love his dynamic with Oliver. Earth-2 Laurel was big this season and I enjoyed her story quite a bid. She was connected to Quentin’s arc, which ended beautifully with his death, one of the most emotional in the show. Vigilante was revealed as Dinah’s long-lost love interest, Vincent Sobel. At first, I didn’t really like him, but then he grew on me in episode 12 and his death scene was pretty sad. It gave Dinah something to do, although she wasn’t always great this season.

Overall, this season was very mediocre. It had amazing episodes, it had terrible episodes, but it mostly had episodes that were just OK. It had a good streak going at one point, but it lost it. I would give it a Raisa out of 10. Who am I kidding, Raisa is like…the best character on the show!