Arrow Season Five Rant Part Three
I’ve reached Invasion, so yay, I’m 8 episodes in now and playing sudoku while watching it because there are so many filler scenes (recruits hello) and other bad things (Felicity and her treatment of Oliver, Dig and his ‘killing used to be your first approach and not last resort’ BS,…) I really hope the second half does get better as everyone is saying. And what’s with all the vigilantes? We already have four for Team Arrow why do we need another rogue vigilante as a protagonist that actually sort of does what Oliver used to do? I get what they’re trying to do but having Prometheus with his old arrowheads and the anagrams and Vigilante at the same time is overkill. Plus the Recruits and Team Arrow slamming Oliver for killing people while praising Vigilante? WTF? We get it writers, you hate Oliver.
Are they seriously trying to tell me that Oliver and Thea and Felicity all forgot JJ’s second birthday and they needed Rene, the new guy to come up with a plan to make sure Dig could spend his son’s birthday with him? I mean it wasn’t like one of Oliver’s main reasons for breaking Dig out against his will was so he could be in his son’s life. It’s not like Oliver has missed everything in his own son’s life and still is that he wouldn’t make sure his 'brother’ wouldn’t have to go through the same pain. WTF Arrow writers! I swear things like that piss me off so much!
And right, Thea wouldn’t tell Oliver about Quentin’s alcohol problems for that long and Oliver wouldn’t contact Sara and let her know as soon as Thea had told him and Sara wouldn’t come home to make sure her dad 'I never forgot your voice dad’ was okay and getting the help he needed.
This is so bad! Everyone is so out of character. It makes no sense.
Episode 9 was so bad! The flashback? Oliver just killing everyone in his way to Claybourne? WTF?!? That is not true to who he is. It’s not what the Hood did. God, the character assassination of Oliver just keeps on getting worse.
Oliver killing Billy was so stupid. So unnecessary. Why?!? What where they thinking? What was the point of that? Not that I or anyone actually cared about Billy at that point in time… never got the chance to. Too many new characters that are being shoved down our throats. Well, Billy was actually one of the few I actually liked and could’ve come to really like… had they not killed him right away for unnecessary drama….
Oliver ending up at the journalists place (see I can’t even remember her name there are too many new people to keep up with (I’m usually good with remembering character’s names), she reminds me of Samantha from the way she looks) and confiding in her just like that? WTF?! Huh? That makes no sense at all. Oliver wouldn’t do that.
And again, I never cared about Evelyn, so her turning evil… who cares? Big shocker…! Not.
And E2 Laurel at the end… honestly, did anyone actually believe it was her? I mean everyone who watched Legends knows that Sara wouldn’t bring her back. And why didn’t Oliver just you know, call Sara real quick to make sure? Why Arrow? Why? They once again took a Sara/ Oliver line and used it for another Oliver pairing! Stop taking shit away from Canarrow! “I watched you die” is specifically Oliver to Sara. That is so them. That is part of their story that is what makes them special. It’s Oliver and Sara. Just like “Don’t talk to me like I’m other people.” Is Sara and Oliver and only fits them because they know each other better than anyone else ever could! Just to slide in a little Canarrow rant in my overall Arrow rant, because I can, and haven’t ranted specifically about them in a while… lol.
How did those people get their jobs as writers? How did they keep their jobs as writers?
This season is all over the place and there are too many freaking plots! Focus on two, maybe three but pick them and go deep.
Oliver as the Mayor, that should be a major plot line. Period.
Then there’s the Recruits, you decided to force them on me now give me a reason to actually care about them (they should’ve just picked one maybe two additional people and be done with it. It would’ve given them the room to let us get to know them first. We already had Curtis, so keeping him made sense, sort of, give me Rory who has an interesting backstory and let’s be done with it.)
Then obviously there is Prometheus, stay focused on him, he is the big bad after all.
Skip Vigilante, he’s unnecessary.
Skip E2 Laurel, that is unnecessary, you chose to kill Laurel, let her rest in peace.
Skip any leftover unnecessary Olicity drama, you chose to break them up in the most moronic and horrible way ever, now let that dead horse rest. They moved on (at least Felicity did.) Let them be adults about it.
If you decide to do Quentin relapsing, give him airtime and focus on him and the struggles and the repercussion that comes from it. Go in deep and show us the ugliness of it. Otherwise just let him be a recovering alcoholic.
But most importantly keep your focus on your main character which is Oliver! I want it to be about him. His struggles, his life, his relationships, his trauma, his PTSD,…
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