Arrow season four review

Arrow Season four review 

Intro: Man fxxk Mr. Guggenheim and fxxk Olicity!  

My Editor: Hey! 

Sorry! I had to get that out of my system. If you thought season 3 was bad, this season wants you to hold its beer.  

Arrow season four: This season takes place six months after Team Arrow stopped Ra's al Ghul's bio-attack on Starling City, and Oliver and Felicity took off to some city, making the Olicity fans happy. Meanwhile, Thea, Laurel, and Diggle are having a hard time protecting Starling City, renamed as Star City, from a group called Ghost that is led by Damien Darhk. So they went out to find Oliver and Felicity and ask them to come back to Star City to help them stop this new threat. 

Instead of aiming higher this season, aim for the bottom of the barrel, no pun intended. None of the episodes are good; there are some dumb moments with the characters, this season feels like a parody, not in a good way, and the ending rubs fans the wrong way. Episode 3 did something that made season 3 a waste of time, and I'm surprised that Thea and Laurel didn't have a problem with asking Oliver for help after everything that happened last season. The fight scenes are a joke, especially in the final episode, because they look generic compared to the past seasons. Speaking of fights, Green Arrow and Damian Darhk fight each other way too often to the point where you don't care about their conflict. It's like watching a WWE wrestler using his finishing move, and his opponent kicks out of it like it was a regular move. 

This series continues to rip off Batman. Heck, they even ripped off a scene from The Dark Knight Rises. That's another thing that bothered me about this season. I thought the writers were doing a No Man's Land story because at the beginning of this season, people talk about how no one wants to live in Star City, and the city is losing money. That plot point got dropped later on. Another thing that let me down about this season is that it doesn't have the lighthearted tone that the showrunners promise. This is why I don't like to keep tabs on shows and movies. 

Because they don't always follow through with what they planned. 

                                            

This season tried to make hope and having a dark side themes of this season, but the creators didn't do the best job with those themes. You have to do more than have people say the word hope over and over again. As far as the dark side theme, it was done in a way that was kind of cheesy. The flashbacks are OK, their similar to season two's flashbacks but lame. In the flashbacks, Oliver is once again helping Amanda Waller to investigate a group of soldiers on the island where he was stranded. The problem I have with the flashbacks is that they feel like filler; they got shorter and started to drag towards the end of the show. Also, Oliver didn't learn anything in the flashbacks. 

This season hasn't done much with Oliver Queen/Green Arrow. (I guess Oliver was lying when he said Green Arrow is a lame alias.) What's the point of giving him the title Green Arrow if the writers are not going to make him like his comic book counterpart or adapt any of the Green Arrow stories? Well, the creators did adapt the story of Oliver running for Mayor; however, the writers could have done more with it. I wish the writers had saved that for the final season. I'll explain why another time. Oliver even talks about doing things differently from what he did before. What did he mean by that? He was doing the same thing for the past three seasons. As much as I enjoy watching Oliver get his butt kicked by the villains of the week, it shouldn't make him look incompetent.   

It looks like Felicity is taking Laurel's place as far as being despised by fans. Part of the reason is that she's a hypocrite about lying, and she's self-centered. Why do people like her again, and why does Oliver want to be with her? Her worst moment is in episode 15; you'll see what I mean when you watch it. Also, her hacking ability is questionable; it's almost treated like a superpower. The writers gave her so much focus to the point where everything else becomes secondary. We finally learn who Felicity's father is, and it's underwhelming. I thought it was going to be a well-known character from the comics, unless this person is underrated. Since we're on the subject of her family tree, if you didn't like her mother, get ready for a headache because we're going to see more of her this season. Heck, even Felicity isn't crazy about seeing her mother.  

I'm happy to say that Laurel/the Black Canary is likable this season, she's the heart of the team. However, she's underused in this season. 

Thea/speedy fills in Roy's role. Her subplot could have been interesting if the writer were creative about it. I wish she wasn't helpless towards the end of the season because she had no reason to be.    

Diggle's subplot got resolved this season, and I don't like the results because all it did is add more drama, and that drama might continue in the next season. The one good thing about it is that we see a side of Diggle that we haven't seen before. Also, this changes the dynamic between him and Oliver, I mean, Oliver is now his voice of reason. I don't like his helmet because A it's not a good disguise, and B it looks like Magneto's helmet. 

Captain Lance is having a hard time helping Team Arrow because A he still resents Oliver for what he did last season, and B he's in a tough spot. The only complaint I have with him is that he has a love interest. Why!?! Giving him a girlfriend doesn't give him any development so what's the point of doing that?    

Malcolm Merlyn is both an ally and a foil for Team Arrow. I don't feel bad for all the trouble Malcolm gave them because they should have known better than to trust him. 

Damien Darhk (the main villain) is a joke, I mean, he's nothing without his magic. He was the wrong villain for this series because he's too powerful for Green Arrow. How can you beat someone who can kill you by touching you? When he does fight, he's a pushover. That's sad, considering he was Ra's al Ghul's rival, and why didn't Ra's mention that he's into magic? When we learn what Damien Darhk's plan is, it bugs me because the writers could have used it to make him interesting if he didn't carry himself like a bad guy. Also, his plan is too big for Team Arrow to stop, and it's poorly thought out. The only good thing I can say about him is that he's amusing. 

                                                                               

The only thing this season has going for it is that it teases the death of a character. When we learn who dies, you're going to be shocked, not in a good way. To be fair, we shouldn't have been surprised by the death of this character because this season foreshadowed this character's death. The only good thing I can say about this season is that it made last season look almost as good as the first two seasons. If I had a list of the worst seasons of any TV show, this would be one of them. It gave us nothing to look forward to next season. Despite that, I'm interested in seeing where the show can go from here.