I'm kind of missing the Season 2 flashbacks, where they had so much story there that some episodes felt like they spent longer on the island than in the present day, but we've at least seen some connections now, meaning that twisting themselves into a pretzel improved the weakest part of the show this week.Ĭonstantine wasn't the only place that the show has been twisting itself around. This has the possibly unintended side effect of connecting the flashbacks to the present day for the first time this season, a problem they've had so far this season, as well as the last. Specifically, they had to make it believable that Oliver would know him, so they put him in the flashbacks on the island. In parts of this episode, I could tell the writers twisting the story into a pretzel to work Constantine in, which ended up working as a great thing. It also has the side effect of moving away from how the show felt too grounded at the very beginning, and anything to help me forget the very beginning is a good thing. I like that they were willing to change when they felt like they wanted to go in another direction, and in keeping things somewhat consistent - while Arrow is getting lighter, it is nowhere near the tone of The Flash - they have kept it from feeling like the show just changed overnight, but was rather part of a more gradual shift. This show has long since left its more grounded self behind, which I see as a good development. Constantine feels like he was supposed to be on the Supernatural set and accidentally walked onto Arrow instead, and the moment that made it all crystallize into that thought was seeing Sara lying on the floor, all the symbols drawn around her, while Constantine was casting the spell.
There's also the fact that this show has gone completely off the rails they seem to have set up early, and that is a good thing. Often, characters that are only in the story for a single episode or small arc aren't very memorable, but this works as a great way to get those characters to feel a lot more fleshed out and interesting. In those situations, it was because they were intended for a spin-off, while here he had already had 13 episodes to really get a feel for the character. In a way, his appearance here reminds of Barry, Cisco, and Caitlin showing up in Season 2, where they felt like very well-developed characters for such a small part. The iconic "island" flashbacks concluded in Season 5 when Oliver's escape from Lian Yu was finally shown on-screen.Even though I wasn't attached to him from his show, I found Constantine to be a lot of fun in this episode. Showrunner Beth Schwartz did God's work by re-introducing a plot device that made Arrow one of the best shows of its time: flashbacks, or in Season 7's case, flash-forwards. How Diaz escapes isn't shown on screen, but he probably linked up with his villainous team, Longbow Hunters, set to debut some point this season (hopefully sooner than later, because Diaz's agenda is quite dry right now).īut none of this was really why Arrow felt fresher than in the previous three seasons. She gets the pleasure of having the first run-in with Ricardo Diaz this season, who breaks into she and William's bunker and tries to murder them both. Felicity, on the other hand, is now a barista with pink hair. The episode doesn't show much of Dig, who now appears to be working at ARGUS along with Curtis. "Arrow" was known for its flashbacks, but now it's doing flashforwards. She's particularly motivated to do good as a cop now that Team Arrow's broken up. This proves to be a point of tension between he and Dinah Drake, who is killing it as police detective. Quite an admirable task, but he's fed up with the rising Star City crime rate and believes the lives of the neighborhood's kids' are at stake. (He's been there five months, by the way.) Wild Dog is teaching boxing to kids in the Glades. The episode introduces three new stories in Dinah Drake, Wild Dog and Felicity while Oliver's away in jail. Stephen Amell's WWE training shines through here.) I'm sure that'll pay off (best scene of the premiere, though. He decides it's a good idea to attack a prison bully with a gym weight. He shows some strength in the final moments when he learns Felicity sends William to boarding school. He's not doing so hot he gets the crap beat out of him multiple times, at one point, he's naked and humiliated. The premiere starts off with Oliver Queen, formerly the Green Arrow, in prison. This analysis contains spoilers for Arrow Season 7 episode 1, "Inmate 4587."Īrrow Season 7 almost feels like a new show.
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