ARROW: Here's Our Initial Thoughts Of Season Six So Far!
With season six of Arrow coming close to ending, we take a detailed look on what we thought of this season and whether or not we're excited for the last six episodes of this season!
Season 5 of Arrow gave me hope that the sixth chapter can and will be good because the increase in good storytelling and interesting characters in season 5. I believed that season 6 would follow in that same path and give us something even better with Ricardo Diaz who in the comics is a pretty massive Green Arrow villain. So how is this season holding up? Well, not so good.
While this season is nowhere near the atrocity that was season 4, this season has been filled with nothing but mediocrity at best which is such a shame after the way that season 5 unfolded. I figured that after season 5, Arrow was truly back to being good but 16 episodes into this season and nothing drastic or exciting has happened in the overall story. There's been hardly any real character development and quite honestly some characters of this season are awfully annoying. When I say that, I'm obviously referring to Rene, Curtis and Dinah which honestly are my biggest complaint of this season so let's talk about them.
Those three characters are the weakest link to this season and honestly that's a shame because instead of giving these characters interesting stories, interesting challenges and even interesting relationships, they made the entire Arrow fanbase hate them in the span of two episodes. The issue with these three is they serve no real purpose, if the writers were to rewrite this season and exclude these three characters it wouldn't change anything for the story other than that they'd be removing the worst characters of this season. In season 5 I quite liked Rene and thought Dinah had potential to be really cool, instead they went with giving them a flawed story in season 6 of going up against Original Team Arrow which is so stupid. Reason being it's so stupid is because nobody would care if they got hurt and also because they have no right to be fighting or be upset with Oliver, Felicity and Diggle. In fact, when Rene was hurt by Oliver, it was such a relief for so many that had been following this season. Dinah also became utterly irritating and hard to watch after Black Siren killed Vigilante, I mean I understand that he was her love and whatnot but firstly, no one cares and second she's a police officer... she should have some restraint as she would've been taught.
Now, Ricardo Diaz is supposedly the main villain for this season which honestly I find to be laughable. Ricardo Diaz in the comics basically breaks Green Arrow, he destroys him mentally and physically, he basically kills Oliver Queen. On the show, he's a thug with a bit of martial arts from what we've seen... literally that's it. Yes, he did kill Cayden James and framed Green Arrow for the death of Cayden's son but that's about it. Honestly his first encounter with Green Arrow was absolutely weak and it wasn't special as a confrontation between the hero and the villain should be. Even the actor is quite weak in the role, other than his somewhat menacing voice, Kirk Acevedo just isn't exciting to watch and he doesn't necessarily feel threatening. Instead, he comes off as a thug with some moderate skills but that's it. There's no interesting personality, no good backstory from what we've learnt, nothing about Ricardo Diaz on Arrow makes him a good villain. To make matters worse though, the writers are barely focusing on Diaz and it took them too long to finally reveal that Diaz is the main big bad.