Oliver assembles a group of unlikely allies - Slade, Nyssa, Merlyn,
and Digger Harkness - to engage in an epic battle against Chase and his
army.
This was a really entertaining episode that was a really
great season finale episode that is a nice job of wrapping everything up
from this season as will as introduce some new problems for the next
season. I really enjoyed the team up of all these kind of random people
from Oliver's life helping him out to save his family and friends. The
only one that was kind of a problem and a little confusing was Digger
Harkness because he kind of came out of nowhere and all the sudden
switched to working with Adrian to then just kind of disappearing
partway through this episode, so it really kind of felt like they wanted
him in this episode but didn't know what to do with him. It was really
interesting how they chose to split up team arrow into a few different
spots and it was interesting to watch how Oliver progressed from point
A, to point B, to point C. Then the small storyline between Thea and
Merlyn in this episode was kind of interesting with Thea finally
settling on that fact that she does have some connection to Merlyn with
how much he has helped her grow as a character and now with the idea
that he might be gone she is feeling a little heartbroken about it, even
though I don't think he is really dead because they can't just kill off
a character like him. Then I really loved how they had these little
personal battles with the two people you would like to see face each
other do so it was Oliver vs Adrian, Thalia vs Nyssa, and Black Canary
vs Black Siren. And it was really great to see how each of those little
fights turned out and I loved when Quinten actually referred to Dinah as
the Black Canary. Then Adrian's whole plan of how he thought everything
was going to work out was really kind of far fetched that again brought
up one of the questions I asked in the last review which was how many
times did Arien sneak off to Lian Yu because to fill out everything they
way it was he had to have made several trips and how did no one notice
that. But it was interesting with how Adrian stuck to his plan of trying
to prove Oliver is a killer and will always be a killer and when Oliver
didn't agree with that plan Adrian had to and push him a little further
by bringing up the fact that he killed Oliver's son. And with that, I
loved how SladeAnd the rest of the team reacted to the idea that Oliver
son might be dead but Oliver refused to believe that. Adrian's secret
other plan was interesting with him laying bombs all through Lian Yu and
Adrian making himself the detonator so if he dies Lian Yu explodes.
Which seemed a little weird how he made himself the detonator instead of
having a button because how would that ever really happen. The whole
final scene between Oliver and Adrian was really great with Oliver
making the decision of saving Willam or all of his friends. I am a
little angry that when it came down to is Adrian is still dead even
though Oliver wasn't the one who killed him. And with how this episode
ended I'm curious and excited to see what will happen next season. And I
do think that everyone on the island is still alive after it exploded
because I think Oliver gave Slade some kind of code word when Oliver
told Felicity to tell Slade to take them to an ARGUS dock I feel like
that was some kind of code word that made Slade bring them to some kind
of safe bunker and their all okay. And just overall this was a really
great season finale episode And I'm so excited to see what they are
going to do next season.