2) Arrow’s Getting Gritty Again
It’s pretty much unanimously felt by the fanbase that Arrow’s fourth season was far and away its worst. With its spinoff shows dealing with time travel and alternate universe, the producers clearly thought the audience wouldn’t be satisfied with an ordinary vigilante and so went all out in introducing magic into the show. As well as that, there was all the turgid soap opera stuff with “Olicity” that threatened to overwhelm the narrative.
For season five, though, it looks like the show has learnt its lesson and is stripping Arrow back to its constituent parts. The big villain won’t be a sorcerer out for world domination but Chad Coleman’s Tobias Church, a down-to-earth yet formidable crime boss. Likewise, producers have promised that Oliver and Felicity are over and that this will be the last year of the regular flashback sequences – which fans have also agreed are getting increasingly weaker.
With these big problems fixed, the new season should be a lot closer to the grittier tone that made season 1 and two so great to watch. Arrow is the leader of the pack, after all, it doesn’t need to tail after its own spinoffs.
