The series follows billionaire playboy Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell), who claimed to have spent five years shipwrecked on Lian Yu, a mysterious island in the North China Sea, before returning home to Starling City (later renamed "Star City") to fight crime and corruption as a secret vigilante whose weapon of choice is a bow and arrow. He added that while the finales of season 3 and 4 only managed to worsen them, in contrast the season 5 finale "proved to be not just the best episode of Season 5, but of the series as a whole". It should be the Batman to your Superman. The CW Other episodes have had bigger action beats, better observed character moments, stronger points to make about who Oliver is and what his existence as the Green Arrow means. With Chase having broken him, Oliver disbands the team and calls in the Bratva to take out Chase. [58] Stephen Amell revealed that, in contrast, the Big Bad of the fifth season would not have any superpowers, and also confirmed that the season would follow the more realistic approach of the first two seasons. [57], While Arrow began as a "grounded, gritty" series that focused on realism, following the introduction of The Flash in the same universe, it started embracing fantastical elements. Anatoly leaves to bribe the boatmen to sail towards the island, but Oliver gets captured by Kovar, who knows about Oliver's plan. Information Season 5 | Season 6 » See also. Rate. [73][74] Michael Dorn voiced the character when disguised as Prometheus. A new vigilante appears in Star City, one who kills criminals in cold blood. Arrow Season 5 Comic-Con® First Look The CW, Arrow Season 5 "Can't Be Stopped" Extended Promo (HD), The Flash, Arrow, Supergirl, DC's Legends of Tomorrow 4 Night Crossover Event Trailer (HD). In flashbacks, Oliver and Anatoly return to Lian Yu, where they arrange for Oliver's return to Starling City. Oliver tries to balance vigilantism with his new role as mayor, yet is threatened by the mysterious and deadly Prometheus (Josh Segarra), who has a connection to Oliver's past. It helps that the flashbacks were used to fill in a key hole in the Arrow tapestry". [84] Oliver's Green Arrow costume of the season was designed to look almost exactly like the one worn in season four, one notable change being the re-introduction of sleeves from previous costumes, which the fourth season costume eschewed. Kovar buys sarin gas from Malcolm. We have the latest details and info below. Schedeen noted that the season's flashbacks suffered from some of the same problems in the flashbacks of season 3 and 4 which did "little more than filling space and drawing pointless parallels between past and present", but still called the season 5 flashbacks "a significant improvement. crossover event with The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow. Sampson is captured as Curtis defuses the bomb. 12 Oct. 2016 The Recruits. Currently, the show has 7.9 out of 10 IMDb rating. "[75], Reviewing the season premiere, Caroline Preece of Den of Geek called it "a return to the heights of season one in all the best ways". [99] It began streaming on Netflix on June 1, 2017. Oliver allows the Bratva to steal diabetes medicine as a down-payment, but they are stopped by the team. A pattern between the victims relates to Oliver's list from when he first started out as the Hood. Felicity finds out and disapproves of the plan and opts to stay behind. Felicity uses the pattern to predict future victims and the team splits up. Oliver and Lyla team up on a secret mission for Diggle. He then attacks and hospitalizes Curtis, injecting him with a tuberculosis vaccine developed by Justin Claybourne, a corrupt pharmaceutical manufacturer named on Oliver's former kill list. [81] Rick Gonzalez recurs in the role of Wild Dog, based on the DC Comics character of the same name. Oliver rejoins the team, taking out the Bratva and saving hostages that Anatoly had taken as leverage. [61] The second episode of The Flash season 3 reveals that Diggle's daughter Sara has been erased from existence and replaced with a son named John Diggle Jr. as a result of Barry's time travel. Schedeen concluded with verdict that the series "bounced back from a prolonged slump in Season 5, proving that the series still has plenty of life left. Oliver reveals that Claybourne planned to disown Chase due to Chase's mental condition. Michael Dorn as Prometheus (voice; uncredited) 7. The showrunners for this season were Marc Guggenheim and Wendy Mericle. The series is based on the DC Comics character Green Arrow, a costumed crime-fighter created by Mort Weisinger and George Papp, and is set in the Arrowverse, sharing continuity with other Arrowverse television series. Followed by He said the season's biggest flaw was "that it tried to juggle more characters and conflicts than was really feasible", but praised the writers for downplaying Oliver-Felicity's romance in favor of focusing on Felicity's induction into Helix. Meanwhile, Felicity's worlds collide when Detective Malone joins the ACU. [62], Guggenheim described "legacy" as the theme of the fifth season: "The idea [is] Oliver honoring Black Canary’s [Katie Cassidy] legacy after [Laurel Lance's] death last year [...] What we’re doing is we’re dramatizing Oliver's desire to grow, move forward, and evolve, but this concept of legacy keeps threatening to pull him back to the early days", and that Oliver would be indirectly responsible for the creation behind Prometheus, the season's Big Bad. 23 [70], Main cast members Stephen Amell, David Ramsey, Willa Holland, Emily Bett Rickards and Paul Blackthorne return from previous seasons as Oliver Queen / Green Arrow, John Diggle / Spartan, Thea Queen, Felicity Smoak and Quentin Lance, respectively. [77] John Barrowman, who portrayed Malcolm Merlyn on Arrow as a regular during seasons two and three, signed a contract with Warner Bros. Television that allowed him to continue being a regular on Arrow as well as the other Arrowverse shows, including The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow. Arrow Season 5: which is an The CW exclusive features Stephen Amell and David Ramsey in lead roles. [84] Dinah Drake's vigilante costume in the season includes a mask resembling the Black Canary mask in the comics, along with a leather jacket. Ray deduces that the Dominators were gathering information from their minds to help them complete a special "weapon", using the hallucination as a distraction. [100], The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported an 88% approval rating based on 13 critics reviews, with an average rating of 7.38 out of 10. Investigating Prometheus on his own, Billy sends information he discovers to Felicity just before the villain captures him. Oliver gets closer to the truth about Prometheus; Helix refuses to continue helping Felicity until she does a favor for them. [80] The character is not based on any existing DC Comics character; Coleman called him "Jay Z, Dr. Dre, and Suge Knight all rolled into one". [85] In November 2016, it was announced that Juliana Harkavy would play Tina Boland in a recurring role;[86] her character was later revealed to be Dinah Drake, named after the first Black Canary in the comics. Oliver deduces that Prometheus is at the former office building of the corporation that created the epidemic and goes there alone. Rate. He finds that Prometheus has staged it to resemble Oliver's prior attack. Felicity and Curtis learn that Prometheus's victims have a mysterious link to Oliver's past that could up-end his new team. While Curtis and Dinah track Sampson, the others investigate Goodwin, who is revealed to have been killed by Robert Queen, shocking Thea and Oliver. Oliver kills Prometheus, only to discover he has actually killed a gagged Billy, whom the real Prometheus set up as himself to trick Oliver. Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen/The Hood/Green Arrow 2. There, he meets and is trained by Talia al Ghul (Lexa Doig), as a hooded archer, before returning to Lian Yu.
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