Arrow rarely feel like it can offer something refresh these days . After all , some of the show ’s prominent problem of late have come from it regurgitating standardized bow and never allow its characters really grow . But last night ’s season seven premiere might have finally done it . Although . in straight Arrow way , it ’s by riffing on a intimate tune .
Most of “ Inmate 4587 ” is a plenty of solidifying up for the show ’s new status quo after the effect of time of year 6 : Oliver is doing his prison house stint after being exposed as the Green Arrow ( err , again ) , Felicity and William are in protective custody to keep away from the sleepless eye of Diaz — which does n’t operate out too well — and elsewhere , most of Team Arrow has move their freestanding ways in a post - Oliver world .
Diggle is trying to quietly keep tracks on Diaz from ARGUS , Rene ’s teaching kidskin how to box , Curtis is have a glad dating life , Dinah ’s working her measure as a Captain for the Star City PD , and from what little we see of her , Laurel 2 : 2 Laurel 2 Lance is making at least a good go at trying to be the highflying lawyer her deceased Earth-1 vis-a-vis was . While the instalment is for the most part type driven instead of particularly flashy , actionwise — keep a abbreviated interruption to watch abutt - au naturel Oliverbeat up some of Diaz ’s goons in a prison house shower — it sets up for the path each penis of the squad is going to go on this season , even as they ’re mostly disparate and isolated from each other .
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But it ’s not just worked up arcs that we get a glimpse of . The instalment levy an old Arrow favorite ( or crutch , depend on how sick of it you got ) with an honestly intriguing kink : flashbacks are back ! After die hard them into the priming over the row of the first five seasons , this time around Arrow presented us with a young , mysterious vernal man maneuver to the island of Lian Yu , rather than re - regaling theinexplicably complicated(andgloriously bewigged ) history of how Oliver Queen crash - landed on the island , ran around doing all sorts of ridiculous falderol , and then got back on the island before Arrow really began .
Most of the episode leaves these flashbacks without context , but we suddenly and shockingly get some when Mystery Island Man is caught up in one of Lian Yu ’s many traps and comes across a familiar face : None other thanRoy Harper himself , erstwhile , wise , and back in his Arsenal gear — because these are n’t flashbacks , but rather flashfowards . And Mysterious Island Man is actually a grown up William !
Yes , it ’s Arrow resorting to a familiar arrow in its shudder once again . But it ’s such a fun eddy on something so screw in the series ’ dictionary , that you ca n’t help but cackle at the audacity of it all . And candidly , it ’s a delightful alteration : Arrow ’s had a problem with a horse sense of stale directionless over the last few time of year , its reference mire in the same sort of plotlines dug from Oliver Queen ’s gigantic closest of skeleton . What better room to point the show in the direction of a young chapter — and potentially even a conclusion to the story we ’ve seen over the last six years — than to start distinguish the story of how the next wave of Green - clad archer vigilantes rises ?
meter will tell if Arrow ’s make into a case of like father , like son — but it ’s suddenly made me a lot more interested in checking in on Star City now that it ’s doing so .
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