Arrow Season 5. Let's all give it the love it deserves. Best season ever

[Deltron3030]

Quite possibly the best season finale so far in the series. Season 2 was my favorite but this finale has me begging for me. I may even consider this the best season ever - hard to say. 3 episodes towards the end were rushed and seemed like filler but this finale more than made up for it. Awesome job writers awesome job. We may never get a season like this moving forward.

 

[legendkillin]

I didn't enjoy it like I enjoyed season 1 and 2. I felt many episodes were the same and the dialogue was the same with different words each episode. Chase was the best villain in a long time though. He made the season for me because I stopped after episode 12, because the season was boring imo. I binged the rest of it this past weekend, though it was predictable that Chase was the villain he was great in every scene.

 

[Osiris-Rex]

I loved season 5. I kept dreading it would disappoint me, but it never did. Maybe because season 4 was so awful.

 

[Herolee10]

Now the only question is...can the producers keep up the momentum or will they stumble and fall again?

Personally, I hope they've finally put a nail in the coffin when it comes to having Oliver deal with his inner darkness already. 5 seasons and each one deals with Oliver struggling to find the inner hero in himself.

Can we finally move on from that and have a Green Arrow who enjoys being Green Arrow?

 

[mqg96]

Honestly, I still think nothing will ever top Arrow season 2, that was the peak of Arrow with my favorite roster of characters including Sara Lance and Roy Harper. The season 2 flashbacks were my favorite. Arrow season 2 is not only my favorite Arrow season but it's the best season of the Arrowverse IMO, not even Flash season 1 tops it. Arrow season 5 had the best season finale of the series, and it has definitely surpassed Arrow season 1 in my book.

 

[ajc5349]

Season 2 is the standard. Season 5 is the best since season 2, but even still, I don't think S5 TOUCHES S2.

 

[Batmannerism]

Okay, season 5 has 2 things going for it:

- Spectre of the Gun: a simply great standalone episode that tackles gun control in a surprisingly balanced way, quite amazing given it's a cW superhero show.

- the finale, the best finale of any Arrow season thus far, possibly one of the best episodes of the whole show.

However, otherwise I feel like the show meandered a lot, and could have dealt with its storylines in 13 episodes rather than 23.

I liked that the villains' motivation was completely personal, it wasn't some "blow up the world" plot or take over Star City, instead it was about destroying Ollie.

I felt that the whole Bratva storyline was totally unnecessary, and distracted us from the actual story.

While a lot of folks loved season 2, I felt that Slade's plan to cause **** and wreck stuff in Star city, with an army of super-steroid goons ....well it wasn't much of a plan.

In some ways I thought that Ra's Al Ghul had the best villain plot - because he wasn't looking to destroy Ollie or the city, he was looking for a successor.

All in all I'm not sure if I'd rank season 5 as the best, but it deserves big props for its finale which is certainly the best finale so far.

 

[NotNickFury]

I'd say best since Season 2. If they maintain the grounded approach that they wanted with this season, then Arrow, despite not having a massive ratings bump, could indeed start feeling like it did with the first two seasons. Not that I think three and four were terrible, but collectively, this is the first season I've enjoyed as a whole since Season 2.

 

[spymommy96]

This hasn't been my favorite season, at all. I am on episode 12 or thereabouts, I think. It's kind of boring. it would be nice to move past the whole I--have-darkness-in-me thing. We've had that for 5 seasons and it's getting kind of old. He has to accept himself at some point and embrace it. Time to move on from that.

 

[Razorback]

Season 5 was definitely very good. I thought they did a good job with the villain, character development on the team was good, looks like they are fixing the Oliver / Felicity "stuff" from Season 4 that made a bunch of people mad. Overall was very pleased. Looking forward to Season 6.

 

[Mustang69]

I just hope, now that the flashbacks have caught up with the start of the series they will no longer be a thing in the show.