Oliver has always shut down when someone he loves is hurt. With Tommy, he ran away for five months and Diggle and Felicity had to drag him back to save QC. When Slade killed Moira, he passed out. When Sara "died", he turned off his humanity and started making idiotic decisions. When Thea was stabbed, he was willing to give up everything to save her. Turning back into the Hood but without the clever ideas now that Felicity has been hurt is SOP for him.
I thought there was light shining in through the windows of the prison, which means it must be above ground at least at the window level.
Season 1 and 2 flashbacks gave us important backstory on what happened when he was away and why Slade became who he was in season 2. Season 3 didn't have much in the way of story other than the virus and Oliver becoming a killer in torturing Shreive but I enjoyed Msseo and Tatsu as characters, especially when Tatsu made him do his own laundry.
There are many problems for me with the season 4 flashbacks. Oliver is back on Lian Yu again in a terrible plot contrivance but this time suddenly there are a whole new group of people who apparently weren't there in Fyers day and they're already harvesting a mysterious plant that has a shocking quick growth. There are also a whole group of slaves that weren't there before either. And I don't find any other the characters interesting. I've liked Ryan Robbins through two previous series but his character here is completely two-dimensional, Reiter is badly written and there's no chemistry between Oliver and Tatiana especially since she's supposed to be a love interest. It's episode 11 and I still can't see what the point of this season's flashbacks are.
But the biggest problem is that instead of Oliver going further down the dark path to becoming the Hood, he's basically present day Oliver, trying to save innocent people, killing only when someone tries to kill him. They went completely off the path to Dark Oliver. The haircut, making him look exactly like present day Oliver, just emphasizes what a mess it is.
I thought there was light shining in through the windows of the prison, which means it must be above ground at least at the window level.
Season 1 and 2 flashbacks gave us important backstory on what happened when he was away and why Slade became who he was in season 2. Season 3 didn't have much in the way of story other than the virus and Oliver becoming a killer in torturing Shreive but I enjoyed Msseo and Tatsu as characters, especially when Tatsu made him do his own laundry.
There are many problems for me with the season 4 flashbacks. Oliver is back on Lian Yu again in a terrible plot contrivance but this time suddenly there are a whole new group of people who apparently weren't there in Fyers day and they're already harvesting a mysterious plant that has a shocking quick growth. There are also a whole group of slaves that weren't there before either. And I don't find any other the characters interesting. I've liked Ryan Robbins through two previous series but his character here is completely two-dimensional, Reiter is badly written and there's no chemistry between Oliver and Tatiana especially since she's supposed to be a love interest. It's episode 11 and I still can't see what the point of this season's flashbacks are.
But the biggest problem is that instead of Oliver going further down the dark path to becoming the Hood, he's basically present day Oliver, trying to save innocent people, killing only when someone tries to kill him. They went completely off the path to Dark Oliver. The haircut, making him look exactly like present day Oliver, just emphasizes what a mess it is.
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