Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
Say what you will about the current quality of Arrow relative to its first two seasons, but never have the stakes leading up to a season finale been this dire. It’s not just Star City that faces destruction at the hands of a power-hungry villain; now it’s the entire world that stands at the brink of nuclear annihilation. Those stakes, along with a healthy dose of butt-kicking, helped this episode overcome its weaker elements.
As Felicity pointed out, “Monument Point” was basically a Greatest Hits compilation of Season 3 and 4-era Arrow villains. This one episode brought back Tom Amandes as Noah Kuttler/The Calculator, Vinnie Jones as Brick, Adrian Glynn McMorran as Murmur and even Alexander Calvert’s Lonnie Machin/Anarky. That’s a lot of villainy to juggle in one hour. It’s to the writer’s credit that these characters were worked into the plot in a pretty organic manner. The one villain who did seem to get the short shrift this week was Damien Darhk. Aside from two brief appearances book-ending the episode, Darhk mostly sat out this week’s conflict. A lack of Darhk is always a bad thing, but it seemed especially strange to see the B-team hog the spotlight at this late stage.
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Say what you will about the current quality of Arrow relative to its first two seasons, but never have the stakes leading up to a season finale been this dire. It’s not just Star City that faces destruction at the hands of a power-hungry villain; now it’s the entire world that stands at the brink of nuclear annihilation. Those stakes, along with a healthy dose of butt-kicking, helped this episode overcome its weaker elements.
As Felicity pointed out, “Monument Point” was basically a Greatest Hits compilation of Season 3 and 4-era Arrow villains. This one episode brought back Tom Amandes as Noah Kuttler/The Calculator, Vinnie Jones as Brick, Adrian Glynn McMorran as Murmur and even Alexander Calvert’s Lonnie Machin/Anarky. That’s a lot of villainy to juggle in one hour. It’s to the writer’s credit that these characters were worked into the plot in a pretty organic manner. The one villain who did seem to get the short shrift this week was Damien Darhk. Aside from two brief appearances book-ending the episode, Darhk mostly sat out this week’s conflict. A lack of Darhk is always a bad thing, but it seemed especially strange to see the B-team hog the spotlight at this late stage.
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