A great final villain, at the height of the series.
The season has been divided into two distinct parts, with two main villains in each part. The first, Cayden James does not meet as a threat. Yes, it puts the team on the ropes, but finally it is not up to par. Although it must be said that the start of the season is interesting. For the end of last season was pretty good, and there was a desire to know how the story would continue.
The second Ricardo Diaz, if that has seemed a good villain. With a good plot, a good development of the character well explained. A villain that we can perceive as an authentic threat. In short, a villain at the height of what the series deserves. He even has a chapter of his own, in which he tells us his story and how he became who he is. In short, a very good villain that has brought good moments of action to this season.
Another point in favor are the effects. Cw has invested heavily in his series of superheroes, and this is evident in the digital and special effects.
The best season so far!! This show delivers, delivers, delivers. I got nothing less than a shock in each of the first two episodes. As with the other 5 seasons, I am quite impressed with this season. I think Arrow is exciting, interesting, action pack and well there's some fragments of romance.
This season felt like it lost a certain spark it possessed before. After all they are just playing with characters as the plot requires it, and this caused so many scenes where you could just feel like that given character would not have acted like that in a normal position. This hurt the overall performance of the actors as well, plus the fact that the emotional scenes where not really felt, and did not radiate immersion with the viewers. The directing style was nothing out of the ordinary, and the action scenes choreography got weaker in this season as well. Not one special move or outstanding performance, from the stunt man or the actors, just ordinary down to earth not even hero worthy fight scenes where captured in this season. The special effect on visual term where just average at best and the sound effects where a lot of recycled sounds.
Sadly the simplicity of the script did not help either, plus the chronological vibe that the previous seasons had in the form of flashbacks where also lacking. At least the plot's unfolding was a little more interesting but the villain was really not special and everything felt like the team faced 10 times worse before and they should have just dealt with the antagonist a lot more easily. This led to a real issue with the pacing of the plot through out the season, given the fact that this one was the length of 23 episodes which was an exaggeration.
Overall this was an above average season for a good TV series, which honestly dropped some standards over the years. The conclusion and ending with lost stakes was solid though and helped the season from getting worse overall.
Season 6 of Arrow marks a low point for the series as the over-dramatic split of Team Arrow coupled with a rather disappointing villain lead to what was once one of my favorite shows becoming something that I look at as a chore to watch. There is a good episode here and there, and I do have to give the team behind Arrow props for including as much action (even though a lot of the fight scenes are not choreographed very well), but this series just isn't what it once was. It focuses too much on inner-team drama, not enough on the bad guys, and way too much on why Oliver is hard to work with. Also, like The Flash, this show has fallen into a formulaic rut that it just can't seem to get out of. If it doesn't improve in Season 7, it may be time for the CW to hang up the hood and move onto another DC character.
Thanks to spectacularly bad acting, amazingly jumbled pacing, zero character development, bad choreography, cheesy dialogue, freaky sound mixing, boring B-conflict, no regard for the audience, and absolutely incompetent writing, "Arrow" begins its sixth season with one of the most insufferable, painful and illogical episodes to this very date.
Final Score: 2/10.