Arrow: 6 Things That "Left Behind" Did Right (And 4 It Didn't)

1. Low Stakes

Danny Brickwell is a bad guy. You saw him beat a man to death his bare hands. You witnessed him orchestrating a heist to steal a truckload of evidence. You watched him rallying a horde of freed criminals, most of which had been behind bars due to the efforts of Team Arrow. "A lot of these cases are on guys we put away over the past eight months," says Digg, trying to impress upon Felicity (and the audience) the precariousness of the situation. The problem? Most of those cases over the past eight months happened off-screen. It was one thing for the show to fast forward the flirting to get Oliver and Felicity mooning over each other in the premiere, and the convenience of allowing Roy to graduate to full sidekick over the hiatus was worth the contrivance, but it was difficult to work up much of a lather about the dissolution of a status quo that you never saw established in the first place. The stakes just don't feel as high as they could when the majority of the bad guys are nameless thugs. What did you make of Left Behind? Excited for the second half of Season 3? Discuss all things Arrow down in the comments.