Arrow: 6 Ups And 5 Downs From The Season 4 Premiere 'Green Arrow'

8. Down - The Flashback Setup

Oliver Arrow Season 4
The CW

Ah, the flashbacks. Long the biggest problem of the show, especially the case last year in the Hong Kong scenes, which ultimately served a purpose but spent far too much time going over the same ground, and not being entertaining in their own right. 

There were high hopes for this season's though, after last year ended with Oliver headed for Coast City. That paid off with an Easter egg for Hal Jordan - a jacket in a bar with that surname on it - but little else. 

Once more it was Amanda Waller who arrived to mess things up for Oliver, and rather than a feeling of something new and exciting, it just ended up being a case of 'oh, here we go again'. 

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