Arrow Season 4: 7 Ups And 4 Downs Of 'Monument Point'
2. Boring Flashbacks
The biggest problem of Season 4 so far has been the Lian Yu flashbacks of the season. For whatever reason, the flashbacks have just felt boring for the most part and do nothing but cause an episode to drag.
Sure, we were brilliantly introduced to John Constantine during these flashbacks, but they’ve largely just been a hindrance on the show with each passing week. In fact, the episodes that haven’t had the island flashbacks have often flowed far better than the majority of the ones that took us back to Lian Yu.
It’s not that Lian Yu itself is boring, with some of Arrow’s finest moments taking place there, particularly when Slade Wilson was thrown into the equation, but the whole storyline with Baron Reiter and the magical totem feels irrelevant, despite clearly tying in to the modern-day goings-on with Damien Darhk and his powers.
It looks as if the way that Reiter was eventually stopped will tie in conveniently with how to finally take down Darhk as the season comes to a close, but that still doesn’t make the flashbacks here any more engaging.