Arrow Season 5: 7 Ups And 4 Downs From 'New Recruits'

1. Prometheus Making His Mark

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Is there anything better than a good bad guy?

Arrow has had its fair share of ups and downs when it comes to its villains. Whilst Manu Bennett’s Slade Wilson may have been the greatest live-action depiction of a comic book villain to date (yep, I said it!), we’ve then seen garbage like last year’s dull-as-dishwater Baron Reiter. With Prometheus, though, it looks like Arrow has once again hit the bullseye.

So often with a good villain, the key is ‘less is more’ when it comes to introducing them. As such, in Season 5’s two episodes, we’ve only actually seen Prometheus for a grand total of about 2 minutes. But man, does he look like a truly vicious, menacing bastard!

Dropping in at New Recruits’ final moments to give Tobias Church a terrifying warning, Prometheus was made to look like one bad mofo. The fact that Church, himself a no BS brutal villain in his own right, was quaking in his booties at the arrival of Prometheus should tell you all you need to know.

Hopefully it will be a while before we find out just who’s under the Prometheus mask, but in the meantime we can only hope that this rogue gets treated as well as he has done in his first two outings.

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