Arrow Season 5: 8 Ups And 2 Downs From 'Legacy'
6. The Return Of 'The Book'
When Arrow debuted, so much of the entire first season was dedicated to Oliver hunting down the names in his father’s book. After all, they had failed his city, and Ollie was the one to make them pay for their sins.
Since then, though, ‘the book’ has barely been mentioned. With Arrow’s flashbacks this season heading to where it all began, it was good to see Oliver’s prized possession revisited.
As Arrow started with Oliver Queen having been away from Star(ling) City for 5 years (that comes with being presumed dead!), the flashbacks were introduced as a way to explain just what happened to Ollie during this period. By the time that Season 5 is all said and done, the flashbacks will have caught up with Season 1’s ‘present’, and so the return of Robert Queen’s book is a nice way to make the show feel as if it’s heading to where we picked things up with the present day Ollie in the series’ debut season.