Arrow Season 7: 7 Ways It Has Reinvigorated The Show
6. Every Character Has A Purpose
In the past, Arrow has been incapable of spreading its time equally among its large cast, resulting in multiple characters being underutilised and thus, instead of receiving any spotlight, they are grouped together in the obligatory Team Arrow storyline just to ensure that they remain on screen - something that happened last season with Dinah, Curtis and Rene.
However, this season, things have been refreshingly different. Due to the city's zero tolerance policy against vigilantism, there hasn't been the core group of Team Arrow to anchor the show. Without that checkpoint in place, the characters have been allowed to breathe on their own and, as a result, we are learning a lot more about them.
For the first time in a long time, every character has a purpose. With Oliver behind bars, Dinah stepped up in Star City as she became Captain of the SCPD and cleaned up the corruption. To honour Quentin, Laurel chose justice over vengeance and became the city's new District Attorney while Felicity went the opposite route, giving up her heroic ways to track down Diaz and attempt to kill him. Sick of the lack of heroes in Star City, Rene championed the new Green Arrow while Curtis put his masked days behind him and helped Diggle with the I.T. stuff at A.R.G.U.S.
Giving each character something to fight for has made them far more multi-dimensional than before and, quite frankly, it makes them a lot more relatable. It's about time that we got to appreciate every character for who they truly are.