The whole premise of this episode is both brilliant and frustrating. On one hand, it almost seems too derivative from my favorite Arrow episode of all time, "Three Ghosts", where Ollie is drugged and sees ghosts from his past that put him on a certain path mentally. However, on the other hand, I will always welcome back a return to the show's season 1 & 2 roots. I'm not sure how Ricardo Diaz was the villain to do it, but Oliver is finally going back to running the show all by himself. Heck, there's no Felicity on the team now either.
I shouldn't bury the lead here, the real story is the return of Josh Segarra's Adrian Chase/Prometheus. I absolutely loved the way they handled him as Oliver's hallucination and subconscious in a way. If anyone has played Arkham Knight, it sure felt a whole lot like that certain dead character who turns out around the city in surprising places to make Batman feel uneasy to say the least. It's also funny they chose now to bring him back considering Diaz STILL has yet to really prove himself as the big bad, and then you have an episode with Chase that just makes me miss season 5.
Most of the rest of the episode wasn't anything I'm going to remember all that much. The obvious things to note were the return of Chase, the brief glimpse back into the mansion, and the fact that Oliver is now officially alone. It's of course disappointing that the opening credits spoiled Segarra's return, but at least he lived up to the hype of having "someone decidedly dead" returning to the show. Up next in that regard, Tommy!
9.0/10
