Past Sins

It's really painful trying to get through these recent episodes. I'm unable to follow the story and starting to hate the characters. Is this going to be the last season?

Episode 7.11 (3 out of 5 stars).

The drama with Oliver and his mysterious sister is entertaining. Some decent action and interesting story.

There may never be a time when Arrow gets back to the greatness it saw in season 2 or 5, but every now and then I love seeing it succeed on a smaller level like it did tonight.

There are inevitably some things that made this episode incredibly frustrating, for one, the stupidity of that Curtis-Diaz arc. I mean why in the hell I just watch Diaz & company go through an entire fight and Curtis bite the dust, only for it to be some silly VR game that Curtis set up for Diaz. So now that it's over and he supposedly helped them figure out Donte's whereabouts (by the way, who is Dante again?) is it finally time Diaz is removed from the show?

I was also a little bit underwhelmed by the Felicity/Laurel arc, albeit much better than those two characters have been given this season. And I'm not sure if the ending scene with Dinah is supposed to be related, but I'm down for a new mystery.

That brings me to the highlight of the episode which was Oliver figuring out the new villain of the week was after him because he's the son of the man Robert Queen killed while on the lifeboat all the way back in 2007. Boy, Robert Queen hasn't had a good week, that's for sure. But in all seriousness, I love when the show tells mini arcs like this that actually narratively make sense. Of course, on a grander scale it was Prometheus in season 5 getting revenge for his father's death. Tonight it was only a one-off episode, but when the show focuses it's attention on being about Oliver & his family's past mistakes, it typically breeds good storytelling. It certainly helped tonight.

8.0/10

Really boring and another guilt full episode. Actually a stupid one, except the drama and action between Diaz and Curtis.

'Past Sins' is the Next Installment of Arrow Season 7. This episode deals with 2 separate but similar and important stories; Oliver and Laurel and their 'Past Sin' left forgotten coming back to their Lives. The acting in this episode was really well done. The story was really poetic and was really beautifully done and was a serious improvement from the previous episode. Though there were still some questions left to be answered like 'Who is Dante?", being one main one. The tone of the episode was more lighter compared to other seasons. There were serious Character Development for not only Laurel and Oliver but also for Curtis. The Direction, Production, Writing and everything else was really well done. The Ending was left us excited to see what happens. The Show has seriously improved over the episodes.

So Overall Its a Solid 10 and I hope it continues in the same direction.