unpopular opinion here maybe but I found the arrow finale to be pretty underwhelming despite liking the season overall. I'll just list my complaints here.
1. all of the villains teaming up with oliver felt really badly written and acted out of character the entire time. it was seriously like reading fanfiction where the fans really wanted the bad characters to be good again just because they were cool. I guess we have been wishing for Slade to come back for a while but damn, be careful what you wish for. he felt so out of character this entire episode.
2. oliver's team in general was overpowered as fuck. it's hilarious that they made a point to make it this huge deal where he was massively outnumbered and needed to recruit help from villains. like... what. the final battle was like oliver and 8 other people vs chase and... uh.... yeah, that's it. just chase and some random goons. even before that evelyn and talia took like 10 seconds each to defeat. man, ollie really needed the help here.
3. past oliver stuff was probably the best part but it outlined some serious issues. I like that they wrapped everything up and brought the story full circle to the start of season 1. now uh... someone explain to me why 5 years ago oliver was able to take down kovar and all of his guys singlehandedly, but current day oliver needed slade and nyssa and malcolm's help to do the same against prometheus. keep in mind that he has manhandled prometheus in EVERY encounter they've had so far and it hasn't even been close. it's pretty much established that prometheus is a psychological threat only and oliver can handily beat the shit out of him. what was he worried about again? evelyn? really dumb.
4. the way it all ended was basically completely and utterly pointless. we all know that nobody on the island actually got blown up. can TV writers please learn how to conclude a god damn storyline instead of making everything into a weak cliffhanger. ---
