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Arrow season 5
23 episodes · 2016
FLICKFEEL
75
from 104 comments
COMMUNITY
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what happens
Protecting his city from crime and corruption, vigilante hero Oliver Queen uses his formidable combat skills and marksmanship to go up against lethal foes including Deathstroke, Ra's al Ghul and Damien Darhk and Prometheus, becoming a beacon of hope for all in need.
how it went
Left to right is the season — its first episode to its last. Each remark sits in the episode it was made about.
FUN
54
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
54
how much it moved you
Read from 104 comments — 40 said when · across 5 episodes.
➖ steady — Holds one level all the way. Pulled both ways throughout — never simply one thing. Around the middle it was tender and painful at the same time, which is the state people mean by being moved. Very little of it ever resolves.
Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.
- height
- how intense it got, 0–100
- gold above
- how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
- tension rail
- how much was still unresolved
- grey haze
- how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it
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➖ steady — holds one level all the way
what people actually wrote
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
Reddit24 read
“Amazing finale.”
DiggleIsLove▲ 1,139about 75–100% inread it ↗
“This may be the darkest episode Arrow has ever had”
niffirgmason▲ 989about 0–100% inread it ↗
“this was a very good twist. All season they built up Oliver returning to killing and how everyone was uneasy about it, and now that's paid off.”
fullforce098▲ 841about 75–100% inread it ↗
“That was a fucking thrill from start to finish.”
▲ 676about 0–100% inread it ↗
episodes
5 of 23 with a scoreEvery episode has a page — its synopsis, who was in it, and a place to rate it. A number appears when discussion or ratings support one; where there is neither, the dash is the honest answer.
