Season 3
Main Characters
- Oliver Queen / Arrow (Stephen Amell), a billionaire playboy turned hooded vigilante, who is based on the DC Comics character Green Arrow.
- Laurel Lance / Black Canary (Katie Cassidy), based on the DC Comics character Black Canary, an attorney turned vigilante and former girlfriend of Oliver Queen.
- John Diggle (David Ramsey), Oliver's partner, confidant, and bodyguard.
- Thea Queen (Willa Holland), Oliver's younger sister.
- Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards), the IT technician at Queen Consolidated who has become part of Oliver's vigilante team.
- Roy Harper / Arsenal (Colton Haynes), a character based on the DC Comics character of the same name.
- Malcolm Merlyn (John Barrowman), Tommy's father; he is based on the DC Comics character Merlyn, an archenemy of Green Arrow in the comics and he is the biological father of Thea Queen.
- Ra's al Ghul (Matt Nable), whose name translates to "The Demon's Head" in Arabic, is the centuries-old leader of the League of Assassins. He seeks to purge humanity of crime and corruption, utilizing the rejuvenating Lazarus Pits to maintain his immortality.
- Nyssa Al Ghul (Katrina Law), a member of the League of Assassins. She is also the daughter of the late Ra's al Ghul. She is the ex-lover and close friend of the late Sara Lance. She was the one who brought Sara to Nanda Parbat.
- Ray Palmer (Brandon Routh), a businessman and the CEO of Palmer Technologies. Ray is also the former fiancé of the late Anna and the ex-boyfriend/good friend of Felicity Smoak. Using a powerful exosuit, he has begun to act as a vigilante around Starling City, self-named The Atom.
Review
So, it's the season 3 of poor people's Batman or as some people call it; Arrow. By the end of season 2 we see that Thea Queen leaves town with Malcolm Merlyn (her biological father). In season 3 beginning we see that Malcolm has been training her and making her combat ready, which is good. For sometime we get to see Thea being confident and capable of taking care of herself and then by half the season she's back to damsel in distress who's worried about something or the other and asking " Why didn't you tell me this, why did you hide it from me ? "
We've some new superheroes and villains in this season which is good. Ray Palmer/A.T.O.M buys queen consolidated and works on an exosuit with the help of Felicity Smoak. We don't get to see the A.T.O.M in action a lot as in this season it's still a work in progress but he does help the Arrow. Ray Palmer/ A.T.O.M is pretty much the male version of Felicity Smoak. Laurel Lance becomes Black Canary in this as if the first one wasn't bad enough.
The series begins good with Oliver Queen/ Arrow trying to save his city and the usual catching and stopping the bad guys, which is nice to watch. But now a lot of things have changed and that's affecting their lives. We also get to see the background story on Oliver Queen when he was stranded on the Island. This time it's all about his time spent in Hong Kong and doing things for Amanda Waller. This time his story about the past isn't very interesting.
The series begins good with Oliver Queen/ Arrow trying to save his city and the usual catching and stopping the bad guys, which is nice to watch. But now a lot of things have changed and that's affecting their lives. We also get to see the background story on Oliver Queen when he was stranded on the Island. This time it's all about his time spent in Hong Kong and doing things for Amanda Waller. This time his story about the past isn't very interesting.
Till half of the season everything seems to going fine and nice. We get to see bad guys beaten up, brought to justice and some new DC villains too. But once Ra's Al Ghul gets involved in the story, things get really weird. In this season Oliver Queen/ Arrow is more of trying to be Batman than The Arrow. The story takes a different turn and it's unnecessary. The involvement of Ra's Al Ghul in Oliver's life kind of ruined the story. Also, the character of A.T.O.M isn't great. Everyone who's watched Arrow knows that there's always someone or other saying " I was protecting you, I care for you, It's for your safety " and things like that, which also gets annoying after sometime.
What's always been bad consistently in the whole series is the action. They always feel slow and lousy. This time there were a lot of special effects also. The special effects were fine through the series except for the character The A.T.O.M.
Overall the season was good till Ra's Al Ghul gets involved. I hope there's a better story in the next season than The Arrow being a wannabe Batman. So, how is season 3 ? It's all right !! One can still watch and enjoy few things.
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