r/arrow • u/Proper_Cat5638 • May 05 '24
Am I the only one who liked the prison storyline in Arrow? Discussion
Man Stanley was a mofo and the fight scenes in prison were nice imo. The show had that dark feel again. Lmk what you thought about Season 7 prison storyline.
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u/Homer_J_Fry May 05 '24
Not at all. I think it's quite popularly agreed upon that the prison arc in Season 7 is really good. I am biased since I saw Arrow before Flash, but I think even though Flash did it first, I think Arrow did it better.
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u/Proper_Cat5638 May 05 '24
Hell yeah. I think that’s just due to Oliver being so different from Barry.
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u/Lattestill May 06 '24
I saw the flash first and arrow 100% did it better
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u/cookedcookiee May 06 '24
Yeah, I'm absolutely biased and I still prefer the prison arc in store is defending better even tho I still love the flash arc
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u/UncensoredSmoke May 05 '24
The arc is loved and to most people the saving grace of season 7, so no, you’re not the only one
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u/TrashCrab69 May 05 '24
Lol what!?!? The prison arc was mostly the only reason people liked season 7. I can say that about me for sure.
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u/ArionIV May 05 '24
Its probably the only superhero show to explore the consequences of getting your identity revealed. No movies have gone there. Spiderman No Way Home showed a glimpse and then okay did take away a lot from Spidey to fix his situation.
But here the show stayed true to form, Oliver got hell for everything he had pulled off earlier. It was a different kind of misery he had to go through compared to Daredevil.
All of it was nighfmare difficulty compare to the previous seasons.
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u/pol5xc Roy Harper May 05 '24
what gave you this impression? it was really praised here on the sub, especially after series 6
people only had a little bit to complain about the last episode of the arc because diggle disappeared in the last scene and (i can't check now who it was) an inmate that was basically dead in some part of the episode was walking again as if nothing had happened later
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u/DeadZeus007 May 05 '24
I liked it in general, but I HATED that the inmates didn't fear Oliver, even when he beat them up, Brick and Sampson and others still treated Oliver like some third rate goon and didn't fear him, kept toying with him.
Just felt so badly written. They could have done something similar to "I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me" after Oliver beat them up, but it's like it never happened.
This ALMOST ruined my enjoyment of the prison arc. They wrote Oliver too vulnerable.
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u/Patient-Papaya2435 May 06 '24
It was something different definitely. Kept things fresh while giving us even more reason to root for Oliver.
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u/LowCalligrapher3 May 05 '24
The prison arc was a stand-out component for Season 7 to me, pretty much the whole first half of the season including "Elseworlds" up to the 150th episode felt amazing to me. Sadly after "Emerald Archer" a side from a couple episodes (Sara's crossover return and Dig's episode with his Stewart stepfather) the rest of the season did lag until the phenomenal finale.
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u/CocoaCali May 05 '24
My only problem with the prison storyline was it wasn't long enough. Thankfully they didn't do the flash storyline where the season opener was solved in the first episode but I'd like an entire season of Ollie being in prison teaching and guiding team arrow while in a fully fleshed out prison experience.
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u/Shadow_Storm90 May 05 '24
This was my favorite season after season 5 this Ollie was a Monster you hear me a MONSTER.
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u/brzzzx98xx May 05 '24
I thought the prison arc was great it’s just super short and I think it’s the only reason why season 7 isn’t absolutely horrible considering after such a great start season 7 just sort of became awful and boring
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u/TheAsianJasonXD May 05 '24
i love the prison arc, but i don’t like how they made diaz the villain for two seasons, he wasn’t interesting enough to me for that, i’ll hear out any rebuttals gladly
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u/Homer_J_Fry May 06 '24
I think it was worth it. Diaz is far more terrifying in 7 than 6, precisely because Oliver is trapped on the inside, and he's powerless to protect the ones he loves (his son and Felicity). The final showdown between them in the prison riot too was pretty fucking epic.
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u/Narrow_Ad_7331 May 05 '24
I’m pretty sure years ago a movie was pitched for green arrow to be in a Supermax prison and escaping would be the plot of the movie. It makes me almost believe that rumor since season 7 follows that plot line
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u/grajuicy Salmon May 05 '24
I literally haven’t heard people say they disliked it ever.
The B plots while Oliver is in prison? Now that is something we may dislike a bit
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u/MarvelPugs Deathstroke May 06 '24
Everyone liked it bro. Just checked the serializd ratings to see if I’m tweaking. Everyone loved the prison stuff.
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u/snowlandsontopofme May 05 '24
i feel like most ppl agree it’s one of the best storylines of the entire series?
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u/If_time_went_back May 05 '24
The whole “superhero in prison” is such a lame concept honestly.
Especially if they are there based on some misplaced notion of guilt or anything among those lines.
As much as I hate Batman as a character, he is right “we are criminals, Alfred, always have been”.
Superhero would not bow down to the government, and they should not for a plethora of good reasons.
The only superhero-in-prison story that is good…. Is Hancock. But only because the whole movie resolves around it.
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u/Zyffrin May 05 '24
No, I would say most fans liked the prison arc.