Team GATV Roundtable: Looking Back At Arrow Season 5

Is there anything you specifically DON’T want to see?

CRAIG: Flashback sex?

I would be okay with it if Donna Smoak is gone for now, and, please, no more Bug-Eyed Bandit. I would, however, enjoy seeing Tom Amandes as the Calculator again. Bonus if Gregory Smith can direct that episode. That is, unless both of them are busy doing the Everwood reunion series that they need to make already.

MELISSA: Plot driven by stupidity. Manufactured melodrama. Killing characters off because it’s May.

MATT: Aforementioned relationship melodrama and turmoil. Storylines about Oliver as murderer. Either he kills or he doesn’t. Pick one, stick with it, and stop revisiting this plot point. I’m all for a Talia-Nyssa throwdown, but let’s stay far away from the League of Assassins going forward. And dead is dead now. Let’s stop killing people off only to have them reappear. Arrow shedding some of its worst tropes would be a good thing.

STEPHANIE: In the event that Samantha makes it off Lian Yu alive, I don’t want to see any more of Oliver’s baby mama drama, unless they decide to have William start showing signs of Oliver’s darker tendencies. I’d like to see them tackle a nurture/nature debate with the darkness within.