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After a violent shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen was missing and presumed dead for five years before being discovered alive on a remote island in the North China Sea. He returned home to Star City, bent on righting the wrongs done by his family and fighting injustice. As the Green Arrow, he protects his city with the help of Team Arrow with former soldier John Diggle, computer-science expert Felicity Smoak, his vigilante-trained sister Thea Queen, Deputy Mayor Quentin Lance, brilliant inventor Curtis Holt, and his new recruits, street-savvy Rene Ramirez and meta-human Dinah Drake. Oliver has finally solidified and strengthened his crime-fighting team only to have it threatened when unexpected enemies from his past return to Star City, forcing Oliver to rethink his relationship with each member of his “family”.
In a season that has been unwilling to engage with its central conflict in a real way, one would think a break from that would be welcome. Instead, this episode feels of a piece with the rest of this season...
It's heartening to see that Arrow's recent resurgence isn't just a brief fluke. "The Dragon" continued the tighter, more focused approach that's benefited the series so much in recent weeks.
The episode's titular villain takes center stage in an hour that's supposed to flesh him out a bit and get us to care about his villainy. I'm not entirely sure if the episode succeeds in that regard.
The Dragon is a tour de force for Kirk Acevedo. He did in one episode what it takes some villains the whole season to do. He gave Diaz life and made him more than just a monster.