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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”.
Arrow gets some of its mojo back, but sadly it's still plagued by the same problems it has courted all season...This week is significantly better than the previous episode, but that's a low bar to clear.
Shifting Allegiances had some good, some great and one poorly timed subplot. Overall, Arrow feels like it's on the right track and has a direction as the season winds down.
Arrow's run into these issues in the past, and it does seem that they're making the same mistakes a slightly different way than they have previously, though only slightly.
Early in "Shifting Allegiances," there's a sequence that works...unfortunately, it highlights how little of that feeling can be found in the rest of the episode, and in this season as a whole.
Here's the thing, as the Green Arrow, Oliver has saved the city and the world several times over. Is the government really trying to punish him for that? Maybe he should've just let those aliens invade because vigilantes weren't legal.