Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Arrowverse catchup, this time looking at Arrow Season 7 episode 12, the Emerald Archer. In what was the shows 150th episode they pulled out a very unique concept that I really enjoyed in the form of filming parts of the episode like a documentary, They then had the opportunity to splice in cameos from a range of old Arrow characters who are no longer in the show. It was so nice to see Quentin again! They also had a really fun appearance from Barry Allen which was a a nice surprise. He is always much more smiley on Arrow than his own show.

The villain of the episode was (not bratty William who was very irritating so less of that please and I hate the overplayed expelled teen trope) very self-contained and a one off which wasn’t entirely clear initially. This was mainly because the show at the moment seems to be lacking a big bad and the 150th episode seemed like as good a time as any to introduce a new one. He was branded Chimera and was a vigilante who hunted other vigilante’s and collected their masks. Even though it was done first in season 2 of Legends of Tomorrow by Damien Dharke it was still an interesting enough idea. As a one off it made him feel a bit useless even if he did already have a few items in his collection. He had a cool flame thrower though…

The main takeaway was the whole of Team Arrow being deputised. This definitely puts a new spin on things and are they getting paid for it? Will Diggle and Curtis leave ARGUS as a result? We ended with a fast forward recap with characters I really don’t care much about at this point. I wasn’t sure if it was the same Connor Hawk from Legends but at the moment the fast forwards are doing little for me, especially when they solely feature characters who only appear in those future segments.

DD Rating: 7.5/10 (The documentary parts really pull this score up as little else really stuck)