Superhero Media: Arrow - Season 7

Oh man, they really should have canned this after Season 5, which wasn't great, but at least had a compelling villain and a decent ending. Fresh from being uninteresting in Season 6, Diaz is back again to be utterly not menacing as he talks about how much he hates Oliver for no reason. Oliver, meanwhile, is in prison, having made the deal to be put away with the Star City Mayor at the end of the last season so that his team would not be charged for their vigilante activities. Later in Season 7, there is some legitimately interesting discourse about the role of vigilantes within a traditional law enforcement structure, but before that we have to get through the writers of Arrow hitting every prison cliche while they get the chance. Man, I am so tired of Arrow. 

Rather than the flash-backs we were finally done with, the writers decided that what we needed was flash-forwards, featuring Maya, Oliver and Felicity's daughter, who is evidently more relevant in Season 8 and the "Crisis On Infinite Earths" crossover. On the subject of the crossovers, I won't be complaining about them moving forward, as they've finally become available as separate entities, so I can check them out at my leisure. As for the future sequences and Maya, neither really does it for me, and come across as more of a failed attempt at a "soft reboot" than anything genuinely interesting. The return of some characters and actors from the earlier seasons only add to this aura of the programme being worn out, especially as some are certainly only there because they couldn't get those who went on to actually be famous. 

For a few episodes, Team Arrow are folded into the Star City Police as their own deputised response force, which creates some genuinely interesting friction and hearkens to the Adam West Batman; I'd be keen to try an element like that in a campaign I run at some stage. However, before that can really land, the team are wanted for murder because we need to rush to the finale. What's really odd is that Oliver is taken away by the Monitor at the end of the season, despite the fact we have one more of these to get through. I've heard that the programme becomes more about Maya, and I'll have to admit that the only reason I will bother with season 8 will be because I've come this far and don't see the point in stopping now, even if Arrow should have stopped years before it got this far.