YMMV / Arrow S 5 E 13 Spectre Of The Gun

• Anvilicious: The episode is loaded with unsubtle references to the gun debate. The AR-15 being the weapon of choice, Ramirez being the questionably stable pro-gun straw-man, Holt equating himself to a statistic, and literal policy debates going on in the Arrow cave to name a few. It had that kind of lack of subtlety that makes it more preaching to the choir than reaching across the aisle.
• Broken Base: The episode is this. Either you thought this was a powerful episode or you thought it was boring and the theme was way too heavy-handed.
• One-Scene Wonder: Vigilante, the second-most prominent recurring antagonist this season after Prometheus, appears to try and finish off the mook that Green Arrow has just interrogated for information, but isn't heard from again or mentioned for the remainder of the episode. The scene appears to exist purely to throw doubt on the badly injured Adrian as the most obvious suspect.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Rory would have definitely had a worthwhile perspective on the issues discussed given his strong religious beliefs and history with mass death. Unfortunately, he left the team last episode. Also, it's rather surprising that Felicity has so little investment in the gun debate—considering she was paralyzed by one.