YMMV / Arrow S 6 E 2 Tribute

• Hilarious in Hindsight: Oliver’s rhetorical question regarding Bruce Wayne leaving Gotham to hang out in Star City was in fact half true. According to “Elseworlds”, Bruce Wayne hadn’t been seen in Gotham for two years when Queen posed such question.
• Moral Event Horizon: If Anatoly didn't cross it last season, he certainly crosses it this episode when he kills is hostage just to spite Oliver.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Oliver retires from hero-ing so he won't risk leaving his child fatherless...but apparently he's perfectly fine with Diggle taking the exact same risk. And it's going to happen, assuming the Bad Future seen in Legends of Tomorrow is still on track.
  • Though to be fair, Diggle is already Spartan and risking his life every night anyway. And it's not like he was forced to do it, he willingly accepted the position (even in-spite of the degenerative nerve condition Oliver still doesn't know about).
  • Given that Flashpoint and the time aberrations have happened since then, the Bad Future is unlikely to be set in stone (especially if the creators don't want the show to have a depressing Foregone Conclusion). Besides, we have no reason to believe Oliver was even told of this possible future anyway, so he's not at fault for not considering it.
• Wham Line: On a meta level; Oliver name-dropping a certain Gotham-based billionaire confirms the latter's existence in the Arrowverse, which comes as quite a surprise to viewers, who have long assumed that Oliver was essentially the franchise's version of Batman,; though there had been subtle hints before like that "Deranged Female Inmate" who's considered too dangerous for Taskforce X, "Oracle" already been taken as moniker, Thawne's newspaper mentioning a merger between Queen Inc. and Wayne Tech, not to mention Rip's line how he's seen "Dark Knights fall".
  Oliver: (to the press) Photos can be doctored. They could have put Bruce Wayne's head on that body. Has Bruce Wayne left Gotham to hang out in Star City recently? No.

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