Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
Arrow made it four-and-a-half years and over 100 episodes before its writers finally decided to buckle down and do an “issues” episode. There’s a good reason that approach has more or less fallen out of vogue over the years. It’s generally pretty hard to boil complex, hot-button issues into 45-minute conflicts without either boring viewers, getting preachy or dumbing down the arguments. Case in point - pretty much every episode of Law & Order: SVU from the last five years.
That being said, if there’s any thorny topic Arrow should delve into, it’s the gun control debate. This is a show about a group of vigilantes who take it upon themselves to wage war on crime, often employing lethal force with no authorization or accountability. At some point you really have to address the issue of gun violence and the fact that Team Arrow might be part of the problem, not the solution. “Spectre of the Gun” hardly explored these issues in the depth they deserve, but it did about as much as can be expected in the course of one 45-minute storyline.
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