Arrow, Ep. 2.20, “Seeing Red” challenges Oliver in new and devastating ways
Nobody ever said becoming a superhero was easy: Arrow’s second season journey from ‘vigilante’ to ‘hero’ has occurred in a darker, post-Undertaking Starling City, where constant reminders of who Oliver Queen used to be have challenged the man he wants to become. Those challenges have brought Oliver into a crisis of character, one we see play out through “Seeing Red” with Roy’s violent rampage drawing parallels to Slade’s similar mental breakdown (right down to hallucinating the women they love), eventually returning to Slade itself for the show’s most shocking final moment of the series: Slade killing Moira Queen in front of her two children.
