Has Oliver finally found someone who can properly hold him accountable for his actions - especially the actions of the emotional variety? I hope so.Īs I mentioned before, I would be 100 percent on board with Oliver passing on the Green Arrow persona to Diggle. When Oliver keeps ditching William in the middle of conversations that are literally about how Oliver will never leave William, the kid points it out. It helps that William is a smart kid and he calls Oliver on his bullshit. I wasn’t sure how I felt about the Oliver/William stuff in the first episode, but William livens up a bit in this episode and I find that I like the dynamic much more. Otherwise, this is not the John Diggle I know. I’m hoping Diggle tells Oliver the truth, despite Oliver’s plan to give the Green Arrow alter ego to him. It took Rene getting seriously injured and Dinah almost getting strangled to death just for Diggle to admit he had a problem, but, even then, he swore Dinah to secrecy. Sure, he’s gone off the deep end a bit since he killed his brother (also, out of character), but he has never been the type to value his pride over the safety of his friends. This is the man who has made Oliver face the reality of his situation since Day One. In the short-term, it seems Diggle will continue to lie about his nerve damage, which is disappointingly out-of-character. However, this seems unlikely to happen, given Diggle’s secret nerve damage that keeps him from being able to shoot a gun and I guess an arrow? Oliver’s request explains why Arrow decided to give Diggle this injury storyline: it keeps him from being able to take Oliver up on his request, if not in the short-term, then definitely in the long term. He is as much of the Green Arrow as Oliver Queen, and the message him becoming the Green Arrow would send - both thematically, for the show, and for the wider world of superhero narratives (superheroes are hardly ever individuals in real life, but rather communities) - would be pretty badass. Shortly after Oliver became the Hood, Diggle was there, too. They were the ones who inspired Oliver to take on the worst elements of Starling City. From the beginning, it was Yao Fei and Shado and Slade Wilson and Robert Queen. The Green Arrow has always been more than just Oliver Queen. I just wish I thought Arrow was actually going to carry through with it. However, when Oliver asks Diggle to permanently take up the mantle of the Green Arrow on a permanent basis, that is something new for this show - and something new for superhero TV. Diggle or the Human Target have suited up as Green Arrow to throw the authorities off of Oliver’s trail. We’ve seen it done on Arrow before, though never in any permanent way.
Passing the superhero mantle on to someone else is a mainstay of comic book canon.
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