Warning: this review contains full spoilers for Arrow: Season 8, Episode 3! If you need a refresher on where we left off, here’s our review for Season 8, Episode 2.
This week’s installment of Arrow further bears out an uncomfortable truth. The episodes in this final season are only going to be as good as the parts of Arrow’s checkered past they homage. And with Episode 3 remaining locked in Season 3 territory, this was always going to be a very uphill battle for Ollie and Thea.
The fundamental flaw with “Leap of Faith” is that it never really feels all that necessary to the bigger picture that is Crisis. Sure, it ties up plenty of random loose ends and serves as the swan song for characters like Willa Holland’s Thea and Lexa Doig’s Talia, but for the most part, it all feels more like obligatory housekeeping than dramatically rich material. Thea already got a perfectly decent sendoff last season. Sure, the show purposely left the Thanatos Guild subplot hanging to be picked up down the road, but it’s not a thread that was exactly crying out to be addressed. Certainly not like, say, the unresolved fates of Slade Wilson or Brock Turner.
Source: IGN.com Arrow Is Trapped in its Mediocre Past