He took to heart what Lance said about the city needing someone Rather than change Lance’s mind through the mask, Oliver decided to change his They areĪ new suit and arrows aren’t going to change Lance’s mindĪbout The Green Arrow, because all he sees is Oliver Queen. His methods were rooted inĭarkness, but his intent was rooted in good. Saved thousands of lives and transformed many. He did a lot of good as The Vigilante and The Arrow. The darkness Oliver has often overshadowed his light, but itĭidn’t obliterate it. He can only see his failings because all he sees is Oliver To Lance, Oliver Queen and The Arrow were no Then, Ra’s tells Lance Oliver Queen is The Arrow and it was Losing the respect of Quentin Lance as THE ARROW was devastating to Oliver because it the only avenue he had to It was one of the reasons Oliver wasĬonsidering joining the League before Felicity knocked some sense into him. He’s carried that with him all these years. His daughter, but because Oliver wanted to be a person worthy of Quentin’s More than anything, he wanted Quentin to like him. He couldn’t admit it, but deep down, Ollie Queen admired Quentin Lance. We all have people in our lives that we look up to andĪdmire. When it was gone, Quentin lost the ability to see The Arrow.Īll he could see was Oliver Queen. Lance was the last character to find out Oliver’s identity. Therefore, Lance could finally see the man Oliver truly was. It’s why the mask was so important to Oliver and Quentin’s Lance respected TheĪrrow’s iron will, intense desire for justice, fortitude and selflessness. Lance started working with The Arrow because conventional Or who he became, Lance could only see the man who killed his daughter. Impossible for Quentin to see any change in Oliver. Unfortunately, what happened to Sara made it Will, an intense desire for justice, fortitude and selflessness. And when it was over… Oliver was transformed. The pain he suffered was penance for his sins. Oliver burned in the fires of Purgatory and Stripped Oliver of his laziness, his selfishness and narcissism because those Lian Yu broke Oliver down to his most basic components. You know why? It was too…damn…hard.” Colonel Slade, Scent of a Woman. Knew what the right path was without exception, I knew. “Now I have come to the crossroads in my life. Laziness and narcissism overshadowed the good inside him. When Lance looks at Oliver Queen all he sees is “notĭeep down Oliver Queen always had a light inside him. “Ollie” Queen wasĮverything Lance wasn’t. Represented nothing Lance respected or valued. Over lies, and selflessness over selfishness. Lance believes in justice, accountability, hard Lance didn’t like Oliver and that was BEFORE he took Sara on the Oliver was a party boy who lacked direction and failed out ofįour colleges. His reputation asĪ womanizer was well known. With the law and his rich parents bailed him out of trouble. With Laurel, beyond Season 1, to the years before the Island. To really understand Quentin and Oliver, we have to go all Asįor the future, the Lance family’s place in Oliver’s life is looking more uncertain. Impact on the creation of The Green Arrow, is very much rooted in the past. The Lance family is key to the beginning of Oliver’s story. Without the Lance family, there is no Green It’s Oliver’s relationship with the Lance family which Paul Blackthorne and Stephen Amell rose to the occasion and delivered spectacular performances. Moment of pure honesty, especially from Oliver, about their relationship. Tonight, was the culmination of the history between them. Their relationship is one of the most layered and complex in Arrow’s Quentin and Oliver were the emotional meat of theĮpisode. But before that vision can be achieved, they must first deal with the past. As Arrow looks to the future with Oliver as The Green Arrow, they are united in a singular vision. However, they foreshadowed important clues of what comes next. “Beyond Redemption” was Arrow’s weakest episode thus far, except for the scenes with Quentin and Oliver.
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