It’s been a while since I’ve been here much like Oliver
Queen in Lian Yu.
I’ve finally finished watching season five of Arrow and let
me just say, that was one of the greatest season they had.
For those you haven’t seen Arrow or caught up there are
SPOILERS in this post. I try to stray from them, but this post can’t stray from
them this time.
Arrow has experienced many great villains. Season one was
Malcolm Merlyn, season two was Slade Wilson, season three Ra’s Al Ghul, and season
four Damien Darhk. But we encountered a new type of villain this past season,
Prometheus aka Adrian Chase played by the most amazing actor Josh Segarra.
I was truly enthralled with Prometheus because his name. Prometheus
was a Titan who created humanity and stole fire from Mount Olympus to give to
mankind. Zeus then gets upset that he imprisons Prometheus for his act.
Prometheus is a sort of hero, so to see this character portrayed
as a villain is twist of fate. Although Zeus sees Prometheus as a villain or
criminal, he was helping is creation survive making him a hero.
In Arrow, Adrian Chase is the new DA, a person who helps Mayor
Queen whenever he’s in trouble. Adrian works with Mayor Queen when John Diggle
gets out of prison, when the news exploited Mayor Queen, and when Mayor Queen
was getting impeached.
You can say that Adrian was being a good guy. I mean I truly
fell for him so much that was hoping that he be a regular. But as it turns out
he’s the villain ready to avenge his father’s death.
But is Adrian Chase really Prometheus?
Adrian explains that he calls himself Prometheus because he’s
taking something from Oliver. That doesn’t correlate to the story.
All Adrian did was strip Oliver of his alter ego to make him
see what Oliver truly see: a killer. But that’s not who Prometheus is.
Prometheus wanted to keep his creation, humanity, alive. He
sot to steal fire from the gods, who saw his creation as inferior, to give to
those who needed it. Adrian didn’t do anything like that. He wanted Oliver to
suffer and to admit he like killing.
So why call him Prometheus?
I believe that you should correlate both stories somehow. Don’t
just use the name because it sounds cool.
It would be great to see Adrian as a vigilante. He could be
Prometheus in the terms of wanting to strip Team Arrow down.
To explain further.
Citizens of Star City see Team Arrow as untouchable much
like gods, but they are just humans.
Adrian is already trying to do his best for his city as
District Attorney. Bring people to justice, but sees Team Arrow as having all
control again much like gods.
Adrian as Prometheus would be stripping Team Arrow
individual down to human and showing all of Star City who they really are.
Prometheus would be giving something to humanity by stealing something identity
in this case from Team Arrow aka the “gods.”
That’s something I believe would have played out really
well, and would have correlated really well to Prometheus’ origin story.
Arrow is an amazing show that I love, that I’m obsessed
with. The writers are always trying to challenge the actors and the plot of the
show. It continues to amaze. I just wonder what’s going to happen next.
Always keeping it nerdy.
-Em
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