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So a thing I like about early Arrow is that it had this fairly nuanced take on how Oliver viewed his father. Like, he loved his father. He missed his father and blamed himself for his death/suicide. However, he also fully recognized that Robert was a Lizard Capitalist and exactly the nature of what he was ostensibly going back to fix. Oliver knows his family’s money is ill-gotten, but he is using what he has learned and those resources to systematically terrify his dad’s greedy Lizard friends out of their ill-gotten gain. But he loved his dad, and he loves his mom too, even though she is also a Lizard Capitalist.

Granted this got derailed pretty quickly in favor of more typical superhero shenanigans. I still appreciate the effort the story made to cling to its Robin Hood-y roots at least up into Season 2. Terrorizing 1%ers is my aesthetic.