A Matter of Trust
Arrow 5 x 03 "A Matter of Trust" aired last evening, and it proved an interesting episode. The theme of the episode is trust. Oliver still (or as my Irish grandmother would say, "Again, yet, and still) has issues of trust. Oliver's trust issues go back before the Island, and the island experiences didn't help either. But the matter of trust wasn't all on Oliver's side, either, his new recruits, Wild Dog, Evelyn, Rory, and Curtis all have to learn to trust him. Wild Dog and Evelyn find it more difficult to trust Oliver than the others. The young recruits feel trained and ready to fight to save the city, and become frustrated that Oliver seems too slow to put them out there. Is Oliver ready to let them go? I think Oliver still struggles over the lost team. It took him a long time to trust Diggle, Felicity, and Thea. Now th...