Arrow 521 Review Honor Thy Fathers
I enjoyed this episode because it was a thoughtful episode about what our parents leave us. At least that is how I took it. Encased in concrete in the body of man Robert Queen accidently killed. His mistake was in covering it up, because Malcom Merlyn used that to cause Robert to participate in the Undertaking. It also lead to his charge to Oliver to right is wrongs. This one mistake lead to Oliver making his journey to becoming the Green Arrow. No child can right any wrongs of a parent. Our sins are our own. They aren't our children's. Robert Queen should have understood that. I think Robert wanted his son to be a better kind of man than he was. Every parent knows the strengths and weaknesses of their children. Sometimes the things we see in our children that we don't like, are the very things that are weaknesses in ourselves. Long ago in college I wrote a poem that about that, an...