YMMV / Arrow S 4 E 15 Taken

• Awesome Music: Hearing the Vixen theme again is one thing, but making it segue into the Arrow theme is what cements her place in the Arrowverse.
• Badass Decay: Losing the totem powers aside, Darhk has shown himself to be a powerful and capable martial artist (he was, after all, the runner up to the position of Ra's al Ghul). He's quickly dispatched by Oliver at the end despite this.
  • Possibly justified in that if Darhk has been relying on his magic to drop opponents, he may have neglected to keep his training up, similar to the way Merlyn's skills diminished once he had the League to do most of his fighting for him.
• Broken Base:
  • Much like the first time this happened, fans heavily debated whether Felicity was right to break up with Oliver over lying to her again, or if she was being overly wangsty and selfish about something that wasn't her business (and that's if fans considered someone's fiancee having a secret child "their business."). The fact that she brings up how a marriage is supposed to be just added more fervor to both sides. Another aspect people brought up was that, regardless of whether or not Felicity was right, she could have picked a better time to call him out as he was literally crying about saying goodbye to his only son forever, making it seem like she believed that only her emotional pain was important. Of course, on the flipside, she did remain reasonable and professional after the initial revelation, helped rescue William rather than focus on her pain, was incredibly amicable to Samantha considering she was the one who forbade Oliver from telling Felicity the truth in the first place, waited until Samantha and William were safe before ending things with Oliver, and did so in a very calm, gentle manner. There was also the fact that Felicity spent the previous episode telling her mother that people lie for a good reason, but spent this episode criticizing Oliver for lying regardless of his reasons. There were also fans who disliked how much Oliver lied and cut Felicity out of his decisions in Season 3, and felt that her reaction was a culmination of that but also that her perspective should have been explained more.
  • Fans were also split over whether Oliver was right to lie in the first place. On one hand, Samantha forbade him from telling anyone and threatened to stop him from seeing William if she discovered he'd broken that promise, but on the other hand, she'd never have known if Oliver told Felicity, so it really came down to Oliver lying to a woman who'd lied to him for years or to his fiancee/partner. The fact that Oliver's longterm plan seemed to be to sneak off to Central City periodically and pose as "Mommy's friend", rather than, say, contact a lawyer about his legal rights also makes it seem like he grabbed the Idiot Ball, and the fact that Oliver actively chosing to propose to Felicity while still hiding William's existence makes him look much worse, as hiding a child from a girlfriend is more understandable than from a fiancee.
• Catharsis Factor:
  • People who thinks that Oliver treats, or rather used to treat his women like shit will have a fun-field day with this episode as three women who he is/was romantically involved with chew him up for it.
  • After an entire season of winning fight after fight against Team Arrow (humiliating them all along the way), Darhk is finally outwitted and put down a peg when Vixen destroys his totem and Oliver takes him out in a fight.
• Narm:
  • Some people find it hard to take Mari's "How about I kick your ass like a woman instead?" seriously, or even as the Badass Boast it is intended to be.
  • The need to explain Vixen to people who didn't watch her show naturally leads to some awkward lines, especially when she says that without her necklace she's "just an aspiring fashion designer who lives with my foster dad."
  • Felicity's miraculous recovery that allows her to walk out on Oliver, what should be a dramatic moment came across as almost comical in its delivery. Especially when it is the end of the episode before an extended hiatus, whereas the comparable episode on The Flash had a Dramatic Unmask of the season's Big Bad.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: Considering Vixen's powers are so tricky to portray in live action that she first appeared in animated form, they look pretty darn good here.

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