![]() The mirakuru saved him, in some sense of the word, but it couldn’t save Shado. Presumably, Slade has survivor’s guilt, too. You have “survivor’s guilt,” Slade tells him, matter-of-factly. It was that survivor status that Oliver has never quite been able to accept. It makes sense that Slade would understand Oliver so well: he was there when Oliver became the man he is today, when he transitioned from a spoiled rich kid to a survivor. Slade has always been Oliver’s best mentor, even more so when he is not. Of course, this insight, though gradually learned over the course of years, came in a succinct nutshell from the one and only Slade Wilson. ![]() Instead, he used the scraps of that soul to “right wrongs,” to kill whomever he thought deserved killing. With that forgiveness, Oliver seemingly lost that will to kill, or more accurately the anger and guilt inside of himself that made him feel like his soul wasn’t worth saving. It came when Oliver, once again, chose not to kill Chase, instead choosing to forgive himself for his father’s death. Of course, Oliver’s release of the past came before Chase’s dire action. (But not really because there’s such a thing as actor contracts.) Presumably, he blew Oliver’s loved ones up along with it. Chase both literally and thematically destroyed Oliver’s connection to his past when he planted hundreds of bombs on Oliver’s own personal purgatory and blew it up. With the Season 5 finale, aptly named “Lian Yu,” that identity crutch, force, whatever you want to call it has come to an end. ![]() The show has defined itself - for good and for bad (and, boy, has there been stome bad) - by Oliver’s past. ![]() For five seasons, Oliver has defined himself by the time he spent on Lian Yu. ![]()
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