Green Arrow tv series

[Slade]

Decided I'd watch after a few buddies reviews and I have to say, so far, this season has been a real step up from the last few.

I was mad that it was a bait and switch with Laurel, because, I do like the actress and her character was getting good before being wrongfully killed off.
I'm cool with Dinah Drake though.

[Cure]

The last episode was great. I love the whole dynamic of everything being out in the open between the hero and villain.

[Slade]

Originally Posted by Cure

The last episode was great. I love the whole dynamic of everything being out in the open between the hero and villain.

I second this. Keep it up Arrow.

[Cure]

This show keeps getting doper.

[Raph's Girl]

So looks like Black Siren/Earth 2 Laurel will be a series regular next season on Arrow...

http://www.greenarrowtv.com/katie-ca...rrow-season-6/

[Cure]

Whyyyy? She's the worst.

[Cure]

Pretty great finale. I like the way they tied it to the beginning of the series. Now I just wonder if the flashbacks will continue in some form next season.

[sdp]

I normally caught up on my DC shows in the fall when they added them on Netflix but last fall they added everything but Arrow so I ended up skipping all the shows but just now they added the fourth season of Arrow and I'm at a dilemma. I love the shows but man I now have Arrow, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, Flash and Gotham to watch...that's too much counting every show is 44 minutes and they all have 22 episodes or so..

|I think I secretly liked that Netlfix didn't add Arrow last fall since it gave me an excuse...still I gotta watch it, I have continued to like Arrow all 3 seasons and I still think it's awesome despite it getting a lot of hate on the internet.

[Turo602]

Amazing finale. They brought the show full circle perfectly and the flashbacks this episode were the best since season 2. Awesome to see Deathstroke back and everyone involved. Though, I find it strange that Oliver would resort to using Deathstroke's and Captain Boomerang of all people's help, before Roy. He would have made the whole thing more complete. But damn, Prometheus is by far the best villain this show has had.

I'm also totally calling it.

Spoiler:

Merlyn is going to make the save on the island.

[Andrew NDB]

I've just started watching the show a couple of weeks back. I'm about halfway through season 2.

Season 1 had some serious problems (very annoying that each and every villain is in some way directly connected to Ollie, his sister, his mother, his father, his best friend, or Diggle) but most of that I can chalk up to it finding its own feet. Saw the comparisons to Iron Fist, in that both begin with a billionaire lost for years coming back to take his place... in Iron Fist it's a big deal, here it's basically sorted out in 2 episodes. Fights are hit or miss but generally interesting to watch. Now, I have to really hand it to the season finale... that was all kinds of bad-ass and big. Pretty rare to see a season build up so many characters only to gleefully tear them down in its end. It's impressive. The spectacle too.

Season 2 so far... eh, I dunno. It's more polished in some ways, but in others it seems even more questionable. Arrow's reasoning for "I absolutely will not kill now because my friend is deeeead" is pretty dodgy and it's a little bit corny how that's the through line throughout (Laurel's father and everyone all shocked/impressed at Arrow, "Oooh, really? Are you truly turning over a new leaf now? No more killing serial killers or supervillains that will just kill the next day, pwomise?"). The stuff with the return of Laurel's missing sister sort of happened too quickly to register... could have been way more powerful if handled more capably. It was also very confusing... the first few times I saw her "attack" in costume, I swore it was just the Kelly Hu character from last season, who also had a mask and blond wig. I found the "Ollie organizing a Cash-For-Guns Rally" episode, with all the good citizens of Starling City turning in their guns like lemmings as if it's this wondrous thing to be super preachy... though there's a certain irony in that the city official he was basically doing that for, to appease, is turning out to actually be a supervillain.

I don't know about the island stuff. It's wildly inconsistent. In season 1 alone, Ollie and Deathstroke must have killed -- easily -- about 30, 40 enemy soldiers on that island. Probably more. Where are they coming from? By the end of season 1 Ollie and/or the Asian guy and/or Deathstroke have been caught and escaped from them literally about 15 times. It should have been just "Castaway" on the island, with Ollie honing his skills... not some big convoluted thing.

That's where I'm at, around episode 7 of season 2. Way, way better than something like Smallville (of which I couldn't even make it more than 5, 6 episodes into) but not nearly as pound-for-pound entertaining as really any of the Netflix Marvel shows. You could cut like 10 episodes out of Arrow season 1 and it would hardly matter. Still, not bad.

[Autbot_Benz]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

I've just started watching the show a couple of weeks back. I'm about halfway through season 2.

Season 1 had some serious problems (very annoying that each and every villain is in some way directly connected to Ollie, his sister, his mother, his father, his best friend, or Diggle) but most of that I can chalk up to it finding its own feet. Saw the comparisons to Iron Fist, in that both begin with a billionaire lost for years coming back to take his place... in Iron Fist it's a big deal, here it's basically sorted out in 2 episodes. Fights are hit or miss but generally interesting to watch. Now, I have to really hand it to the season finale... that was all kinds of bad-ass and big. Pretty rare to see a season build up so many characters only to gleefully tear them down in its end. It's impressive. The spectacle too.

Season 2 so far... eh, I dunno. It's more polished in some ways, but in others it seems even more questionable. Arrow's reasoning for "I absolutely will not kill now because my friend is deeeead" is pretty dodgy and it's a little bit corny how that's the through line throughout (Laurel's father and everyone all shocked/impressed at Arrow, "Oooh, really? Are you truly turning over a new leaf now? No more killing serial killers or supervillains that will just kill the next day, pwomise?"). The stuff with the return of Laurel's missing sister sort of happened too quickly to register... could have been way more powerful if handled more capably. It was also very confusing... the first few times I saw her "attack" in costume, I swore it was just the Kelly Hu character from last season, who also had a mask and blond wig. I found the "Ollie organizing a Cash-For-Guns Rally" episode, with all the good citizens of Starling City turning in their guns like lemmings as if it's this wondrous thing to be super preachy... though there's a certain irony in that the city official he was basically doing that for, to appease, is turning out to actually be a supervillain.

I don't know about the island stuff. It's wildly inconsistent. In season 1 alone, Ollie and Deathstroke must have killed -- easily -- about 30, 40 enemy soldiers on that island. Probably more. Where are they coming from? By the end of season 1 Ollie and/or the Asian guy and/or Deathstroke have been caught and escaped from them literally about 15 times. It should have been just "Castaway" on the island, with Ollie honing his skills... not some big convoluted thing.

That's where I'm at, around episode 7 of season 2. Way, way better than something like Smallville (of which I couldn't even make it more than 5, 6 episodes into) but not nearly as pound-for-pound entertaining as really any of the Netflix Marvel shows. You could cut like 10 episodes out of Arrow season 1 and it would hardly matter. Still, not bad.

when you get to Season's 3 and 4 you are gonna wish Felicity would get killed she gets really annoying in those seasons

[sdp]

Season 1 is basically like Batman Begins, which sucks that Green Arrow is a Batman show but I still loved it because of that. S2 to me felt like The Dark Knight, a little too much "xanatos gambit" in the show for me to like it though it's the fan favorite season I think. S3 felt like TDKRises, too much going on an a little too much suspension of disbelief is needed.


The show does get more and more ridiculous as it goes on and the "realistic' world established in the first season is pretty much completely gone. I still think it's a great show and flash is also good. I would've loved to have seen this Green Arrow and Flash in the Justice League movie but whatever. At least it gives them the chance to kill off characters since they're not connected.


I kind of agree with what Howard Stern said about these shows which is "it's all I ever dreamed of so I have to watch them" but man do they get cheesy, then again comics do as well. The shows make so many dumb-ss decisions that you hate it since they get so many other things right and it could easily be the perfect interpretations of the characters but they keep f-cking it up. But yeah I think I'll end up watching and enjoying my summer marathon of Arrow S4/FlashS2/LoTS1/Supergirls1/Vixens1... god that's so many hours..

[sdp]

Green Arrow competes in Ninja Warrior. Definitely catching up on Arrow and the rest of the show snow.

[Jester]

In an only slightly related note, my son was watching The Electric Company while I dozed on the couch. Woke up to see Adrian Chase teaching him about Silent E.

[THGhost]

Nice to see people here liking this show again. Last time I was in this thread y'all were saying it was the worst show on TV or something.

Final was great, I can't wait to see everybody on the island survive.

Originally Posted by Turo602

I'm also totally calling it.

Spoiler:

Merlyn is going to make the save on the island.

Spoiler:

I heard John Barrowman isn't coming back to the Arrowverse.

[Cure]

Originally Posted by THGhost

Nice to see people here liking this show again. Last time I was in this thread y'all were saying it was the worst show on TV or something.

No, it was the same two or three people constantly popping in just to remind everyone that they've given up on the show and are never ever gonna post in this thread again.

[THGhost]

Originally Posted by Cure

No, it was the same two or three people constantly popping in just to remind everyone that they've given up on the show and are never ever gonna post in this thread again.

Good to know.

Originally Posted by Cure

I'm really disappointed they brought back Laurel Lance. Hopefully she doesn't stick around for long because she suuuuucks.

Glad we agree on this. I remember people here being upset when she was killed off. Seriously? Laurel?

[Cure]

Originally Posted by THGhost

Glad we agree on this. I remember people here being upset when she was killed off. Seriously? Laurel?

Yeah, she was the most boring character on the show. People like to complain about Felicity but at least she has energy and is entertaining.

[THGhost]

Originally Posted by Cure

Yeah, she was the most boring character on the show. People like to complain about Felicity but at least she has energy and is entertaining.

Are people here still wishing she was killed off instead of Laurel? Or were they the ones who vowed never to post here again?

[Cure]

Originally Posted by THGhost

Or were they the ones who vowed never to post here again?

Yeah, pretty much. Which means they'll be telling you themselves soon enough.