I keep thinking season 4. I do know that arrow is like where everything happens to certain events and characters. I do like arrow though other than the seasons, it goes from good to bad and messy when it comes to characters.

Stephen Amell just dropped official autographed merch!! Bought the necklace as quick as I could :)

Subreddits from older shows are more active than this (see Smallville or Buffy) and overall its barely mentioned anymore.

The show sadly declined a lot later on but still deserves more. When it was great it was one of the best superhero shows ever. If only they maintained the quality of S1-S2

Absolute cinema. So so good.

In Missing's flashbacks, Oliver almost kills himself from going insane. I wish more stuff like that happened. There were small things like the flashbacks in 1x6 Legacies but I wish there was more. And I wish Oliver was by himself more than on the island, moreso in S1's flashbacks as he struggles to survive then go insane

In Lian Yu's flashbacks, the island is Oliver's battlefield & I wish we could've seen him take more advantage of his experience on the island in battles on the island in other episodes

I watched the show as a kid with my dad and enjoyed it but after growing up and reading real green arrow books. Cw Ollie is just a cosplayong bruce wayne who murders people. I dont really aee how the show is so loved. I want a show with Ollie's real characterization. Cw arrow is unrecognizable to the real green arrow. Flash wasnr perfect but it had Barry allens soul at rhe character. I see cw Ollie and just see a random mercenary not olliver queen

Rewatching arrow for like the 7th time and it's been a while so I kinda forgot how much I dislike Laurel and her mood swings. Especially season 3 when she's "part of team arrow" and just gets pissed at Oliver for not killing people

This way we can keep Oliver's womanizer past to show his growth and it give Oliver and Laurel a clean slate.

Also by switching them this means helena and tommy would become a thing. And Tommy's death could become the motivation to make her the huntress.

With all the team Arrows, why not a team set up like this?

-Green Arrow with his trusty sidekick Speedy

-The cowboy gun slinging Vigilante

-The honorable yet true Shining Knight

-The mysterious and ruthless Crimson Avengers

-the Patriotic Duo of Stars and Stripes

That sounds like a heck yes, if Arrow going to have a team Arrow, might as well go with the classics.

At least it’s good so far, I’m only 6 episodes in I hope it holds up. However, I can confidently say that the first 6 episodes are better than any stretch of season 3 or 4. Season 3 was incredibly frustrating for me right from the beginning with Sara’s death. It continued with the whole season forcing characters, especially Oliver, making stupid decisions which resulted in a very convoluted ending.

I thought about making a post about season 4 as I found the first half of it much more enjoyable. Maybe not much better but it wasn’t as frustrating. It definitely wasn’t as good as season 1/2, but I was fine with it. Then halfway through, specifically when Felicity gets paralyzed, things go to shit. There’s way too many problems to list despite the fact that after finishing I did want to rant and shit on it, but it felt like a waste of time. I was pretty mad, but I thought I would continue with season 5 not expecting much.

To my surprise, season 5 has been much better than season 3/4. The directing is much better, the fights are much better, Felicity is much more bearable as the “girl in the chair” rather than Oliver’s Fiancé, which gives more time to other characters. Oliver just feels more like a competent hero, Prometheus is intriguing, the flashbacks are very good, and I’m enjoying the new characters so far. The only issues I have with it are left over issues of season 4, which are significant but not season 5’s fault. That and I’m coming up on the crossover which is confusing because I don’t watch the other shows and don’t know what’s going on. But hey at least Barry and Oliver are fun together.

This is all to say, as long as season 5 holds up, was there a change in creative teams or something? Because everything feels different (in a good way).

Been binge watching the show first time have watched alot of other arrowverse shows including all of flash. I'm on episode 3 and turning it off because it's really boring compared to first 3 seasons. Should I stick it out?

Which actor/actress visibly aged throughout the run of Arrow? Me personally, Stephen Amell was looking a little rough by season 8 could just be the longer beard however.

Does John Diggle smoke because he has cigarettes and a lighter in one scene and in season 1 episode 2 he says he went to the squad car to ask for a light and found both of the officers dead so I’m wondering if he actually smokes or if that is just his cover story

At the end of the series when Oliver recreated the multiverse why did he bring back earth 2 Laurel instead of earth 1 Laurel?

Moira came back, Quentin came back and Tommy came back. I guess due to fixed points in time universe Laurel always dies. She probably dies in a horrible death in all universes.

How do these changes affect what we watched outside of S8?

Only weird thing is how they didn’t even bother to resolve the cliffhanger they left and they had years to do it like what happened to William and who wanted JJ to remember his evil self and why. Like even by the time of that little Flash Armageddon crossover Mia says that William is still missing.

It was an amazing show and it felt like the show that never changed all the way. The crossovers with him were amazing and I do wonder what type of characters could have been removed or something else. It’s a little weird how they added magic but it was still fun.

I started to rewatch. I never actually did get all the way through it.

I have ADHD and sometimes I just have these thoughts that sort of intertwine, and it made me wonder if this would’ve made season five more or less compelling to you guys. What if Adrian’s father wasn’t Justin Clayborne, but instead was one of the “innocent” security guards or other low-level thugs that Oliver killed on his way to him? Maybe he was just in the job to protect his family, maybe there was blackmail involved, or maybe he even just made a bad decision, but he wasn’t a criminal per se. Clayborne is still used as a red herring since it happened that night, but it would hit 10 times harder when Oliver realizes that the reason he set off this chain of events was because he killed someone that he viewed as expendable, lost in that fit of rage on his way to the target, not caring about who he put in harm’s way, automatically marking them as guilty without even knowing their names. It honestly highlights something that I always had a problem with, especially during season one, where these almost NPC like characters just got killed, and nobody cared, because they weren’t the ones on the list. It would also parallel the idea that Oliver’s father didn’t care about the regular person, only caring about people in his tax bracket. What do you guys think?