Team arrow is pretty lame. It's like they went from a show for adolescents and adult to a show for kids
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Finally Stopped Watching the Show
aryamanshady26 January 2018
After episodes of trying and trying I have fainlly stopped watching Arrow, Left it Midway season 6. Season 1 and 2 of the show were pure GOLD. Season 3 the show got a little sloppy. Season 4 was just terrible. Season 5 went surprisingly good and season 6 is just very boring and and terrible.
The show lost its spark after season 3 and Arrow 's new "team" is just unbearable. If you compare it with Team Flash. The show lost its Billionaire Playboy Charm and the Dark cool Arrow long back, even Felicity and Diggle are annoying now. It feels like Greg Berlanti just lost his focus from the show.
I hope they gain back the Season 1 spark.
Still the best of the Arrowverse!
Rob133128 September 2022
Arrow is the show that started it all for the CW and the Arrowverse and through all the good (The Flash) to bad (Black Lightning) shows that followed, Arrow is still the best of them. Yes, it had a few down seasons but overall the show was terrific! It tells the story of billionaire playboy Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) as he returns a changed man after the world presumed him dead when his yacht sank at sea. He becomes the vigilante Green Arrow and tries to clean up the city. He starts off by himself by slowly puts a team together as they fight to put away criminals in Star City. I can't say enough about Stephen Amell and the job he did. He was perfectly cast as Oliver Queen and is the face (along with Grant Gustin as The Flash) of the entire Arrowverse.
Stephen Amell was perfect as Green Arrow!
Supermanfan-1310 November 2020
Arrow is absolutely the best of the CW DC shows (except Smallville). The show had its ups and downs throughout its run but it was still an overall really good show and the last season was one of the best! Stephen Amell was absolutely perfect as Green Arrow/Oliver Queen! I'm really going to miss this show!
You have failed this show!
MyNameIsFelicitySmoak19 June 2016
You have failed this show! The first two seasons were brilliant. -meaningful flashbacks -great villains -good pacing -fitting dark tone
Season 3 had a drop in quality, and season 4 completely butchered a fantastic show. In season 4: -horrible meaningless flashbacks -worse acting -terrible villains -unfitting lighter tone -illogical story lines with many plot holes -more like a soap opera than a superhero/crime drama TV show
-butchering of major story lines like Andy Diggle, Oliver's child, HIVE
Rating for season 1 and 2: 8.7/10 Rating for season 3: 7.5/10 Rating for season 4: 5/10
Season 3 had a drop in quality, and season 4 completely butchered a fantastic show. In season 4: -horrible meaningless flashbacks -worse acting -terrible villains -unfitting lighter tone -illogical story lines with many plot holes -more like a soap opera than a superhero/crime drama TV show
-butchering of major story lines like Andy Diggle, Oliver's child, HIVE
Rating for season 1 and 2: 8.7/10 Rating for season 3: 7.5/10 Rating for season 4: 5/10
Bring back the good-ness!
csgollum21 July 2018
I used to love this show. When it began, the mere athleticism of Stephen Amell used to give me goosebumps and I would have rated it an 8, even 9. But with the passing of time (I think somewhere around Season 4), the quality of writing started dropping. Actors can do only so much (and they do give their best every time) with this kind of material. Some characters have become sort of hangers on and should be put out of their misery.
I sure hope things pick up in Season 7.
I sure hope things pick up in Season 7.
This was my favourite Comic Hero show
18Buddha21 July 2021
The acting is amazing I love The actor who portrays oliver Queen. Also the action in the show is top of the line! Their fight sequences during big boss fights often seem like something from a movie. Very well co-ordinated and the way the camera pans from 1 character fighting to the next and to the next all the while their all in the same big battle is awesome.
If u want action?? This show is for you, the green arrow is always fighting enemies in hand to hand combat which makes it even more enjoyable then other super hero shows.
Maybe sometimes the storyline lags about.. buti for one love what Arrow has done in bringing about a new age of DC shows that intertwine & connect sometimes through Cross over Arcs.
If u want action?? This show is for you, the green arrow is always fighting enemies in hand to hand combat which makes it even more enjoyable then other super hero shows.
Maybe sometimes the storyline lags about.. buti for one love what Arrow has done in bringing about a new age of DC shows that intertwine & connect sometimes through Cross over Arcs.
Arrow
piyushbaviskar24 October 2020
It was a good tour.
jerepepe25 February 2021
Arrow went in style, and looking back left us both unforgettable seasons and regular seasons, but never all bad.
It concludes by giving a good ending to almost all the protagonists that the series had over the years and a sweet ending to the path of Oliver, the creator of the now known Arrowverse
From bad to worse
dpinjuh1912 June 2019
Too much soap, to much failure, too stressful
myemailthats22 October 2019
It was tolerable up to season 4, that's where everyone became emotional extremists and critically irrational for most of the show. There are inconsistencies, events that make no sense, too much hypocrisy from every character who demands respect and honesty but continuously lies and disrespects in every episode. The arrow team plans fail 90 percent of the time making them look incompetent, evil is portrayed as stronger and smarter, while good is portrayed as stupid and weak, the only way to win is by luck and not skill for the arrow team. Really disappointing.
That said, I enjoy the performance of the actors and will continue to watch, even though it feels like I'm sticking needles in my eyes at times with everything this series irritates me with.
That said, I enjoy the performance of the actors and will continue to watch, even though it feels like I'm sticking needles in my eyes at times with everything this series irritates me with.
Enjoyable from start to almost finish.
Brew_Swayne29 August 2020
Without giving away any details, I'm simply going to say that the final 2 seasons were tough to watch. The overall story being told here was fun and exciting and the weaving of past and present was fairly well done. Maybe the final season would have been more enjoyable had it not been crammed into just 10 episodes. It seemed rushed and convoluted and sloppy.
Good acting: Stephen Amell - Oliver David Ramsey - Diggle Emily Bett Rickards - Felicity Paul Blackthorne - Quentin Lance (probably the best performance of the series) Rick Gonzalez - Rene Ramirez
Ok acting: Wila Holland - Thea Colton Hayes - Roy Harper Echo Kellum - Curtis Juliana Harkavay.- Dinah
Terrible awful horrible kill me now acting: Katie Cassidy - Laura Lance Every child actor in the series
Good acting: Stephen Amell - Oliver David Ramsey - Diggle Emily Bett Rickards - Felicity Paul Blackthorne - Quentin Lance (probably the best performance of the series) Rick Gonzalez - Rene Ramirez
Ok acting: Wila Holland - Thea Colton Hayes - Roy Harper Echo Kellum - Curtis Juliana Harkavay.- Dinah
Terrible awful horrible kill me now acting: Katie Cassidy - Laura Lance Every child actor in the series
My favorite show ever by far
rileysollerud20 March 2021
Extremely mild spoilers ahead
Season 1: A classic masterpiece with such an amazing and centered cast. I love how the team is so small in this season because it really gives them space and time to show off who they are. The dark Archer is also a fantastic Villain and counterpart To Oliver.
Season 2: Deathstroke is the greatest villain ever and the dynamic between him and Oliver is amazing! The flashbacks are also at their best here as a lot of things from Oliver's past and present connect and intertwine. This is honestly the best season of the show.
Season 3: This is also such a classic and pivotal season as we really start to see Oliver's Relationship with Felicity really kicks off. The show also introduced Ray Palmer who is such a Fantastic Character who's dynamic with everyone is just outstanding. This of course is to set up the second best Arrowverse show: Legends of Tomorrow. The storyline with Ra's al ghul is just amazing and I love the arc with him and Oliver at the end.
Season 4: This is probably the worst season. I personally think it's still really good but the flashbacks are week, the villain feels out of place and the there's this overlapping theme of "Everyone can be a superhero" and it's honestly a bit annoying. Overall a decent season.
Season 5: The show really gets reborn as half of the cast is completely new and we get some great storylines with Oliver as mayor. Prometheus is a great Villain and He as well as the return of Deathstroke sets up some great storylines in season 6.
Season 6: This one is pretty week but has some really good storylines as I previously mentioned. The fact that Oliver now has a Son and has to take on the whole role as a Father is an amazing plot as well as Him getting married. This season has a pretty strange set off villains but an amazing crossover!
Season 7: The first half of this season is outstanding with Oliver going to prison. It's an amazing plot and has an amazing ending an payoff. But the rest off the season doesn't really hold up as much and the concept of the Villain is interesting but overall the outcome was pretty boring.
Season 8: An amazing season that connects back to the shows roots and provides a fantastic ending to the show. That's really all I have to say about it.
Overall, an amazing show and I totally recommend it!
Season 1: A classic masterpiece with such an amazing and centered cast. I love how the team is so small in this season because it really gives them space and time to show off who they are. The dark Archer is also a fantastic Villain and counterpart To Oliver.
Season 2: Deathstroke is the greatest villain ever and the dynamic between him and Oliver is amazing! The flashbacks are also at their best here as a lot of things from Oliver's past and present connect and intertwine. This is honestly the best season of the show.
Season 3: This is also such a classic and pivotal season as we really start to see Oliver's Relationship with Felicity really kicks off. The show also introduced Ray Palmer who is such a Fantastic Character who's dynamic with everyone is just outstanding. This of course is to set up the second best Arrowverse show: Legends of Tomorrow. The storyline with Ra's al ghul is just amazing and I love the arc with him and Oliver at the end.
Season 4: This is probably the worst season. I personally think it's still really good but the flashbacks are week, the villain feels out of place and the there's this overlapping theme of "Everyone can be a superhero" and it's honestly a bit annoying. Overall a decent season.
Season 5: The show really gets reborn as half of the cast is completely new and we get some great storylines with Oliver as mayor. Prometheus is a great Villain and He as well as the return of Deathstroke sets up some great storylines in season 6.
Season 6: This one is pretty week but has some really good storylines as I previously mentioned. The fact that Oliver now has a Son and has to take on the whole role as a Father is an amazing plot as well as Him getting married. This season has a pretty strange set off villains but an amazing crossover!
Season 7: The first half of this season is outstanding with Oliver going to prison. It's an amazing plot and has an amazing ending an payoff. But the rest off the season doesn't really hold up as much and the concept of the Villain is interesting but overall the outcome was pretty boring.
Season 8: An amazing season that connects back to the shows roots and provides a fantastic ending to the show. That's really all I have to say about it.
Overall, an amazing show and I totally recommend it!
A lot of action and great characters
SkullScreamerReturns22 March 2023
I don't often watch series from start to end. It has to be somehow special that I take the effort to watch through all the seasons. Usually it starts to feel like a chore at some point.
Going through Arrow took me about four years. First three seasons I watched pretty fast. I think those were the best. Season three ended in a happy note and I was feeling a bit tired of the series already so I decided to quit for some time. Then I watched more seasons from time to time. Especially the later seasons often have episodes that start to bore me. But the thing with Arrow is that there are always those likeable characters and you start to miss them like good friends, so eventually you pop another season.
The dynamic trio is Oliver Queen, Felicity Smoak and John Diggle. These characters are the foundation that always works. But there are also many great supporting characters. If you have read any DC comics in your life you might recognize a lot of familiar characters that visit the show from time to time.
The series starts as a quite simple revenge story where our vigilante is working alone, a bit like Batman. But as the show goes on it slowly changes to a more complex character drama. That works as well because the characters are interesting. But sometimes I felt like I missed the more straightforward action episodes from the early seasons. And some of the villains especially in the later seasons have so crazy schemes that it starts to feel unbelievable even if it's not being a realistic show to start with. I think the writers should have slowed down from time to time because some individual episodes suffer from being just a build-up for some incoming mega plot.
I could talk endlessly about the characters or storylines so I guess that is a sign the series made some impression. It has its weaker moments but overall I don't regret using a lot of hours to go through it.
Going through Arrow took me about four years. First three seasons I watched pretty fast. I think those were the best. Season three ended in a happy note and I was feeling a bit tired of the series already so I decided to quit for some time. Then I watched more seasons from time to time. Especially the later seasons often have episodes that start to bore me. But the thing with Arrow is that there are always those likeable characters and you start to miss them like good friends, so eventually you pop another season.
The dynamic trio is Oliver Queen, Felicity Smoak and John Diggle. These characters are the foundation that always works. But there are also many great supporting characters. If you have read any DC comics in your life you might recognize a lot of familiar characters that visit the show from time to time.
The series starts as a quite simple revenge story where our vigilante is working alone, a bit like Batman. But as the show goes on it slowly changes to a more complex character drama. That works as well because the characters are interesting. But sometimes I felt like I missed the more straightforward action episodes from the early seasons. And some of the villains especially in the later seasons have so crazy schemes that it starts to feel unbelievable even if it's not being a realistic show to start with. I think the writers should have slowed down from time to time because some individual episodes suffer from being just a build-up for some incoming mega plot.
I could talk endlessly about the characters or storylines so I guess that is a sign the series made some impression. It has its weaker moments but overall I don't regret using a lot of hours to go through it.
The Most Entertaining TV series To Debut In 2012
JasonDanielBaker13 October 2012
With a decent premise (Though hardly original) and good writing punctuated by witty dialogue this series is of exceptional sophistication. The poor quality of small-screen drama has become mystifyingly evident in recent years. A lot of the action in the pilot was also beautifully choreographed.
I read Green Arrow comics as a kid as well as its tie-in The Black Canary. I recognize the names of many of the characters and can see where they might be going plot-wise in future episodes. But they have revamped the back story with a vision that suggests the one Christopher Nolan took in making the Christian Bale Batman movies and I find it quite agreeable.
The future of the show will obviously hinge on public appetite for scripted episodic TV. The evident affection for lame reality show singing/dancing auditions of homely, talentless twits eager to make fools of themselves remains depressingly high. Hopefully this show will find and keep an audience.
I read Green Arrow comics as a kid as well as its tie-in The Black Canary. I recognize the names of many of the characters and can see where they might be going plot-wise in future episodes. But they have revamped the back story with a vision that suggests the one Christopher Nolan took in making the Christian Bale Batman movies and I find it quite agreeable.
The future of the show will obviously hinge on public appetite for scripted episodic TV. The evident affection for lame reality show singing/dancing auditions of homely, talentless twits eager to make fools of themselves remains depressingly high. Hopefully this show will find and keep an audience.
Protector of Starling City
bkoganbing25 November 2016
Many years ago Oliver Queen known tabloid playboy and perennial feature on page 6 of Starling City's local newspaper has been lost for five years on an uncharted island, the last survivor of yacht that sank. All others are dead including Queen's girlfriend of the moment and his father played by Jamey Sheridan.
Played by Stephen Amell Queen may on the surface look and act like the old playboy, but he's a lot more physically fit and he's got some fighting skills. At night when he's working he becomes the Arrow clad in Robin Hood like Lincoln Green. He who is a child of privilege uses now his fighting skills developed and the billion or three he's got control of to become the people's champion.
Arrow is darker than most comic and cinema superheroes and Amell plays him that way. He's not got any super powers just some highly developed skills.
The show's been on for five years now and it's got good staying power. Amell is a hero, but a most human one. I look forward to its future.
Played by Stephen Amell Queen may on the surface look and act like the old playboy, but he's a lot more physically fit and he's got some fighting skills. At night when he's working he becomes the Arrow clad in Robin Hood like Lincoln Green. He who is a child of privilege uses now his fighting skills developed and the billion or three he's got control of to become the people's champion.
Arrow is darker than most comic and cinema superheroes and Amell plays him that way. He's not got any super powers just some highly developed skills.
The show's been on for five years now and it's got good staying power. Amell is a hero, but a most human one. I look forward to its future.
Enough is Enough
elvisfancs2 December 2018
I can no longer watch, although I still like the key characters and how they use to be in earlier seasons, I can't stand the whole stupid Diaz storyline. He gets away with everything... as if.. so unrealistic, illogical and cartoonish.
The villains are so so evil and yet they always have the upper hand, and the heroes are presented as too weak to prevail not too mention that agencies supposedly on the good side of the law also side against the heroes.. I mean... really.
No wonder there is so many bullies in the real world, they are in most tv shows today, and they are always in top positions. I want to be entertained, not annoyed and frustrated. Sorry Stephen Amell, I'm a fan of yours but you have to speak up to the producers and writers, they are failing you.
The father of superhero shows (in my opinion)
ThunderKing628 July 2019
It has some bad episodes, moments, characters, seasons, actors, flashbacks and Oliver "Arrow" Queen goofs. Sometimes Oliver is an excellent fighter other times he is a jobber.
Overall it's a fun, serious, dark show that entertained me for 8 years.
This is the first TV show i watched from Ep 1 to finale during its run.
Thanks Arrow.
2020 July 21st update: Let's honor the father of superhero shows. Without Arrow all the others like Netflix Marvel would not exist. Arrow gave birth to them all. All Good things need to come to an end.
Overall it's a fun, serious, dark show that entertained me for 8 years.
This is the first TV show i watched from Ep 1 to finale during its run.
Thanks Arrow.
2020 July 21st update: Let's honor the father of superhero shows. Without Arrow all the others like Netflix Marvel would not exist. Arrow gave birth to them all. All Good things need to come to an end.
Good until it isnt
oliverarnell11 December 2019
Like many others here. I thoroughly enjoyed season 1, 2 and 3 was alright. 4 was where it really went down hill with poor plot and acting which overall lost the more gritty feel to arrow. Season 5 however really brought it back for me with an amazing villain and interesting plotline. Despite this I dropped out midway season 6 as again the story became sloppy, repetitive and uninteresting which is a real shame for a show that really does have it's high points. Highly recommend just watching through to the end of season 5 and leaving it there. Probably just watch a season recap or something on season 4 as its really not worth the watch.
Great show ... if not for the Flashbacks from Hell
A_Different_Drummer8 November 2013
Let's take a moment of mourning for the TV plot arcs of yore. Back when shows prioritized the characterizations above the action and, if indeed there was action, it took place precisely in the last 7 minutes of the episode, and was all done with before the close, giving the characters a chance to make light comic banter, close down the storyline, and give the audience a chance to go to the toilet. How many TV shows followed that formula I cannot say, but the number was in the 100s. Now all that has changed. You can now have action many times in the body of a show, it is permitted, even encouraged. And you have action even before the characterizations are fully developed. All this is positive evolution I think. But here the catch. There are no more "closed" story-lines. In the multi-band, multi-channel, multi-device electronic age, where viewers tend to have attention span of a hummingbird, nighttime TV has astonishingly borrowed the Rule Book of daytime soap operas and, lo!, plots never actually resolve, they just become more complex. ARROW is one of the best exponents of the new type of comic-book-derived drama, arguably as good as or even better than SMALLVILLE (which was, thematically, all over the map). Amell is great. He has a whispery kind of delivery which oddly makes what he says that much more interesting. The supporting cast is great. In fact the only thing that prevented me from giving this a "10" are the flashbacks. They are terrible. They are like some silent Hell the viewers must go through to get back to the actual episodes. It is almost as if the lead writer, as a small child, was locked in a closet with a DVD looping KUNG FU, and grew up to believe that you cannot advance 10 minutes of plot in the present, without 2 minutes of flashback to fortify it.
Early seasons were good, the later ones were not
nikmcrae24 August 2020
Title of my review says it all. The early seasons were really solid. Awesome writing and fight sequences. As the years went on it seemed like Oliver got worse at fighting because he couldn't handle some regular baddies that he wouldn't destroyed in the early seasons. The last few seasons were all poorly written, not believable, and incredibly cheesey.
Thank you for 8 beautiful seasons
Yossy_yan30 January 2020
I've been watching this series since episode 1.
From the beginning i loved it, and even more when they started with the arrow univers.
Although it has some down, the ups were much more.
It was filled with action, drama, laughing and crying and I'm so sad it's over.
So thank you all very much for amazing 8 season Wish you all the best
So thank you all very much for amazing 8 season Wish you all the best
Went downhill .... but I'll miss it.
TheKomer30 March 2020
First few seasons this show was great! Then, they started to mix it up with other shows like Supergirl and Flash. All those shows were to much intertwined. Then time traveling, return of to many dead characters... ruined it all. Last two seasons are barely watchable. Ending also! WTF was that?!
But I will still miss it because all other series from "Arrowverse" are even worse. .... I will keep 7 as a final rating, but last few seasons don't deserve more than 5. Less even!
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