Arrow

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Season 2
Season #: 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
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  1. 4poppedcollars
    Feb 8, 2015
    1
    This show could have been EPIC! But instead its boring, predictable, lovey dovey and easily forgettable. Oliver needs to be more of a man and less of a teen, Thia either needs to be killed off the show or grow up, Laurel is **** her character is so awful and boring even now that they made her the Black Canary she sucks! With so many great new hero based shows coming on it will beThis show could have been EPIC! But instead its boring, predictable, lovey dovey and easily forgettable. Oliver needs to be more of a man and less of a teen, Thia either needs to be killed off the show or grow up, Laurel is **** her character is so awful and boring even now that they made her the Black Canary she sucks! With so many great new hero based shows coming on it will be interesting to see how long Arrow will last. Given how terrible some of the writing and characters are. But you never know maybe they will give us less market driven characters and episodes and more real entertainment.… Expand
  2. comicstudybuddy
    Feb 8, 2015
    2
    Way to rip off the 3rd Batman movie Arrow... Did the writers seriously think we wouldn't notice? I mean seriously and I swear Thia and Laurel are the worlds most annoying and whiny characters. I seriously wish they would just kill them both off already. Maybe then this show could evolve a bit more and not be such a total crapfest.
  3. TheMetacritiqer
    Jul 15, 2014
    1
    The whole reason I started to watch this terrible show is because i found out Deathstroke was in it. For the most part, the scenes with him were good. But the final showdown with Arrow and Deathstroke was very disappointing. By the end I wondered why I even bothered with this mediocre series. The plot is so bland that it seems that it could have been written in a day. Too many episodesThe whole reason I started to watch this terrible show is because i found out Deathstroke was in it. For the most part, the scenes with him were good. But the final showdown with Arrow and Deathstroke was very disappointing. By the end I wondered why I even bothered with this mediocre series. The plot is so bland that it seems that it could have been written in a day. Too many episodes on spent on a boring plot and pathetic characters. It's terrible.… Expand
  4. sehecman
    Dec 6, 2015
    3
    Season 1 episodes summed up: Bad guy comes to town. Oliver kicks ass.
    Season 2 episodes summed up: Bad guy comes to town. Oliver fails to capture him, then talks about his feelings to Diggle and Felicity. They give him a pep talk. Meanwhile someone else steps up to save the day.
    Oh man, what a disappointment. Oliver is about as much of a superhero as a whiny teenager in this season. In    Season 1 episodes summed up: Bad guy comes to town. Oliver kicks ass.
    Season 2 episodes summed up: Bad guy comes to town. Oliver fails to capture him, then talks about his feelings to Diggle and Felicity. They give him a pep talk. Meanwhile someone else steps up to save the day.

    Oh man, what a disappointment. Oliver is about as much of a superhero as a whiny teenager in this season. In season 1 we had a fun, relentless vigilante who not only was a clear badass, but made even more intriguing by his Dexter-esque execution of villains. Now we have a guy who appears unable to stop much of anything in his path without help from people more powerful than himself, and who refuses to kill because his dead friend "wouldn't want it".

    That's not where the problems with this season end, either. The human drama element of the show has collapsed entirely, falling to the quality of a pretty bad soap opera. Rarely does a character act in a way that doesn't reek of being forced by the writers in an attempt to create drama. So many subplots simply start and end with little justification for doing other.

    From the start, Arrow has been plagued with the sappy dialogue you'd expect in a network drama, but I think the problem may have been pride. The writers seem unaware that the show would best function as a typical, cliched superhero action thriller. They attempt to reach for intellectual stars but every time fail to draw conclusions of even the slightest depth. Attempting to be a deep, dark examining of the human condition just looks silly, considering that this show not only fails at realism, but at any form of true character development.    … Expand
  5. justsumnerd
    Feb 8, 2015
    0
    Arrow season 2 is a cheap farce the apparent knock off with star city and its similarity with the 3rd batman movie was not unnoticed. CW quit giving us rehashed garbage from great films and start giving us something worthwhile deserving of the name good entertainment. Or just keep being the one trick pony that you are. Either way I am sure some mindless idiots will keep watching.

    You    Arrow season 2 is a cheap farce the apparent knock off with star city and its similarity with the 3rd batman movie was not unnoticed. CW quit giving us rehashed garbage from great films and start giving us something worthwhile deserving of the name good entertainment. Or just keep being the one trick pony that you are. Either way I am sure some mindless idiots will keep watching.

    You had a real chance to create something good here, you had a great comic book classic with awesome story lines and interesting characters, and instead of using that... you gave us some cheesy soap opera catered to teens and retards. Give your viewing audience some credit and start giving us more bang for our buck rather than half assed demographic or psychographic bull crap. Otherwise your dwindling audience will just start disappearing altogether.    … Expand
  6. AEm1234
    Feb 18, 2014
    2
    I used to enjoy watching arrow season 1, but season 2 has taken a turn for the worst for me. The character Sara Lance is the reason for it all. The show has lost quality and excitement due to the character being added to the show. The plot revolves around the character Sara Lance far too much. If the producers would consider bringing the show back to the three main characters as in seasonI used to enjoy watching arrow season 1, but season 2 has taken a turn for the worst for me. The character Sara Lance is the reason for it all. The show has lost quality and excitement due to the character being added to the show. The plot revolves around the character Sara Lance far too much. If the producers would consider bringing the show back to the three main characters as in season 1 I would most definitely start watching it again.… Expand
  7. EpicValor
    Jun 6, 2014
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This show doesn't follow the lore. Many of the characters have the wrong names for who they're supposed to be.

    Talia is supposed to be Ra's al Ghul's daughter by blood, not Black Canary who is supposed to be named Dinah. Both Ra's, and Talia are Batman characters. Black Canary is supposed to be Green Arrow's love.

    Brother Blood is a Teen Titans villain, and leads a cult dedicated to Trigon, an interdimensional demon.

    Speedy is what GA calls his sidekick, one of which was Roy Harper aka Red Arrow aka Arsenal.

    Deathstroke isn't supposed to be some love crazed psycho. They totally destroyed that character. He's also another Teen Titans villain.

    They have so much of it wrong. They even have Harley Quinn locked up at ARGUS, you hear her voice in one episode, and that's yet another Batman villain.

    Besides all the misnamed, and out of place characters, they have a Thea Queen character who made me turn off the sound, or fast forward during her scenes. She has to be the most annoying character ever created, and the show would have been a little better had they killed her off instead of Moira. I probably would let out an audible cheer to see her impaled.    … Expand
  8. celsojack
    May 15, 2021
    1
    The cool thing about the show was that the main character kills the bad guy when he needed to. Now with this version mister nice guy. It became just another action serie. It sucks that the writers have lost their boldness

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  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Jeff Jensen
    Oct 9, 2013
    83
    The sophomore-season premiere shows no signs of slumping.
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