Trying to Hang I am aware I wrote review of this show, and I was close to knocking it of my list of shows. I kept watching. It has not gotten any better. The problem I am facing from the Fall 2017-Spring 2018 and I am sure it will be the same for this summer of 2018 shows, is that all the shows I am watching are about the same thing.
I am uber annoyed with this. Literally every show I watch (I watch a ton) has decided to take on sociopolitical issues and put them in the story line. I am hating every minute of it. I hated it when the "Black Lives Matters " movement was trending, I hated it and still hate it when transgender and lgbt any and every thing was trending, and now with this ridiculous "metoo" movement, I have to endure a female "empowerment" episode, or a sexual harassment episode in every tv show I watch. Arrow is no different. As I review the seasons of all my tv shows, I will complain about this, because it just made the shows very tacky. None of the shows were even subtle about it. I mean come on. Really? I personally don't need 30-45 minutes of "women can do everything a man can do" I will pass! Keep it on the blogs, social media, the news,,I don't care any where but in my entertainment. I am tired of hearing about it. I don't want any scenes where a man tells a woman she is pretty and oh now a compliment is sexual harassment! MY GOD. I am so sick of all of these Non issues becoming issues. I purposely don't watch the news and don't have social media so I don't have to constantly suffer the noise of that crap and all of the previous named crap. I am a black woman! I am sick of it..Now it is in my tv shows? Why Why
Arrow is already suffering from cheesiness, bad acting and a constant revolving story line that never ever seems to change. I get that super heroes are some what cheesy, but the cheese in this show is awful. A new season brings the same thing, Oliver blames himself for everything, Felicity and Dig tell him its not his fault, he fights with someone on the team, people quit the team, people rejoin the team blah blah blah. "rolling my eyes"
As this season unfolded I hated the extras even more. I can't for the life of me understand why these other people were ever on Oliver's team. I never read any comic books, may be they are in the comics, I intend to look that up. If that is the case, they cast them all wrong. Those 3 generic super heroes are awful. Why does it seem like no matter how much other people mess up it is only wrong when Oliver messes up? I thought I liked Dig but who knew he had so much female dog in him? Him as the Green Arrow? Yuck! None of them are good friends, they all bail when the going gets tough, and blame Oliver for everything. What about his sister? I am sick of her. I mean every season she must be saved, she is liability. She leaves, come back, almost dies, get saved.
Last and least Laurel...this drove me the most crazy. The fact that this chick wasn't Laurel but they kept calling her Laurel and Laurel's father kept acting like she was really Laurel. TF? All this and then the obvious "female, metoo, empowerment" crap. Which Arrow nor any other super hero show or movie is even a good platform for that mess because women are already fighting side by side with men. Kicking men butts. When it is stuck in there, it just looks desperate and phony.
I only watch because of the Flash cross over and references, but this next season, I will watch a couple of episodes, if nothing has changed..I'm out.