Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26373999-20170331110735/@comment-24152851-20170520000939

I explained this on a blog before. I don't mind Dinah as a character, but cannot stomach the means and reason she was introduced. They wanted a more accurate Black Canary, but you can't just kill off the inaccurate one and replace them with a near identical version.

I wanted to like Artemis, but she wasn't that interesting. Then she revealed herself to be evil and gave me even less reason to like her. Roy and Thea were far better kid sidekicks.

Okay, let me explain it this way. Films are generally far more watched and well known than TV shows. They're the ones that have better expectations, will pay to watch with friends, and the ones that people get pressured to watch at times. Batman has been hammering out films endlessly from the 60s back with Adam West, through the Tim Burton/Joel Schumacher franchise, Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy, then finally DCEU. So it's very likely anyone who has stuck around for Arrow this long has at the very least heard of the films, which is so heavily ingrained in pop-culture.