Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-5536445-20190416045240/@comment-5536445-20190615012836

Astroarnav: Don't you just hate it when your bizarro counterpart just shows up and makes you look like an asshole?

Astronoav: Me Bizarro Astronoav am nuanced and intelligent!

Astroarnav: GET OUT! Okay, I need to clear this up. I don't hate Arrow all that much. It's still has many enjoyable episodes where I feel that, while they're not directly representing the comics, they're subtly referencing the core theme of the comic's sense of righteousness and moral justice. Season 1 is where this shines through the most, what with the Glades story arc. Seasons 2-3, while I do feel they were a step down from the progression to the true character and were taking too much from Batman, did at least push the story forward into making Oliver happy. But after Season 4...it's become clear to me that the thing I stuck around for was never going to come. Where everyone feels disappointed in BvS for being too dark and melancholic with the world, and how they were misrepresenting Batman and Superman, I just felt the same way about Arrow misrepresenting one of my favorite DC superheroes of all time. Say what you want about Zack Snyder and his terrible execution of the DCEU, but at least Zack was trying to reconstruct Superman into the more positive hero that he was through a series of depressing imagery. Arrow, on the other hand, is dead set on giving us this interpretation of the Emerald Archer that is the exact same in personality to the tone of the DCEU. Oliver Queen is charismatic and enjoyable, and Stephen Amell really is good for the role, but that charisma should be reflected in his superhero counterpart, but the scripts just keep holding that back. Because of that, Oliver doesn't have the same voice that his comic-sources have. He isn't outspoken and inspiring, he's just focused on taking out Gotham City-I mean Star City's scourge. He doesn't have charity spokespeople tailing his back, he has mobsters from Russia. Season 7 was a shining ray of hope for me though: geniunely good writing, an adequate focus on the romance, and an EFFORT to bring Oliver closer to the happy life that he so rightfully deserves, but then he leaves the team for the Crisis to die...so I now have to give up on the show that I eagerly watched. Not out of spite, I enjoyed several parts of it. I give up on this show because it ignored what it promised fans: a progression towards the wisecracking and left-wing idealist points of view that Green Arrow is so well known for having.