User blog comment:Squaredomo214/The Guggenheim Paradox/@comment-27627583-20160603192334

I agree with what you are saying but I think it is also more basic. I am writing my own Blog series about the "camps" Fan Service plays a huge part, and in Arrow you have multple fan camps that make it more difficult ro find that ground. You either have the Comic Fanboys/girls who want them to follow the comics somtimes unrealstically close, then you have the cartoon fans, whose introduction and knowlledge of the character come from the Animated Movies, DCAU, Young Justice and the animated shorts, then you have what I refer to as the "CW Fans" who have learned msot of what they knew about the character from Smallville and this show. Each group is wanting their idea of who the character is portrayed. Another issue I think too is there are about half the fans even the comic fans, especially the younger groups, who aren't famialr with the long evolution of this character as some of older fans. Not to mentuion understand where alot of inspiration came from, whether from Batman Mythos, Green Arrow himself or a rough mixture of both. So it is important to understand some of the source materail, no matter what kind of fan you are. Unfortunately there is alot of "imature fanbase" that will squabble no matter what, but I beleive most of the fanbase can find more common ground if we all understand the source material better. Even most comic fans only know bits and pieces.

Check out my own blog. I will be posting every Monday. To get to know how the comics and show realte more to one another. My blog is specifcally about Arrow as I only watch the other DC shows when there is a cross over.