User blog comment:Eobard95/Arrowverse problems this year/@comment-3127448-20180612071447/@comment-26624146-20180612121148

It was the choice to pursue Olicity that ruined this show both because neither Amell or Rickards have convincing chemistry and because it spat in the face of 50 years of source material with Green Arrow and Black Canary that Lauriver should've been, and killing her off was the nail on the coffin and they've been on life support ever since. I personally think they've realized this but have too much pride to outright admit they f***ed up.

Personally I think they took the critisims towards season 3 and tried to fix things by increasing the humor and decreasing the seriousness but ended up having the exact result and actually made things worse. It's almost as if history is repeating itself since this was Arrow's problem too. You're right though about DeVoe yet the choice to have a non-speedster villain was possibly the only improvement this year.

I don't hate Kara and Mon-El but I'm not really a supporter either as these shows poor executions of past relationships has made me kinda neutral towards the concept of romance, and I think they'd save a lot of time if they just bypassed most of it.