This "Arrow" has found its mark

[agt_spooky]

Since I've decided to no longer watch Supernatural because of a certain vile character who I now so despise I can't even look at him - I'm instead going to concentrate on shows that I actually enjoy!

Like Arrow! See my shiny new icon? :-)

I didn't start watching Arrow until around Christmas and as of last week I'm finally all caught up. What an awesome show!

Let's see:

• Oliver is da bomb! And Stephen Amell himself is a freaking riot, especially on Twitter
• I've grown to like Diggle much more
• Love Felicity to death! If she and Olli don't get together…
• I'm still on the fence about Roy. Do we really need another sidekick? I think the team's full enough
• Bring back Malcolm Merlyn ASAP!
• RIP Tommy Merlyn - I was really broken up about that
• Laurel - can we please get rid of her? She's the biggest black mark on the show for me
• I'm enjoying the flashbacks this season much more than last season
• Can we keep Walter and ditch Moira?
• The guest stars on this show rock! It's a fangirl's dream!

Do I have any other fellow Arrow fans on my flist? What are your likes and dislikes? Let's chat!

P.S. - Goodbye, Dean Winchester. I'll truly, truly miss you. And Jensen, I'm sorry you're stuck on a show that treats your character this way and has done for so many years.

Comments

[faninohio.livejournal.com]

Oh no, haven't watched this week's episode yet...was this the straw that broke the camel's back? I've been watching for years now only for the eye candy that is Jensen...but, it's getting harder and harder to suffer through the show just for that. I hope when it finally ends he gets another series. I'd like to see him on my TV each week.

[frostfalcon.livejournal.com]

I've been watching Arrow but I've been a fan of archers and Green Arrow for years, looks over at the pile of comic books and graphic novels... yeah.. I miss Tommy and I'm on the fence about Roy, although I'm waiting to see how they handle Barry Allen, I'm not really thrilled with Laurel but I do like her dad.

[violateraindrop]

I don't think I'll ever be able to give up on Supernatural (for weird personal reasons). That doesn't change the fact that it's probably still my least favorite show right now.

I stopped watching Arrow after S1 (I initially watched the first few episodes to get enough background for Seth Gabel's episodes lol) because I hate Roy. Actually, I realized after a while that I only care about half of the characters and only truly enjoyed the episodes focusing on the island. At that point I could still get away with skipping Roy's (and most of Thea's) scenes, but he's obviously much more important now judging from the tumblr gifs.

[kimberleyqaf.livejournal.com]

I watch Arrow, but to be honest, half of the time I'm not sure why lol

- I do really like Oliver.
- I also like Diggle and think he's good for Oliver.
- LOVE Felicity. Next to Oliver, she is, without a doubt, my fave.
- I didn't like Roy, but knew he'd be getting a bigger role because of the comics. For that reason, I tried to like him more and I think I'm OK with him now. I haven't seen this week's ep, though, so I hope I'm not speaking too soon.
- I don't need to see Malcolm Merlyn back. Don't miss him at all lol
- I do miss Tommy though.
- I didn't mind Laurel last season but can't stand her this season. I know she's grieving (I guess) and I want to be sympathetic but I just can't. I want her gone. And she can take her sister with her. Leave the dad, though :)
- One of the reasons why I'm never sure if I actually like the show is the flashbacks. I don't like them. At all.
- But I'm with you on the Moira front. She can go anytime, as long as she leaves Walter. She can take Thea with her too, for that matter. Thea is a character I don't really like or dislike. She's just kinda there.

Sorry you're leaving Supernatural. :( I'll miss our chats lol

[donelbo.livejournal.com]

I LOVE ARROW ... but you already knew that ;).

Are you talking about Dean?

[deanvica23.livejournal.com]

You stop supernatural sweetie? Dont abandon dean and jensen sweetie. It cause of sam? Im fed up with sam. Me i cant i stay for my dean. I watch arrow. I finish the season 1. Im very disappointed by jared. Love

[katwoman76.livejournal.com]

Not gonna comment on the SPN part, because we have very different opinions on that and I don't fight about it. It's one of those we agree to disagree things.

I watch Arrow and like it, but am not really invested in it. The thing that bugs me most:
How does anyone who knows him NOT recognize Oliver in his Arrow-outfit? I mean, seriously. So many people who know him well spend plenty of time with "Arrow" close by and that hoodie + eye-makeup (now replaced with an actual mask, which is a little bit better) combo really doesn't do much to disguise him (I'm talking about close range, not from a distance).

[country_bee.livejournal.com]

You're giving up on SPN? I really wish I could. There is nothing left of the show I once loved so much. It's just an hour of the asshole Sammy show now. :( But I just can't turn my back on Dean and Jensen. Dean was just so ripped apart and broke at the end of the last episode. *sobs* Amazing work by Jensen.

Sam on the other hand? I hope he dies slow and bloody.

Arrow, I sort of watch. It's on while I'm busy doing other things, so I wouldn't say I'm a fan, but I know enough to get by. LOVED Tommy! Felicity is awesome. Laurel and Sara can go live on the island and never come back. The dad seems okay though. I actually like Moria, and I guess Oliver is okay.LOL. The flashbacks drive me bonkers. And Roy, eh.

*Edited to fix my Moria mistake, I meant Thea...but either way I like them both.

[duffy-99.livejournal.com]

So sorry about your breakup with Supernatural (I must email you about this! I want to understand!), but let me just say I love Arrow so very very very much. Have watched it from the very first episode, and it's always one of the highlights of my week! I don't always really know what's going on -- the mythology is dense and lots of characters are based on the comics of which I know nothing --- but I love all these people greatly.
Hmmm....perhaps I shall also try to entice you to Teen Wolf?

[ellyk29.livejournal.com]

As much as I do not like how this season of SPN is playing out, I am enjoying kick-ass Dean. Now they just need to write Dean kicking Sam's ass... again, and again, and again! And then again. Tried to get into Arrow, maybe will go try again.

[ann-tara.livejournal.com]

You know you and I are on the same page WRT SPN. I've only been sticking around this long for Jensen/Dean anyway. And they want me to hate Sam, fine, I hate him.

As for Arrow, I love it! I've been a fan since it premiered, and I'm happy to hear you've gotten on board the Arrow Love Train! I honestly do think it's the best show the CW airs. :D

I'm normally all about the Olicity - though I admit last night my girl kind of pissed me off. But, still, I think she's the one Oliver should end up with. At the same time, I'm not so broken up about him hooking up with Sara last night. They're pretty hot together - especially when they're both suited up. ROWR!!!!

What this year's flashbacks, especially last night's, have proved to me is that Oliver was always with the wrong sister anyway. He and Sara were far more suited to each other than he and Laurel.

Katie Cassidy is DREADFUL in this role. I know she's a lightweight actress, but there is something seriously off with her here. And she looks absolutely awful - like the poster child for anorexia. I honestly don't know why the network and studio haven't stepped in - she looks that sickly to me.

I know Moira's a bad girl, but, dammit, I can't help but love her a little bit. LOL! I think it's because I really like the actress. And Walter is a doll! I wish they could find their way back to each other. ;)

[bitchtude.livejournal.com]

I haven't watched SPN since sometime last season. I just got tired of the angel/demon/god kill Sam/Dean again stuff. Seriously, I want old school SPN back. Saving people, hunting things.

Do love Arrow though! Stephen Amell... can't wait to meet him and hopefully get a pic with him at the ComiCon up here! He's a riot and is so passionate about the show. Okay, he's got a great body too, LOL!

Felicity - love her! A geek after my own heart! Would love for her to get Ollie.

Digs - he's grown on me. He needs some story of his own again.

Laurel & her sister - I don't know who bugs me more so I try to ignore them both.

Slade - can't help but have a little love for the bad guy, LOL!

Have to squee a little whenever Nick Lea is on screen :-D

Thea - I go back and forth with her. Sometimes she's just too whiny but then she is only 18/19.

Yes on Walter, no on Moira. Want both Malcom and Tommy Merlin back!

Roy - he's okay. I have no desire to have him killed yet.

[maguie.livejournal.com]

yes, I imagined that,, the two lasts episodes,, wow they are really making Sam a villain in this story (and that withour counting Sam leaving Dean on Purgatory).... I would like to know what Eric thinks about the story,,,

I don't know why, but I can't stop watching it,, I'm so hooked, I need to know what's going to happen.... Its funny cause there are a lot of series I've stopped watching them cause I didn't like the story anymore or they were changing a lot of the storyline,, but with spn,,, I don't know, maybe the writers found a way to bewitch some of us, so we couldn't stop watching spn.

[raloria.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you're leaving SPN. I'll never leave it, unless they kill off Sam &/or Dean, but that's not gonna happen. :P

You need to tear down characters to build them up again and I know the show will give us a satisfying and wonderful resolution to all this angst and pain by season's end. They'll get the boys out of that tree, it's just going to take a little time. The writers themselves have said this won't last, that the brothers will reach a resolution, we simply have to be patient. I can't wait to see what happens, despite them causing me heartbreak week after week (and it's so delicious!).

As for Arrow, I love it as well and I also keep wishing Felicity and Oliver could be a couple. ♥ :) If you love Stephen on Twitter you need to follow him on Facebook. He occasionally answers fan questions via video. It's so very cool! He's a neat guy.

[samazon13.livejournal.com]

I really appreciate all the terrific female characters they have on the show. I don't think that much of the lead character, actually - he's all strong-jawed hero and unfortunately it strikes me as a bit one-note. I actually started watching it in season one, but it didn't hold me beyond a couple of episodes. I gave it another chance with S2 and with the larger cast of characters, I like it better.

I agree that the character of Laurel is very hard to sympathize with. I'm curious where they are going with her. My current theory is that they are grooming her to turn into a villain, but that might be wishful thinking on my part. :)

[liliaeth]

I love Oliver, Amell is awesome.

Diggle is amazing, I like him better with each ep. (and why aren't there more people shipping him and Olliver?*grumble)

I love Thea and Moira and Walter.

I like Felicity and Sarah.

I'm ok with Laurel.

I loved Tommy, missing him so much.

Not sure about Sebastian Blood, don't think him and Slade are quite as interesting as Merlyn was.

Not a big fan of the island flashbacks though.

[duffy-99.livejournal.com]

So sorry about your breakup with Supernatural (I must email you about this! I want to understand!), but let me just say I love Arrow so very very very much. Have watched it from the very first episode, and it's always one of the highlights of my week! I don't always really know what's going on -- the mythology is dense and lots of characters are based on the comics of which I know nothing --- but I love all these people greatly.
Hmmm....perhaps I shall also try to entice you to Teen Wolf?

Me!!!

[winchesterwoman.livejournal.com]

I started to watch it since the first episode and I loved it! Just, in the first season I really dislike the island scenes the plot over that was crappy! The bad guy just wanted to attack a dammn plan and that's it? why wanted to keep hostage Oliver, if he wanted totally other thing. He could kill Oliver and end of the show. Because Oliver didn't have a space on that plot.But, this season FINALLY have a sense,a point the island plot. Just, one thing that didn't like to much, was that now the bad guy is Olliver's friend. Why until now he decided to appear and not before??? That's writers fault. Why get out a bad guy until now, when he has been all this time?that's trash. But for the rest everything is fine. Well, one thing. Haven't you notice that Laurel o the actress is loosing weight on her face? her jaw is thinner than before, like anorexic.

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• Love Felicity to death! If she and Olli don't get together…

---I saw in one article, that the writers will do that, but not in the close future.


• I'm still on the fence about Roy. Do we really need another sidekick? I think the team's full enough

---- Well, they need someone with more physical power. Oliver does not have it and Roy has it. Maybe, just while the oliver's island friend ( I forgot the name) is around, they need someone with super power to fight against him. Maybe, some times the Roy character will be put aside because not always they will require someone with the force of him.

• Bring back Malcolm Merlyn ASAP!

---I wonder how he got back from death. But, I don't remember ( and I have been lazy about getting back to the lasts episodes how he died?)

• Laurel - can we please get rid of her? She's the biggest black mark on the show for me


---Hahahaha the thing is that she is a bad actress. And maybe she does not have a heavy weight on the show.Maybe you can get rid of her and the show is still good. But, what about the personal life of oliver, without Laurel you don't have anything.


• I'm enjoying the flashbacks this season much more than last season
They have a point!!! IN the last season that was pointless.


• Can we keep Walter and ditch Moira?

I don't think so,i read somewhere that walter's actor has signed up for 24




Do I have any other fellow Arrow fans on my flist?

Yes, me! :D


What are your likes and dislikes? Let's chat!

I like that finally all the stories have a reason to exist. have a story to tell about the characters life. Maybe, Laurel's story is a bit "blah" I don't care, but still is a story to entertain, the same with Thea's story, there is not much about it but it is to fill blanks. I mean, if you have bunch of characters you have to put a interesting story or if you don't have one, then related it to the others in some way that is not boring.

Dislike: The bad guy, the came from nowhere after all this time? why? Just that.


P.S. - Goodbye, Dean Winchester. I'll truly, truly miss you. And Jensen, I'm sorry you're stuck on a show that treats your character this way and has done for so many years.

-----I think I saw three episodes of this season, The first one, the second one just forwarding it,and the third one the same. I couldn't stand seeing that now suddenly Crowly was so easy to catch when they couldn't do it in so many season, really? When he was able to disappear every time he wanted to? Now he was like a puppy, being the king of hell, AHA! MY ASS! And then, seeing castiel like a human all the charisma that that character had was gone. I truly don't know how many people still watch that show. Is just a crap, I think it was worst than smallville in its bad times. But, while the people watch it, the network will order more episodes. It is another samllville,and I am sure there will be a tenth season as smallville, pretty sure about it.