OdysseusVA
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Why isnt Laurel crossed out?
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Arrow Season 4 |OT| A Tale of Salt and Fire
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Why isnt Laurel crossed out?
Septimus Prime
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All of these problems have the same root cause: splitting screen time with too many useless characters.
KonradLaw
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Felicity is nowhere near as important to the show as Elena was to Vampire Diaries.
I doubt it would loose a lot in the ratings.
What fanbase do you think this show has?
KonradLaw
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Not the one that spams tumblr with gifs. This is just very vocal minority. The show did well in ratings before Felicity and Flash does even better without her or romance as a whole.
I think people seriously overestimate how much viewers generally care about Olicity.
While it's changed dramatically since the Ostroff days, the viewership is still predominantly female. The comic book fans who hate Olicity and romantic drama are the minority, not the other way around
unfortunately
Remember S3 beat S2 in the ratings. Yeah.
KonradLaw
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No way. I refuse to believe that. And female viewers are sticking for Oliver's abs, not Felcity.
Napoleonthechimp
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The showrunners have made their hell. They're the ones that will have to live knowing they failed as writers and ended up pandering to a specific group of fans.
Regardless of how it went down I at least admire how The 100 writers had the backbone to carry on with the story they envisioned rather than give what the fans wanted.
Regardless of how it went down I at least admire how The 100 writers had the backbone to carry on with the story they envisioned rather than give what the fans wanted.
Effects work was atrocious
The season with the least romance performed the worst. You might remember that as the season we all adore.
Accept that you're in The CW's world, and fangirls keep the lights on. Twelve years of Supernatural? Get ready for fifteen of Olicity.
She's no Constantine.
Really? I thought those spirit animals were ok, considering CW. But the character, the actress, everything was so mediocre. I haven't seen the little side show or whatever so maybe that's why. I just thought she was utterly useless.
BewareTheBatsie
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The show should have introduced Darhk later. Having him pop in during the premiere means that for a whole season they have to drag the character out. Flash introduced Zoom earlier but they didn't have him appear in every single episode during the first half of the season and if I'm correct, Darhk is near a regular with the amount of appearances he has warranted as a special guest star.
I wish the writers would just kill Merlyn off. It's as if they are legitimately afraid of losing Barrowman which is why they make him a regular despite him appearing every few episodes.
OdysseusVA
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I thought Vixen was okay... but the writing was terrible. It doesn't even make sense to bring her in.
"We'll bring in another magic user to fight the telekenetic, even though none of her powers really helps."
"We'll bring in another magic user to fight the telekenetic, even though none of her powers really helps."
That line was amazing
PHOENIXZERO
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It's up there with Kendra on LoT reminding us almost every week that up until ___ weeks/months ago she was just a barista.
That was a bit more annoying as it seems logical people have seen the cross-over there. Vixen was just a 30 minute web thing.
BewareTheBatsie
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I found the "how about I kick your ass like a woman" line really odd given the context. This show had more female heroes than male at that point on the team (Felicity, Thea and Laurel to Oliver and Diggle) and we all know Supergirl got a ton of hate from the start with the cramming of girl power so why did they even make that line a thing. I'm all for more female heroes, but that line bugged me.
PHOENIXZERO
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True, at least we only heard it once but that might be because Vixen was only in one episode.
It was a terrible line.
It was a terrible line.
Not really. It is really hard to find anyone in the Arrowverse outside of Kendra saying something similar more than once. And with Vixen, it was at least played for laughs.
Wait, what? Like they grew as THAT season went on?
Started weak in ratings, but recovered from episode 6 onwards. Of course, with how television works, there were drops once daylight savings kicked in, but less deep than the year before. Everything drops at that point, so that is not special. That the show grew year on year was however less common.
There is only Felicity, the Beginning and the End.
If anything, this season hasn't had enough Olicity drama.
SpideySenses
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At least they brought her back in Legends.
Quiet you. It's all Felicity.
Even if it does explain how S4 dropped back down to status quo.
Yes, this week! Uninterrupted to the finale!
Can't help but feel bad for so many people to think that S3 largely represents Arrow as a whole. The small crossover near the end of both seasons helped too I'm sure.
Are you certain of that? I don't want another two month break.
Yes I'm certain of that. The CW announced it weeks ago. The schedule is in the first post of the thread.
Yes. Now it is for real. For all of the shows.
KonradLaw
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It's because of Barry, Ra's and Nyssa. This is what I've chosen to believe. Nobody will convince me otherwise.
KonradLaw
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This is what makes it great. I absolutely loved they had the balls to make Oliver half-fail in S1 finale. It was so damn refreshing and changed a lot of the city in the process.
I know resetting to status quo is kind of superhero comics DNA, but it doesn't need to be in TV format.
Septimus Prime
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Given these writers, my interpretation of that quote is that they don't fucking know, either.
A great flood destroys the world, the thing we see under the city is the arc of Noah.
Septimus Prime
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In a cornfield? Did Noah build his ark with the husks?
Genesis might as well be them flooding the market with HFCS, for all we've seen so far.
I wasn't aware that a bunch of corn constitutes as really good clues now
The cave is the arc for humanity, the corn is their food supply.
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