When did Arrow start getting good?

Cafe Society
1

I’ve been hearing good stuff about Arrow lately, and I enjoyed catching up on the first season of Flash, which of course crosses over at some points.

I stopped watching Arrow at some point during the first season because I got tired of all the rich white people (the little sister, specifically) whining about rich white people problems.

For those who have been enjoying it, is there a particular point when things start getting good? I’d like to skip over as much of the grind as possible. Thanks!

2

I’ve been watching since episode 1 because I wanted to watch a show about Green Arrow, a favorite of mine. Instead I got Batman with a bow and arrow. While it would have to get significantly worse before I would give up, I’m still waiting for it to get “good”.

3

They’re pretty much done with rich people’s problems once you get a few episodes into episode 3, but there are probably some pretty huge plot shifts and changes that take place along the way. I’m okay with the rich people problems, so I think it’s all good, if inconsistent. Things don’t tend to make sense more than a few episodes at a time; I haven’t checked, but they may be rotating out shifts of writers every few episodes, and the arcs don’t necessarily link together too well.

4

Season 1 is pretty solid, but I felt season 2 really upped the game. I wasn’t sure anything would ever happen that has permanent impact on the characters, but things definitely happen in season 2 and 3 that drastically change the show.

I like shows where you can turn them on and see where the show is by how characters look and act. It gets like that instead of just being a refresh every week(Star Trek, style).

I also feel like the end of S1 was very solid, when the villain is revealed fully and starts getting really bad and a bunch of great stuff goes down.

5

It was probably around the time you quit watching that it started getting better. Not that I think it was ever bad, but it definitely started to take an upturn in the middle of season 1 when they decided to go in a direction closer to the comics than what they started out as.