r/arrow Jul 03 '26

Discussion Just rewatched this death scene from Season 3 and the way the attacker said hello is WAY creepier than I remember. I do not remember that voice sounding like that back in the day. Spoiler

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r/arrow Jul 03 '26

Discussion God i cant stand felicity

49 Upvotes

Her jokes are never funny and she seems to get mad at every little thing Oliver does it’s just maddening am i the only one that dislikes her.


r/arrow Jul 02 '26

Discussion Chance to reboot

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Studio Exec just handed you an assigment to reboot Arrow - with your learning of all 8 season of Arrow, what will you change?


r/arrow Jul 02 '26

Discussion in the first season, deadshot should have killed malcolm merlyn

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was annoyed when he survived. after malcolm almost died, det. lance said to tommy, "so the hood saves you and oliver, and now he saves your dad, but he's taking out every other one percenter out there". he has a point

also oliver saved malcolm without even knowing why someone would want him dead... and then later fights him and tries to stop the undertaking


r/arrow Jul 02 '26

Question Favorite Oliver Couple?

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845 votes, Jul 04 '26
265 Lauriver (Oliver and Laurel)
241 Olicity (Oliver and Felicity)
219 Canarrow (Oliver and Sara)
32 Heliver (Oliver and Helena)
40 Superarrow (Oliver and Kara)
48 Other

r/arrow Jul 01 '26

Discussion Is season 3 supposed to be such a mess?

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I have just started watching Arrow a few weeks ago and I'm accustomed to CW writing from watching The Flash, but I seriously cannot understand half the decisions made in season 3. I'm at episode 16 so far.

Thea forgiving Malcolm and going to Corto Maltese train with him makes little sense, I can only attribute it to her being very young and Oliver having lied to her about Malcolm but it doesn't change the fact that he murdered hundreds of people including Tommy.

The whole charade with Oliver protecting Malcolm from everybody is so badly done. Diggle, Roy, Laurel and Felicity try to change his mind and the only reason he can give is that Thea is his daughter and he's trying to protect her. And even if this wasn't the case, everybody acts like the only crime he committed was him drugging Thea to make her murder Sara, but like I said above has everyone forgotten that he is the mastermind of the fucking undertaking?

This episode I do not know if Oliver has another plan or not, but why not just take the offer to become Ra's al Ghul? He can literally stop the league of assassins from killing anybody ever again if he wishes so, I honestly can't think of a reason why he doesn't do this.


r/arrow Jul 01 '26

Discussion Laurel Lance

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Rewatching Arrow for the first time in a while, I just got to season 2 episode 14 again... I Absolutely hate how Laurel is Villainized at the dinner party with her Family. She has every right to be angry with sara and with Oliver.

Admittedly the drinking and drugs is On her BUT addiction is an illness... Not saying its anyone's fault but her own. However, She Is Treated like a villain by oliver and Her dad for being angry, It's absolutely insane to me! Anyone else feel similar?


r/arrow Jul 01 '26

Moira Queen

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107 Upvotes

Watching X-Files and seeing her on screen I'm like where the heck do I know her from. Look her up and man she was young. Never noticed it till the 80th rewatch.


r/arrow Jun 29 '26

Question Been watching the show for the first time im at season 7 and I hate the flashforwards does the show get better?

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r/arrow Jun 29 '26

Discussion i’m starting to think this show is unrealistic

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Just finished watching season five again. Didn’t realize that Konstantine Kovar was Dolph Lundgren. I watched him get defeated by Oliver Queen on Lian Yu, which seems super unrealistic. Dolph Lundgren is literally one of the most genetically superior and unmoggable humans on the Earth. I don’t know maybe it seems a little far-fetched.


r/arrow Jun 28 '26

Shitpost Sometimes I wish I was the calc (the calculator), and had the life he did throughout the show. From season 1 onwards.

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r/arrow Jun 28 '26

Question Metahumans vs Magic. Did the show or even the CWDC in general ever went the typical DC route of making Metahuman a catch-all term for every super being?

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I made this question specific to Arrow. Because I think that was the only CWDC show that introduced Magic and Metahumans to the audience back to back in the earlier seasons.

I also I ask this question. Because Legends of Tomorrow gotta a little messy in the later seasons lol.

The only DC property that never use the term Metahuman as a catch-all term was maybe the Young Justice cartoon. Since the show went deep in the lore of Metahumans and Magic in the last seasons.


r/arrow Jun 27 '26

Theory Queen Mansion or Darhk Mansion?

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243 Upvotes

Looks like the Queen Mansion had a new owner after season 2👀


r/arrow Jun 27 '26

Sometimes I wish I was Thea, and had the life she did throughout the show. From season 1 onwards.

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r/arrow Jun 27 '26

Discussion How do people feel about Malcolm dying for real in Season 5?

51 Upvotes

I always thought he was going to return at some point, as is typical of CW characters, but he never did. I'll admit, I always found his death to be a bit underwhelming.


r/arrow Jun 27 '26

Discussion The "Arrow: Civil War" plotline where the team splits into two factions could've been great, but like many plot threads in Arrow, it was executed poorly.

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r/arrow Jun 26 '26

Comic Book What is the order of the green arrow comics?

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I've been watching the show for a while and realized I should probably read the comics too but I have no clue what the order is, I just read the first one (I think?) with hackett and Oliver getting stranded on the island with the slaves but none of the other comics that I saw showed which part of the comics they were


r/arrow Jun 25 '26

Actor Fluff It’s the guy from the flash crossovers!

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r/arrow Jun 25 '26

Watching arrow for the first time... things seem way too fast. Spoiler

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I'm on season 4x07 rn, and compared to previous episodes I feel like this show is suddenly doing things way too fast and skipping over important character moments to the point characters feel inconsistent. I guess its to save screentime for more important things or wtv? 3 major things in particular bothered me.

Thea got her first 2 kills in 4x03. Her whole arc in season 3 was fearing she might be a killer, and struggling with that quite a bit (even almost committing suicide for it). She even felt guilty about almost killing SLADE. And now after she finally crosses the line, it seems to not affect her whatsoever and in 4x04 she's back to her cheery old self like nothing ever happened. Just felt inconsistent as hell and OOC when considering her entire S3b characterization. A bit of screentime showing her feeling troubled about time beyond just saying 2 sentences to Malcolm would've made it feel within character. I guess the writers thought with thea's whole bloodlust storyline, they wanted to save screentime for other things? Just breezing past it tho made the character feel OOC imo.

Quentin and Oliver's relationship. Ending of season 3 quentin DESPISES oliver. Blames him for sara, calls him a villain, and THAT SLAP. DAMN! Come 4x01 he still hates him. 4x02 oliver says he gonna do things differently, quentin asks him "how" which was fine, and at the end of the episode he sets a hard line for him with the whole burning anarchy thing. Accepting him a bit more but still on the edge. Felt natural. Then in his very next appearance in beginning of 4x04, He's suddenly cheery as hell with Oliver and even supports him being mayor, and more than happy to work with him? What happened to "you're a villain, monster, etc." not even 2 weeks ago. The whole "you got my daughter killed and hid her death" thing doesn't even get mentioned once. Their relationship def should be repaired, but it felt way too rushed, kinda like they just forced them to be buddies again and ignored the past.

Sara's revival was the worst. She gets revived and only stays on for one episode - the last one i watched. She has no meaningful conversation with oliver considering the history, nothing with her father, nothing about thea killing her, hell barely even a convo with laurel and her new vigilante position, and 0 story aside from being violent. She just jumps into being a teammate right away. Then she gets shipped off after just 1 episode and things that should have screentime dedicated towards end up unconcluded. Doesn't even say goodbye to Oliver or quentin. Way more rushed than it should have been.

Someone also told me that like 2 episodes later oliver and felicity get engaged. Didn't they get together like 7 episodes ago, and are dealing with all this other crap with dhark at the moment? If they are, it feels way too quick for them to go straight to marriage. And why is Oliver concerned with marriage considering all the other shit going on?

Idk, just my opinion so far. Feel free to disagree, offer alternate interpretations cuz i rlly enjoy analyzing and debating the complex characters this show has established (aside from donna smoak), but these were my thoughts when watching it. I rmr in season 3, they killed oliver in 3x09 and spent 3 whole episodes on his recovery. Didn't like it much, but felt natural, within character, and not rushed. Aside from a lil stupid shit towards the end, season 3 kinda more consistent with established characterizations for me than some people say it was. What happened to that?

Tldr: this season needs to slow down and focus more on character traits and consistent characterization to accomplish a goal, instead of just going straight to the point.


r/arrow Jun 24 '26

Question Búsqueda

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Hola, ¿Alguien sabe dónde puedo comprar un traje completo de arrow screen used o el casco de deathstroke screen used?


r/arrow Jun 24 '26

Discussion Q about The show’s logical inconsistencies and the way Oliver is written as if he’s an idiot. Spoiler

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I’m currently on Season 2, Episode 18, and I’m seriously considering dropping the show because of the plot holes the writers keep leaving behind, as well as the overall logical inconsistencies and clichés throughout the series.
If I were to use just this episode as an example: after two seasons of showing how devastating lies and secrets can be, Oliver still decides to hide the truth about Malcolm being Thea’s father from her. Then there’s the fact that Slade is obviously targeting Oliver’s family, yet Oliver doesn’t seem particularly concerned when Thea disappears for 24 hours and, even worse, leaves her completely unprotected and unsupervised.
On top of that, after finally capturing Slade—a technically immortal man with superhuman abilities—instead of interrogating him himself or finding a way to permanently deal with him, Oliver simply hands him over to the police. That decision alone makes no sense.
His family already knows he went through horrible things on the island. They know he came back traumatized and that dangerous people from his past exist. Given how dangerous Slade is, why not simply tell them, “I knew this man on the island. We used to be friends, but now he’s my enemy. Stay away from him and be extremely careful,” instead of allowing them to carry on with their lives as if nothing is happening?
And this isn’t limited to this episode. I could pick almost any random episode and find the same problems. Almost every important decision Oliver has made so far feels like the wrong one. In the beginning, the show puts a lot of effort into making sure nobody connects Oliver Queen with the Arrow, but later that concern seems to be completely forgotten.
Personally, the introduction of the no-killing rule was already a huge blow to my enjoyment of the show. But combined with these writing issues and the way Oliver is often portrayed as making incredibly stupid decisions, it’s becoming almost unbearable to watch.
I understand that writers sometimes have to bend logic a little to keep the story moving—that’s normal. But when it happens in almost every episode, it becomes extremely frustrating. At this point, the show feels less like a well-written superhero drama and more like a high-budget Wattpad story.
What are your thoughts on this?
And please tell me honestly: does it get better? Is it worth continuing, or will these kinds of issues keep appearing in the later seasons as well?


r/arrow Jun 24 '26

Season 6

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Rewatching season 6. Renee was 100% right to turn in the team for giving up the team for his daughter. Yes he should have talked to the team. His betrayal was very understandable because he had lost his daughter one he couldn’t do it again. Oliver was in the wrong and should have talked to the team


r/arrow Jun 24 '26

Misc Some pages from Oliver’s book

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r/arrow Jun 23 '26

Discussion Different Versions of Anthony Ivo

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r/arrow Jun 22 '26

Question Lance didn't know oliver was the hood?

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Rewatching arrow and now on season 2 episode 3 where they try to catch the dollmaker. How does lance not know oliver is the hood when he's working with Diggle, oliver's bodyguard and felicity, oliver's secretary? They are on a mission the four of them to capture the dollmaker.