Arrow

This season has been pretty good, better than the previous two. Still don't like some of the members on the team though. Curtis is especially irritating. I am glad the flashbacks have returned to actually telling the story of his past and not the origin of the seasons villain.

I was pleasantly surprised by the reveal. I thought they were going to make it Talia. Not sure why they didn't unmask Vigilante while they had him.

Season 5 was leaps and bounds better than Seasons 3 and 4. That finale....wow!

It wasn't bad, a vast improvement over seasons 3 & 4 though they were stretching to get to the final and the filler episodes were getting annoying.

The finale was good though I have a feeling we all know who lives and who dies. I didn't really like how the flashbacks ended. I knew they would have to contrive him getting back to the island, but they could have put a least a bit more effort into it.

This season is what season 3 should have been: Oliver's reckless killing of bad guys coming back to haunt him.

My problem with season 5 is that Olver and his entire team of "heroes" turned out to be totally incompetent and useless. They were so useless that Oliver ended up needing to recruit a team of villains to save them all. That's not what I want in a superhero show. It seems like this is the route all the Berlanti Superhero shows eventually go. The heroes get completely beat over and over by the bad guys for the entire season and then barely survive because of some completely random thing that happens in the season finale. Like in Arrow season 4 when Darhk's magic just stopped working.

I can only imagine how many times Supergirl will get her butt kicked by Reign this season. It gets really old. It is possible to find a balance between the heroes being to strong and too weak. They just need better writing.

Agents of SHIELD does it very well. They face daunting challenges but never appear incompetent or weak or stupid. When the script calls for Quake to get captured, she takes out 20 guys in an excellent well choreographed fight scene before they overwhelm her.

I could go on with this subject but I'm done. I still enjoy the Arrow universe and will keep watching all the shows but it does get frustrating.

They kind of annoyed me at first

This^ is where I’m at currently with the majority of them. I’ve watched 4 episodes of my Season 5 Blu-rays so far and the only one I like is Rory/Ragman, who I think is easily the best of the bunch. His scenes with Felicity and Oliver have been the most interesting parts. For some strange reason the actor kind of reminds me of Ezra Miller in the Justice League trailers (after doing some searching, I discovered he was in Season 1 of Blindspot. I’d thought he looked familiar, but couldn’t place him).

Oh I forgot about those retards. Calculator and Bee Lady. There was also Brother Eye AKA Cooper AKA felicity's ex... Why on earth did she get villains as opposed to 'the black canary'? Donna....my God...let's have family drama while we're trying to save the world from nukes...

I'm just wondering is how Felicity, who tripped over her own feet, survived the bombing of Lian Yu, while Thea, a trained ninja, is in a coma.

With Mr. Terrifc around she really serves no purpose now and they are desperately tying to find a way to make her relevant to the show. They should just got their losses and let her go. it will only help the show in the long run while keeping her will drag the show down. Again.