Hero Blend #78: How Arrow Can Improve Moving Forward

Back in Season 2, Arrow was showing off some impressive potential. While the show got off to a rocky start after its premiere, it really started figuring things towards the end of the first season, and used that momentum to fuel a powerful follow-up in the next year – advancing all the main characters, introducing some cool new ones, and giving them a fantastic enemy to face off against in Manu Bennett’s Deathstroke. The show looked to establish itself as the best superhero show on television.

Then the third season of Arrow started, and it’s been trouble ever since. Between repeated character arcs, ill-advised romantic pairings, useless flashbacks, and an unwillingness to even remotely alter the basic plot of the show (Green Arrow works to protect Star City against [enter threat here]), the series has sadly gone stale, and is in need of a few changes to stay fresh. On this week’s episode of Hero Blend, we discuss a few ideas of how that can happen.

Joining me in this trip into the DC Television Universe is my good friend Silas Lesnick from ComingSoon.net/SuperHeroHype/Most Craved, who brings a few cool concepts to the table to which the folks at Arrow should really be paying attention. Enjoy the show!

Eric Eisenberg is the Assistant Managing Editor at CinemaBlend. After graduating Boston University and earning a bachelor’s degree in journalism, he took a part-time job as a staff writer for CinemaBlend, and after six months was offered the opportunity to move to Los Angeles and take on a newly created West Coast Editor position. Over a decade later, he's continuing to advance his interests and expertise. In addition to conducting filmmaker interviews and contributing to the news and feature content of the site, Eric also oversees the Movie Reviews section, writes the the weekend box office report (published Sundays), and is the site's resident Stephen King expert. He has two King-related columns.