Stephen Amell, Green Arrow, the DCTV world. It doesn't sound too bad, does it? Well, after 4 seasons (Season 3, and 4 being a disaster); The show has lost it's momentum and has become nothing more than a Felicity / Gossip Girl spin-off.
The show used to follow Billionaire Oliver Queen live a life of partying hard and living life during the day, and being a vigilante at night. But when Berlanti and Kreisberg left at the end of Season 2 and gave the torch over to Mr. Marc Guggenheim. The show turned to a life of crap.
Oliver Queen, a once well renowned Killer, and brutual man no longer lives for the pain and torture. He turns to his trusty (and bitchy) sidekick Felicity. Felicity being the most obnoxious, rude, and patronizing character in history. A true "Kiss my ass" character from Guggenheim.
Season 4 turned out to be another season for the role of Olicity and Felicity. Removing Colton Haynes' Arsenal and replaced him with Felicity's mom, and also killed off Laurel Lance so we could see more of Felicity's co-worker Curtis aka Mr. Terrific (more like Mr. Hackerman)
This is all thanks to Marc Guggenheim. He has absolutely no idea how to control a program such as Arrow, and they also hired a producer from Desperate Housewives! When the world is full of Comic Book Writers, Why couldn't they have chosen someone with that much of creditability?
Take a look at The Flash, a spin off in the Arrowverse. This is produced by Greg Berlanti, and written by Comic Book writers. The show is phenonmal. The recent episode The Runaway Dinosaur was single-handedly the closest you could ever get to a Comic Book show on The CW. The show focuses on the hero The Flash, and how he can save the world with his speed. With likeable secondary characters. The show is onto something beautiful and special. What we got in Season 2. Zoom, The Reverse Flash, Gorilla Grodd, King Shark, and Earth-2. Now we're into the final stretch with characters such as Zoom, Black Siren, and many other DC characters about to hit the show next week.
What did we get from Arrow Season 4? Well, we had one episode with Constantine, and Vixen. The rest? Pretty much an Olicity shypile. From a fake wedding to lure out the Crazy Bitch / Cupid. And pretty much a weak ass Damien Darhk.
As the show is running out of gas. We, as fans, have to wonder. Why the hell is the show like this?
GUGGENHEIM.
If we remove this guy from the show, and hire some brilliant comic book writers (Even Kevin Smith said he's willing to write episodes); The show will go back to its incredible Season 1 & 2; and perhaps give The Flash a run for his money.
Remove Guggenheim. Remove Guggenheim from the entire DC world, CW! Please! I think they might be a place open at
Jane the Virgin for him.