- Writing is worse. Way more 'explaining with dialogue' than showing with action.

- Too comic booky. Arrow appealed because it felt like a real world action story comic book flourishes. Now, it's all 'homage to Dark Knight and hokey comic book storylines.' (The Bride of the Demon? WTF?)

- Too Whedonesque. Every time they show the 'gang' gathered in the ArrowLair, I flash back to the BuffyGang in the library with Giles.

- Too many characters with nothing to do. Since we MUST have a Black Canary, Laurel hangs around and gets taxed in every fight. Since we MUST have a Thea, she hangs around and gets in trouble all the time. ETC, ETC, ETC. But since we can't really kill Thea, we keep Malcolm Merlin around to bail her out now that Ollie is DarkArrow.

- The Ras storyline is underwhelming. Ras is the world's greatest assassin - Somebody should be permanently dead already. And Ollie should have killed somebody already. Additionally, there was no real emotional impact when Ollie changed to #DarkArrow - it happened to quick. The time they spent on the Ray Palmer/Atom storyline should have been shifted to the Ollie become dark storyline.