Arrow: Season 2

Exactly as described and packaged well

WB COMICS FORMULA BASED ON BATMAN MODEL Oliver Queen/Arrow is a good, well-meaning guy. His mother says: "You see only the good in people, even when they don't deserve it." Played terrifically by stubble-faced Stephen Amell, he maximizes audience compassion, sympathy and admiration. WB was wise to avoid a neurotic primo uomo for this role, and Amell is solid and indispensable for making the show work. Oliver Queen has been through years of isolated island hell, and he continues in Starling City's brand of it. Because he's not nearly as intelligent and worldly as Bruce Wayne, arch villains most always far outdistance his imagination and thinking, and he mainly reacts instead of leads. So bad guys and gals outthink him plenty. But he keeps trying and plodding, and gradually learns and grows. After all, he's a young guy who was completely out of touch for 5 years. John Diggle: A seasoned, wise, tough YOUNG Alfred Pennyworth-type whom Arrow leans on and who's in plenty of action with his boss. Felicity Smoak: Arrow's un-disabled Oracle-type IT expert, and with lots of dry and all too scarce show humor, even though she's never been a martial sort. Lots of the actor's catchy dialogue is regrettably obscured by mumbling and mushy diction. Sara Lance: A deadly Huntress-sort as "Canary." Sometime lover of Oliver, and daughter of policeman Lance. Laurel Lance: Silver St. Cloud-type, sometime lover of Oliver, and daughter of policeman Lance. Quentin Lance: Police detective, akin to Jim Gordon, with two grown daughters and who's learned the hard way (like Gordon) to trust and help Arrow. They meet on rooftops, too. Maybe someday he'll be police commissioner. "Arrow" Comic Formula: Fantasy story and writing techniques crafted to keep the characters constantly in severe distress and hypertension, and so keep viewers tense, stressed, cliff-hanging, and morbidly curious and fascinated about what will happen next. More specifically on what will happen next with the mostly screwed-up good guys and extremely embittered and hateful bad guys. So drama kings and drama "Queens" abound! Warner's has honed this formula through decades of Batman, at least, and executes it in "Arrow" with skillful and brutal power. "Arrow" Season 2 demonstrates a lot of avoidable torment, no matter what the intentions, that honesty really is the best policy (except for trying to conceal Arrow's secret identity, which nonetheless gets repeatedly compromised) and that ends really don't justify means. SOCIOLOGICAL THOUGHT EXPERIMENT - Got a Problem? Get Panicked and Violent. The frenetic, relentless angst all the characters suffer in "Arrow" is something WB pulls off powerfully with its longtime experience with comic fantasies. If real-life people were embroiled in these situations, they'd hardly live to 40 due to premature strokes, heart attacks, hypertension, anorexia, hyper-insomnia, addictions, nervous breakdowns, and suicides -- if the bad guys didn't snuff 'em out first. And this is where "Arrow" can qualify as a sort of sociological thought experiment. Even if unanticipated and unappreciated by WB, "Arrow" does depict individual and societal "what-ifs," if lives were to go mostly in those shattering ways. "Arrow," and other such high-anxiety comic fantasies, powerfully portray visions of humanity frantically struggling to cope with even the next minute or two. If such visions gain more and more appeal and traction, maybe they might even have more social impact on actually materializing. So shows like this are ripe for studying as types of sociological thought experiments. The show belongs to a category of portrayals that might be correlated with actual social developments -- if real developments ever do increasingly come to emulate desperate and frantic and frenetic comic fantasies. So besides thrilling entertainment, "Arrow" may thus be one more exciting media "advertising" example for sociological study, and what social-science investigations might find based on turbulent and violent comic shows as potential role models and social influences. Besides commercials, the content sure does advertise a lot for certain lifestyles and societal situations. While traumatic, you sure can't deny they're exciting, and so perhaps appealing and even ultimately influential on real life.

I put off watching this show for years. Finally gave in a month ago. This is seriously the best show I have watched since LOST. Stephen Amell is superb. The talent of the cast is beyond anything I have seen in a TV series. I am not a huge DC fan so I had zero knowledge of The Green Arrow before this. I have been a Marvel fan and this blows all the Marvel movies out of the water based on character development. If you let go of preconceived notions or prior knowledge of the comic you will LOVE this show. I wish I would have started the series in 2012 when it first debuted. I am now caught up to season 5. Have watched seasons 1-4 2x and am going back and watching my favorites, AGAIN. I do not watch much TV but this has me hooked. Seasons 1-3 are amazing. 4 is just ok but neccesary for character development in my opinion. Just stick with it because season 5 is kicking bootie again and taking names!!! I bought all 4 seasons because if netflix ever stops streaming it I cannot even imagine being with out the ability to watch. Best Show Ever!!! Mark Guggenheim is a genius.

Did not like Season 2 as much as Season 1 due to some of the story lines plus I find the ex-girlfriend character terribly annoying. Also, I think more could have been done with moving the story forward. Some leaps of logic where I had to scratch my head and ask 'what the heck.' There are good moments that make the purchase worthwhile and overall I don't think too many viewers would be disappointed.

Excellent service and quick shipping from Amazon! Arrow is one of my new favorite shows. Compared to older Warner Brothers comic book based shows (Smallville) it feels less cheesy/hokey and has pretty great production values. Stephen Amell, Emily Bett Rickards, Colton Haynes and Willa Holland are great casting choices; the play between Oliver(Amell) and Felicity(Rickards) is probably the highlight of the show. The only thing I don't really like about the show is the heavy reliance on flashback as a story telling device. It seems about half of every episode takes place in the past. I understand the importance of the origins for comic book heroes, but much of it feels unnecessary or that it takes up too much time. When I rewatch episodes I actually skip through the flashbacks, once was plenty. I sincerely hope that Oliver's five years on the island are synced with the his time back in Starling City, so that after the first five seasons there are no more flashbacks. Other than that it is a terrific show, CW seems to bringing their A-game lately.

I love this show. I was speedy for a cosplay helped with the costume.

I am old, but I love the Arrow. At a time of a tragic double loss in my life, when I was depressed, and unable to focus on what I needed to be doing, the only thing that made me happy, lifted me up, and took me away from all that was going on around me, was the Arrow. I ran across this show by accident, had never heard of the Arrow before, but I am so glad I found it. I love Stephen Amell and all the characters. In my opinion the casting is perfect, there is never a dull or boring moment, great story, lots of action, normal people dealing with things in their lives, while fighting against the evil, to make things better. It was hard for me to wait for the next show, so I bought all the shows that are out, and have a pre order in for the next series. I guess you could say I am probably the biggest fan, and I hope it does not change into something else, I hope it does not fail me in the future.

This was such a great season of Arrow. When I want the perfect episode, I find myself watching City of Heroes a lot. Revenge plots are my favorite, so this season was right up my alley. This season really showcased the amazing team of Oliver Queen, Felicity Smoak, and John Diggle. This is what pulls me back to the show every week. There are a few moments of What?! a few threads I thought never developed as full as they could (Isabel Rochev for one) but overall, a very satisfying season and a fabulous follow up to its first season. Season 2 brings all the best parts of Season 1 forward, develops the relationships you loved there, and dumped a lot of what didn't work to try new things. Great cast in Stephen Amell, David Ramsey, Emily Bett Rickards, Manu Bennett, Paul Blackthorne, Susanna Thompson, John Barrowman and Willa Holland.

Bella serie

Only hearing impaired eng subs

フラッシュ、スーパーガールが大変面白く、アローも見たいと思っていたら、格安インポート版を発見!!Blu-rayコンプリートBOX、日本語対応で超お買い得です!!シーズン1のダイジェスト、キャラクター紹介も入っているので本シーズンからでもアローの世界観が分かりました!!そしてアローも面白い!!先のシーズンではクロスオーバーも有りアローバース最高!!

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Cette 2ème saison d'Arrow est encore meilleure que la précédente !!! On découvre ce qui est arrivé à Olivier Queen sur l'île et les nouveaux personnages sont tous excellents. Vraiment une des meilleures séries de ces 5 dernières années.