I'm afraid I didn't pick it up again after the hiatus. I've totally forgotten about it for two weeks running, so that's goodbye to AoS from me, I guess.
There was nothing else on I wanted to see and something on after it Ina wanted see, so no use starting a film.
The problem with this series is mainly that it thinks it can hold onto its audience by references to either the Marvel Cinematic Universe or the the comics/cartoon universes. And, indeed, this is still has a reasonably sized American audience in the aimed-for demographic.
However, references alone are not a draw for a large proportion of that demographic. Ratings continue to fall slowly as more and more people simply get fed up with the bad plotting and even worse characterisation.
It does not make me particularly sanguine about Marvel's expansion, in partnership with Netflix, into TV superheroes -- and I really, really want to see this particular set of heroes (Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones and Daredevil are in all at the casting stage) for any number of reasons, including that, in comics, they have close relationships with each other, making it possible to integrate the series in a way that even the Warner Brothers
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I thoroughly enjoyed Arrow, perhaps because after Agents of Shield I didn't really have high expectations. I'm not a comics reader so I only have a passing acquaintance with DC and Marvel. (I had a brief period in the 1960s when my dad bought comics 'for me' - Yeah, right!)
Arrow is reasonably well written, has an engaging main character and some good supports and had a double bonus in the forms of Colin Salmon and John Barrowman. I didn't see it on TV so bought the boxed set and liked it well enough that I'll buy the second season.
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The problem with this series is mainly that it thinks it can hold onto its audience by references to either the Marvel Cinematic Universe or the the comics/cartoon universes. And, indeed, this is still has a reasonably sized American audience in the aimed-for demographic.
However, references alone are not a draw for a large proportion of that demographic. Ratings continue to fall slowly as more and more people simply get fed up with the bad plotting and even worse characterisation.
It does not make me particularly sanguine about Marvel's expansion, in partnership with Netflix, into TV superheroes -- and I really, really want to see this particular set of heroes (Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones and Daredevil are in all at the casting stage) for any number of reasons, including that, in comics, they have close relationships with each other, making it possible to integrate the series in a way that even the Warner Brothers ( ... )
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Arrow is reasonably well written, has an engaging main character and some good supports and had a double bonus in the forms of Colin Salmon and John Barrowman. I didn't see it on TV so bought the boxed set and liked it well enough that I'll buy the second season.
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