Five Reasons ‘Arrow’ Isn’t As Good As It Used To Be

3) Spoilers Everywhere

Last year, about a month before it was revealed that Black Canary was the one in the grave, I remember reading a website that claimed Laurel Lance was not on the set while filming that scene so it must have been her tombstone. I was so angry at myself for reading that, because it ruined the overarching mystery of the entire season in the time span it took to read a 250 word article. Ever since season two blew up the way it did, spoilers have begun popping up everywhere. Heaven forbid you go on Facebook after a new episode airs without watching it first, because you will be bombarded with word for word breakdowns of EVERY. SINGLE. LINE. Post-air spoilers aside, when a website posts a breaking story that involves a big plot element of the show, that’s great for the websites traffic, but it really sucks for the fans who get suckered into seeing it. People are weak, we give into spoilers, it’s part of our nature. So, of course, it can be manipulated. I remember the scene that turned me from a casual viewer of Arrow to a ‘super-fan’; it was when Brother Blood was revealed to not be the big bad of the second season, but to actually be working for Slade Wilson. That scene blew me away for the utter awesomeness of the writing, but if it had been spoiled for me a month beforehand by some website I may have never gotten hooked to Arrow the way I did, meaning I probably wouldn’t be here right now writing this article. And in retrospect, maybe that wouldn’t have been all that bad.