More Arrow insights

I have a bit of a habit now, every night I lie in bed and either watch the Arrow series over again or a number of other ones such as Birds of Prey, Flash just to name a few.   When I go back to the 90's series of Birds of Prey I am not just looking at the series from a story line perspective, but also from the perspective of special effects, computer generation and so forth.  I find it interesting the quality of video and how that has changed to today's crystal clear images.  I love the comparisons with the use of old computer generated images to the new and the evolution of it all.
This is another reason for my enjoyment of the Arrow series and the use of all the stunt people seamlessly inserted in to where ever they are needed.
Watching Arrow over again I see things I missed previously, I am finding myself looking for clues to the things that happen in the next episodes and have a giggle at myself when I still miss them, so I go and look again.  The analysis is really beginning now as I delve deeper into it all.
Some times I over look the story or the plot of each series as I try to find little indications of what is to come in the next episode. Yes I go back again lol maybe I should just hit the pause button and slowly skip through each component. 
Eventually I figure what the heck let it be life can be too short for all of this anyway and the enjoyment really is in the watching and the melding of all the elements.
My thought process returns to the reason why I watch the DC series at this point and it is a great process of escapism from my every day life and the often dullness of it.
Series like Arrow tend to make me want more out of my life and to make it a better life.
I am not saying I am going to go out a start a vigilant plight of my own, I am just saying I want more from what I am doing now.
I will be striving to get more out of my art that I create and improving myself in that regard, painting more will be a priority. Anyway I am side tracking here.
Elementally speaking the use of colour, style, design, and all the other principles of such are intertwined well to create the right atmosphere in each scene. For example the fight scenes often occur at night and thus the use of  blacks, dark greens, rich reds convey the feeling of intensity and darkness creating that connection to the action occurring.
Ok I am probably baffling some people here, and I am probably over analysing it all, but I think you can get the gist of what I am saying.
I have heard and noted that a number of the actors have a tendency to perform some of the stuns themselves and knowing that Stephen does Parquor, Caity has done martial arts along with Katrina makes the series more exciting to me too as I feel these actors are stepping up the game in the industry and not  conforming to the nor of every time bringing in the Stunt double.
My hat is off to these Actors for having the guts to try more and not just portray the  characters verbally but actually truly get into the action of the persons  they are portraying.
If we want to  be hypocritcal of a series lets take a long hard look at the reality shows, seriously people OMG I am over the reality rubbish, as far as I can see 90% really isn't reality any way and if I see one more episode of the damn Kardashians on my TV Guide I think I am going to scream.
I'll take Arrow over all of that any day of the week.
Ok I have given you more to ponder and contemplate as you watch the series and if you don't maybe I have given you a reason too? Who knows all I know is, is what I like and what I don't like, and TV viewing for me at this point is seriously down right dull.

So Season 4 is done and dusted.

How many have watched the whole season so far?

I have managed to get all episodes in and again I enjoyed the series.   The Damien Dhark element and black magic added to in did put a more different spin to the Series than the League of Assassins....
 I am still thinking on Malcolm Merlin taking some of Savage's ashes from the Flash cross over........... I am hoping this will be expanded on as we all know Malcolm is certainly always up to something and it generally does not turn out to be good...

I would love to see Speedy (Thea) give him a really ass kicking for all he has put her through......
I think if I was in her shoes I would be certainly as peed off at him as she is...
I would certainly love to know how HIVE built the underground bunker and when.  That was a touch on the Truman show element of being in a totally closed off world that was by no means the outside world..
Then of course is the Black Canaries death.... Surround by the every looming threat Dhark had made to Lance about his daughter..... I find it interesting how the writers chose to have her severely injured in the prison where Dhark was with no less than one of Oliver's arrows being used against him as the murder weapon.
What are we all thinking of the black magic element and Oliver's interaction with white magic?
I have to admit when Oliver first hit Damian with it the look on Damian's face was hilarious almost priceless.   I did have a laugh at that for a while, and then there's is Thea's interaction with him prior.  That was a classic reaction but the fact that when he touched Thea and she could take it was an interesting element I wish was a bit more elaborated on as like Thea I want to know why his magic did not affect her and it almost appeared as if the contact was killing him and not her.....  I think there could have been something in that.
Maybe they will elaborate on that later.
One can only hope. 
There are a number of people complaining about the magic elements added to the series, well why not I mean it is a comic book series based on ficticious characters so why not add the mystical elements to the series?  Is this series really that far a cry from previous comic remakes such as Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and so forth?
So why is hard to believe that this is anything but methodically different from those?  Then based on those thoughts why not accept the mystical, why not accept Olive used some magic, why not accept the leaping of buildings, the amazing stunts performed, the seemingly impossible?
What is the hard in believing in the impossible the................ well way out there, the uncomprehendable.
So instead of maybe criticizing it all how bout we just sit back and enjoy Arrow for what it is, a boys dreams and fantasies to bring DC comics to life............. And what a reality his /their dreams have become.