you were impressed?
Smallville lite for me--good actors are being wasted--writing needs to be punched up and I think they made some acting decision based upon how certain look and not how they act
Smallville lite might be an appropriate description for this show, for positive and negative. The cheesy dialogue(not in a good way all the time), the teen soap drama. About the cast, every time Jesse L. Martin was on screen, I kept expecting to hear the DUN-DUN sound, followed by date and location. His partner that died was also a detective in Person Of Interest. I did get a laugh (in a positive way) out of seeing John Wesley Shipp playing Barry Allen's dad.
Definitely in need of tuning, though Arrow had major issues in the first half of it's first season as well but sorted out most of them. The most glaring part for me was how they suddenly jumped to a scene or did something without any proper lead up. Also the Arrow cameo came up very corny and cheesy. I don't know if they have time for re-shoots but that's one scene that needs a little in my opinion.
It's a bit of bad writing and bad acting for Arrow.
The acting in Arrow may seem bad because it's written to be over-dramatic and caters to the younger audience of CW.
SHIELD just has bad acting (but has gotten better).
Arrow's bad acting is limited mainly to certain characters or actors/actresses. Katie Cassidy and Amell won't be winning any awards for acting on Arrow, that's for sure. Caity Lotz is at least good to look at and kicked ass (that chin though) but she seemed to only have one expression in the entire show.
AoS had some iffy acting in the beginning but once the characters grew into their roles and had chemistry, plus the plot developments, it doesn't even stand out anymore. Chloe Bennett isn't nearly as irritating as Katie Cassidy.