Arrow

 

More like Robin Hood.

After watching the Star Trek-series I've thought, what is next? Well, I like DC and since the movies are bit more hit and miss, why not watch the TV-series instead? And why not start with Arrow? Oliver Queen is found after being presumed dead for 5 years after he disappeared together with his father on the family yacht. After returning he begins to dress as the Hood to eliminate people on a list his father left him. Basically the list contains name of the most wealthy people in Starling City that worked in a conspiracy to destroy the city and reshape it to their liking. Together with his body guard John Duggan and Queen Consortium IT-person Felicity Smoaks they form team Arrow to fight them. John becomes Spartan and Felicity is Overwatch and later we get Roy Harper as Assault (which I know was called Speedy in the comics, but they gave that to Oliver's sister Thea), Mr Terrific, Black Canary, Black Siren and what not.

So I get most people from the animated Justice League-series or Atop the Fourth Wall. Interestingly the show goes back and forth between "present" and five years earlier to see what happened on the island, like meeting Slade Wilson (aka Deathstroke), Katana and Amanda Waller. They did that for 6 seasons and then shifted to the future and brought in time travel and that for the last seasons. Gotta be honest, got a bit lost at the end on what the hell was going on. Didn't help that here and there they had crossover episodes with the other Arrowverse shows, like the Flash and Supergirl, just like the comic books, and just like them you need to follow all the shows and watch them at the same time. I don't go for that and just let one show run to the end since I don't want to bother with switching shows all the time (especially since Supergirl isn't on Netflix in Sweden at the moment, or I can't at least find it).

The rouge gallery consist of Ra's Al-Ghoul and the monitor... and then a lot of people I don't think I know about, like Damien Dhark and the Dragon. Damien Dhark was at least some one with meta-powers, but Dragon was just some ruthless mobster. I mean, yeah he's scary, but he's clearly not trustworthy since he offs his companions when he want to climb the ladder or they "fail" him. And he's really not that interesting compared to Damien Dhark or a threat  to Arrow. Really, they should have changed order of them. 

But overall a good series. It is really enhanced if you know some lore, like names and such and then you can enjoy a bit of foreshadowing, like that Barry Allen is the Flash, Slade Wilson is Deathstroke and so on. Also fun with both Peter Stomare and Dolph Lundgren as bad guys, russians at that.