And that's without even getting into the strong fascist undertones.
Who would have figured Arrow would be a better show than SHIELD?
Arrow's biggest problem at the moment is it seems to be suffering from an identity crisis (joke about Jean Loring joining the cast goes here, I don't have the energy). The mandate for the season, as set up in the new opening narration, is that Ollie's not supposed to be the grim-'n'-gritty murdering vigilante he was in season 1, he's turning into more of a traditional superhero. And while they've stopped short of boxing gloves, they have actually used the phrase "trick arrows". There's a real sense here that they're trying to make superheroes aspirational instead of grimdark again.
The trouble is that half the writers seem not to have gotten the memo, and he still keeps straight-up murdering dudes like every other episode, in-between talking about how he's not actually a murderer. And last week he just straight-up put an arrow through Roy's leg, to "protect" him.
I sure did like Barry, though; when they weren't walking through his stupid new Geoff Johns Batman MY PARENTS ARE DEEEEEEEEEEAD (and/or incarcerated) Origin Story they tended to remember that he's actually supposed to be a lot of fun. So I'm actually starting to get my hopes up for the Flash spinoff.
Now, giving Jim Gordon his own series set before Batman comes to Gotham is a dumb idea, for reasons already covered by
Chris Sims (tl;dr you either have a real downer of a show where Gordon gets his ass kicked every week and constantly loses, or you depict a Gotham PD that can take care of the problems in the city all by itself and UNDERMINE THE ENTIRE PREMISE OF BATMAN). But it still might be better than SHIELD.