BC is awesome. They really have chemistry. So did Wild Dog and Quentin. Same with Felicity and Rory.
Do you mind if I have a piece of your thigh? It would complement this fine '76 Shiraz

Since coming back from hiatus, "Arrow' is consistently the lowest rated of the four DC/CW shows every week. I love it.
Donnie (on speaker phone): Alison thinks weve been hiding out long enough. I dont think the frontier life agrees with her.
Helena: "She has the shts."
Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't.

Yeah. Even lower than the Black Siren episode.

Some people
Me

Demo is roughly the same, but they lost about 300k viewers.

I still believe arrow can get the numbers back if they go back to the winning formula OTA Olicity more Lance and The a less newbies
Maybe, but I doubt it. Season 4 ended on an Olicity cliffhanger that felt very much like a big beep You!" to the anti-Felicity/Olicity portion of the audience and the show ended up losing 300,000 viewers between then and the season 5 premiere. That was unprecedented in Arrow history because it's ratings usually rose or at least stayed flat during the big summer break.

Indeed. Gauging fandom reactions based on twitter was ridiculous. Not for nothing, but Guggenheim should have known that a lot of the feedback he got might have been from bot accounts or overseas fans.
I think they also misjudged one more thing. They thought that the aggravated portion of the fanbase would return no matter what. But there are only so many times you can piss someone off.

Thinking that the loudest part of the fandom represented the majority of viewers was a bad mistake. And an obvious one if they put a minimum of thought into the demographics involved.

Yeah, but this episode had more OTA, Lance returned and it also continued the (advertised) dark Felicity arc.
Like others said here, Arrow has lost a chunk of its audience for good. Whether they were Laurel fans, Oliciters or whatnot.

They're going to need at least two returning Oliciters to improve their numbers, considering they lose one viewer by doing so.

Because they got rid of Olicity bring it back

No they won't. Repeating an old formula is never going to get people back. When people leave a show, it's very hard to pull them back. A good chunk of the audience has given up on the show and for good reason.

I still believe arrow can get the numbers back if they go back to the winning formula OTA Olicity more Lance and The a less newbies

Wasn't it 1.9 last week same .6 demo
Yes, it was. Anyways, it should be clear by now that Arrow will never see 2 million viewers again. The writers have simply pissed off way too many people (comics fans, shippers, the handicapped and general viewers) over the last 18 months for that to happen. I expect the ratings to fluctuate between 1.4 and 1.8 million viewers the rest of the season and Arrow will probably also see it's ratings drop to 0.5 in the 18-49 demographic come spring. It won't matter much, though. WB makes so much money off the CW DCverse that Arrow will see 7 seasons regardless of it's performance in the ratings.

Wasn't it 1.9 last week same .5 demo