Hooooooooooly shitballs, thanks to Netflix and the CW's own streaming services, after only a few short weeks I'm finally all caught up to this, and it's so effin awesome it's crazy. It may never produce a villain as classic as Ledger's Joker, but in just about every other aspect, it's absolutely blowing the Nolan Bat-trilogy, BB and TDKR especially, right oughta the water. And as much as I'm an MCU fanboy, and have faith that Agents of SHIELD will in time grow into something truly great as well (Arrow was never bad, but it's no knock against it to say it took some time and groundwork-laying to gain momentum), the Whedons and co. better start bringing it before too long, because this DC series is setting a hell of a salmon-ladder bar for them to live up to.
I don't know if Netflix has the first season streaming, but everybody here has just got to start watching this thing pronto. In its good, early years, Smallville was hitting home runs every two or three eps, but Arrow is hitting 'em just about every time, and I don't think there's been a single bad one yet. Tell your friends and your neighbors, your nannies and parole officers, your cats and your dogs, there's life in the DC brand yet! :-D
... And last week's episode: so shocking, so good. Oh, man!