YMMV / Arrow: Rebirth

• Character Rerailment: A large part of Arlyss' writing is shifting the characterization of characters to more closely resemble their comics counterparts, while still keeping to the spirit of the Arrowverse.
  • Oliver takes a lot more interest in social issues and more explicitly leans left.
  • Laurel awakens the Canary Cry and eventually becomes a top-tier martial artist.
• Fan Nickname: Thea is known as "New Diggle Thea" on the Lauriver Discord, due to replacing Diggle as the one freaked out by all the strange ongoings of the world.
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • Poor, poor Thea. Bratty Teenage Daughter she may be, the absolute hell she goes through in Rise is incredibly undeserved, and Oliver's harsh treatment afterward, as well-intentioned as it is, is not helping matters.
  • Tommy as well. Yes, it's clear that he's a fundamentally selfish person, but Rise keeps giving him shocking truth after shocking truth that no one would be able to handle well. It doesn't help that he keeps making the situation worse even though he's genuinely trying to help, and in the end none of that matters once the League of Assassins arrives and kidnaps him because of something that genuinely wasn't his fault. It's little wonder that by the time we see him again in Age his mentality has taken a sharp spike in the wrong direction.
  • Quentin. Yeah, he can be a real ass at times, but after the Amnesty Bay arc, you can't help but feel for him. His family is permanently broken because his ex-wife did something his eldest daughter can't forgive, and both his daughters are unquestionably putting themselves in danger by becoming vigilantes like Oliver, with Laurel going as far as to become a public hero like him and join the Justice League.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Oliver believes Malcolm crossed it when he sends the Huntsman after Laurel. If that didn't cinch it for the readers, he unquestionably crossed it when he he tried to murder his own daughter Thea just for being related to Oliver.
  • Felicity crossed it when she decided to murder Laurel to get back Oliver. While it was understandable she would be unhappy with Oliver's decision, she should've been angry at him, not at a woman who was completely unaware of the situation to the point that she didn't even know Felicity existed.
• Nightmare Fuel: Pretty much every scene involving the Huntsman.
• Take That, Scrappy!: Oliver leaving Felicity for Laurel, Felicity's Adaptational Villainy, and then her anticlimactic death at the hands of the Huntsman, which Oliver doesn't even bother trying to avenge after finding out she was planning to kill Laurel, makes it solidly clear that the author, much like a lot of the Arrowverse fanbase, hates Felicity Smoak. Not even Earth-X Felicity gets off — in this continuity, her parents and grandparents are Nazi collaborators (or at least strongly suspected to be such, as Batman points out how unlikely it is that Felicity would be born in a reality where the last two generations of her family would have to have lived in hiding).
• The Woobie: Laurel. Much like Thea above, she goes through absolute hell in Rise, through real no fault of her own beyond her desire to help people and her relationship with Oliver. Her happy ending at the end of the story was well-deserved.