Every major death on Arrow had a legit reason from Tommy to Mama Queen to Sara.Arrow is very cliched to me and I think y'all overrate it because it gives y'all instant satisfaction with the villains and fights. AOS had a shaky start I'll agree...but the complexities and decision making with this show I think puts it over. There's a lot I don't like about Arrow even though the things it got right from jump made it a better show than AOS. Three seasons in and (to my knowledge since I didn't finish watching the third season) there have already been three main characters killed off for no real reason. The novelty factor of Arrow will wear off real soon imo...
Killing Tripp on AOS was about as random and bullshyt a death as anything I can think of and the writers even admit that they killed him just to give Skye some emotional pain and he was chosen basically by a process of elimination. There was nothing organic about it unlike the 3 deaths on Arrow.
And point out anything more novelty than AOS with its constant name dropping of characters that will never show up on the actual show.