Arrow

Lala Calamari wrote:

Anyone watching Arrow?  It just premiered last night and I figured I'd give it a shot.  It's actually not bad.  I never really followed the Green Arrow when I collected comics so I'm not really familiar with the character other than he shoots arrows and wears green. 

Does he steal from the rich and give to the poor?

saw the epi last night, and I do have to say, I'm liking the show. I really like the backstory, and could care less about what's going on now. Deathstroke was a good surprise. I'm assuming that they may put him losing his eye into the story somewhere but slade's wife took that from him not quinn. he should've had the single eye in the epi. also I'm not sure when he went from black/yellow, but i only remember him having a black/red suit. But all in all, it was good. 

Just caught the last epi of arrow, and its actually turning out pretty well. Thru the middle of the show I thought the new girl was a character from the comics and I couldn't place it until just the very end. Turns out, she's the huntress. I only recently got back into the batman world, so some of the characters I'm not so familiar with, but after reading a bit of night wing, I definitely know the huntress. I also didn't know that Laurel could be the black canary as she's referred to Dinah in the comics. This makes sense as canary and arrow get hitched in the comics. 

So this link tells a little more of the characters that have made it to the show from the comics, most of which we've seen already but are slightly different in the show than the books.

http://screenrant.com/arrow-cw-dc-comics-characters-cameos-guest-stars/

I liked the last epi. I've been waiting for more of a backstory on how he became a badass. The slade wilson/deathstroke/eye removal thing was odd because that is totally not what happened in the comics. Actually, I think Slade got his eye shot out by Oliver anyway, so that may come up in the story, but at this point, I'm not so sure.

I'm done with this show. Was dumb to begin with, but considering i'm a sucker for comic characters, i decided i'd give it more than a reasonable shot. But in the last two episodes this show has dropped off a fucking cliff. The acting is bad, the plot has holes big enough to make a tire swing seem like a tight object for teens to fuck, and jesus has it gotten dull. Its already starting to recycle plots and it's not even a full season in.

Started watching it on Netflix, and I'm at the point where Slade appears to kill the Billy Wintergreen character (who looks like Deathstroke). The upcoming "event" planned for the city has me really wondering what it is at this point. Slade not leaving on the plane surprised me. Clearly there is way more yet to happen on the island.

I caught an episode of this a while back, further in than where I'm at currently, and I thought it was pretty lame, but so far, after getting into the character deveolpment and back story, I'm enjoying it much more than I would have thought.

Dinah definately is named after the Black Canary, the Huntress has been rewritten mutiple times in the comic books, the only two things that seem retained are the crossbow and the name Helena, her last name used to be Wayne if anyone recognizes it....The Count and the Vertigo drug are implications that Count Vertigo may make an appearance yet. The Firefly was hinted at, but I think they killed him already? Tommy's dad has me really confused at this point, but seems to be a major baddy down the road. Even the nickname Speedy for Ollie's sister is a reference to his side kick in the books.

Anyone still watching this?

I'm caught up and current. Love Professor Ivo on the "Amazo" ship.

Got a facebook post from Marv Wolfman that he's jazzed to see H.I.V.E. mentioned in the last episode and he can't wait to see what they do with "his" baddies on the show.

I'm watching it. So far I'm still enjoying it and waiting to see where they go with it.  The island flashbacks really make things interesting.

there are times when the islands better than the current stoyryline...

Did anyone catch the Flash origin scenario play out a week or so back? Of course Barry's in a coma and hasn't woke up, yet...but they did the whole room fulla chemicals/lightning bolt thing and then showed him unconcious on the floor with a crackle playing over his body...

I love Arrow, season 2 was really awesome and so much better than 1, although season 3 will be focused on Merlin again who bores me.. Gotham looks stupid to me, I really don't care about Gordon, or the villains before they became super villains. It's just another cop show to me. Flash is looking to be great, don't dig his outfit, but looking forward to season 2 of Flash after they're done with 7 episodes of origin crap in this first season.