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"The Vigilante", "The Hood", "GREEN ARROW!" (Name Discussion)

DrCosmic — Sun, 19 May 2013 17:31:33 GMT

So, a lot of people have a serious issue with them not calling him Green Arrow yet. Here's my thoughts:

The Name is Corny, very Silver Age-y and not natural to use/come up with in a modern time
Newspapers don't give out cute nicknames to killers, if you've noticed
The show is trying its best to be realistic
They should probably have a realistic way of coming up with the name, right?
The show should be on for a while, so it's not really a rush, is it?
Right now, Oliver isn't a superhero - he isn't trying to represent something, have an image, or anything like that
For the story they're telling, which is really about how Green Arrow comes to be, having this period where he doesn't quite know his destiny, makes it better
With a story like this, when the name finally comes out of the story, instead of a rushed 'make it like the comics' one liner, it means something, it represents something, even if you've never read the comics, it means something important in this story.

Share your thoughts.

Episode 23: Sacrifice (Season Finale) - Rate & Review Thread

Hunter Rider — Sat, 11 May 2013 03:45:42 GMT

VIDEO-CLick to Watch!:

Looks great, big showdown between Ollie and the Dark Archer as well as the race to save The Glades.

I wonder if Thea and Roy will find out Ollie's secret or if that storyline will carry on into season 2.

I'm also interested to see what will be shown of the Island and Ollie/Shado/Slade trying to stop the missile attack on the Ferris plane, I actually think what happens there will be a big set up for season 2 given Fyers seems to be working for a potential new major threat.

So, who's going to be the "Sacrifice?"

godisawesome — Thu, 09 May 2013 15:42:42 GMT

It's the title of the season finale, we've had one character death with Yao Fei's passing, and implicitly we'll have at least one very close call before the season is over.

Pick an option and defend it, and we can all come back and share bragging rights if we got it right.

I'm picking Tommy, because I'm a sucker for a subversion of the Villainous father and son dynamic, and the phrase "sacrifice" seems more like the type of thing Malcolm would say.

Episode 22: Darkness on the Edge of Town-Rate & Review Thread-

nbanflguy — Thu, 09 May 2013 01:04:12 GMT

Wow.... That was the most fun I have had watching tv in years. What did everyone else think?

The Emily Bett Rickards/ Felicity Smoak Thread

Dark Raven — Wed, 08 May 2013 19:01:52 GMT

I figured someone should start a thread on the lovely Miss Smoak. She's become my favourite female character in this series now.

She looks great whether dressed up in glasses and looking geeky, or glammed up in evening wear. I sometimes almost think she looks sexier with glasses.

I hope, with her promotion to series regular next season, we see even more of her and get some backstory too.

Ferris Air: Green Lantern coming to Starling City?

Nave 'Torment' — Wed, 08 May 2013 17:14:21 GMT

According to the long-speculated rumour that The Arrow will involve more than just c-list DC characters, and that the breaker of such a tradition would be none other than the other Emerald Knight in the DC pantheon: Ollie's own buddy from the Bronze Age, Hal Jordan himself.

The speculation about a crossover goes back to the origin of the show when we heard how one of the writers and pushers behind the 2011 adaptation of GL, Greg Berlenti, was the show-developer on The Arrow. Recently, executive producer of The Arrow and also co-writer with Berlenti on the 2011 adaptation, told TV Guide that they are indeed plans on bringing GL to Starling City:

Quote:

"If all goes according to plan, when you see the Ferris Air logo later in the season, it will be the same logo that we established in the movie. I like tips of the hat."

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"As with all DC characters, we have to figure out a way for those characters to fit within our Arrow universe," he continues. "But when you consider the importance that Hal Jordan plays in the Green Arrow comics, it's certainly one of those names that we've discussed a great deal. I have Ryan Reynolds' phone number around here somewhere."

Source: http://www.superherohype.com/news/ar...ppear-on-arrow

So what do you guys think? Ryan Reynolds isn't exactly a terrible actor and given the right script could do justice to the role. I'm not a big fan of the idea that we'll be looking into a full-fledged JLA film that copies off Marvel Studios' approach and rushes into a crossover film... the DC characters are much more unique than that and can exist well on their own without needing that sort of hype. For now I am content with trilogies like The Dark Knight and the upcoming Man of Steel film, which is all very promising and seems to shine when they are stand-alone.

Y'know, like the characters originally were when they were created in the comics. They never came from the same writer like Stan Lee did for Marvel Comics, they never had Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko all working on a consciously cohesive universe when they were first created. Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman all originate from a different sort of imagination and they have their own rich genres that makes them unique on their own. When translating them on the big screen where 50+ years of stories are adapted, what is important is to focus on what makes these characters unique, and a lot of it has to do with that starting point: that strand of imagination, either from detective fiction, science fiction, or mythology, and they all exist in such a way that one doesn't necessarily blend with the other.

In terms of writing they refer to it as "internal logic" where the established universe/rationale of the world shouldn't be thrown away the minute something becomes too difficult to tackle. So for a noir-character like Batman, whose superheroism is embodied by the fact that he is larger-than-life because he is ordinary and yet still extraordinary because he knows how to use "theatricality and deception" to create an urban-legend out of his own actions, putting him next to a character like Wonder Woman who originates from high-mythology simply robs both worlds of their respective uniquenesses.

This was never the case with Marvel Comics which Stan and co. were adamant on making Science-Fantasy based. But that isn't the case with the DC pantheon, and I for one love the fact that each character in the DC pantheon comes from a different literary genre and builds on it and has its own sort of comic-book superhero-interpretation of it. To me that is unique.

Coming back to The Arrow, now obviously every interpretation that we've seen on the show so far has been grounded on the outlook of the show (what I hold to be the ideal "genre" for Green Arrow, the character, is a different matter entirely), so introducing someone like GL would really shake things up. How would Ollie react to a space-cop with a power-ring that can do anything someone wills? Aliens and what not. It'll definitely be a game-changer. What are your thoughts on it? Do you even want Reynolds back in the role at all?