Arrow Arrow General Discussion Thread - - - - - - - - Part 22

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What was the reason for not calling her Dinah in the first place?
I believe it's also her mother's name.

Laurel was named after her, but goes by her middle name to avoid confusion I guess. But it would make sense for someone like Oliver to call her Dinah in a moment where he's being serious.
 
Personally (this is just me) having no real attachment to the comics, I like "Laurel" better than "Dinah." It sounds more...modern, I guess, which is fitting with the feel of the show. And now that she's been called Laurel pretty much exclusively for three seasons, I think it would be really odd to suddenly start calling her Dinah.
 
I believe it's also her mother's name.

Laurel was named after her, but goes by her middle name to avoid confusion I guess. But it would make sense for someone like Oliver to call her Dinah in a moment where he's being serious.

Oh, yeah. I totally forgot about her mom.
 
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Ok, can we start getting some pictures of the other characters now?
 
In the comics, the first BC was "Dinah Drake." The second one was "Dinah Laurel Lance." And on the show Alex Kingston plays her mother, who's name is "Dinah."

So they likely did it to "avoid confusion." She has been referred to as "Dinah" at least twice that I can recall (Tommy uses her full name in the pilot and I believe that Oliver calls her by her first name at one point).
 
Jesus Christ.
We should be happy they asked Barrowman and he told them thanks to his husband it wasn't good idea. lol they should pass all their script idea 's and plots to his husband as well too.he tell them the truth of what are bad idea's before they air.
 
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Making him Thea's father wasn't a good idea either.
 
I thought it was a good idea. Could've been executed better though.
 
Making him Thea's father wasn't a good idea either.

I actually thought that worked really well. But Oliver's father? Ugh, no. Oliver physically resembles Robert a whole lot more than he does Merlyn, while Thea looks more like Merlyn than Robert. That would've been a really bad decision.
 
I thought it was a good idea. Could've been executed better though.

It's stupid, soap opera ******** that eventually lead to the severe dip in quality we experienced in season three. I don't care that a lot of comics have soap opera elements in them; not all of them need to be translated to the screen.
 
I actually thought that worked really well. But Oliver's father? Ugh, no. Oliver physically resembles Robert a whole lot more than he does Merlyn, while Thea looks more like Merlyn than Robert. That would've been a really bad decision.
Well both Robert & Moira were blonds and looking at Thea one would have thought it was a recessive gene from ether side of the family's grand parents or further I guess. If it wasn't said that Malcolm was her dad I mean. so if it had turned out that the latter was Oliver's dad (I'm so happy that didn't happen BTW) Oliver's looks mostly would have been from his mom I guess.


Making him Thea's father wasn't a good idea either.
I agree. but it seem it was a weird situation of where they(the writer of the show) were hell bent for it to happen and it was that or bring Tommy back from the dead in no matter what bad way possible it be.
Even though there's a limit with what the pit can do and should do depending on how long you've been in the grave .

speeds the essence with the pit. So they went with making one of the queen kids one of his love children sadly. I don't like it ether but it's too late as well now.


It's stupid, soap opera ******** that eventually lead to the severe dip in quality we experienced in season three. I don't care that a lot of comics have soap opera elements in them; not all of them need to be translated to the screen.
Like I said before they shouldn't be looking soap opera's for inspiration where romance is involved or anything else. most of bad stuff is from it.
even cliff deaths and more. I'm not joking ether with the latter .
there are many better shows in prime time where they don't fallow any of that and they are better off for it. and those ones they should look at. but I said my peace already.


Again thank you other Mister Barrowman. Now please over see the rest of their scripts and plot's before they start recordings. lol. They needs a script Doctor.
 
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Malcolm being Thea's father is not a bad idea. And it DOES make sense in-context. They could have executed it better, but that's another matter entirely. Also, complaining about comic books being "soap opera-ish" makes me wonder if said people have actually read comic books. Because they're full of that sort of stuff.
 
Malcolm being Thea's father is not a bad idea. And it DOES make sense in-context. They could have executed it better, but that's another matter entirely. Also, complaining about comic books being "soap opera-ish" makes me wonder if said people have actually read comic books. Because they're full of that sort of stuff.
I've proven i'm long time comic reader

lol unless you want me to so case pic's of comic' I have and where I keeps them. one be a black card bored box(my black box of comic's) for one stack of many .

The problem is there are some things that have been always bad from them like love triangles among few and more. the one's that end fast as in them being fast ended never to be visited ever again are the best. where we don't have member's of team fight over this one character/ person they are both after when both the world or a people or something like a school of kids/ students they trying to save or protect are in danger at that very moment but they( the main protagnists) want to have fist fight all of sudden over girl/ woman or guy they like or liked (they may not be alive any more) when the villain or creture or robot is there can kill them that very second / moment are the worst and stupidest kinds.

The faster they end the better.

there's a boat load of a lot of list of things that are terrible from them (soap opera's). I love comic's and there are alot of good stories. But there are some plot's I do agree that are the most terrible and those are I notice I've seen from soap opera's where characters from there are intolerable and you really want to strangle them if they were real. sheesh.

the character from soap opera's "North American ones "also act stupid as well. Very, very stupid Where you really want to smack them up side the head. and wish for their death and you feel intellect falling part the longer the shows go on and watch them. Especially when they should know better with some of situations they put them self through.

Cause they been down that road more then twice before.

There's a reason why alot of them stopped being aired as well . Some of were creating moronic people from their fan bases.


But any ways. I stated I was ok with the Thea situation only to a degree. It's better then what was initially planned. Which is why I want Barrowman's husband to be their script doctor or one of them at least cause they need one or more of those it seems. .
 
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Malcolm being Thea's father is not a bad idea.

I beg to differ.

And it DOES make sense in-context.

That was never the issue.

Also, complaining about comic books being "soap opera-ish" makes me wonder if said people have actually read comic books. Because they're full of that sort of stuff.

Not everything that exists in comic books needs to be brought to live action.
 
I also liked that Thea was Malcolm's daughter it was nice a twist on what she thought of her relationship with Robert Queen. From what I can tell she was a daddy's girl and even though Robert knew she wasn't his. She not for one second ever doubted that he loved her.I know Robert's dead but I'd love to see Thea's conversation with him about just that subject.
 
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