Arrow

I will give it a shot because I heart superheroes, and green arrow is badass. I don't think it'll turn out good though. Gotta be better than Revolution.

I have a lot of hope for this show. I need Katie Cassidy on my television weekly. She made Harper's Island for me. Okay, so the serial killer on an island thing would've had me regardless, but Katie Cassidy was a definite plus!

It's one of the most anticipated pilots/shows of the new season. Reviewers/critics have talked highly of it.

A promising iteration of the character. I'm looking forward to this.

They need something to fill that Samllville gap. Happily on board.

I don't typically watch the CW, but the preview definitely has me intrigued. Plus, I have an odd fascination with archery. Yeah, I'll have to check this out.

It looks... adequate, so far.

It's different from what I'm used to of Green Arrow, a darker take. But well-cast, and I'm very impressed with the parkour usage.

I liked it. I hope it stays around for awhile.

I see the Green Arrow as radically different based on the 500 or so issues of it in my closet. Not even close. And I would have preferred more Marvel and less Hamlet.

But I'll give it a chance.

veinglory said:

And I would have preferred more Marvel and less Hamlet.

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Green Arrow done a'la Marvel would probably get DC suing someone, since he's theirs.

And they do seem to have a nod to the comics as more than just basic foundation. I mean, he had Deathstroke's mask impaled on an arrow on the island by his rescue-me bonfire, which suggests strongly that at some point during those five years he fought and killed Slade Wilson (no mean feat). This seems to be backed up by the fact that the preview for episode two showed him fighting Ravager (Slade's daughter Rose Wilson).

That aside, there were some pretty ridiculous bits. (How convenient that someone scarred and burned over so much of their body was scarred so photogenically and their face/hands/forearms were untouched!) But the lead was actually believable as parkour-hero-Ollie in the action scenes, and I don't entirely mind the darker take.

After all, trying to bring four-color heroes across to live-action television without *some* sort of adaptation rarely seems to work well.

Liked the pilot, but wondering: does anyone know why Justin Hartley (Green Arrow on Smallville) didn't get the part?

I'm betting the blonde next week is Black Canary. Dinah Laurel Lance, indeed.

Pterofan, they aren't doing a show connected to Smallville at all, so he was never asked. New takes with new people behind it and all that.

Comics Green Arrow has had 2 takes - a lighter version and a mature run from 1987-early '90s.

I'm in the "adequate" camp. I wanted to like it, and it's better than other shows in the same general genre that I've wanted to like over the years, but there wasn't anything particularly compelling about it, other than the visuals. The dialogue was generally pretty mundane.

Missed it! Not sure if it'll be On Demand. Available on Hulu Plus, but not free Hulu (as yet). I've seen some clips that look interesting.

Manuel, it'll be on the CW's site.

Other than a few scenes of some pretty decent parkour, I found it riddled with not plot holes, but plot craters. I'm not familiar with the Green Arrow superhero, and maybe the plot depends on already knowing the backstory. I found it a mix of cliche and unbelieveable and did not set the DVR to record the series.

I thought it was okay for a pilot. I'm not really interested in seeing the male/female love interest thing turn into the gal saying, "But, I see something to LOVE in you, even though you verbally abuse me and push me away," BS.

I thought the hero was interesting enough.

It was very "piloty" in a sense, so that can point to better subsequent episodes.

There are now images of John Barrowman, and of Slade Wilson in his mask.

Okay, watched the pilot. Good action scenes. Flat dialogue (and some really clumsy expositional lines).