[TV] [Green] Arrow Trailer, Show coming this fall

Norris

Norris



So Arrow looks incredibly promising. My sister, who has a Green Arrow poster up on her wall, is a bit annoyed by the name change but she thinks it looks pretty good. Also looks like we're getting Deathstroke in a proper live action TV appearance, so that's cool.

Minor Comic Book Fan Nitpicks:
  • Why is the city named "Starling City" and not "Star City"?
  • Why the hell is Ollie's soon-to-be-a-villain friend named Tommy Merlyn? Merlyn The Archer has used the perfectly serviceable alias of "Arthur King" in the comics.
  • Aaaand Black Canary had a little sister, who Ollie was cheating on her with, and who died in the same accident that stranded Ollie. And she was dating him before either of them were super heroes. She gets such hit and miss portrayals in other media, and this one leans towards miss.
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

Well Star City was always a terrible name.

They should just make Black Canary like her comic character...

I wonder if Ollie will pick up a kid sidekick.

I hope they don't screw this up too much, Green Arrow has always been one of my favorite characters.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

The way it's costumed and shot, I'm almost surprised they didn't change his name to "Garrett."



--Patrick
(EDIT: Added video)
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

Definitely a B-list TV show, but done pretty well for the budget.

I liked that they named dropped Grell, and several DC comics references.
 
Covar

Covar

Watched this past weeks episode, much better than I thought. Not at all like Smallville, which is definitely a good thing.
 
Covar

Covar

ThatNickGuy said:
Yeah, a friend of mine has been raving about it. Of course, he also loves Smallville, so I'm still hesitant to try it.
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If Smallville is One Tree Hill, Arrow is Supernatural. The one episode I saw had a very different tone from Smallville. Also Deadshot. Three Episodes in and it already had more references to the greater DCU than the first 3 seasons of Smallville.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Name dropping Supernatural doesn't help, either, as I didn't dig that show.

Also, Deadshot does not have a pornstache. Deadshot isn't Deadshot without the pornstache.
 
phil

phil

I've really been digging it so far. I like that he's conflicted about keeping up his playboy cover but seeing his sister follow his lead. The only thing I don't like is how the island is a big mystery. I hope they're not trying for a LOST element.
 
@Li3n

@Li3n

Yeah, so the preview for the next episode had Deathstroke in it... the mask looked kinda silly though, cheap plastic like... hope that was just bad lighting in that 1 sec they showed it.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

Live action super hero show...yeah. Those are...successful....sometimes. I'm using....elipses...to emphasize...my cautious skepticism.
 
Norris

Norris

Yoshimickster said:
Live action super hero show...yeah. Those are...successful....sometimes. I'm using....elipses...to emphasize...my cautious skepticism.
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Uh...we're four episodes in. If you're unsure of the quality, you could try watching the show. In terms of ratings, it is pretty low for broadcast...but a quick check of TV By The Numbers showed it to be the highest rated program on the CW so far this week. And that is with a fall off of a million viewers since the premier. So it's doing pretty well. I'm personally rather enjoying it.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

Norris said:
Uh...we're four episodes in. If you're unsure of the quality, you could try watching the show. In terms of ratings, it is pretty low for broadcast...but a quick check of TV By The Numbers showed it to be the highest rated program on the CW so far this week. And that is with a fall off of a million viewers since the premier. So it's doing pretty well. I'm personally rather enjoying it.
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It wasn't so much a comment on it being bad, so much on it may not being successful. The last live action super-hero show to do well was *shutter* Smallville, and that was only because they pumped in as much teen angst as possible and as little heroing as possible. I'd be happy if this show gets a good run but if we end up seeing "Bring back Arrow" petitions, I won't be suprised. Dear lord television networks have killed my optimism.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

Yoshimickster said:
It wasn't so much a comment on it being bad, so much on it may not being successful. The last live action super-hero show to do well was *shutter* Smallville, and that was only because they pumped in as much teen angst as possible and as little heroing as possible. I'd be happy if this show gets a good run but if we end up seeing "Bring back Arrow" petitions, I won't be suprised. Dear lord television networks have killed my optimism.
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Heroes did really well before they killed it in the second season.
 
Norris

Norris

Yoshimickster said:
It wasn't so much a comment on it being bad, so much on it may not being successful. The last live action super-hero show to do well was *shutter* Smallville, and that was only because they pumped in as much teen angst as possible and as little heroing as possible. I'd be happy if this show gets a good run but if we end up seeing "Bring back Arrow" petitions, I won't be suprised. Dear lord television networks have killed my optimism.
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The last three seasons of Smallville, particularly nine and ten, were pretty good in my opinion. Closest we've come to a serious Justice League show, with a focus on their version of The World's Finest team. Anything that gives us a Booster Gold spotlight episode and a Justice Society TV movie is OK in my book. But I digress.

Your pessimism is unwarranted at this stage. The show has been highly promoted, its premier has the highest ratings the CW has seen in three years, and the ratings are consistently great (for The CW, if it were one of the four major networks, then we'd be talking cancellation). You're speculating that an unadulterated hit will be cancelled prematurely. Despite what might be indicated by their threshold for a hit (and by renewing Nikita, which I love but is an abject ratings failure), the CW does in fact want to make money. If Arrow keeps putting up the numbers, they'll keep it around. Hell, we can probably be expecting some spiritual spin-offs already.
 
Norris

Norris

So as it turns out, my annoyance at Tommy Meryln's name was a big unfounded. He's not a black clad evil archer.

His father, Malcolm Merlyn (played by John Fucking Barrowman!) is. He's also the leader of The List's conspiracy, which I'm starting to think might be tied to the island.
 
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fade

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Well, here's hoping the actual show is better than the trailers. At least that one is better than the one that was aired in the theater before Skyfall. That trailer looked like pure Melrose Place. This trailer is full of banal lines, generic pretty people, mediocre acting, a complete lack of facial expressions.
 
phil

phil

I'm still digging it. I really enjoyed the episode with the royal flush gang. Now that they introduced huntress as a love interest I think things are going to really scale up in both action and drama.

I don't really dig the whole conspiracy aspect and I wish we could see more of the island but overall I really like it.
 
Espy

Espy

fade said:
Well, here's hoping the actual show is better than the trailers. At least that one is better than the one that was aired in the theater before Skyfall. That trailer looked like pure Melrose Place. This trailer is full of banal lines, generic pretty people, mediocre acting, a complete lack of facial expressions.
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Oh so it's the perfect sequel to Smallville?:dumb:
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

I gave this show a try and made it through the first 8 episodes or so. It's okay, but I just don't see why people are raving about it. It's still that same stiff, lifeless CW kind of show with pretty, talentless actors. Also, given that they all look almost the same, I kept getting confused about which woman was playing who. Like when Huntress showed up and I confused her with the actress that plays Black Canary (or "Not Black Canary, Yet").
 
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