Arrow is a show that I want to love. But there are moments in the action and dialogue that just make me say Wtf?!
“I’m gonna go out. Okay. And when I come home. You better not still be here, or I’m calling the police.” – Thea Queen to Malcolm Merlin
Before I get into this quote and the inherent problem with its simplicity, let me offer a preface.
This series isn’t really about the Green Arrow found in the comics or even the immortal Justice League Unlimited cartoon. By now, we should cut the pretense. This is a Batman story – plain and simple. That is why Oliver Queen’s character was so familiar and compelling in those first two seasons. Arrow has the training of Batman, as well as a few borrowed stories (ie. Ra’s Al Ghul).
Unfortunately, ever since the season 3 mid-season finale, following the...
“I’m gonna go out. Okay. And when I come home. You better not still be here, or I’m calling the police.” – Thea Queen to Malcolm Merlin
Before I get into this quote and the inherent problem with its simplicity, let me offer a preface.
This series isn’t really about the Green Arrow found in the comics or even the immortal Justice League Unlimited cartoon. By now, we should cut the pretense. This is a Batman story – plain and simple. That is why Oliver Queen’s character was so familiar and compelling in those first two seasons. Arrow has the training of Batman, as well as a few borrowed stories (ie. Ra’s Al Ghul).
Unfortunately, ever since the season 3 mid-season finale, following the...
- 11/19/2015
- by Bags Hooper
- BuzzFocus.com
Ted Brandt and Rosy Higgins are an artistic team from Bristol, England. They are currently working on Princeless: Raven Pirate Princess with writer Jeremy Whitley. (Secret Wars: Secret Love.) It is an all ages comic from Action Lab and a sequel to the Princeless: Pirate Princess and is about Raven Xingtao, an Asian lesbian teen pirate, who must wrest back the title of Black Arrow (Think Pirate King in Pirates of Caribbean.) But, first she must assemble a crew for her ship, and that is what she has been doing over the past three issues with the help of shifty Half-Elf thief Sunshine and Katie, who is a dead ringer for Brienne of Tarth from Game of Thrones and inspires her to assemble an all female crew. Higgins pencils and colors the comic while Brandt handles the layouts, inks, and letters on Raven Pirate Princess.
They are also working on...
They are also working on...
- 10/12/2015
- by Logan Dalton
- SoundOnSight
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
This week sees the first season finale of Arrow, and many of the events for this week’s episode have been worked up by the writers for weeks. The events of this episode pick up from where the last episode finished, after Malcolm and Oliver faced off, with Malcolm once again trumping his younger opponent. We also see a conclusion to the battle between Shado, Slade and Oliver against Fyers, as Fyers prepares to take out a commercial flight to China in order to destabilize the Chinese economy. Finally, the episode further develops the relationships between Thea and Roy, as well as ending the love triangle between Oliver, Laurel and Tommy for good. As the finale to the first season, the progression into the second season is also a key point as the series moves forward, as the show was signed for a second season back in February.
This week sees the first season finale of Arrow, and many of the events for this week’s episode have been worked up by the writers for weeks. The events of this episode pick up from where the last episode finished, after Malcolm and Oliver faced off, with Malcolm once again trumping his younger opponent. We also see a conclusion to the battle between Shado, Slade and Oliver against Fyers, as Fyers prepares to take out a commercial flight to China in order to destabilize the Chinese economy. Finally, the episode further develops the relationships between Thea and Roy, as well as ending the love triangle between Oliver, Laurel and Tommy for good. As the finale to the first season, the progression into the second season is also a key point as the series moves forward, as the show was signed for a second season back in February.
- 5/20/2013
- by Edan Nissen
- Obsessed with Film
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Finally, in what is the first of a two part finale for the first season of Arrow, the different story lines are coming to a head, including Fyer’s plans on the Island, the confrontation between Merlyn as the Black Arrow and Oliver as the Green Arrow. While many questions still remain, some questions have been spectacularly answered. This episode certainly picked up on the steam from last weeks episode as the series well and truly draws to a close. Many issues that this episode deals with is Walter’s return from captivity, Diggle returning to the team, the Laurel, Oliver and Tommy love triangle finally seems to be sorted out, and another look at the Roy and Thea story line which is surely not going to end, despite the events of the most recent episode.
Firstly, the first major issue on the Island, with Fyer...
Finally, in what is the first of a two part finale for the first season of Arrow, the different story lines are coming to a head, including Fyer’s plans on the Island, the confrontation between Merlyn as the Black Arrow and Oliver as the Green Arrow. While many questions still remain, some questions have been spectacularly answered. This episode certainly picked up on the steam from last weeks episode as the series well and truly draws to a close. Many issues that this episode deals with is Walter’s return from captivity, Diggle returning to the team, the Laurel, Oliver and Tommy love triangle finally seems to be sorted out, and another look at the Roy and Thea story line which is surely not going to end, despite the events of the most recent episode.
Firstly, the first major issue on the Island, with Fyer...
- 5/11/2013
- by Edan Nissen
- Obsessed with Film
Today's Cinematic Birthdays 11/131312 Edward III (of Windsor), not the gay one who gets more cinematic treatment (including Derek Jarman's fascinating take), but his son. This is the one Shakespeare wrote a play about and the one who Mel Gibson implied to be the bastard son of Braveheart William Wallace, thereby giving the finger to history unless Wallace's sperm could survive years past his death. That Gibson's sperm could magically endure beyond the grave is far more likely. He already has eight children.1833 Edwin Thomas Booth, famous influential thespian and the 19th century's most prominent Hamlet. He's been portrayed onscreen and stage by famous thespians like Richard Burton and Frank Langella, usually in stories connected to his estranged brother's assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Will someone play him in the Spielberg helmed Lincoln film?
Oskar, Steve and Whoopi
1897 Gertrude Omstead, one of many silent film actresses who moved on once sound hit the movies.
Oskar, Steve and Whoopi
1897 Gertrude Omstead, one of many silent film actresses who moved on once sound hit the movies.
- 11/13/2009
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
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