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Just watched the pilot as well. Agree on every point you have made. It's just really well done on all aspects. Was fun noticing all the references to other DC comics and future issues Flash will be dealing with.
I read a review, from what I can tell he adds a ton of shit that's not in the book, or any of the books
who the fuck is Kevin Conroy? Voice actor? I don't watch the cartoons
The only time I don't have conference pride is this season and a couple of seasons back because fuck Auburn and fuck Cam Newton
Sad, looks like that and the GL series are being cancelled to make room for the new Batman series and the return of Teen Titans Go
But the new episode is available online
DVR picked up Johnny Test again.
Programming times getting thrown off seems common to Sundays..
Rant incoming. Putting it in spoiler tags, so don't read it, if you don't want to hear it, but I can promise Oliver being a stone cold killer is not my issue:
[spoiler]The writing on the show is... not good.
Ok, so Oliver goes on a cruise with a detectives daughter and his girlfriends sister, who he cheated on her with, and they both die. I can understand secretly wishing he was the one who died, but they were basically acting like he's responsible for the tragedy. I mean, come on, it was a freak accident.. How much blame could you really lay on the man?
So, Arrow's a stone cold killer.. He's Punisher with a bow and arrow, basically. Fine, except he kills everyone except the main bad guy. He kills his bodyguards just to make a stupid threat, and when the rich bastard refuses to deliver, he breaks into his building and kills more bodyguards and god knows who else, just to use a trick arrow to hack into his computer network and steal his money.
Some points on why this is stupid:
1. Why even give him a chance to make good? Did he really think the rich asshole would knuckle under.
2. Batman would not have charged in and killed everyone, even if he was a killer. Hell, Punisher would have been smarter then that. If his goal was only to hack his system, there's so many better ways to go about it.. How about sneaking into the building when all the police you alerted with your stupid threats aren't there, for example?
3. If he MUST make a show with all the killing, why not kill the rich guy AND steal his money? He's the ONLY guy who actually deserves to die.. The other people he kills are just doing their job. So why stop short of driving an arrow through the mans heart?
4. Considering all the crime drama's out there, I think by now everyone knows when there's a murder, there's usually a through investigation. Yet somehow, they completely miss the arrow sticking out of the wall with a router like light blinking on the tail end of it. O_o I mean, didn't anyone ask him for a detailed account of what happened? Didn't they look for evidence on the scene? How long was that arrow sticking out of the wall, anyways? And the blinking connectivity light is just dumb...
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I had wondered why they didn't use the same actor.
Teenage temptation. The same reason Conner took those pathes from Lex.
I thought it was a quality episode. We dive right into Speedy's return and his transformation into Arsenal. Also great that Red Arrow and Arsenal co-exist now.
Plus a Captain Cold cameo. Then planting the seeds for Sportsmaster's family vs the Black Mantas.
Just saw this on EW (didn't watch the trailer I'm at work)
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/06/29/the-man-with-the-iron-fists-trailer/#more-75510
Doesn't look like it has anything to do with the comic - but I wonder if it would affect the eventual production of a Marvel movie - probably not. Batista is in it
