In Not So Surprising News: CW's Arrow kills the crap out of his foes for some reason

Magus · 07-13-2012, 10:34 PM

In an incredibly surprising turn of events that no one saw coming, the CW does not appear to be paying much attention to what the Green Arrow is actually like in their new show "Arrow", the "presumed hit" of the century (because comic book fans will watch anything even vaguely super hero related, I guess, even if you don't get anything about the hero right).

As anyone even tangentially familiar with the character knows, while the Green Arrow does indeed lack a strict "no-kill" rule like fellow billionaire Batman, the idea of him snapping a disarmed foe's neck simply to protect his identity is vastly out of character for someone usually shown to be a liberal humanist, and is as laughable as Superman or the Flash doing the same.

Of course, I'm sure someone (i.e. everyone who wants to watch it anyway for some reason despite it having little to do with the Green Arrow) will defend this seemingly erroneous depiction of the Green Arrow by pointing to the late '80s, early '90s incarnation of the character, who was altered from his original origins to be a conservative vigilante working out of Seattle, racking up a body count on par with characters such as the Punisher.

I suppose if we were to define the character solely by this short-lived version, this show is doing a fine job of adapting the Green Arrow (other than the fact that he is not Green, I mean.) But they failed to call this Arrow: The Longbow Hunters. This like making a Batman show where he snaps the Joker's neck and not calling it All-Star Batman and Robin. It's, quite simply, very dumb. And this is coming from someone who watched (most of) Smallville (I drew the line at Cajun Cowboy Deadshot, but that does mean I watched nine years of the thing). For whatever errors that show made, whatever missteps, whatever the budget failed to allow it to achieve, I don't think we can say that Tom Welling's Superman wasn't a fairly accurate representation of the character's basic personality. But in this case, the CW failed to even get that right.

07-13-2012, 10:34 PM	#1
Magus Archer and Armstrong vs. the World Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 7,164	In Not So Surprising News: CW's Arrow kills the crap out of his foes for some reason In an incredibly surprising turn of events that no one saw coming, the CW does not appear to be paying much attention to what the Green Arrow is actually like in their new show "Arrow", the "presumed hit" of the century (because comic book fans will watch anything even vaguely super hero related, I guess, even if you don't get anything about the hero right). As anyone even tangentially familiar with the character knows, while the Green Arrow does indeed lack a strict "no-kill" rule like fellow billionaire Batman, the idea of him snapping a disarmed foe's neck simply to protect his identity is vastly out of character for someone usually shown to be a liberal humanist, and is as laughable as Superman or the Flash doing the same. Of course, I'm sure someone (i.e. everyone who wants to watch it anyway for some reason despite it having little to do with the Green Arrow) will defend this seemingly erroneous depiction of the Green Arrow by pointing to the late '80s, early '90s incarnation of the character, who was altered from his original origins to be a conservative vigilante working out of Seattle, racking up a body count on par with characters such as the Punisher. I suppose if we were to define the character solely by this short-lived version, this show is doing a fine job of adapting the Green Arrow (other than the fact that he is not Green, I mean.) But they failed to call this Arrow: The Longbow Hunters. This like making a Batman show where he snaps the Joker's neck and not calling it All-Star Batman and Robin. It's, quite simply, very dumb. And this is coming from someone who watched (most of) Smallville (I drew the line at Cajun Cowboy Deadshot, but that does mean I watched nine years of the thing). For whatever errors that show made, whatever missteps, whatever the budget failed to allow it to achieve, I don't think we can say that Tom Welling's Superman wasn't a fairly accurate representation of the character's basic personality. But in this case, the CW failed to even get that right. __________________ The Valiant Review