| Register  | FAQ  | Search | Login 
It is currently Sat May 18, 2013 4:48 pm

All times are UTC - 6 hours [ DST ]




Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 17 posts ] 
Author Message
 Post subject: Arrow
PostPosted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 7:08 pm 
Fair trade, organic mistletoe
User avatar
Online

Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:52 am
Posts: 2680
Location: Vancouver
Oh man, you guys, it's baaaaaad.

It's the most formulaic, simplistic, terrible show I have ever encountered and I can't stop watching it!

_________________
"I'd rather have dried catshit! I'd rather have astroturf! I'd rather have an igloo!"~Isa

"But really, anyone willing to dangle their baby in front of a crocodile is A-OK in my book."~SSD


Top
 Profile WWW  
 
 Post subject: Re: Arrow
PostPosted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 7:49 pm 
No-pants hermit 4 lyfe
User avatar
Offline

Joined: Sun Oct 24, 2010 10:22 am
Posts: 2222
Location: BKLN
i'm watching it, too. i don't know anything about the green arrow comics, but the broad strokes in the show remind me a lot of batman (spoiled rich playboy by day, superskilled badass by night), so i'm sort of squinting and pretending it's just new dark knight stuff. but, yeah, i'm not proud of myself.

_________________
"I dont need someone to slather my butthole, I just need them to bring me tasty foods." - Adam Crisis
"I'm ok with people forcing tables in me." - lavawitch


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Arrow
PostPosted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 7:54 pm 
Fair trade, organic mistletoe
User avatar
Online

Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:52 am
Posts: 2680
Location: Vancouver
I feel like someone half-watched the Dark Knight trilogy while hungover and figured they could make a bland, commercially palatable version by just removing anything interesting from the Dark Knight and inserting terrible dialogue, unrealistic characters and terrible acting.

Why am I watching this??

_________________
"I'd rather have dried catshit! I'd rather have astroturf! I'd rather have an igloo!"~Isa

"But really, anyone willing to dangle their baby in front of a crocodile is A-OK in my book."~SSD


Top
 Profile WWW  
 
 Post subject: Re: Arrow
PostPosted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 8:01 pm 
No-pants hermit 4 lyfe
User avatar
Offline

Joined: Sun Oct 24, 2010 10:22 am
Posts: 2222
Location: BKLN
i don't think there's much up against it in that time slot; if there were, i probably wouldn't have turned it on in the first place. and i won't speak for you, but,

Image

_________________
"I dont need someone to slather my butthole, I just need them to bring me tasty foods." - Adam Crisis
"I'm ok with people forcing tables in me." - lavawitch


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Arrow
PostPosted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 8:19 pm 
Memorized "Diet for a Small Planet"
Offline

Joined: Sun Sep 09, 2012 9:14 am
Posts: 91
Location: Regina, Sk.
I accidentally downloaded the premiere, and made a decision to stick with it. His relationship with his sister is super creepy. And I wish they'd make the mom be evil in more than just the last 30 seconds. I completely forgot about it in the second episode.

There can't be many bodyguards left in the city. He has murdered so, so many.

Oh and I liked when he did pull-ups and while raising the bar. I can't really describe it, but you know what I mean if you saw it.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Arrow
PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 10:21 pm 
Fair trade, organic mistletoe
User avatar
Online

Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:52 am
Posts: 2680
Location: Vancouver
It's still so bad! Why am I watching it??

_________________
"I'd rather have dried catshit! I'd rather have astroturf! I'd rather have an igloo!"~Isa

"But really, anyone willing to dangle their baby in front of a crocodile is A-OK in my book."~SSD


Top
 Profile WWW  
 
 Post subject: Re: Arrow
PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 10:27 pm 
Naked Under Apron
User avatar
Offline

Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2010 2:39 pm
Posts: 1705
Location: St. John's Newfoundland
I'm not watching on the premise that we finally get a live action Huntress, but she's going to be the fricken Green Arrow's love interest? NOOOOOOOOOO

_________________
I was really surprised the first time I saw a penis. After those banana tutorials, I was expecting something so different. -Tofulish


Top
 Profile WWW  
 
 Post subject: Re: Arrow
PostPosted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 10:45 am 
Naked Under Apron
User avatar
Offline

Joined: Fri Oct 22, 2010 3:19 pm
Posts: 1790
Location: North Carolina
I am cracking up because I like this show a lot. I think I have extremely low standards when it comes to the actiony/superhero genre.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Arrow
PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:51 am 
Writes Vegan Haiku
User avatar
Offline

Joined: Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:27 am
Posts: 30
Location: Surrey - Ye Olde England.
Avocatom wrote:
Oh and I liked when he did pull-ups and while raising the bar. I can't really describe it, but you know what I mean if you saw it.


Is it like the moment in the first Dark Knight film when he gets up out of bed and does sit ups? that was a 8-0 moment of many replays...

I may have to watch this, my curiosity is piqued!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Arrow
PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 12:54 pm 
Chip Strong
User avatar
Offline

Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2010 9:37 pm
Posts: 987
Location: Oaktizzle
That guy just doesn't look like a convincing archer. He needs to be replaced with an elf.

_________________
Goddamn that Rick Santorum has a pretty mouth. -sameness


Top
 Profile WWW  
 
 Post subject: Re: Arrow
PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 2:29 pm 
Heart of Vegan Marshmallow
User avatar
Offline

Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2010 11:01 am
Posts: 3370
Location: Chandler, AZ
Aw, I missed the premiere? Since it's on CW, I don't have much faith. But thenn, it IS the Green Arrow...

_________________
Half the lies I tell are not true.
"luckily us vegans dont go into cardiac arrest...but we do go into food comas" - Adam Crisis


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Arrow
PostPosted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 8:57 pm 
No-pants hermit 4 lyfe
User avatar
Offline

Joined: Sun Oct 24, 2010 10:22 am
Posts: 2222
Location: BKLN
these kids went on an eighth-grade field trip to a prison? is that a thing?

_________________
"I dont need someone to slather my butthole, I just need them to bring me tasty foods." - Adam Crisis
"I'm ok with people forcing tables in me." - lavawitch


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Arrow
PostPosted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 10:04 pm 
Memorized "Diet for a Small Planet"
Offline

Joined: Sun Sep 09, 2012 9:14 am
Posts: 91
Location: Regina, Sk.
Aw man, so he's not murdering henchmen anymore?

Also they need to stop showing his scars. So gross. Surprised they let that on TV.

acr wrote:
these kids went on an eighth-grade field trip to a prison? is that a thing?

I read this before watching it and am pretty disappointed that it wasn't the major plot. I think it was still the best episode so far, though.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Arrow
PostPosted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 10:08 pm 
No-pants hermit 4 lyfe
User avatar
Offline

Joined: Sun Oct 24, 2010 10:22 am
Posts: 2222
Location: BKLN
i love those scars.

_________________
"I dont need someone to slather my butthole, I just need them to bring me tasty foods." - Adam Crisis
"I'm ok with people forcing tables in me." - lavawitch


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Arrow
PostPosted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 9:09 am 
ugh
User avatar
Offline

Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2010 1:20 pm
Posts: 2449
Location: north of Boston, MA, USA
So, I keep trying to watch this, but every time I fall asleep about 20 minutes in. I guess it's not holding my interest, even though I liked the ridiculousness that was Smallville and was hoping for more of the same.

_________________

"I feel like it's not a real political discussion if I'm not morally opposed to something I don't understand." - ndpittman


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Arrow
PostPosted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 11:13 am 
Naked Under Apron
User avatar
Offline

Joined: Fri Oct 22, 2010 3:19 pm
Posts: 1790
Location: North Carolina
I'm really having a hard time suspending disbelief about Laurel not recognizing him. A little green eye paint and a hoodie is not a disguise.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Arrow
PostPosted: Sun May 12, 2013 8:25 am 
Attended Chelsea Clinton's Wedding
User avatar
Offline

Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2010 7:22 am
Posts: 210
Location: Tasmania, Australia
I've only seen the first two episodes, it's so trashy, I unashamedly love it! I get that he's mum's obviously up to something nefarious, I suspect his friend as well, I'm undecided about the CFO guy who's also married to his mum.

And his sister doesn't look old enough to be legally drinking. She looks about 14, it looks like there's a huge age gap between the two of them.
Something else that bugged me in the second episode, he's talking English to the dodgy business man down the docks, yet when the woman from the Triads arrives on the scene she talks to him in Chinese? She obviously speaks English from when we've seen her earlier. Completely random! Unless it's supposed to prompt an a-ha! moment later in the series.

_________________
“Life is too important to be taken seriously.” - Oscar Wilde


Top
 Profile WWW  
 
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Reply to topic  [ 17 posts ] 

All times are UTC - 6 hours [ DST ]


Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Bing [Bot] and 0 guests


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum

Search for:
Jump to:  
Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group
Template made by DEVPPL/ThatBigForum and fancied up by What Cheer