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Post by IRS on Jun 15, 2016 16:46:27 GMT -5
"After weeks of mystery the new vigilante in Arrow has been revealed as Wild Dog with Rick Gonzalez playing the role." per comicbook.com
Meh. My face is still disenchanted.
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Post by Nivro™ on Jun 15, 2016 22:10:41 GMT -5
"After weeks of mystery the new vigilante in Arrow has been revealed as Wild Dog with Rick Gonzalez playing the role." per comicbook.com Meh. My face is still disenchanted. Think about it...someone sat in a meeting and decided to speak up and said, "How bout we kill off the Black Canary and next season bring in Wild Dog".....
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Post by IRS on Jun 15, 2016 22:18:34 GMT -5
"After weeks of mystery the new vigilante in Arrow has been revealed as Wild Dog with Rick Gonzalez playing the role." per comicbook.com Meh. My face is still disenchanted. Think about it...someone sat in a meeting and decided to speak up and said, "How bout we kill off the Black Canary and next season bring in Wild Dog"..... And Guggenheim's (showrunner) reasoning behind killing off Canary was because "he had no more stories for her". Wild Dog, no Canary, Mama Smoak as a main character, and Felicity still alive... yeah, I ain't watching that crap. #Hail HydraFlash
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Post by Cameron Stone on Jun 16, 2016 4:19:24 GMT -5
Someone sounds bitter.
And that is a under the radar character even for me, so it gives them a lot of flexibility. I'm interested to see where they go with it. My limited knowledge has him as a half baked Punisher type of character, not hesitating to kill off criminals, which could be an interesting parallel to how Oliver was in season one.
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Post by IRS on Jun 16, 2016 5:41:56 GMT -5
Bitter? LOL. Whatever, dude. If you still enjoy the show, then more power to you; but the majority of people haven't been so receptive to the show taking a pretty apparent massive step back in quality the last two seasons. So, does it bother me that one of my favorite shows has gone to sh-t? Yeah, it does. But I'm more sad than I am bitter - because it used to be the favorite part of my week when Arrow came on.
I also don't find it amusing that the showrunner keeps pointing out how much he dislikes canon, doesn't care about the comics, and bends over backwards to appease the looney Olicity shippers - mainly because he himself is one - and is willing to kill off one of DC's most iconic characters to do so. Or that the writers can't find anything better to do than ripoff Daredevil.
But, like I've said before, I have no plans to watch S5 - aside from the crossovers - so you won't have to listen to me voicing my displeasure over it
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Post by Cameron Stone on Jun 16, 2016 16:40:41 GMT -5
I find that hard to believe considering you come into this thread constantly to bash whatever news comes out or to remind everyone that you won't be watching. It's like the behavior of a child.
And the show shouldn't be held to canon of comics. Limits potential. Not saying I necessarily agree with certain things that the show has done, but they should be allowed creative freedom
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Post by IRS on Jun 16, 2016 18:31:20 GMT -5
I find that hard to believe considering you come into this thread constantly to bash whatever news comes out or to remind everyone that you won't be watching. It's like the behavior of a child. And the show shouldn't be held to canon of comics. Limits potential. Not saying I necessarily agree with certain things that the show has done, but they should be allowed creative freedom I don't disagree that they should be given creative freedom, as long as it's done well - but that doesn't mean they should completely disregard comics canon just because they don't like it, either. Sara as Canary? Good. Oliver freely killing? Good. Early Diggle? Good. Felicity becoming the main hero of the show, and killing Laurel off one season after turning her into Black Canary? Well.... not good. I also don't think I was bashing the news that hard. I said "ripping off Punisher for S5, eh?" and "Meh. My face is still disenchanted." I didn't say outright that it will turn out terribly, but it doesn't excite me enough to draw me in. And over the last five pages of the thread, I've said I was going to quit watching exactly twice...
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Post by IRS on Jun 16, 2016 18:47:45 GMT -5
Source: Deadline
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Post by IRS on Jun 16, 2016 18:49:58 GMT -5
Source: DCComics.com
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Post by IRS on Jun 16, 2016 18:56:04 GMT -5
And in some Gotham news:
-Poison Ivy is being re-casted. -Vicki Vale will appear in S3. -“We’ll be seeing Mad Hatter in Season 3. We’ll be seeing the Tweedle Brothers, too, if we’re going to bring the Hatter in. In line with the Court of Owls, we’ll be seeing Talon. And, we should be seeing Solomon Grundy.”
Source: Geekfeed
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Post by IRS on Jun 21, 2016 16:10:28 GMT -5
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Post by Nivro™ on Jun 22, 2016 23:40:07 GMT -5
I just dont understand what the buffoons who write Arrow are doing. The easiest job you could have in TV/Movies is writing about superheros because all the creative work is literally already done for you. Most of these characters have been out for decades. Just pick up comics and pull stories out of the pages and put them on the screen. The Flash is doing that with perfection. Zoom, Reverse Flash, Wally West...even picking out some of Flash's top villains. Arrow started that way but sadly has faltered. Arrow, Canary, Arsenal, Deathstroke are all staples of the Arrow comics that became iconic. Not John Diggle, Felicity Smoak, Mama Smoak, or Mister Terrific.
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Post by IRS on Jun 23, 2016 0:01:44 GMT -5
"Arrow Season 5 Production Art glimpse..."
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2016 0:39:21 GMT -5
"Arrow Season 5 Production Art glimpse..." The face looks weird to me
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Post by Cameron Stone on Jun 23, 2016 1:14:56 GMT -5
I am really liking this new casting/character news. Artemis being brought in is awesome
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Post by Joe Magnet on Jun 25, 2016 12:33:40 GMT -5
I like that they're bringing in a lot of vigilantes this season because I feel it will make it feel like Season One again, however, I really wish it were Felicity that died last season. Not because I hate how her character "developed," which I did. Not because she caused a lot of pointless teen drama to occur, which she did. Not even because she ruined the show, which she did. It just would have made so much more sense for the arc. Oliver present-day is trying to fight the darkness and bring out the light, but flashback Oliver is letting out his inner demons; he's finding out that that is who he is. How else for him to realize who is he, than if Felicity had died?! They were engaged for god's sake! It would have fueled him past the point to kill Damien Darhk.
Plus it was a great chance to get rid of the problem in the show! I know Marc is a huge Olicity fan, and a lot of teen girls are, but he can't deny it was lowering the overall quality of the show. With Curtis introduced, he could have taken over as the Overwatch of the team.
And with all these vigilantes running around, you need more people on your side to physically fight with you. Could you just think of the possibilities? Green Arrow, Spartan, Speedy, Black Canary, Roy could come back and be Arsenal again, we're getting Artemis! It's the dream team!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2016 7:22:46 GMT -5
I hate that Arrow has become a soap opera. Felicity and her family are ruining the show. They might as well not even call it Arrow anymore.
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Post by hbkjason on Jun 27, 2016 7:34:28 GMT -5
I hate that Arrow has become a soap opera. Felicity and her family are ruining the show. They might as well not even call it Arrow anymore. I must admit this is my feeling as well. I actually liked Felicity at first, but last season was just brutal. Is there some kind of "Felicity Crying" quota they have to fill on each episode? Arrow does so many things right, Oliver Queen is one of the best characters on TV, I actually really liked Laurel as well and to have her last words be some kind of endorsement of Felicity I was just like "ugh" and my eyes hurt from rolling so much. Now the characters are 100 percent different, but for me personally the character of Felicity is like Phoebe in Friends and Nellie in The Office where they just completely ruined the show for me. Plus now they are adding her mother as a more regular presence on the show! as much as I have enjoyed Arrow if the first few episodes are all about her again then I think I might be done
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Post by JokerFC on Jun 28, 2016 18:56:55 GMT -5
Ma Smoak is getting promoted to a series regular??? Ah no lads......she is just terrible. She wrecks every effin scene she is in!!!!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2016 19:28:01 GMT -5
Ma Smoak is getting promoted to a series regular??? Ah no lads......she is just terrible. She wrecks every effin scene she is in!!!! Ugh. Slade needs to return and off all of these terrible characters
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