After playing
2nd string for years, Green Arrow is finally getting his shot(pun
very much intended) in the form of his own TV series.
“Arrow”
premiered last night on the CW and I’ve been relatively excited to see it for
months since seeing the first footage. So I figured, “Hey, there’s this blog. I
saw the pilot. I have thoughts. Why not think those thoughts and let my brain
send signals to my fingers that make them type those thought signals into a
blog post?!” So that was my very complicated thought process.
A little
background for you first as DC isn’t as good at exposing the average person to
their characters that aren’t Superman and Batman as Marvel is.
Green Arrow
is Oliver Queen. Oliver Queen inherited lots of money. Ollie has no powers.
Though he is really, really, good with a bow…and fighting…and being a loudmouth
liberal. He’s basically Batman minus the
childhood trauma, brooding, had a fantastic goatee at one time and is actually
written as a guy without powers.
Excuse me while
I sit back and smirk smugly at that last part…
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