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(If anyone has a better title, let me know!) Programming note: Arrow got moved off its traditional Wednesday slot, and now airs on Thursdays at 9. Very important to remember. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ydsr1dFC8g Arrow is the CW’s flagship superhero show, the progenitor of The Flash, Supergirl, and Legends of Tomorrow. Really, since its inception Arrow has been a show of varying quality, but a lot better than what the CW did for superheroes back in the day. Now, how did Season 5 leave off? Oh, right. That happened. Season 5 was a roaring return to form, where Oliver had to do battle against Prometheus, a villain obsessed with exposing the darkness in Oliver and would spare no measure in torturing him as both a civilian and a vigilante. Ultimately, Oliver did not give into his darkness, but arguably Prometheus won anyway, as he gave Oliver an impossible choice. The fallout of that choice is about to come to light! Exciting stuff. Since Season 5 was the fifth year after Oliver was stuck on the island, the flashbacks focused on how Oliver got back home, and also how he got tied up in the Russian mob. Since the show goes on to a season 6, no more flashbacks! At least ones that focus on Oliver and his bad wigs. This opens up the show to using flashbacks to develop more characters, dropping them altogether, or even using scenes from Season 1 to tie into the episode’s theme! Now, the characters: Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) - Our protagonist, mayor of Star City, super ripped, finally at peace with himself and his darkness. Still does the vigilante thing! John Diggle (David Ramsey) - Oliver’s number two, super ripped, former black ops. Moral compass for everyone, but he’s seen some poo poo. Superpowers include guns, van. Thea Queen (Willa Holland) - Oliver’s sister, trained by her father, who was Ra’s Al Ghul if you didn’t know. Gave up the vigilante game and helps Oliver as his chief of staff. The show's breakout character, if you ask me. Went from whiny stereotype to kickass in two seasons! Quentin Lance (Paul Blackthorne) - Deputy mayor, recovering alcoholic. Droppin’ bodies is the line he’s most famous for. Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards) - Team Arrow’s technical support, almost got married to Oliver in Season 4. Was in a wheelchair once, may still have feelings for Oliver? Accidentally stole Thea’s apartment? Why don’t we talk about that more? Curtis Holt (Echo Kellum) - Codename Mr. Terrific, the other really smart guy in the building. Has a rad costume, sometimes inexplicably goes from cornrows to full afro from scene to scene. Cool guy though, hope he gets more to do this year. Rene Ramirez (Rick Gonzalez) - Codename Wild Dog, a real street tough. His costume actually has a vigilante feel, what with it being a hockey mask and jersey. Former military, really good with guns. Hope he gets full custody of his daughter, he could use a win. Dinah Drake (Juliana Harkavy) - The successor to the Black Canary, Dinah Drake is a meta human who can actually do the scream thing, as opposed to it being just a device. She got little to do last season, but her character arc is just beginning. High hopes! Laurel Lance (Katie Cassidy) - Not the good Laurel, but her evil doppleganger from Earth-2. Goes by Black Siren. Brought over to mess with Oliver’s head, but she eventually ended up hanging around as another evil person. There’s a Catwoman angle to her relationship with Oliver, I’m sure it’ll get explored because the CW can’t control itself. Katie Cassidy hams it up as an evil character, and it’s a lot of fun to watch. Also important, and obligatory for every DCCW thread. Carlosologist fucked around with this message at 07:24 on Oct 11, 2017 |
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Never forget season 5's greatest gift, the terrible Laurel statue.
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# ? Oct 11, 2017 07:36 |
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More important gifs
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# ? Oct 11, 2017 07:42 |
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# ? Oct 11, 2017 08:04 |
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Reposting this for the new thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHlYjx5iNMc Gag reel of Season 5
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# ? Oct 11, 2017 09:55 |
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Felicity is paraplegic and supported only by some kind of magic computer chip designed by Curtis. It has mattered exactly twice.
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# ? Oct 11, 2017 14:23 |
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Aphrodite posted:Felicity is paraplegic and supported only by some kind of magic computer chip designed by Curtis.
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# ? Oct 11, 2017 17:24 |
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# ? Oct 11, 2017 18:58 |
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FilthyImp posted:I just started season 3, (I never want to hear the world MiRaKuRu ever loving again) and holy gently caress who the hell thought that making such a drastic change to a series regular like that was good. Cripes. friend, it gets resolved in the dumbest way possible
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# ? Oct 11, 2017 19:23 |
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Carlosologist posted:friend, it gets resolved in the dumbest way possible Not to knock the show too much, but I've been trying to catch up with everything I missed (Since the original 2012ish ads feature a sexy torsoman made me fear it was a worse Smallville, or a better Greystoke) and marathoning episodes is a little draining. Contrast that with S2 Supergirl (regrettable decisions with dialogue surrounding Alex's coming out aside), which is pretty breezy and fun to watch a few episodes in a sitting. Maybe I'm hitting a broodlimit.
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# ? Oct 11, 2017 19:43 |
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Season 3 and 4 brood just a little too much, but it's worth getting through all that to get to Season 5. Four is even strong up until the middle of the season
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# ? Oct 11, 2017 19:55 |
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I still choose to believe that Curtis quietly made a fortune off of his miracle invention and he's been using that to quietly finance his vigilante career and super expensive T-Spheres. Just like everyone else who is privately wealthy. Oliver and Thea: Rich from the Queen Industries buyoff and stock options. Felicity: Rich from the Palmer Tech buyoff and stock options. Curtis: Rich off his patents. Diggle: Living on government black ops dime thanks to Lyla. Rene: Ramen and spam. No wonder Evelyn was so angry. Hopefully Dinah has some kind of good settlement or pension from her cop origin story.
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# ? Oct 11, 2017 19:56 |
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Do Oliver and Thea still have their Queen Industries money? I thought there was a bit in season two or thereabouts where Thea has to sign some sort of memorandum to let them retain their assets and refuses.
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# ? Oct 11, 2017 21:15 |
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Well she's got Merlyn inheritance too. My assumption has always been they're in that wealthy place where they have enough to live comfortably forever and buy lots of toys and fly back and forth to hellish islands but they can't like start another multi billion dollar business or anything.
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# ? Oct 11, 2017 21:34 |
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They're rich-people broke, not actually broke.
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# ? Oct 11, 2017 23:10 |
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I like that this season seems like it's going to continue the same grounded plot of last season, hope Richard Dragon does well
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# ? Oct 12, 2017 18:21 |
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Looks like the show is staying on Wednesdays in Canada, but won't be ahead because it only starts next week.
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# ? Oct 12, 2017 18:26 |
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I really dislike the move to Thursday. e: never mind, I'm dumb, misread something. howe_sam fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Oct 12, 2017 |
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did they kill a mook?
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# ? Oct 13, 2017 02:20 |
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Rather ignoble way to kill off Thea.
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# ? Oct 13, 2017 02:29 |
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Did Slade just tell Ollie that he'll have to CHOOOOOSE?
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# ? Oct 13, 2017 02:55 |
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Wild Dog got a massive costume upgrade e: wait, did they bring back the maid from season 1?? that's a nice touch Carlosologist fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Oct 13, 2017 |
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Well, you can't really Martian Manhunter shapeshift your way out of that one.
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# ? Oct 13, 2017 03:13 |
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That secret didn’t seem worth keeping. That’s everyone accounted for except the Al-Ghuls and the probably dead Evelyn, right? (Besides Malcolm who is dead until they decide they want to use him again.)
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# ? Oct 13, 2017 05:16 |
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Watching the premiere right now, and I was surprised that the island exploded.
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# ? Oct 13, 2017 05:21 |
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Fuccck yes, give me public superhero mayor ollie, you can do it team, i believe in you
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# ? Oct 13, 2017 05:56 |
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XboxPants posted:Fuccck yes, give me public superhero mayor ollie, you can do it team, i believe in you *FBI tries to prosecute Oliver* *Lyla walks in, "Yeah, he's the Green Arrow. He also saved the world from aliens last year. Here's a Presidential pardon for literally whatever you want to charge him with"* Ollie: *shrug face*
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# ? Oct 13, 2017 06:38 |
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so Thea's "dead", Ollie's son's mother is "dead", and we finally have vigilante-mayor?
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# ? Oct 13, 2017 07:38 |
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I thoroughly enjoyed that 40+ minutes of television. Glad to have this show back.
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# ? Oct 13, 2017 08:08 |
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X-O posted:I thoroughly enjoyed that 40+ minutes of television. Glad to have this show back. Soooo... This is an unprecedented first, right? All four Arrowverse shows being pretty good at the same time?
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# ? Oct 13, 2017 08:12 |
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nine-gear crow posted:Soooo... This is an unprecedented first, right? All four Arrowverse shows being pretty good at the same time? This is the only one I'm still watching. Even if the other ones are actually decent again they've already lost me.
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# ? Oct 13, 2017 08:17 |
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You really should give Legends another shot. They leaned into the Stupid full bore last year and cut out everything that sucked and the show's the unironic best of the quartet now.
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# ? Oct 13, 2017 08:35 |
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I hate to judge shows on season premieres because there is usually a bunch of set up, but I remain hopeful for Arrow, Flash, and Super Girl. I'm totally all in on Legends though.
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nine-gear crow posted:Soooo... This is an unprecedented first, right? All four Arrowverse shows being pretty good at the same time? Jury's still out on Flash. S4 premiere was OK but not promising enough to completely give faith that they've solved the issues rampant we saw in the bad and boring season 3.
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# ? Oct 13, 2017 08:58 |
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nine-gear crow posted:Soooo... This is an unprecedented first, right? All four Arrowverse shows being pretty good at the same time? First episodes are nothing to judge series on. Give it a few episodes to see where they go. Arrow looks to be keeping on from it's previous trajectory in Season 5 with more mortal and personal threats, Legends also seems to be following through with going full camp and Time Idiots from S2. Supergirl and Flash is a little more hard to tell, but Supergirl has a firmer foundation to build around. Flash needs to do a lot to really get shore up some of its flaws from the last season.
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# ? Oct 13, 2017 09:33 |
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I don't watch Legends because it's garbage but a guy in the TV thread seemed to think the premiere was insanely bad.
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Aphrodite posted:I don't watch Legends because it's garbage but a guy in the TV thread seemed to think the premiere was insanely bad. Legends is 100% not high art and wont win awards for its drama. However, it's definitely tongue in cheek and quite fun in contrast to the relative seriousness of the other DCCW series. It's firmly an action comedy and after season 1, gave up any illusions about any significant amounts of serious relationship drama and instead promoted more general camaraderie. It's a bit of a junk food-esque sort of series.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Do Oliver and Thea still have their Queen Industries money? I thought there was a bit in season two or thereabouts where Thea has to sign some sort of memorandum to let them retain their assets and refuses. XboxPants posted:Fuccck yes, give me public superhero mayor ollie, you can do it team, i believe in you Aphrodite posted:I don't watch Legends because it's garbage but a guy in the TV thread seemed to think the premiere was insanely bad.
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Aphrodite posted:I don't watch Legends because it's garbage but a guy in the TV thread seemed to think the premiere was insanely bad. That guy is dumb.
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bbf2 posted:Jury's still out on Flash. S4 premiere was OK but not promising enough to completely give faith that they've solved the issues rampant we saw in the bad and boring season 3. Granted, I'm sure watching it all in one go helped.
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