Arrow [The CW] [** Spoilers **]

ixoy

Why was every single other missile target exactly two hours away? That makes no sense. Loads of targets should have been nuked.

And the positive vibes rubbish reminded me of the nonsense being used in Doctor Who to change him back from a wizened troll.

ixoy

ixoy wrote: »

Why was every single other missile target exactly two hours away? That makes no sense. Loads of targets should have been nuked.

And the positive vibes rubbish reminded me of the nonsense being used in Doctor Who to change him back from a wizened troll.

Point 1: Damn yeah

Point 2: But you're ok with the magics of Constantine and Darhk's death powered magic??

Kirby

No. Nobody is okay with magic in a show like this. It's why so many fans tuned out this season.

Magic belongs in the realm of fantasy. And it's great in that. I love fantasy. But Arrow was a show grounded in reality. Go back and watch the first two seasons if you don't believe me. Nare a magical or superpowered person in sight.

We all love crossovers and they are great fun but lets face it. The world of the Arrow just doesn't belong with the supers like the flash and superman/girl. It doesn't mesh well.

No one gives out that Batman is in the Justice League.

Not that I disagree, per say, just wondering where people draw the line.

Mr E

Kirby wrote: »

Nare a magical or superpowered person in sight.

Mirakuru?

Kirby

Mirakuru wasn't in the beginning. Wasn't it the second season with slade? And that wasn't magic. It was based in science. a super serum of sorts. Slade didn't have a magic voodoo head to carry around and he couldn't force choke people. It just made him enhanced.

I'm just talking about tone. Arrows first season had a very different vibe, excuse the pun, to its current incarnation. It's why the Joker never shot Batman with lazers from his eyes in the Nolan movies. It didn't fit. And why when stick starts talking about mystical destiny and prophecy's in Daredevil, Matt tells him to stfu.

Tone.

McLoughlin

What i miss in Arrow is the is the relationships between Ollie and people who didn't know he was Arrow his family and business people, I think the best way to say it I miss Oliver Queen the Playboy that element of the show

Bounty Hunter

McLoughlin wrote: »

What i miss in Arrow is the is the relationships between Ollie and people who didn't know he was Arrow his family and business people, I think the best way to say it I miss Oliver Queen the Playboy that element of the show

I guess you will get that back somewhat with Mayor Queen in the next season which will also move somewhat away from the magical aspects of the previous season and as a result hopefully lead to a big improvement ...hopefully.

ixoy

So we all agree less magic next season, make it more grounded. In that vein.. Can we dial down the extreme hacking? Watching Curtis, Felicity and the Calculator "hack" recently while that was on screen was some crappy screen saver hurt me.
I know I can't expect "Mr. Robot" levels here but it seriously doesn't have to be that awful does it? Pretty please?

squonk

Yeah, the hacking is a bit like the Flash gong back in time. It's a 'get out of jail' card that they overuse. Also, trotting out that Felicity is the best hacker in the world line is irksome. I'm pretty sure that the top 5 guys in the world at this stuff wouldn't use that line. Heck, you never know anyway. They've seriously gone off the boil on this show. I know the first few seasons were slow and I can see now why people complained about that now if they expected Green Arrow to materialise after 5 episodes but you could see they were taking care with the character to build him up. This season it looks like they just didn't give a crap anymore.

EoinMcLovin

Rick Gonzalez to play new vigilante

Lithium93_

Season 5 premiers Wednesday, October 5th.

Lithium93_

http://comicbook.com/dc/2016/06/21/arrow-season-5-adds-artemis/

EoinMcLovin

Chad L. Coleman cast as gangster tobias church

Lithium93_

Former WWE star Cody Rhodes will appear on the show's 5th season.

http://comicbook.com/2016/07/02/stephen-amell-announces-cody-rhodes-will-appear-on-arrow-season-/

GottaGetGatt

Can we not keep future castings as spoilers, I want to watch the show as it progrossss without knowing who the f*^k is gonna be in it six months down the line.

Sound Thanks

Lithium93_

Arrow's John Barrowman Promoted To Series Regular On All Of The CW's DC Shows

http://comicbook.com/dc/2016/07/08/arrows-john-barrowman-promoted-to-series-regular-on-all-of-the-c/

Nervous Wreck

Ugh. Merlyn is played out.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

David Ramsey (John Diggle) and Brandon Routh (Ray Palmer) were part of a Fan Favourite Panel at San Diego Comic Con and spoke a little about the Arrow-verse (mostly Arrow, but all shows got a mention so thought it worth posting this in all four threads)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbMSEKtsWzg

There will be an Arrow Panel taking place at SDCC today, so hopefully that will be uploaded and I'll post it here as soon as it is...

EoinMcLovin

Casting News

Blindspot star Joe Dinicol to play Ragman

in recurring role

Slydice

Season 5 trailer:

Interesting bit at the end :eek:

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Slydice wrote: »

Season 5 trailer:

Interesting bit at the end :eek:

Looks very promising. They've been saying that they're going back to basics for Season 5, less magic and more grounded in reality, and it looks that could be the case. Also Russians in the flashbacks should be decent. Here's hoping we can get Season 2 quality Arrow this year.

EoinMcLovin

Looks like Oliver has gone back to having sleeves on his Green Arrow costume.

The big Bad is

Prometheus

but not the comic's version
http://tvline.com/2016/07/23/arrow-season-5-spoilers-oliver-felicity-big-bad-comic-con-2016/

Katie Cassidy

will now be a series regular on all the DC shows
http://tvline.com/2016/07/23/arrow-katie-cassidy-series-regular-flash-legends-of-tomorrow/

Malcolm Merlyn will be part of the

Legion of Doom with Reverse Flash, Captain Cold and Damien Darhk

Agent Coulson

Spoilers people use the tags please.

I'm out of this thread!!
At least until the series return anyway

EoinMcLovin

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Spoilers people use the tags please.

Oops sorry about that, edited post to include spoiler tags

Also Starring LeVar Burton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cmrJf1zjvc

Also Starring LeVar Burton

I believe there's another video to come for this panel and I'll post it when it shows up - I'm kinda just posting these as they appear in my YouTube feed so I don't miss anything... Still working my way around to watching them all myself...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-GSCMzAY9w

Slydice

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

I believe there's another video to come for this panel and I'll post it when it shows up - I'm kinda just posting these as they appear in my YouTube feed so I don't miss anything... Still working my way around to watching them all myself...

Cool, I don't think I've a hope of watching them all. I'm kinda picking and choosing at the moment.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Slydice wrote: »

Cool, I don't think I've a hope of watching them all. I'm kinda picking and choosing at the moment.

I've watched hours and hours of panels and trailers yesterday and today (took a time out this afternoon to go see Star Trek Beyond) and I had pretty much put this weekend aside as if I were at Comic Con in San Diego. Gonna watch this Arrow panel and The Flash now (and maybe Supergirl too) before going to bed, but there's still quite a few more I want to see, so I'll still be watching them tomorrow evening and probably Tuesday evening as well. It's really nice seeing all the cast having a laugh outside of their characters.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-GSCMzAY9w

I keep forgetting Paul Blackthorne is British and always get surprised when he speaks in his own accent, even though I've known for years that he is indeed British.

martingriff

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

I keep forgetting Paul Blackthorne is British and always get surprised when he speaks in his own accent, even though I've known for years that he is indeed British.

Loved the line

I've time traveled before and know the way

Also Donald Trump line

Also Starring LeVar Burton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-iCls9cH3k

Also Starring LeVar Burton

As disappointing as Season 4 was, watching that Panel and Fan Questions just reminded me how much I love the cast and why I really want the show to do well, so I really hope Season 5 can manage to be the best season yet.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

What's that? You thought we were done with all the Comic Con stuff? Well we're not even close to finished - I have quite a few more Arrow videos up my sleeve, that I'll roll out gradually, but first off here's John Barrowman doing classic John Barrowman stuff...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfK6eTk_SEQ

Also Starring LeVar Burton

I've started an Arrow/The Flash/Legends of Tomorrow/Supergirl SUPERTHREAD in the Superheroes forum, which may be helpful when discussing crossovers or the universe as a whole, since not everyone watches all four shows and sometimes people get irritated if you start talking about Arrow in The Flash thread for example, so this could help with that...

Arrow/The Flash/Legends of Tomorrow/Supergirl SUPERTHREAD

Lithium93_

Dolph Lundgren

to appear in the show's 5th Season

helimachoptor

I will kill you

Nervous Wreck

helimachoptor wrote: »

I will kill you

If he dies, he dies.

EoinMcLovin

Casting news

Jessica Jones actor Wil Traval to play Christopher Chance aka Human Target

Tvline

pah

EoinMcLovin wrote: »

Casting news

Jessica Jones actor Wil Traval to play Christopher Chance aka Human Target

http://tvline.com/2016/08/18/arrow-human-target-season-5-wil-traval-cast/

Nice. I enjoyed that show.

BTW your spoiler tag isn't great.

EoinMcLovin

pah wrote: »

Nice. I enjoyed that show.

BTW your spoiler tag isn't great.

Fixed it there, didn't even notice that the link was a spoiler

JP Liz V1

EoinMcLovin wrote: »

Casting news

Jessica Jones actor Wil Traval to play Christopher Chance aka Human Target

Tvline

He reminds me of Chris Evans, I wonder could this lead to a spin off

martingriff

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

He reminds me of Chris Evans, I wonder could this lead to a spin off

A reboot i suppose they could not try to link to original series or will it be totally different.

Mr E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz_8o2gw2BY

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Mr E wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz_8o2gw2BY

Cutty!!!

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Well that was a breath of fresh air compared to the end of last season. Obviously a strong opener does not a good season make, but early indications are positive - no magic in sight and as promised it seems to be taking a more back to basics approach. As far as flashbacks go, Russia was always gonna be interesting and that started off well - best flashbacks since Slade Wilson (man I hope he makes a comeback of some sort this season).

Mr E

Great start to the season, and not an ounce of magic in sight.

martingriff

Mr E wrote: »

Great start to the season, and not an ounce of magic in sight.

How about hacking

Agent Coulson

So we are still getting flashbacks to five years before hand so does that mean next season's flashback will be to things going on in season 1.