Arrow S2: "Do you know anyone hiring ex-billionaires with superior archery skills?"

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Spergatory: Oct 28, 2012

New clip for Wednesday.

Man, Colton Haynes is making a pretty good career out of playing dead-eyed, brainwashed dudes with superpowers. :zombie:

# ? Apr 21, 2014 21:31

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# ? Jun 5, 2024 21:15

Astro Nut: Feb 22, 2013; Nonsensical Space Powers, Activate! Form of Friendship!

...so a random thought occurs to me, dunno if anyone else has brought it up before, but...

What if the stuff with Mirakuru, aside of easing in superpowers, has been a longer effort to prepare for Miraclo? Like, have it developed as a variant or substitute that say, only lasts an hour...

# ? Apr 22, 2014 00:51

muscles like this!: Jan 17, 2005

Nah, they're working on an Hourman TV show and the description has him with the ability to see an hour into the future, not that he gets superpowers for an hour at a time.

# ? Apr 22, 2014 01:00

Drifter: Oct 22, 2000; Belated Bear Witness; Soiled Meat

muscles like this? posted:

Nah, they're working on an Hourman TV show and the description has him with the ability to see an hour into the future, not that he gets superpowers for an hour at a time.

I kinda want to see a superhero mom who takes her babies with her to fight crime and when she needs superpowers she shoves them under a car or throws them into a burning building to give herself superhuman strength (she'd rescue them later after she fought the crime, of course).

# ? Apr 22, 2014 01:26

Astro Nut: Feb 22, 2013; Nonsensical Space Powers, Activate! Form of Friendship!

muscles like this? posted:

Nah, they're working on an Hourman TV show and the description has him with the ability to see an hour into the future, not that he gets superpowers for an hour at a time.

Drat. I knew about the first part, but not the second. Suppose its still using one of his abilities, although... now that I've fiund the description they had, they mention the pharmaceutical angle. Could be a way to work it in still, but...
Eh, who knows, That's So Raven with superheroes could still work. Certainly easier on the effects people.

# ? Apr 22, 2014 01:34

muscles like this!: Jan 17, 2005

As far as I know the thing is still super early in pre-production so who knows what they're going to end up doing with it. Its going to be a CW show so you'd assume they'd tie it into Arrow/Flash in some way.

# ? Apr 22, 2014 01:42

Astro Nut: Feb 22, 2013; Nonsensical Space Powers, Activate! Form of Friendship!

muscles like this? posted:

As far as I know the thing is still super early in pre-production so who knows what they're going to end up doing with it. Its going to be a CW show so you'd assume they'd tie it into Arrow/Flash in some way.

Aye, which is why I wondered if they have possibly already slipped in some setup for it. I mean, the way it currently is, they'd have enough leeway to go either way - make Miraclo out of the drug, or keep the two storylines utterly separate to focus on the whole 'sees an hour into the future' thing.

# ? Apr 22, 2014 10:55

howe_sam: Mar 7, 2013; Creepy little garbage eaters

Mars4523 posted:

Danielle Panabaker looks distractingly like Agents of SHIELD's Elizabeth Henstridge

Danielle Panabaker had a recurring guest role on Justified this season as one of Ava's prison buddies...it didn't end well for her character. Good to see she's found more work.

# ? Apr 22, 2014 14:02

Azhais: Feb 5, 2007; Switchblade Switcharoo

howe_sam posted:

Danielle Panabaker had a recurring guest role on Justified this season as one of Ava's prison buddies...it didn't end well for her character. Good to see she's found more work.

Leveraging her "Sky High" ~~superhero~~ sidekick background

# ? Apr 22, 2014 20:03

LorneReams: Jun 27, 2003; I'm bizarre

howe_sam posted:

Danielle Panabaker had a recurring guest role on Justified this season as one of Ava's prison buddies...it didn't end well for her character. Good to see she's found more work.

That's who that was. It was driving me crazy.

# ? Apr 22, 2014 20:09

Ravane: Oct 23, 2010; by LadyAmbien

Astro Nut posted:

Eh, who knows, That's So Raven with superheroes could still work. Certainly easier on the effects people.

NO DEATHSTROKE NO, ya nasty.

# ? Apr 22, 2014 20:59

GreenNight: Feb 19, 2006; Turning the light on the darkest places, you and I know we got to face this now. We got to face this now.

Every time I see or hear the word Deathstroke, I think of a super villain who gives handjobs of death.

# ? Apr 22, 2014 21:17

Earl of Lavender: Jul 29, 2007; This is not my beautiful house!!

This is not my beautiful wife!!!; Pillbug

GreenNight posted:

Every time I see or hear the word Deathstroke, I think of a super villain who gives handjobs of death.

Please don't spoil the season finale.

# ? Apr 22, 2014 23:08

Ojjeorago: Sep 21, 2008; I had a dream, too. It wasn't pleasant, though ... I dreamt I was a moron...; Gary’s Answer

GreenNight posted:

Every time I see or hear the word Deathstroke, I think of a super villain who gives handjobs of death.

That would explain why he keeps doing that weird fist clench thing.

# ? Apr 23, 2014 01:03

Arrgytehpirate: Oct 2, 2011; I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!

I just finished episode 13 of season 2. Can Laurel get anymore loving awful? She was horrible in S1 and at this point I really just hope she dies.

# ? Apr 23, 2014 01:45

Its Rinaldo: Aug 13, 2010; CODS BINCH

She actually gets better. I mean, watching Season 1 would anybody imagine you'd come to care about Thea Queen?

# ? Apr 23, 2014 02:05

boom boom boom: Jun 28, 2012; by Shine

Bad Moon posted:

She actually gets better. I mean, watching Season 1 would anybody imagine you'd come to care about Thea Queen?

She does? Are you counting that after an episode of deliberation she doesn't sell out Oliver as "getting better"?

# ? Apr 23, 2014 02:54

Mooseontheloose: May 13, 2003

Arrgytehpirate posted:

I just finished episode 13 of season 2. Can Laurel get anymore loving awful? She was horrible in S1 and at this point I really just hope she dies.

Laurel is fine in season 1 and in my mind provides a good balance in the show because she emotes and isn't really hiding anything. Then they didn't know what to do with her to start in season 2 and gets better.

# ? Apr 23, 2014 02:59

VDay: Jul 2, 2003; I'm Pacman Jones!

Her mini drunk arc where she just got hammered and then dropped truth bombs on random people every episode was pretty great.

# ? Apr 23, 2014 03:03

Oracle: Oct 9, 2004

Drunk mean girl Laurel forever!

# ? Apr 23, 2014 07:24

Habibi: Dec 8, 2004; We have the capability to make San Jose's first Cup Champion.

The Sharks could be that Champion.

Finally watched last week's episode.

That Deathstroke costume is like the best comic show costume ever. That is all.

# ? Apr 23, 2014 08:17

XboxPants: Jan 30, 2006; Steven doesn't want me watching him sleep anymore.

Drifter posted:

I'm not saying his reading of thematic elements is wrong (it actually sounds fine to me), I'm saying it's most likely not a deliberate thematic creation for the sake of the show

Oh that makes sense then, yeah, that's pretty likely.

Drifter posted:

It's most likely not a deliberate thematic creation for the sake of the show, but rather a byproduct of it being a common trope from the simplified plots of these types of superhero comics. What that means is the writers haven't equipped themselves to do more than superficially reflect those particular themes onto their product. ... So it�s like, the theme is there to be identified, but it�s not meant to be in any large degree and isn�t being utilized, so why discuss it?

Because it's still potentially relevant to any meaning one might get out of the show, whether intentional or not, even if it's only a minor theme, even if it's not consistently represented throughout the work. Hell, contradictions in theme & tone can make for some of the most interesting angles to examine a story.

# ? Apr 23, 2014 13:06

Drifter: Oct 22, 2000; Belated Bear Witness; Soiled Meat

XboxPants posted:

Because it's still potentially relevant to any meaning one might get out of the show, whether intentional or not, even if it's only a minor theme, even if it's not consistently represented throughout the work. Hell, contradictions in theme & tone can make for some of the most interesting angles to examine a story.

Hey, man, as long as it's not being conflated with expectations of the story following through with those interesting angles I'm always down for it.

I have no problem with analyzing a story and seeing how external social forces can influence ideas and whatnot, or how the observer's own response to the work can create new meaning outside of authorial intent. That poo poo's half the fun when the subject matter has depth.

However, a formalist approach is a great way to measure the strength of the author, and a good way to extrapolate future direction and quality of a product.

It just feels like any interesting interpretations are outside the realm of the work's actual narrative deliverables and would lead to more failed element discussions or shallow contrasts.

I guess I'm just being annoyingly pedantic. Carry on.

# ? Apr 23, 2014 15:27

raditts: Feb 21, 2001; The Kwanzaa Bot is here to protect me.

VDay posted:

It was a pretty badass stunt.

Although I'm a bit disappointed that they didn't have him throw her back.

I'm disappointed he didn't yell "GOTCHA" and start cartoonishly bodyslamming her Jax-style.

Drifter posted:

Well, it's either live with mom rent free or live in an apartment and have mom pay the rent.

and BROOD about how much you hate your mom.

I know Ollie's the hero of the show, but he's such a complete fuckup he really needs to be taken down several pegs and have some sort of coming to grips moment where he realizes he's STILL AN rear end in a top hat.

He deserved to lose his company - he wasn't participating in it at all anyway. He's inconsiderate of his friends and his family (except his mom at least deserves it, so that's cool, at least). He's an unlikeable fella.

I lvoed the whole "I could have cured Roy and not had him break up with Thea and any of that dangerous poo poo, but I was ashamed because I didn't kill some random dude nobody knew about back when Roy got Mirakuru'd." gently caress off, Ollie.

Isn't that what they've pretty much been getting at this entire season?

raditts fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Apr 23, 2014

# ? Apr 23, 2014 23:17

muscles like this!: Jan 17, 2005

I was just thinking, hopefully Dig and Felicity have some savings because they're pretty much soon to be out of jobs with Isobel in charge.

# ? Apr 24, 2014 01:04

Pinwiz11: Jan 26, 2009; I'm becom-, I'm becom-,
I'm becoming
Tana in, Tana in my mind.

No intro monologue... :ohdear:

# ? Apr 24, 2014 01:04

Mike Danger: Feb 17, 2012

"You signed a contract" woooow Moira

# ? Apr 24, 2014 01:05

muscles like this!: Jan 17, 2005

Thea's right, that was a real crap move Moira.

# ? Apr 24, 2014 01:05

No Irish Need Imply: Nov 30, 2008

Haha they absolutely can't make this super jacked dude look seven years younger.

# ? Apr 24, 2014 01:07

muscles like this!: Jan 17, 2005

Seven years ago Moira rocking the Jennifer Aniston look.

# ? Apr 24, 2014 01:07

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

That loving Hair Piece is so baaaad.

# ? Apr 24, 2014 01:08

jscolon2.0: Jul 9, 2001; With great payroll, comes great disappointment.

Ollie's hair. :swoon:

Ollie knocked a girl up. Connor is out there somewhere.

# ? Apr 24, 2014 01:08

arkmedes: Jun 24, 2009

Wait, what? There's a mini arrow?

# ? Apr 24, 2014 01:08

Mike Danger: Feb 17, 2012

'Roided out? or 'Royded out? :smug:

# ? Apr 24, 2014 01:09

Pinwiz11: Jan 26, 2009; I'm becom-, I'm becom-,
I'm becoming
Tana in, Tana in my mind.

SIN!

# ? Apr 24, 2014 01:10

Paradise Lost: Feb 11, 2003; kill your enemy, drink his wine, and take his women

Is Godzilla going to be awesomely bad, or just bad?

# ? Apr 24, 2014 01:11

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.