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Some guy lines up at a fan expo in a trench coat and red high heels. Waits his turn, then: Barrowman is impressed!
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Little_wh0re posted:I don't actually care weither or not ICBMs can go into space irl Intellectually lazy viewers like you are the reason the show has such high ratings despite lovely writing.
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May 31, 2016 01:12
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Also most ICBMs aren't MIRVs, as those are limited in addition to nuke stock piles in general in various treaties.
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May 31, 2016 01:30
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Everyone knows nukes can't escape Earth orbit unless Superman chucks them into the sun.
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May 31, 2016 02:24
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Rhyno posted:Everyone knows nukes can't escape Earth orbit unless Superman chucks them into the sun. How would Superman fly in space? There would be no thrust.
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May 31, 2016 02:36
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Arrow was way better when he could just kill people without crying about it.Corporate corruption, drug violence, etc. also seemed like a much more menacing threat. Once again, comics ruin everything.
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May 31, 2016 07:20
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enraged_camel posted:Intellectually lazy viewers like you are the reason the show has such high ratings despite lovely writing. Eh. Once you're willing to accept 'felicity computered it' as a solution where the missiles go doesn't matter
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May 31, 2016 09:25
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Falun Bong Refugee posted:Arrow was way better when he could just kill people without crying about it.Corporate corruption, drug violence, etc. also seemed like a much more menacing threat. Once again, comics ruin everything. Agreed. It also made him different than Batman.
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May 31, 2016 10:17
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Chokes McGee posted:Has any show experienced as much of a quality free fall as Arrow did this season? It's like I'm watching AoS' first season in reverse like some sort of deranged Benjamin Button. I thought Dexter was great at first, before the writers thought he was the "good" guy. Looking back on it, season 1 of Arrow was easily my favorite when Ollie was in the line of being a bad guy.
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May 31, 2016 11:18
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Falun Bong Refugee posted:Arrow was way better when he could just kill people without crying about it.Corporate corruption, drug violence, etc. also seemed like a much more menacing threat. Once again, comics ruin everything. Except by and large the only people he killed were the poor rent-a-cops hired to watch over the true criminals. At least now he's taking down those waves of faceless guards  non-lethally
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May 31, 2016 12:21
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howe_sam posted:Except by and large the only people he killed were the poor rent-a-cops hired to watch over the true criminals. At least now he's taking down those waves of faceless guards Except they could have hit a middle ground, where he takes down rent-a-cops non-lethally but doesn't hold back when fighting the actual villains. Instead they decided to make him Batman-lite.
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May 31, 2016 12:32
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Batman kills people.
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May 31, 2016 13:35
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Aphrodite posted:Batman kills people. Only back in the day when his comics first started, and most recently in BvS (which all fans hated). In between though, during the majority of the character's career, he was much more reserved, killing only very rarely and usually only in a roundabout way (e.g. Joker in the original movie). The Dark Knight trilogy depicts the quintessential Batman with his no-kill rule. He refrains from killing Heath Ledger's Joker during a climactic battle for instance. This is in stark contrast to Season 1 Arrow, who was leaving a trail of dead bodies everywhere he went. In the pilot episode alone he killed like 10 people without a second thought.
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May 31, 2016 14:12
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The by far worst part of Ollie not killing people any more is the painful deficit of "droppin' bodies"-lines from Paul Blackthorne.
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May 31, 2016 15:13
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Batman straight bombs a warehouse full of goons and kicks goons clean off the clock tower in Batman '89. He also kills Ra's in Batman Begins.
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May 31, 2016 15:51
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Diggle clearly shoots a shitload of people. Those aren't tranq darts he's got in there.
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May 31, 2016 16:08
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Oliver had exceptions for his no-kill rule too, he murdered the poo poo out of the Count and was planning on assassinating Slade when he first showed up.
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May 31, 2016 16:08
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Detective No. 27 posted:Batman straight bombs a warehouse full of goons and kicks goons clean off the clock tower in Batman '89. He also kills Ra's in Batman Begins. He didn't kill him. He just didn't save him.
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May 31, 2016 17:42
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Invalid Validation posted:Diggle clearly shoots a shitload of people. Those aren't tranq darts he's got in there. That's because Diggle don't give a gently caress and doesn't let himself get weighed down by a bunch of bitchass whining about HIS DARHKNESS.
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May 31, 2016 18:26
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enraged_camel posted:Oh man, I had forgotten another awful thing about the season: the sudden and casual disbandment of League of Assassins! I have the sneaking suspicion that the League is going to play a role in the upcoming Batman movies so they just went ahead and wiped it from the TV universe.
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May 31, 2016 18:39
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raditts posted:That's because Diggle don't give a gently caress and doesn't let himself get weighed down by a bunch of bitchass whining about HIS DARHKNESS. Oh god, I forgot he calls it his darkness. Shut up you little bitch Ollie.
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May 31, 2016 18:54
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Falun Bong Refugee posted:Arrow was way better when he could just kill people without crying about it.Corporate corruption, drug violence, etc. also seemed like a much more menacing threat. Once again, comics ruin everything. The smaller stakes were so much more interesting. Nukes should have been the mid season thing and saving Olivers son should have been the season ender. It wouldn't have really fixed the big glaring problem of world saving zero budget heroes, but Oliver clowning Dhark(who I guess forgot he was in the league of assassins lmao) in front of his son who promptly chucks his Flash toy in the trash for an Arrow one was a really good bit.
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May 31, 2016 19:37
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raditts posted:That's because Diggle don't give a gently caress and doesn't let himself get weighed down by a bunch of bitchass whining about HIS DARHKNESS. Which was true right up until the point where he started grieving about Andy. E: sorry, I meant Andhy.
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May 31, 2016 21:13
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enraged_camel posted:Intellectually lazy viewers like you are the reason the show has such high ratings despite lovely writing. And hysterical pedantic human shitshows are the reason people laugh at sci-fi fans. Maybe you should stick to seething that they didn't kill Iris.
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Jun 1, 2016 00:57
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Even the thread about Arrow is bad
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Chokes McGee posted:Even the thread about Arrow is bad TV show threads in the off-season get weird. People want to keep talking about the show, but there's nothing to talk about. And around here, that wonderful self-loathing goon attitude seems to mean that people just want to rage about how much they hate the dumb nerd show to show that they're not dumb nerds. It'll probably stay that way until we start getting solid info about the next season. Then it will be people getting a head start on hating the season so they can feel like they're above the hype, and dumb nerds like me who will  to every morsel of data.
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Jun 1, 2016 01:08
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Detective No. 27 posted:Batman straight bombs a warehouse full of goons and kicks goons clean off the clock tower in Batman '89. He also kills Ra's in Batman Begins. The movies are dumb, we're talking about real life.
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Jun 1, 2016 01:26
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boom boom boom posted:The movies are dumb, we're talking about real life. I'm the one who said it, so no we're not.
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Jun 1, 2016 01:33
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Falun Bong Refugee posted:Arrow was way better when he could just kill people without crying about it.Corporate corruption, drug violence, etc. also seemed like a much more menacing threat. Once again, comics ruin everything. Ah yes, corruption, drugs, and violence. Three things that Batman has never tackled.
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Jun 1, 2016 01:39
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Hermetic posted:And hysterical pedantic human shitshows are the reason people laugh at sci-fi fans. I wasn't seething. I just said it would have been mre powerful and meaningful if Zoom had killed her instead of Flashdad. Besides, Iris is a Bad Character who has zero chemistry with Barry. Killing her could have meant no longer having the Barry-Iris romance shoved down our throats, which would have been a big plus. That seems to have been postponed with Barry changing the timeline though, so I'm satisfied. Hopefully she will be married to someone else next season and will only barely know Barry (since they won't have grown up together). 
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Jun 1, 2016 02:06
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enraged_camel posted:I wasn't seething. I just said it would have been mre powerful and meaningful if Zoom had killed her instead of Flashdad. I'm not the first to tell you you're wrong, I won't be the last. On this or most things. 
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Jun 1, 2016 02:15
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Hermetic posted:I'm not the first to tell you you're wrong, I won't be the last. On this or most things. thats ok. see my avatar
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Jun 1, 2016 02:27
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Hermetic posted:TV show threads in the off-season get weird. Not true, I rage about hating the show precisely because I'm a dumb nerd. I wouldn't be watching it otherwise. Also because raging is fun.
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Jun 1, 2016 02:37
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He's wrong in the movie.
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Jun 1, 2016 02:40
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enraged_camel posted:thats ok. see my avatar "Some people can't handle the truth" smugs the manchild  ing about Barry ending up in his standard comic book relationship for reasons that totally aren't "Iris was cast as a black woman".You are dumb and wrong. Sorry.  Aphrodite posted:He's wrong in the movie. Forgot about this. Thank you for an extra layer of hilarity.
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Jun 1, 2016 02:51
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I peaced out after they pointlessly killed Laurel. I made the right decision, didn't I?
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Jun 1, 2016 04:04
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Narcissus1916 posted:I peaced out after they pointlessly killed Laurel. I made the right decision, didn't I? You're fine. Half of team Arrow peaced out with you in the finale episode anyway so you won't be alone.
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Jun 1, 2016 04:26
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maybe next season we'll find out iris is actually jay
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Jun 1, 2016 07:49
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Iris is pretty terrible. Remember that time she thought her boss asked her out on a date? Remember when that went nowhere?
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Hermetic posted:"Some people can't handle the truth" smugs the manchild Iris was also black in the comics I thought? Anyway, I havent read any so I don't care. Candice Patton is a decent actor, her character is just written terribly and in a very uninteresting way, and she doesn't have chemistry with Grant Gustin (unlike Patti's and Linda's actors, both of whom clicked with him really, really well). I don't think this is about her race either. Diggle and Layla work really well in Arrow for instance. It is also interesting that you call me a manchild yet your rationale for rooting for Barry-Iris is that they are married in the comics. 
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