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Oct 9, 2014 02:03
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DivisionPost posted:Laurel's going to Oliver to demand the gently caress out of his training. They're not waiting until the end of the season to show off those guns. Actually, somebody else is going to train her. Ummm... not Bronze Tiger. Black Panther? Black Tiger? Brown Puma? gently caress me, I can't remember all these goddamn Metal Gear codenames.
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Oct 9, 2014 02:08
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Not cool with killing off Sara. It's the dumbest, laziest way to make Laurel the Canary. She survives Season 2 and you give her this? gently caress off.
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Oct 9, 2014 02:17
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Stayne Falls posted:I think that if you're frustrated and disappointed that a character died on a TV show then the writers are doing their job well. Haha, no. I was not frustrated or disappointed when they killed off Tommy. Nor when they killed off Moira, who at least went out like a loving champion. I mean, Sara didn't even get a good death. Moira and Tommy both got to do something awesome that showed their characters at their pinnacle before they died. Sara comes back after getting, if not a happy ending, then at least a resolution to her storyline, to take out a nameless goon, have a pep talk with Ollie and Laurel, and get chumped from behind? Bull. poo poo. Good writing draws you in. It's entirely possible for good writing to invoke frustration and disappointment, like, say, when a character repeatedly makes bad decisions (Oliver!  ), because you're frustrated with the character, which means you're absorbed in the story. But when you're frustrated and disappointed with the story itself, that necessarily means you've been taken out of the story and distanced from the characters and their actions. To put it another way, good writing is like good magic. It's all trickery and illusion, but if you do it right, no one will care that they're being fooled. That's why people go to magic shows. A magician that frustrates or disappoints his audience is not a very good magician, because it means he can't even trick people who want to be fooled. Spergatory fucked around with this message at 13:11 on Oct 9, 2014 |
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Oct 9, 2014 13:09
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BTW (:iamafag:), I'm not quitting the show or anything over this. Arrow has built up way too much goodwill for that. I'm just disappointed. Especially since I spent the summer selling the show to friends and one of the main selling points was how well it treated its kickass ladies, letting them do their own thing and not taking the easy way out by killing them off even though practically everyone expected them to. I thought you were better than this, show. 
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Oct 9, 2014 19:34
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fallin1 posted:I'm going to toss out the theory that Nyssa did it. Nah. There's a quote from a Katie Cassidy interview that teases a Nyssa-and-Laurel team up to avenge her.
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Oct 16, 2014 02:10
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:Yeah, about that. I'm still confused how that happened. It doesn't seem intuitive to me to go from internal bleeding from being punched hard to 'heart condition'. I don't understand the science behind Mirakuru. Someone please explain?
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Oct 16, 2014 02:12
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Flash is a pretty big draw. Hell, I only started watching this show once I heard he would be on it. Came for the Flash, stayed for the abs (and other cool stuff I guess). Plus, superpowers are a big draw on their own. Unless you're Batman, powers > no powers.
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Oct 16, 2014 19:13
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King of Solomon posted:While I tend to agree with this line of thought, this show does a marvelous job of making it work with or without powers. Oh, no, I agree. Arrow has the best and most creative action on television, powers or no. I meant that powers trump no-powers as a draw for viewers, not as a general principle.
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Oct 16, 2014 19:28
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King of Solomon posted:Yeah, I know. I'm mostly just saying that the bow and arrow, itself, is a draw. (I also acknowledge that that's probably just me.)  (Tell me you made that pun on purpose.)
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Oct 16, 2014 19:41
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BrianWilly posted:The comicsalliance recap and TheBacklot recap (note: rampant gaiety) both completely gloss over the detail, the former of which outright suggesting that she kept it from him for another reason entirely. The Backlot's recaps have always been terrible. They barely pay attention to the shows they watch.
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Oct 17, 2014 16:53
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Ollie looks at Roy like he's a particularly dumb kid brother. I approve. 
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Oct 23, 2014 01:05
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BrianWilly posted:This episode was honestly kind of jumpy and disconnected (one scene went from Oliver talking to Thea to Oliver on a stakeout with Diggle with no preamble whatsoever) but I liked all the things that happened in all those disconnected scenes, so that's great. Yeah, I think the show needs to be careful about the number of plots it's juggling. I like all of these plots, but it's a lot to keep in the air and it makes it hard to focus.
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Oct 23, 2014 02:29
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With all of this Streak talk, I will be very disappointed if there's not at least one Flash episode where Barry accidentally runs his clothes off and has to dash through the city naked.
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Oct 23, 2014 16:52
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bbf2 posted:They already cast a different dude for a Flash movie, time to give it up already. I have never once gotten the impression that anyone involved in Arrow production wants anything to do with the movies. Just the opposite, actually. It's the legions of tone deaf fans who want to cram everything together. That article to me just reads like the guy saying "fine, okay, it's possible, now will you PLEASE shut up about it?"
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Oct 24, 2014 12:23
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Colton Haynes is goddamn sexy is what he is. 
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Oct 25, 2014 01:56
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Colton Haynes learned the art of the unnecessary flip from Teen Wolf and he has employed it judiciously ever since.
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Oct 30, 2014 01:40
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That was... kind of underwhelming, to be honest. 
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Oct 30, 2014 02:01
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I got the impression that it wasn't Malcolm's SUPER SERIOUS WORD OF HONOR that swayed Oliver, but his logical explanation of why it would have been loving stupid for him to kill Sara. Malcolm Merlyn is many things, but he ain't dumb. And I'm pretty sure that Oliver does not intend to just leave him running around in the long run. He's figuring out what Malcolm knows and trying to find a better way to deal with him, possibly involving ARGUS.
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Oct 30, 2014 17:34
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No way the bad guy isn't Felicity's ex. I don't think Nolan Gerard Funk has ever played a character who isn't some kind of terrible psychopath.
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Nov 6, 2014 02:10
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If it was 100% Felicity's boyfriend before, it is 10000% now. Also he better be shirtless at some point. This is Abs: the Show, and NGF has abs for days.
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Nov 6, 2014 02:27
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God drat you, Nolan Gerard Funk, why are you so hot and evil-looking?
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Nov 6, 2014 02:40
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I love how Roy always looks slightly shocked when he actually hits something with an arrow. Also I guess he and Dig are not part of Ollie's no-kill pact. 
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Nov 6, 2014 02:51
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twistedmentat posted:What a nerd, he made bioshock turrets. He got them spot-on too, every bit as ineffectual and useless.
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Nov 6, 2014 02:53
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The best part is that this totally ties in with drug-crazed dead-cat-loving Roy from the comics.
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Nov 6, 2014 03:04
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Stuff like this is a lot easier to watch if you mentally replace the words hacking, hackers, and virus with magic, wizards, and curse, respectively, because that's what they are to most people. MIT is just a stand-in for Hogwarts.
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Nov 6, 2014 14:55
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I have never been so happy watching television. 
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Nov 13, 2014 02:21
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Not a bad episode but this season is really lacking for momentum thusfar. I don't feel like either the Hong Kong or Starling plots are actually going anywhere or building towards anything. Hopefully they fix that soon.
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Nov 13, 2014 03:03
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God, I love Thea now. I love her so loving much.
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Nov 20, 2014 02:15
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Punch him. Punch him goddamn it.
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Nov 20, 2014 02:55
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Arrow writers. You are garbage at writing romance. Please stop forever.
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Nov 20, 2014 02:57
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HaitianDivorce posted:D'aww. Ollie and Roy heading over to Dig and Lila's for dinner is really sweet. I am so not about the romantic drama but I at least like the results. 
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Nov 20, 2014 03:01
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Goddammit I just want Thea to murder someone. SHOW US THE DARKNESS INSIDE!
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Nov 20, 2014 13:09
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e X posted:Nice, that was pretty awesome. I kinda question that Thea is able to stand up to Ollie after only a couple of month of training, but it makes for a great fight. I seriously doubt he was fighting her full-on. I think he was just completely taken aback that she fought him at all.
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Dec 11, 2014 02:31
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Should've chosen your weapon a little more carefully Ollie.
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Dec 11, 2014 03:09
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In other news, Stephen Amell remains the best.
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Dec 11, 2014 03:16
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If Ollie is going to be out of the picture for a while, I really hope the writers take the opportunity to turn Roy into, like, an actual person. I used to be pissed at Colton for leaving Teen Wolf but now I just kinda feel bad for him because he's basically been reduced to a prop. A magnificently sculpted prop with a jawline that could cut glass.
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Dec 12, 2014 22:54
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gently caress Batman. I hope he never appears. I hope Bruce Wayne was killed in a tragic falling piano accident in this universe.
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I love episodes like this. I love seeing characters who don't usually talk to each other that much having meaningful interactions. I'm actually kind of sad that it looks like Oliver is coming back so soon, because I'm enjoying what his absence is doing for the team.
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