Wednesday 17 October 2012

TV: Arrow SE1 EP1

Arrow
Action, Adventure, Drama


I've been waiting months for this show to start and now it's finally here! I wasn't sure whether it would be any good though, fortunately for us, it is! Green Arrow was a DC Comic book series. DC's Batman series was so popular that they thought creating a very similar super hero would do just as well... it didn't obviously but I think they did okay.

Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) AKA Green Arrow was a billionaire playboy until a boating accident killed half his family and left him stranded alone on an island for five years. While he was floating in the middle of nowhere on a life raft, his father told him a few family secrets before shooting himself to give Oliver the highest possible chance of survival.

We haven't really been given much to go on just yet. We know it has something to do with Queen's shipping company and the sale of a factory right before the ill-fated boat trip. Not only did the boat sink, but Oliver was boinking his girlfriend Laurel's (Katie Cassidy) sister who then died. How awesome is that? (note the sarcasm) So obviously she doesn't want to see him... How weird, boyfriend and sister died, you'd be so angry with her, then the boyfriend suddenly reappears? Poor Laurel.

Fight scenes are pretty awesome, the use of parkour is especially cool. Would also like to know Mummy, Moira's (Susanna Thompson) part in all this conspiracy stuff because we all picked up that she was the one that had her own son kidnapped and tortured... well, they tried anyway.

Can't wait to see more...

3 out 5...uh, bow n arrows?
[Quote]
Tommy (Colin Donnell): "Your funeral blew..."
Oliver: "Did you get lucky?" 
Tommy: "Like shooting fish in a barrel."

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