Arrow

Tarrant_sl said:

I really don't care about the whole Batman rip off stuff. I still enjoy the show, the only bad writing I think is with Laurel and I can force myself to ignore her for the time being.

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haus_sl said:

Possible silver lining here....
Talia and Laurel have some kind of bonding thing. Laurel decides that if she's going to continue her sister's legacy she needs to learn to fight and since Wildcat is dead/gone/whatever she goes to train with Talia and the league and we're Laurel free for the rest of the season.

Also in the boat of being glad that Felicity finally got the D she needed to set her straight. Don't care if it came from Palmer, Ollie, or a donkey...

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Caliane_sl said:

Did Lady Shiva show up in Arrow?

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Caliane_sl said:

also a prime candidate for someone to train Canary.

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Wiki_sl said:

Shiva eventually travels to Manchuria to visit with her godfather, the O-Sensei, former instructor of Richard Dragon and Bronze Tiger. After living over 150 years, he has finally decided to die. He intends to fulfill a promise to his wife, and be buried alongside her, but his wife's family had hidden her remains to punish him for abandoning her. The O-Sensei has Shiva select three warriors to aid him in the search for her remains: the Question, Green Arrow, and Batman. Reluctant to acknowledge the O-Sensei's death wish, Shiva expresses her ambivalence both verbally and physically, unnecessarily applying deadly force in battles with O-Sensei's assailants.
Shiva and the O-Sensei then travel to Hub City, meeting with the Question, who, in turn, brokered Shiva's first meeting with Batman. Compelled to test his skill, Shiva immediately fights the vigilante only to be stopped by the O-Sensei. They do, however, convince Batman to aid them.[5]

In their search for Green Arrow, Shiva encounters slave traders, killing all except one, who successfully cuts her; she rewards him with a kiss on the forehead. After locating Green Arrow, she meets Black Canary for the first time, and spars with the hero. Although Canary does not know it at the time, the two had both studied under Sensei Otomo, though non-concurrently.

After recruiting Green Arrow, Shiva returns to Hub City, and saves the Question from an attack by former employees of the now-dead Reverend Hatch. Shiva kills the men, who had been after a fortune in embezzled funds stored in Hatch's abandoned home, and sets fire to the money. Later, she nurses the Question's elderly friend Tot back to health. While the Question puzzles over her inscrutable and violent nature, she confesses that the O-Sensei was "the one man I am certain I would not harm if he kissed me."

When Batman discovers that the remains of the O-Sensei's wife had been moved to a small island, Shiva, the O-Sensei, Green Arrow, and the Question set out for the island, only to be caught in a storm. The O-Sensei is lost overboard, but the group discovers that his wife's remains had likewise been mislaid, years earlier, while in transport, leaving O-Sensei's promise fulfilled.

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Qhue_sl said:

Remember Brandon Routh was always supposed to be the Blue Beetle because he's a tech-based super hero which was more fitting with the overall non-superpowered vibe that Arrow has going on. At the last minute before the season started filming Warner Bros / DC said "no can do Blue Beetle" and offered up The Atom as a replacement character. They've said they don't want to do the shrinking thing which pretty much turns the Atom into Iron Man. I have hopes that an "unfortunate side effect" of the dwarf star alloy he is using in the suit will still result in him getting size changing abilities at some point, but then again I'm also still hoping Canary gets a proper canary cry and doesn't have to use her iPod for that.

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Lyrical_sl said:

I stand corrected.

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Caliane_sl said:

corrected of what?

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Lyrical_sl said:

The problem with The Atom running around doing his Iron Man impersonation, is that it makes Arrow look even less special. Between The Flash, Atom and Firestorm, Arrow is a bit diminished, and looks more and more like a normal person, instead of a hero. What is his power? To never run out of arrows?

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