@k4tzm4n: Me too.
@ltbrd said:
The tennis ball thing was cool but I think this show is going to fail horribly. It just looks like its going to aim for the "too serious, make him act like Batman" territory that people didn't like about Oliver Queen's character in Smallville to start with and why the writers altered his character enough to give him more humor and lighter attitude. This just feels like we get Batman with a bow and arrow. They seem to be going with the Longbow storyline, both in costume and in the way the bow looks, for this series. I find that unfortunate because while it did bring a freshness to the character in the comics it should not be the sole representation of his character and feel for a tv series.
Uh. I doubt he would be like this for the whole season and have you forgotten Ollie appeared in Smallville as an antihero first? Very much going against Clark, only appearing in the night, jumping around buildings, which is exactly like Batman would do. I did watch ten years of Smallville after all.
@ltbrd said:
The other mistake can see the CW making is undoing everything Smallville built in 4 years of using the character and completely ignoring that fan base they built up. I'm not saying it should be a direct continuation, but I think too many people are going to be watching for the connections to the previous show (whether you liked it or not it was the longest running tv series of its genre so that counts for something) and if they aren't there then the CW may lose a large base that it was counting on. It needs that base to at least get the show moving because trying to sell superhero tv shows is not easy. Smallville had great luck in both timing and changing the tone of a superhero show. Supernatural (while not a superhero show per se) had a great tone change from previous shows of its model and was helped by the fact the main characters aren't special. But as previous live action superhero shows (The Flash, Birds of Prey, Aquaman) prove its hard to nail this genre down (though I still feel The Flash did a much better job overall representing comic books than Smallville did, still watch those episodes from time to time) and going with a too serious tone I think is going to keep the show from taking off because it will alienate the fanbase I'm sure the CW is trying to lure in from the start until new viewers can steadily bolster ratings.
Too much continuity baggage. It was impossible to build up a new TV show with ten years of continuity. Plus they needed a new direction. Look at how well Nolans' Batman did.
Also, majority of the females watching this wont be too much bothered with connections to the previous shows as much as those 6 packs on his abs. So its unlikely they're going to lose a large fanbase.
@ltbrd said:
Plus, the guy they have playing Oliver feels more like he'd be right as Roy Harper (Arsenal not Speedy or Red Arrow) or Dick Grayson (Nightwing not Robin).
I dont get you. First you claim its too much away from the smallville's depiction then you're saying he looks too much like Roy when Justin Hartley looks even more like Roy.
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