Arrow

So it's my day off of work, and I have nothing better to do than to stay home and browse through daytime tv. If anyone else has ever attempted this with a basic cable set up you also know that there is nothing on television in the daytime. It is just reruns of shows you thought had gotten canceled. Long story short I ended up watching CNN all day. Hey, at least it was something new. You try watching the news for more then four hours straight. It gets depressing quick. Basically the world is a bad state of affairs and the politics in America might as well be the latest bad reality tv series.

So enough of that.

After a day of CNN I was willing to watch Arrow. (Which, I believed to be a spin off show of one of the characters from the tv show Smallville.) Needless to say I didn't have high hopes for the show. Here's a rough breakdown. There are lots of spoilers.

Premise (at least the way I see it): Rich party boy gets shipwrecked for 5 years in which time he some how becomes a killing machine and formulates a plan to harm, kill, or discredit everyone on a list of enemies, that his father conveniently gave to him before he killed himself to save his son. Son gets rescued, and now he's secretly the Green Arrow, fighting back against crime in his city that looks strangly like a modern day Gotham city. Where else to have his Bat cave, sorry I mean Green cave, but his Dad's old abandon warehouse.

If you haven't noticed I have a lot of issues with the basic premise of this show. Oh and of course he can't be a supper hero without a love interest. Which in this case is a dogooder lawyer whose sister was also screwing our super hero when she supposedly drowned in the boat accident that left our Green Arrow stranded for 5 years.

Can we talk about what a terrible name for a show that is. Arrow. I mean really does it cost more to call it Green Arrow? Did you think it would sound less cool? Cause let me tell you something, I can't imagine telling someone that I am going to watch Arrow tonight and not have them give me a funny look. It's a bad name for a tv show.

All that said I still plan on watching it, that's until I get completely bored. Why you might ask, after all the disdane I just threw out at this show? Well i'll tell you.

1) Stephen Amell running around doing acrobatics that make him look like a monkey is sometimes shirtless.

2) Even though I had not heard of the Green Arrow until Smallville, it turns out the Green Arrow has been around in DC comics before the boy wonder ever appeared on the small screen. Don't take away my sci-fi credetials, you learn something new everyday.

So since it seems I have a lot of assumptions about this show I will it a chance to break some of them. I watched the pilot and the show has the potential to get better. You don't see archery in many tv shows, even though the popularity of the Hunger Games series has somehow brought it back into the spot light. Maybe in the up coming episodes the plot holes will be filled, maybe the action scenes will improve, maybe everything about this show won't be so predictable. If nothing else bring on the shirtless work out scenes and hopefully a better costume.

Watch the pilot for yourself and make up yout own mind on the show. I won't lie about why I plan on watching this show. I'm shallow and I have an interest in sci-fi/action advebture. Sue me. Enjoy!

 -SardonicQueen