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Thursday, November 22, 2012

Arrow Season 1 Episode 6: Legacies


Oliver was about to go about in tracking Scott Morgan (another name on his father’s list). Morgan cuts the power of those who can’t pay their bills without considering the consequences as long as he gets rich.


 
Oliver reveals that the name of the hooded Archer, Yao Fei who taught everything that he now knows while being in island. Oliver and Diggle were sparring when a robbery on the news caught Diggle’s attention.
 
 A cop was shot during the robbery and Diggle argued that Oliver should be involved in capturing the robbers. Oliver was reluctant and was focus on the people on his list. Later Diggle tricked Oliver that Morgan was on the hospital but instead it was Stan Washington, the cop who got shot. Oliver was forced to take care of the medical bills. Oliver was angry not because of the hospital bills but it was because Diggle tricked him. Oliver then agreed to hunt the Royal Flush gang.



 
The robbers are part of a family headed by Derek Reston. Oliver later found out that Derek was an employee of Queen Consolidated and lost his job when Robert Queen closed the Queen Steel Factory and outsourced the work to China in 2007.
 
Oliver talked to Derek to convince him to stop before it was too late. But Derek decided to honor his Kyle’s (Derek’s eldest son) wishes and do one more job. But everything went wrong and Derek was shot by the security guard.
 
Also in this episode, Tommy offers to help Laurel set up a fundraiser to help CNRI legal office afloat. At first Laurel did not want his help but Tommy was persistent in proving that he is guy worth dating Laurel .
 
Warren Christie (plays Cameron Hicks in Alphas) guest stars as Carter Bowen, a neurosurgeon who went to high school with Oliver, Tommy and Laurel. Carter was always being compared to Oliver by Moira when he was younger. The Bowen’s are coming to visit Moira and has asked Oliver to be present. Oliver was late for lunch and had to leave immediately causing her mother to ask him why he ever bother to come back. L
 


Laurel had to dance with him to make him help their cause in keeping CNRI afloat.  During the
Thea shows jealously when she found out that Tommy plans to date Laurel . Tommy points out that Thea is like a little sister to her which Thea did not take well.
 
Thea is starting to irritate me somehow. You know in some of the show there is this teenager who thinks she knows what good for her but ends up getting to trouble. She reminds me of Jenny Humphrey from that Gossip Girl Show. I understand that she had to go through hell when she lost Oliver and Robert but grow up already. Although it adds drama to the show I think it is too much sometimes. I hope they don’t plan for Tommy and Thea to date and somehow push Tommy to the Dark side because we all know that Merlyn is Green arrow’s arch enemy. Or maybe the Laurel-Oliver-Tommy will get more complicated which would make Tommy go over the edge. Another theory is that Tommy’s parent or parents are on his list. Well I am just speculating here but who knows.

Arrow Season 1 Episode 5: Damaged


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Oliver was arrested Detective Lance and was charged with murder. For his defence, he asked or rather Moira asked Sarah to be Oliver’s lawyer. Reluctant at first, Sarah agrees and offers the judge to put a tracking device on Oliver and have him on house arrest. Oliver throws a party to give him an Alibi while he sets his plan in motion. He then calls Diggle and revealed that it was his plan to get caught by the cameras all along. He asked Diggle to wear the hood to stop a German Arms dealer named Leo Mueller from selling high grade weapons to street gangs.



 
To convince Detective Lance, Oliver offers to have a polygraph test which Sarah advised against. The test stress Oliver more than he expected and started remembering being tortured in the island by Deathstroke when he was captured by unknown armed men looking for the hooded archer.
 
 
While the Party was ongoing, Diggle was tracking down the Mueller and stopped the deal while making sure that there are witnesses. An assassin was tasked to kill Oliver since he is suspected to be the hooded vigilante. Detective Lance was just on time to stop the assassin. All charges were dropped after. Oliver then paid Mueller a visit and stopped the deal from going through permanently.
 




Moira then meets with a member of organization were people on Oliver’s list are part of. Moira told him that she was not happy with the assassination attempt and threatens to revealed their identity if they would harm her family.
 
During all of this Walter asked Josiah Hudson, head of security of Queen Consolidated, to take the Queen’s Gambit (the yacht that shipwrecked five years ago) to a safer location. Later on Hudson was died mysteriously with a car accident. Walter confronted Moira and when she told him to stop digging deeper, Walter took a business trip to Melbourne Australia and left the house indefinitely.
 
This is another great episode. The fight scene between the hooded archer and Deathstroke was fantastic. The flashback on island tells us more of how Oliver got the scars and how much he has to go though to survive in the island. I am curious if Deathstroke is dead. Remember in the Pilot, Deathstoke’s mask on the shore while an arrow is holding it up. I can’t wait to see more flashback
 

Arrow Season 1 Episode 4: An Innocent Man


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The episode starts with John Diggle, Oliver’s bodyguard, wakes up in an abandoned warehouse that now serves as Oliver’s hideout. After the truth, Oliver asked Diggle to join him in his crusade. Diggle believes that Oliver is just a murderer and what he is doing is against the law. He refused the offer and left the hideout.
After returning home, Oliver saw the news about the execution of Peter Declan, a man who is connected to one of the people on his list Jason Brodeur. Declan’s wife, Camille, used to work for Brodeuer found out that Brodeuer was dumping chemical waste illegally and told his supervisor. A few days later Camille was found dead and Declan was blamed for the murder


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Ollie enlisted the help of Sarah Lance’s help to reopen the investigation. With a few days left before the execution, time is running out to get the evidence that they needed to exonerate Declan. Ollie was able to get the evidence given to Camille to her Supervisor and gave it Sarah. Sarah then presented the evidence to a judge but it was not enough to set him free.
Knowing the threat that Sarah posed, Brodeuer starts panicking. His bodyguard suggested that they contact their friends from the prison to kill Sarah and Declan using a prison riot as a camouflage. Oliver learned of Brodeuer’s plans when he confronted him in his office. He was able to save Sarah and made Brodeuer’s bodyguard confess.



Diggle then agrees to help Oliver with his crusade. But he agreed to join because he is more concern in keeping Oliver from going to far off the edge losing his humanity. Later Detective Lance found footage of Oliver changing his clothes and wearing a ski mask during the Deadshot confrontation from the last episode. Lance then arrested Oliver for suspicion of being the Vigilante.
  

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Walter Steele was investigating a 2.6 million dollar anomaly in their accounting. With further investigation he found the yacht that Oliver and Dad was in that shipwrecked five years ago in a warehouse bought by the missing 2.6 million dollars.
Not much new comic character shown in this episode but it is still good episode to watch. So many things happened in this episode that it is hard to believe that it all fits in one episode. Arrow is doing a good job so far. I can’t wait to watch the next episode.

Arrow Season 1 Episode 3: Lone Gunmen


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Oliver plans to cross out another name on his father’s list. He plans to interrogate James Holder, another corrupt millionaire.  Before getting his answer, an assassin named Deadshot shoots down the Holder. Oliver and Deadshot engaged in an arrow vs. bullet shoot out but the later escaped and grazing Oliver with one of his poisoned bullet.


Back in Oliver’s hideout, he realized the bullet was poisoned and started feeling the effects. Oliver runs to his trunk and got a medicine to counter the poison. The Police started an investigation headed by Detective Lance. The police believed that their vigilante is responsible for the murder. But Lance wouldn’t accept the theory that “the hood”, as they refer to the vigilante, change his M.O.
Oliver suspected that his family would be the next target of Deadshot. He seeks the assistance of Detective Lance to keep his family safe. As he predicted Deadshot took the bait. Oliver tracks him down and was able to kill him. But then Diggle was shot while Oliver was trying to stop deadshot. Leaving him no choice, Oliver had to bring him to his hideout and reveal his identity.



Arrow is becoming one of the shows that I look forward to watching every week. Good thing CW did not make the mistake they did portraying Green Arrow in Smallville. They did great in bringing a comic character to life. Although they have been introducing new characters every episode, which is great by the way, they might quickly run out of comic characters to put in the show and end up inventing new ones. Well we just have to wait and see.



How do you like Arrow so far?

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Arrow Season 1 Episode 1: Pilot

After 5 years trapped in an island in the North China Sea, Oliver Queen returns to Starling City to fulfill his Father's dying wish. Oliver has gone missing after their yacht was shipwrecked leading to  death of father Robert Queen and his girlfriend's sister Sarah Lance.



Waiting for his return is his mother Moria Queen, his sister Thea Queen, his best friend Tommy Merlyn and his dad's old CEO and now his stepfather Walter Steele. He then starts his plan to get rid of the people that has been taking advantage of the powerless and the poor. First on his list is Adam Hunt, a corrupt billionaire who has gain his wealth through unlawful means. He first threatens him to transfer 40 millions dollars to an account that he provided. Naturally Adam Hunt refuses to hand over his money. Using a welcome home party that Tommy has thrown for Oliver's return as an alibi, Oliver cross the adjacent building, which is where Adam Hunt is, stormed his base and stole  Adam's money by hacking his account and giving it to Adam's victims.




This is hard enough but what makes his task more difficult is detective Quentin Lance, father of Sarah Lance who blames Oliver for his daughter's death. Oliver now has to be more careful as he juggles with his secret life as a vigilante and being the person that his family wants him to be.


The Pilot was interesting enough to make you want to watch more episodes. It has a feel of Batman begins and somehow a feel of Smallville. Why Batman begins, there are similarities with the way Oliver has gone missing and started his training with how Bruce got his training in the Batman begins movie. It is also similar to Smallville because of the Merlyn-Oliver friendship thing. Eventually Merlyn would be his enemy and he would learn to use the bow and arrow. It might be jealousy that would push Merlyn to hate Oliver. I predict that Laurel Lance would pick Oliver or Oliver might go after Merlyn's father or someone close to him. Well that's just my prediction.

I would give Arrow a few more episode before deciding on continuing watching the series.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Arrow


The show is about Oliver Queen, billionaire turned vigilante better known as Green Arrow. Like many other people out there, I was reluctant in watching this new show from CW. CW also brought Smallville, the story of how Clark Kent before he became Superman. 

I said I was reluctantly because I saw green arrow in Smallville and their version is a wimpier version compared to the comics. Now they are trying to retell Green Arrow's story using the same formula they used in Smallville. Although I find the Pilot episode interest enough to watch more episode, I don't think that the Ollie and Tommy Merlyn best friend thing is the way to go especially when CW did the exact same thing in Smallville. 


I also see similarities with the latest Batman trilogy. Both have gone missing for years and came back becoming vigilantes. Both are filthy rich and both has put an arrogant rich boy facade when they returned to their respective cities. I haven't read the green arrow comics and I am not sure if this how it is with the comics. What I am pretty sure is that Tommy Merlyn or Merlyn is his arch enemy and they were never best friends. In fact Merlyn is way older that Oliver . 

With all of this. I think this series is worth giving a chance. I just hope they start creating more original ideas rather than copying other series or movies.

* click the episode name to read the episode review

Season
Episode
Title
Air Date
1
1
Pilot
10-Oct-12
2
Honor Thy Father
17-Oct-12
3
Lone Gunmen
24-Oct-12
4
An Innocent Man
31-Oct-12
5
Damaged
7-Nov-12
6
Legacies
14-Nov-12
7
Muse of Fire
21-Nov-12
8
Vendetta
28-Nov-12
9
Year's End
12-Dec-12
10
Burned
Jan 2013
11
Trust but Verify
Jan 2013

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Thursday, May 19, 2011

Smallville Series Finale

After 10 seasons, Smallville has finally come to an end. I have to say that it's not good but not a bad ending either. I guess I expected a lot more. I like the part where Lex (Michael Rosenbaum) and Clark (Tom Welling) were talking to each other in the mansion. I think they made a good excuse for his absence in the last three seasons. Besides the Superman Mythology would not be complete without Lex Luthor.


Now let me enumerate what I thought was wrong about the finale. First, Darkseid  was supposed to be a strong opponent. But in the end, Darkseid's demise seems so anticlimactic. The only thing Clark had to do was fly pass through him and he's dead. I am not that familiar how Superman defeated him in the comics, but from my point of view it seems like it was a fairy tale ending for Darkseid. I don't know maybe it' just me. Second, Darkseid's minions was killed pretty easily as well. It took only green arrow to kill them. Maybe it would have been better if they involve the justice league in the finale.

Next disappointment. I think they should have made one more episode before the finale. They could have put all the drama in the Finale part 1 into one separate episode and had a one hour filled with CG and concentrated on how Clark defeated Darkseid. First part of the finale was too much of Clark and Lois. And too much of Jonathan Kent. When the molten planet was about to hit earth, it didn't seem like it was a very hard to task for Clark to push it away.

There wasn't a clear shot of Clark when he finally wore the suit. I think every fan was eagerly anticipating that.  But I was anticipating his flight more. We saw him fly in one the early season of the series but he was Kalel then and it seems like he was somehow possess by Jorel. There was nothing really special about his flight in this episode.



But all in all it was good TV series. I particularly enjoyed when they guest the late Christopher Reeve and other actors and actress from the movie. Although it would have been great if Gene Hackman was able to guest as well. I also enjoyed how watching episode where he started to learn his powers. The Justice League was a nice touch but sometimes I feel that it was unnecessary. It is quite amazing that they were able to make a whole series based on a few minutes of the Superman movie. 

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