mizzy | Why You Should Be Watching Arrow: A Highly Respectable If Loquacious List of ~Infallible Reasons~

So you should probably be watching Arrow on the CW if you can and you like shows with plot twists and slightly dark moments where your morality is questioned and you don't mind not watching with 100% brain matter.

If you're not watching Arrow or are and you know someone who should, below the cut is a well-written and respectable* guide as to why you should be watching Arrow.

*If by well-written and respectable you mean should be written in crayon or comic sans.

So let's begin!

This is OLIVER.
He is a QUEEN.
Wait. His name is Oliver Queen.
CLOSE ENOUGH.

He can't really act but he wanders around a lot either shooting bad guys and being a bad ass vigilante, or walking around without a shirt. or doing ninja warrior stuff in his nightclub lair without a shirt. idk. gratuitous shirtlessness and bamfing. he has a ton of scars too. who needs character development.
by shooting I mean with arrows. lol the show is called arrow. he shoots people with arrows. oh it's also based on the green arrow but it's totally not because otherwise he'd be zooming around the countryside with the green lantern wearing a dodgy mustache and training the lantern about racism! and homophobia! and oh gosh Arrow still might do this. i wonder if they can get ryan reynolds for that.

anyway! plot, yawn. oliver has a list from his dad of people to get vengeance on who have FAILED STARLING CITY.
you failed starling city, bad guys.
you failed BIRDS feel bad, bad guys.
anyway oliver went missing for five years after his yacht (yeah everyone's rich) sank and he had to survive on a ~mysterious island~ (which is like. a drug island guarded secretly by the awesome kelly hu but we don't know that for sure but KELLY HU.)

you can guard my island any time kelly hu

Oliver becomes a vigilante.

known as THE HOOD. 'cause he wears a hood.

subtle.

he puts green paint over his eyes too.

'cause that's going to hide who you are.

like the guys who put sharpie on their face and robbed a store in america.

paint over his eyes.

GENIUS DISGUISE.

This is Digg.

Occasionally shirtless but mostly in a suit. Starts off as a bodyguard. Ends up training with Oliver a lot.

Or giving pep talks while Oliver is busy being shirtless.

god man it's just the hottest ship ever. Oliver and Digg. DIGG IT.

This is Thea, Oliver's sister.

Nicknamed Speedy to make you think she's going to be the sidekick (who's called Speedy in the comics) but she just does drugs so maybe that's where it's from. When oliver "comes back from the dead", she Accidentally Folger's Commercial all over him (so for first ep it's like woah chemistry OH WAIT THEY'RE BROTHER AND SISTER? STOP LOOKING AT EACH OTHER LIKE THAT.)

Katie Cassidy is Laurel, Oliver's prerequisite boring love interest in a love triangle with Oliver's best friend. yawn. it's all going to go Spider-man on their asses anyway, can't even really be bothered at finding you a pic of ~~Harry Osborn wait sorry~~ Tommy Merlyn

I am more interested in Paul Blackthorne's character Quentin

'cause he's hot and he's Harry Dresden in disguise lol where's your skull Harry and he's an alcoholic and unhinged and crazy and

THE SHIP HAS THE BEST PORTMANTEAU SINCE STARK SPANGLED BANNER

because he's QUENTIN and the Hood is OLIVER

and together they're

QUIVER.

get it.

like arrows come in.

Arrow

hahahaha.

oh look who is also in arrow

he still can't act either in this. he can't act in anything. at least he gets a decent twist or two so far.

BARROWMAN!

every time I type that I hear david tennant saying it in my head

BARROWMAN!

also who is in it but COLIN SALMON

why are you not wearing sparkles and dancing with kristina, colin.

why are you in a dapper suit colin.

go and dance with kristina, colin.

also felicity

smoking hot it genius

(and oliver sometimes tries to smile but it looks like it hurts poor dear.)

....so this would be why I rarely try and convince people to watch shows.

but oh look

laurel and quentin are the cleverest people on tv!

YES.

WATCH ARROW RIGHT NOW OKAY.

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IT IS LUCKY I HAVE A LOVELY FRIEND WHO TELLS ME WHERE TO GET SUCH THINGS >.>

HERE HAVE COLIN IN LEOPARD PRINT AS A SIGN OF HOW GOOD A FRIEND YOU ARE ♥

ONLY THE BEST FRIENDS GET HALF-NAKED KRISTINA RIHANOFFS IN THEIR COMMENTS

My name is Telaryn, and I approve this message. *g*

You can have some sparkly Colin Salmon too!
Oh, Strictly, you always manage to find some way to stop me taking some characters anywhere in the region of seriousness.

This is something I didn't know before tonight - I'm impressed that I will actually be able to take his character even less seriously now! \o/

...Mind, it's not as bad as the It's not as bad as the Chris Hemsworth!Strictly experience...

Awww...look. He's trying to be brooding and intense!

Arrow was why he didn't go too far in the competition - he had reduced training time.
Still with only seven hours, he didn't do a bad job:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjbylFoAP1s

His form is really tight - good, smooth moves, but could I buy a facial expression please?

Nope. That is his one facial expression, lol.

Maybe the network will buy him one as a bonus when the show is renewed.

Or just give him the page from Seagal's acting book:

You forgot the newest reason:

You make a valid point. Alas, this is a guide to draw people into the first episode, so I believed it would be false advertising. *g*

We watch Arrow (mostly because it is somehow tattooed into hubby's DNA that he must watch anything associated with DC Comics), but I can only stand it by drawing a stark line in my brain between this and the Green Arrow/Ollie Queen I read in the comics. And, yes, the only thing that saves the acting is the shirtlessness, lol.

ALL THE BROODING!!! HOW CAN THAT MUCH BROODING NOT HURT?

And is Dinah … Laurel … Chickybabe … whatever … gonna become Black Canary? And since Thea is Speedy but likely won't be that Speedy … does that make Diggle Speedy? (Spiggle?)

Oh, God, this is gonna be Smallville all over again, isn't it?

I think Smallville was excellent training for drawing stark lines of disbelief. Also, I've had excellent practice with BBC's Merlin, too.

THERE HAS TO BE SOME SERIOUS JAW STRAIN GOING ON WITH THAT BROODING. And it can't be good for his back all the shoulder hunching of broody doom.

I... guess they've dropped hints Laurel could do some martial arts stuff? But the very fact they're calling her by her middle name is maybe supposed to put us off the idea, idk.

Smallville never went quite this dark, so I hope it doesn't go to quite the same WTF territory as Smallville? Maybe?

Basically in my head Arrow is like. the Ultimates in Marvel. A darker version where people have the same name, and more of the history will sneak in but mostly, it's a general rewrite of vague concepts.

You are one of a few mates to tell me Arrow is awesomesauce. The dude is hot, no doubt, but Justin Hartley was my Green Arrow and I dunno how much this is gonna mess up what I already think I know... Hmm, maybe sometime I'll give it okay. I do like most comic book related TV and movies that I've seen (despite the fact I never read any of these comic books! lol). Case in point, you were soooo right about Avengers ;)

Either way, I do love the way you write when you're excited about stuff. Makes me grin :D

If you do watch it, just think of Justin as P&P 1995 and Arrow as LBD? ♥ It's a completely different show, and Justin/Ollie is just. gah. ADORABLE. and Arrow!Oliver is broody and. wait. broody. and shirtless. a lot more, lol. There's a million worlds between Smallville and Arrow.

I dunno, I had so very low expectations for Arrow because I thought nothing could beat Justin, and maybe it was my low expectations that got me so especially hooked to it.

Ooh! Best Analogy Ever!!! Like your style, my friend. Yeah, that works for me. Now I'm gonna have to check it out sometime... Do they even show Arrow on TV over here? If they do it's probably on a channel I don't get, but I think

southrnbygrace said she could hook me up with this one...

PS I need LBD icons!!! #izjealous

It's showing on Sky One, so you probably don't get that?

LBD icon post: http://inthewildwood.livejournal.com/22154.html ♥

Bloody Sky gets all the good stuff :( We only have Freeview *sigh*

Ooh, icons! Thanx, hon :)

We only have freeview too, but... sometimes I just can't wait. (But the rare times I do download, I always buy the show as soon as it's available, and try and buy the official merchandise too. It lessens my guilt a little. Dad's been dying to see Arrow since we saw the trailer and I def. can't resist dad when he puppy-eyes me and asks me to teach him how to torrent!)

For a minute there I was gonna call you a rebel, then you just shot right back to adorable with the rest of that comment *hugs you just cos* I love that you at least have a nice Dad :)

You can totes share my dad. ♥

See? Adorable! *more hugs*

Why You Should Be Watching Arrow: A Highly Respectable If Loquacious List of ~Infallible Reasons~

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