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| Answer: It has this guy in it |
About a year and a half ago I heard they were making a TV show about the DC character "Green Arrow". I thought: "They are making a show, now in its second season, about a guy who literally dresses up like Errol Flynn and fights criminals with a bow?"
Had it been earlier in the year I never would have even checked it out. But I decided to see if it was any good. After all, I had just seen a fan made Punisher short (not Dirty Laundry, it was another one, I forgot the name) that was actually pretty good for what they had to work with. How bad could this really be?
Pretty much crap, as it turned out. I decided to find the first three episodes and check them out. I forced myself to watch the first two and couldn't go any further. Now I actually became hopeful at first. I mean, right out of the door, boom, Deathstroke shows up to stab him. But as it turns out, it was all fluff and no delivery.
Now keep in mind, I really don't know anything about this hero character, so maybe I was missing all sorts of interesting things that fans of him (Is there an actual fan base for him?) saw and loved, but I honestly shouldn't have to know anything. There shouldn't be any prerequisites.
The guy, whats-his-name who plays Green Arrow (and they don't even call him that), seems to play it like he's Batman, but without any of the story, character or motivation that makes Batman, you know, Batman. And he looks like he's always about 5 seconds from crying. They pair him some girl playing his sister who is perpetually whining (probably because she was in desperate need of a sandwich, by the look of her). It was really that grating sister character that almost made me give up during the first episode.
So I stopped after those two episodes. The constant grating whining, moping and "why did you leave me" bullshit just got to me.
Fast forward to about 2am this morning.
So my youngest kid was tossing around a lot. When that happens I usually sit in the basement with him on my lap as that calms him down so he can sleep. So I'm flipping through YouTube cinema sins channel and one of the suggested videos links was something about "Latest Arrow episode the best ever" I thought "Wait, that's still on? Huh, maybe it got better." A quick Google search led me to a stream for the latest episode, which I watched.
I honestly don't understand why people think this show is so amazing. It starts and... damnit! They still have the whining sister but now everyone is running around in leather bondage gear. Who is the black guy? Am I supposed to know who he is? Is he a big name guy?
Ok, yeah, I know they are on season 3 or something by now so I don't know the story up until now, but even taking that into consideration, it still sucked. Tom Cruise's friend from 'Minority Report' is the bad guy. He's in jail and he wants a monkey statue. HE WANT'S IT BAD. This guy is actually not a bad actor btw, but they don't really use his him well. He just does the 'glare at people and clench my hands' thing that Fasbender does in X-Men. They get in a big fight with a bunch of military types who, lucky for Green Arrow and friends, are completely incompetent and opt for using Queensbury Rules against our heroes instead of doing what bad guys actually do and mowing them down with machine guns. Bad guy then stabs Green Arrow's girlfriend (who is now into bondage too). She manages to whine a bit more before she dies. (oh no!) My reaction: "Good."
There were several people at my last job who loved this show. Why?
