The CW's 'Arrow' (Season 8)

[Forever Knight]

Smallville has opened the door to a new show that will eventually get canceled because people cannot handle anything from DC besides Superman and Batman.

This show looks pretty good but I don't see it lasting more than a few episodes.

[Forever Knight]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk_ji5Yu_Mg

[kernel_thai]

I love the dark look but they r making a huge mistake if they arent making Laurel Lance

[Show spoiler] Black Canary

right from the get go.

[Rambaldi47]

I don't think she

[Show spoiler]will be Black Canary because they've said they're going "Nolan's Batman" on the show, meaning nothing supernatural. So unless she's BC without her cry, I don't think we'll see her

[mredman]

Originally Posted by Rambaldi47

I don't think she

[Show spoiler]will be Black Canary because they've said they're going "Nolan's Batman" on the show, meaning nothing supernatural. So unless she's BC without her cry, I don't think we'll see her

i really think this darkness like Batman Begins is not a good fit for a show on CW. It will skew old i think.

[kernel_thai]

Originally Posted by Rambaldi47

I don't think she

[Show spoiler]will be Black Canary because they've said they're going "Nolan's Batman" on the show, meaning nothing supernatural. So unless she's BC without her cry, I don't think we'll see her

Just like they arent doing stuff like the boxing glove they could certainly

[Show spoiler] do Black Canary without the cry. The way they set it up up the Lance/ Queen relationship, I was sure we would learn that while he hanging with Gilligan, Lance was secretly fighting the good fight back home. Guess not.

[Afrobean]

Originally Posted by Forever Knight

Smallville has opened the door to a new show that will eventually get canceled because people cannot handle anything from DC besides Superman and Batman.

Smallville's Green Arrow started out as a Batman expy.

Hell, a large part of Green Arrow's identity is lifted right off of Batman. Regular human who trained to peak physical form, fights villains by night as a masked vigilante, but by day is a rich-as-hell owner of a large business.

They did some stuff with him in the comics, like running for mayor and they really pushed the political angle with him, but it's still easy to distill him down to the same common elements he shares with Batman. It is, after all, these commonalities that made Smallville use Green Arrow when they learned Batman was totally off-limits.

Originally Posted by Rambaldi47

I don't think she

[Show spoiler]will be Black Canary because they've said they're going "Nolan's Batman" on the show, meaning nothing supernatural. So unless she's BC without her cry, I don't think we'll see her

I'm pretty sure Black Canary originally had no powers at all in her inception. Either way, the power is secondary to what makes her truly great: she's an expert fighter thanks to training with the best fighters of the DC Universe.

Also: fishnet stockings.

[Forever Knight]

Originally Posted by Afrobean

Smallville's Green Arrow started out as a Batman expy.

Hell, a large part of Green Arrow's identity is lifted right off of Batman. Regular human who trained to peak physical form, fights villains by night as a masked vigilante, but by day is a rich-as-hell owner of a large business.

Which I thought was awesome. I still think Hartley should have been in this show.

[critterdvd]

Originally Posted by Forever Knight

Which I thought was awesome. I still think Hartley should have been in this show.

Hartley wasn't casted in the show for two reasons: a) The producers wanted to put as much distance between themselves and 'Smallville' as possible. They keep talking about how 'Arrow' is going to be the darkest series to ever air on the CW network and it is a very gritty, dark, action drama; and they wanted to create their own mythology and origin story. b) Hartley had already put that medical show with Meryl Streep's daughter (can't remember the new title, it was originally called "First Cut") in first position for the 12/13 season.

[Forever Knight]

I accept that and can't wait.

The CW's version of Battlestar Galactica.

[seedubxj]

Just watched it. I dug it. May be a guilty pleasure show for me.

[Big N' Tasty]

I also enjoyed it.

[Elaniel]

I really enjoyed it. Certainly filled a hole that was left by Smallville. Was probably my favorite new show of the year so far (minus Go On)

[Bizdady]

Missed it but seeing some good marks so might have to catch the replay.

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[Jennifer Lawrence Fan]

Arrow is the Most Watched CW Show in 3 Years

The CW has announced the ratings for their new DC show Arrow and it looks like the premiere was quite successful. Here's the press release:

Last night's premiere of ARROW was right on target with the network's goal of broadening out and bringing new viewers to the network - it drew 4.02 million viewers, the most watched telecast on the network of any show, on any night, in three years (11/12/2009).

ARROW was the most watched premiere on the network since THE VAMPIRE DIARIES (9/10/2009).

This was the most watched show in the Wednesday 8PM time period in more than three years (5/13/2009)

Versus last year's premiere of H8R in the time period, it more than doubled its audience (4M vs. 1.3M) and was up 57% in A18-34 (1.1/4), and 117% in A18-49 (1.3/4)

The ARROW premiere also gave SUPERNATURAL a boost last night, it was SUPERNATURAL's most watched episode (2.6M) since 10/15/10, and was its best A18-34 rating since 3/4/11 (1.0/3)

Last night was The CW's best Wednesday night in total viewers (3.3M) in more than two years (5/12/10) and in two years in A18-34 (1.0/3, 12/10/10) and in A18-49 (1.2/10, 10/13/10)

ARROW tied NBC's original comedies in the 8-9PM hour in total viewers (4M) and in A18-34 and A18-49.

Arrow stars Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen, Colin Donnell as Tommy, Willa Holland as Thea Queen, with Susanna Thompson as Moira Queen and Paul Blackthorne as Detective Quentin Lance.

From Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Andrew Kreisberg and David Nutter, the hard-hitting action series reinvents the DC hero. After being marooned for five years on a remote island, billionaire Oliver Queen returns home with a mysterious agenda and very lethal new set of skills that he uses in a war on crime.

The show airs on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT. You can watch the pilot online by clicking here.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=95803

A good thing I suppose, even if CW doesn't get monster ratings like the other networks. Hope this stays on for a while.

[hardtosayx]

I just finished watching it and really liked it.

[djgeneral]

Wow, just saw the ratings for this. If it maintains strong ratings in week 2 and 3, I might consider adding it to my line up. Too often I start watching shows that are quickly scrapped. But this certainly has my interest. We'll see what happens. It seems a lot of people think it will drop a lot next week.

[mredman]

one question those that enjoyed this are you also fans of Nikita?
Because they are very similar and they should give it a chance if they have not seen it yet

[dcv1979]

starting to enjoy this series


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[kemcha]

If this is going to be another "flashback TV series", I'll be dropping this series faster than a rock hitting the Earth. I'm just sick of these "flashback shows". You don't need flashback episodes if you have good writers.