Unless you've been living in a cave with no television and no Internet you have heard people talk about "Arrow" the new CW show which tells the origins of Oliver Queen also known as the Green Arrow.
The show is based on the DC Comics and it was created after the enormous success that The Green Arrow character had in the tv show Smallville. In that instance, however, Oliver Queen was played by Justin Hartley so you can imagine that when they announced the Arrow tv show there were some resiliant Smallville fans pulling for Hartley to reprise his role.
Anyway the show follows two storylines for the 1st season, one that let us see how oliver became the arrow while stranded on an island and the other shows us the present with him fighting crime in Starling city.
The 1st season is based on him trying to right the wrongs of his father (who died after they were marooned on a small island in the pacific ocean) and he does so through a journal that his father kept of all those who poisoned the city. The show is very entertaining and though we get our weekly villain Oliver soon realizes that he's actually fighting against an undertaking and he discovers that his ene,ies are closer to him than he realized.
Without giving too much away, I think they handled each character perfectly. Throughout the series Arrow introduced several DC characters and if you are a massive DC fans you will love the constant references to the comics. Red Arrow, The Huntress, Deadshot, Deathstroke, and many more characters appear in the show, and of course you also have oliver queen true love Dinah Laurel Lance aka the Black Canary.
My favourite things about the show are:
The character development, Every Character is developed properly. We see them evolve one episode after another and to me the best thing about most characters is that you know what they will become and it is damn exciting to see them fulfilling their destiny.
The double storyline helps us understand what happened to Oliver and how he became the Green Arrow. We see his training, the challenges he had to overcome to survive on what he originally though was a deserted island. On the Island he meets Shado who's the one who teaches Oliver how to shoot an arrow.
The fact that oliver creates a team. Oliver immediately after returning to Starling city understands that he could not fight crime without the help of others. He therefore creates alliances with other people, Felicity the Computer Girl, Diggle his alleged driver and in some cases with the Huntress.
Dc characters popping in and many references such as Nanda Parbat ( if you know what it means).
The best thing about the shows are the several references of each episodes to the DC Universe. In one of the last episodes in the island storyline we see for example an airplane which passes over the island and on that airplane there's the logo of the Ferris aircraft 9 (the same logo we see in the "Green Lantern" movie). There are references to "Batman" and also several similarities to the "Dark Knight". Did you get excited when Merlin said he trained in a place called Nanda Parbat which is a clear reference to Raz Al Ghul and his league of Shadows or Assassins whatever you wanna call it.
The show is worth seeing and the first half of the second season (which I will review tomorrow) is even better. Don't miss Arrow on the CW!!
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