Chula Vista

It gets better as it goes along.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Yac

That's exactly how I see it. I'm giving this show a chance, if it continues to improve by season 2/3 it will be the best show out there.

Overcast

One of my favorite shows. I agree with above it gets better as it goes.

The Batlord

But Arrow's still the best comic book show on TV.

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LoathsomePete

Eh, the drama-y love triangle crap that seems to infect every CW show really drags it down. That and the fact that everyone is insanely attractive, I mean Roy couldn't make it as anything but a petty criminal? Also, and this is probably because I'm from where it's filmed, but they do a piss poor job at dressing up the scenes that are set in the Barrens. I remember one of them from Season 2 was done up under the Grandville Street bridge which is a pretty nice area around town. It's kind of infuriating because you go about 8 blocks east and you enter the poorest postal code in Canada. It's like if The Wire tried to dress up the Inner Harbor and say it was West Baltimore, it just doesn't work and feels incredibly disingenuous.

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The Batlord

I see that as a necessary evil. Most networks seems to avoid putting spandex on screen like the plague. I guess they figure people will spend a few hours once or twice a year watching a superhero movie, but don't really want to commit to an hour a week for most of a year. Smallville was about Superman in high school, Gotham is about Batman in... what, middle school? Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is only superhero adjacent. There was that Flash show back in the early nineties, but that got killed after less than a season since it was on at the same time as The Simpsons and The Cosby Show. The Adventures of Lois and Clark is the only real show in living memory with an actual costumed superhero, but that was more about relationship stuff than actual superhero stuff, and that was still almost two decades ago. Arrow is one of the only handful of series in history to actually have superhero superhero stuff.

I imagine a trashy network like the CW was the only one willing to give that kind of show the time of day, and since it's the CW, you have to make a sacrifice. And just like X-Men made it okay to have superhero movies, I think Arrow might be making it okay to have genuine superhero TV shows. Now you have The Flash, CBS is making a Supergirl show, and TNT is making a Teen Titans show. So, you got to give it some credit for that if nothing else.

Still, even with the soap opera element, Arrow still manages to rise above the demands of its network.

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Yac

Maybe I'll give Arrow a shot then.

The Batlord

Been plowing through the fourth season of Weeds. Seriously the funniest show I've ever seen, and anyone who doesn't fall in love with pretty much all of the characters is totally dead inside. And Mary-Louise Parker might just be the MILF of Decade. She's Sofia Vergara quality. What she lacks in figure she makes up by being even more adorable than Alyson Hannigan.




Righteous. I had two highly nerdy entries in my comic book journal to give you a more in-depth idea of just what's awesome about the show. It's a travesty that this journal didn't get nominated for more MB awards this year. It's clearly better than all the rest.

Why My Favorite Show Is Better than Your Favorite Show: Part 1 & 2

Most importantly is just how much of a legitimate badass the star of Arrow is.

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GuD

What???

Mary-Louise has a beautiful body. I always hoped her character in Weeds was her personality irl. She was so irresistibly adorable and clever. Her smile is beyond compare. Weeds is a great show but I feel like once they got to Mexico it started going downhill.


I just finished ep1 of Orphan Black and am totally hooked. It's fantastic, the acting is amazing. Felix is hilarious albeit kinda douchey.

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The Batlord

She has a body, and it's well shaped, but I like a bit more meat. And yes, I hope she's like her character too. She has a great smile, but I think her eyes are her best feature. She's just got the most hypnotic pair of doe eyes.

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