The series, which will air on Wednesdays at 8:00-9:00 p.m., stars Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen, Colin Donnell as Tommy, Katie Cassidy as Laurel Lance, David Ramsey as John Diggle, Willa Holland as Thea Queen, with Susanna Thompson as Moira Queen and Paul Blackthorne as Detective Quentin Lance.
I know they wanted to keep the show somewhat grounded in reality but that kind of went out the window with the introduction of the Flash. Oliver was stabbed through the chest so that he was coughing up blood and then fell 100+ feet onto rocks. Just bandaging his wounds isn't going to fix that. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Frosty:
I know they wanted to keep the show somewhat grounded in reality but that kind of went out the window with the introduction of the Flash. Oliver was stabbed through the chest so that he was coughing up blood and then fell 100+ feet onto rocks. Just bandaging his wounds isn't going to fix that.
Supergirl is supposed to be in the same universe too. Reality go bye bye. [Reply]
Originally Posted by keg in kc:
Supergirl is supposed to be in the same universe too. Reality go bye bye.
I was hoping the Mirakuru dose that Oliver got would have boosted his strength and speed some while somehow not making him crazy. Having a little extra super power would have made some of the battles more realistic (in a comic book sense). It seems like everyone he faces now just catches his arrows and he's getting his ass beat as often as Laurel now. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Frosty:
I was disappointed with how handled bringing Oliver back to life. "The cold helped"? What about the huge fall to the rocks that should have shattered his body? Unless they are going to reveal some dramatic cure later, they just kind of hand waved the whole thing away.
He took a sword through his right lung and they show him with his stomach bandaged up. :-) [Reply]
Fans of Arrow may not have tuned in just to see Brandon Routh suit up as Ray Palmer a.k.a. ‘The Atom’, but the show has been slowly building to the Justice League member’s reveal nonetheless. The show’s brilliant billionaire may still be constructing his suit of armor, but today DC Comics has released the very first official image of the finished suit, in all its glory.
So far fans have only been given glimpses of a holographic blueprint of the Advanced Technology Operating Mechanism (A.T.O.M.) and a detached gauntlet, but DC and The CW apparently felt the finished product was too impressive to wait any longer. Brandon Routh will first don the armor in the show’s universe in Episode 15 of the season, “Nanda Parbat”, but take an early peek at the Arrow/Flash universe’s next certified costumed hero below:
The finished suit, as expected, is a far cry from the blue and red spandex of the classic comic hero. But given the removal of the hero’s shrinking powers from the show’s fiction (for now, at least), that’s not too surprising. Executive producer Marc Guggenheim recently claimed that the biggest challenge for the Arrow showrunners was crating a metal suit of armor that didn’t seem to be copying… another prominent superhero with similar powers.
Thankfully, it seems the result has succeeded in that aim, resembling more of an exoskeleton than an all-out suit of armor. Sticking with with blue and red color scheme of the comics, and maintaining the ‘atom’ insignia on the forehead and the signature red triangle on the chest, the finished rig straddles the line between source material and practicality quite well (not to mention packing more of a punch than the early plans).
Constructed from a super-strong ‘dwarf star alloy’ it seems that Ray Palmer has constructed a system to amplify his strength (in tandem with the show’s ‘Salmon Ladder’ technology) as opposed to encase his body. How it will be put to use protecting the streets of Starling City – and not just obliterating its criminals – will become clear in the coming weeks.
The network has already claimed that Routh would be a “natural” choice for another DC Comics spinoff series, and while those comments may have seemed like wishful thinking at the time, the effort and polish put into Palmer’s A.T.O.M. Exosuit implies otherwise. It has yet to make its debut, but this superhero costume might just be the best-received in The CW’s shared universe. [Reply]
I'm more interested in how his power is going to incorporate into the storyline, can't quite have him shrink to quartz size and lobotomize someone's brain while Arrow is ninja kicking someone in the face. And on the flipside you can't have Atom just be another fighter either.. [Reply]
Thought that was a bit of a let down. Expected something more explosive, got the CW version of the warriors. Like Ollie training with Merlyn, didn't like Merlyn not killing Brick. But that's setting up something later I assume. Who dies because of that moment of weakness? Thought there was a bit much of Ollie in the woods, didn't like the Merlyn flashbacks. Ollie's return seemed kind of abrupt and weak. But at the same time it was good that he's still hurt and didn't just fly in like nothing had happened and save the day. Liked the scene where Lance finally realizes it's not Sarah and Felicity telling Ollie she doesn't want to be someone he loves. So good end, but felt weak on the whole.
