ARROW |OT| Green Arrow TV series on CW

Status
Not open for further replies.
I get an Andrew Garfield vibe from him.

66ma2KP.jpg


But I'll reserve judgment til I see him act in it.
 
Jorok Goldblade said:
The New 52 flash costume has lines on it that look like seams when he's standing still, but glow with Speed Force energy when he hits superhuman speeds.
Click to expand...

Doesn't the Speed Force make him run at the speed of light or something?

Just checked Wiki:

Infinite mass punch - Introduced in Grant Morrison's JLA title. Flash (Wally West), traveling near the speed of light acquired the relativistic mass of such speed to impart blows which could hit with the force of "a white dwarf star," enabling him to knock down such powerful foes as the White Martians with a single punch. Flash's own durability is regulated by the Speed Force in such cases.
Speed lend/steal - Perhaps his most versatile new power. Because the Speed Force governed all motion, Wally could rob objects of their kinetic energy, motion, or momentum (e.g., bullets in flight or turning a supervillain into a statue) and use the energy to accelerate himself even faster. He could similarly lend speed to inanimate objects or allies, enabling them to temporarily travel nearly as fast as himself. Bart Allen's future self is shown to also have this ability in the Teen Titans Titans Tomorrow story arc.
Metabolize wounds - Accelerating his healing factor while using the Speed Force to sustain him, Wally could heal from grievous injury without prematurely aging like his counterpart from another reality, Walter West. Related to the ability above, he would serve as the "team medic," healing other team members by accelerating their healing factors (without prematurely aging them).[volume & issue needed]
Constructs - Wally discovered that if he concentrated, the Speed Force could be used to create solid constructs. The first time he used this ability was to create a solid armor enabling him to run despite having broken legs. Later examples included sealing up the openings of his costume against disease, creating pockets for holding things, etc. In JLA, when shot by Prometheus, his suit displayed bullet-resistant properties.[volume & issue needed] Most recently, it was used to repair the damage done to the various speedsters' costumes, allowing Wally to change his uniform; Jesse Quick to take up the uniform of her father, Johnny Quick; and Wally's daughter, Iris, to become the new Impulse.[3]
Shield - Exhibited by Savitar, whose mastery of the Speed Force allowed him to reflect objects away from himself.
Flight - Exhibited by Johnny Quick and his daughter, Jesse Quick; the only speedsters known to exhibit this ability. However, all speedsters traveling faster than escape-velocity exhibit "inverse flight".
ESP - Exhibited by Max Mercury, whose communion with the Speed Force allows him to detect the motion of any object in the world, and especially to perceive other speedsters. Wally West exhibited a similar ability which allowed him to perceive Linda across time and space due to the strength of their bond.
Total recall - Exhibited by Bart Allen, who can retain everything he speed-reads (in contrast to other speedsters, who only retain the information temporarily).
Speed scouts - Exhibited by Bart Allen, who can create Speed Force-duplicates of himself that, due to the timeless nature of the Speed Force, can travel forwards and backwards through time. They can also manipulate objects or merge their consciousness with Bart, informing him of their actions. However, after one of his Speed Scouts was killed, Bart was thrown into a coma and hasn't used the ability since.
Speed control - Traveling at any speed one believes they can move at.
Negate Anti-Life Equation - Not yet explained, but it is seen in Final Crisis #4 when Barry Allen kissed his wife, who was under the control of Anti-Life, and the Speed Force surrounded her and she regained her free will.[4]
Muscle growth - Exhibited by Jai West, who has the power to speed up the growth of his muscles, temporarily giving him super strength, but causing him to be exhausted after a short time.
Intangibility/Self-molecular control - Exhibited by Barry Allen, Bart Allen, and Iris West. Their total control of kinetic energy at a molecular level allows them to match the vibrational frequency needed to travel easily into and through solid matter. Wally West has this ability, too, but with less control, so solid matter usually explodes when coming in contact with him. When Bart Allen internalized the Speed Force into himself, he too showed difficulty with this ability, melting matter if not concentrating enough. Iris' control is as effortless as Barry's, but unlike his, it is somewhat unstable. As an offensive ability, it can be used to scramble one's molecular structure to the point of literal disintegration.[5]
Click to expand...

Maybe... maybe just leave the Speed Force out, cause that is insane.

An infinite mass punch, my God. I thought Flash just ran like, hilariously fast. This dude is a goddamn walking apocalypse.
 
NotTheGuyYouKill said:
Doesn't the Speed Force make him run at the speed of light or something?

Just checked Wiki:



Maybe... maybe just leave the Speed Force out, cause that is insane.

An infinite mass punch, my God. I thought Flash just ran like, hilariously fast. This dude is a goddamn walking apocalypse.
Click to expand...

Yeah, he won't be doing most of that stuff on a TV budget. Running fast and probably vibrating his molecules and that's it. In fact, most of those powers are rarely even used. lol

That said, I love knowing he can do all that. People focus so much on Superman, all the while not seeing that he's a scrub compared to da boy Flash.

Plasticine said:
His role on Glee was a smarmy gay villain. He would appear for only a scene or two at most, use the same smirky meerkat faces and sport "CW hair". Since it was such a one note character, I honestly couldn't judge his skills. He never really had to stretch beyond being a sarcastic prick.
Click to expand...
Fantastic. So we got nothing on him, huh?

IMDB says he was on 90210 and that was his only other recurring role on anything.
 
I enjoyed Grant Gustin on Glee, so I'm excited to see what he will do. Though he was only a villain on there so we'll see.

I do find it kind of funny that the Smallville episode Run that introduced Bart Allen came on early this morning on TNT and I happened to catch it on. Now later today they cast Barry Allen for Arrow.
 
NotTheGuyYouKill said:
Doesn't the Speed Force make him run at the speed of light or something?

Just checked Wiki:



Maybe... maybe just leave the Speed Force out, cause that is insane.

An infinite mass punch, my God. I thought Flash just ran like, hilariously fast. This dude is a goddamn walking apocalypse.
Click to expand...

Yeah, shit like this is why I don't read superhero comics anymore.
 
Joni said:
That is something for the spin-pff. Flash is just a three episode thingie on Arrow IIRC.
Click to expand...

But the third episode, episode 20 or whatever it is, is the backdoor pilot. They'll be casting a good chunk of the spin-off show's main characters and including them in it.
 
Clevinger said:
But the third episode, episode 20 or whatever it is, is the backdoor pilot. They'll be casting a good chunk of the spin-off show's main characters and including them in it.
Click to expand...
True, but I expect they'll need the majority of the episode to introduce his powers via accident.
 
Clevinger said:
But the third episode, episode 20 or whatever it is, is the backdoor pilot. They'll be casting a good chunk of the spin-off show's main characters and including them in it.
Click to expand...

Doubt it. By the end of this episode Flash will most likely leave Starling City and move to Central City. So most likely all the rest of the spin-off cast will be introduced there instead of in Arrow episode.
 
AdrianWerner said:
Doubt it. By the end of this episode Flash will most likely leave Starling City and move to Central City. So most likely all the rest of the spin-off cast will be introduced there instead of in Arrow episode.
Click to expand...

My guess how it plays out: he gets his powers at the end of episode 9 (his second episode). Episode 20 is all about him back in his city dealing with his powers and saving the day from something and such. The Arrow cast will barely be in it, if at all. It'll be modeled after The Originals backdoor.
 
Clevinger said:
My guess how it plays out: he gets his powers at the end of episode 9 (his second episode). Episode 20 is all about him back in his city dealing with his powers and saving the day from something and such. The Arrow cast will barely be in it, if at all. It'll be modeled after The Originals backdoor.
Click to expand...

Originals backdoor was terribly done though, so much that they bassicaly are doing retelling of it in first episode. Not sure if Arrow crew will do the same. It would bassicaly mean introducing the whole cast twice, first in Arrow, then again in Flash as writers wouldn't be able to assume everybody who watches Flash has seen that Arrow episode.
 
The Flashes do have a very large (and sometimes fluctuating) bag of tricks in the comics, but they usually stuck with a handful of frequently used ones. Speed, phasing through objects, and enhanced strength/durability in motion. Speed covered a lot of things, like being able to generate twisters either to funnel objects upward or deplete oxygen from the area to put out fires.. or render people unconscious. Comics and appearances in other media, notably the Superman animated series and Justice League also had some limits on what the Flashes could do, but it was possible for him to break those limits at times, but there were downsides. You should catch the finale of season 1 of Justice League Unlimited for some examples of inventive (and dangerous) uses of his powers.
 
AdrianWerner said:
Originals backdoor was terribly done though, so much that they bassicaly are doing retelling of it in first episode. Not sure if Arrow crew will do the same. It would bassicaly mean introducing the whole cast twice, first in Arrow, then again in Flash as writers wouldn't be able to assume everybody who watches Flash has seen that Arrow episode.
Click to expand...

Either way they'd have to reintroduce everything in the first Flash episode for non-Arrow viewers.

I think there's a nice benefit for making the backdoor essentially a trial run of The Flash premiere. If something doesn't work out - an actor, a backstory, a certain style of special effects, the tone of the show, a character's personality, whatever - they can tweak it or outright remove it and no one would really care because only part of the audience saw the previous version and they saw it a year before the show would premiere so they probably wouldn't even remember it.

For instance, if Arrow was a backdoor pilot of... whatever, they might have recast Laurel when it was obvious that she had zero chemistry with Oliver. Or changed her character into something more at all interesting, or something more suited to the actress.
 
Clevinger said:
Either way they'd have to reintroduce everything in the first Flash episode for non-Arrow viewers.

I think there's a nice benefit for making the backdoor essentially a trial run of The Flash premiere. If something doesn't work out - an actor, a backstory, a certain style of special effects, the tone of the show, a character's personality, whatever - they can tweak it or outright remove it and no one would really care because only part of the audience saw the previous version and they saw it a year before the show would premiere so they probably wouldn't even remember it.

For instance, if Arrow was a backdoor pilot of... whatever, they might have recast Laurel when it was obvious that she had zero chemistry with Oliver. Or changed her character into something more at all interesting, or something more suited to the actress.
Click to expand...

Oh man, imagine if it was a backdoor pilot to Smallville. I don't mind one episode being a backdoor pilot for The Flash. I just care about how they'll portray him.

Tence said:
Why can't I find a Gif of Oliver climbing those chains in the final episode? I need it people!
Click to expand...

Where he escaped?

Remmy2112 said:
The Flashes do have a very large (and sometimes fluctuating) bag of tricks in the comics, but they usually stuck with a handful of frequently used ones. Speed, phasing through objects, and enhanced strength/durability in motion. Speed covered a lot of things, like being able to generate twisters either to funnel objects upward or deplete oxygen from the area to put out fires.. or render people unconscious. Comics and appearances in other media, notably the Superman animated series and Justice League also had some limits on what the Flashes could do, but it was possible for him to break those limits at times, but there were downsides. You should catch the finale of season 1 of Justice League Unlimited for some examples of inventive (and dangerous) uses of his powers.
Click to expand...

Like I said, I want to see how they portray his strengths and limits. Don't really need him to go the speed of light and create tornadoes.

Phasing through certain stuff might be cool though.
 
AdrianWerner said:
Yeah, shit like this is why I don't read superhero comics anymore.
Click to expand...

yeah i'm sure that's why. I assume you don't watch super hero movies and/or cartoons as well?
most times what a wiki article describes as a hero being able to do was usually a one time thing. take the infinite mass punch thing. the Flash (Wally West) did that ONCE in JLA#4 in 1998. and it wasn't an easy thing to do. in no other comic was he shown to do something like that. but i'm sure you've found more sophisticated entertainment...
 
evil solrac v3.0 said:
yeah i'm sure that's why. I assume you don't watch super hero movies and/or cartoons as well?.
Click to expand...
Superhero movies tend to scale down the powers considerably to make them somewhat managable. Marvel and DC comics just keep going overboard, adding more and more ridiculous powers. Same reason why I'm considering dropping Naruto these days, because it got into same ridiculous power crawl.

I can't see how some people enjoy that, but I'm not interested in stories about gods.
 
I want the movie and TV worlds merged like Marvel so I'm all for powering up the TV world. Of course, I bet there's still no top-level coordination on these types of things. The fact that Star City was allowed to be renamed to Starling City is incomprehensible to me.

WB is the worst. My dream: After a few Snyder/Goyer flops Time Warner gets sick of DC and sells them Marvel/Disney so the properties can be treated with respect.
 
Soybean said:
I want the movie and TV worlds merged like Marvel so I'm all for powering up the TV world. Of course, I bet there's still no top-level coordination on these types of things. The fact that Star City was allowed to be renamed to Starling City is incomprehensible to me.

WB is the worst. My dream: After a few Snyder/Goyer flops Time Warner gets sick of DC and sells them Marvel/Disney so the properties can be treated with respect.
Click to expand...
Thats a fucking nightmare brah. The MCU is as safe and sterile as a syringe.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

Adolescence on Netflix is the best TV series I've seen in years
NSFW  2 3 4
191
10K
Sonik replied
Claymore Hollywood Live-Action TV Series Announced
News 
35
1K
GymWolf replied
TV Shows You’ve Watched Lately |OT| - 2025
|OT| Community  2 3 4
152
7K
RaduN replied
Robocop - Amazon TV series
33
3K
ResilientBanana replied
Nick Frost has been cast as Hagrid in the HBO 'HARRY POTTER' tv series
43
2K
jason10mm replied
Top Bottom