PhoncipleBone
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Manu (and Katrina Law) will be at Hartford Comic Con this weekend. I cannot afford to go, but hopefully can absorb some of Manu's awesomeness from a few miles away while at work.
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ARROW Season 2 |OT| Back in a Flash
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They're from Mattel so what do you expect?
User 100115
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I finally caught up on this. Yay. Malcolm Merlin is apparently Captain Jack. Laurel was less annoying this season. Yay for canon bisexual character.
Only gripe is that there is no way Laurel could have drawn that bow. Has to be at least a 70 lb pull. With zero practice she wouldn't have been able to make it turn over. Blah.
Only gripe is that there is no way Laurel could have drawn that bow. Has to be at least a 70 lb pull. With zero practice she wouldn't have been able to make it turn over. Blah.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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PhoncipleBone
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Laurel was tapping into past Ruby demon strength.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Too bad she couldn't tap into past Ruby charisma.
Jest Chillin
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Arrow uses a Compound Bow though. I was under the impression that bow is much easier to draw on.
Edit: It also seems like a legit bow that she's drawing on. I mean they show the draw in wide shot and it's Katie pulling it the whole way. If Katie Cassidy could draw on it, then I don't see how Laurel couldn't.
Septimus Prime
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It's not easier to draw, per se, but with compound bows, once the bow is drawn, the mechanism holds it in place, so it feels weightless while you aim.
I doubt the actual prop bow is a 70 lbs draw.
Jest Chillin
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Ah. Thanks for the info!
Jest Chillin
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Laurel did take quite a few self defense classes and holds her own a couple times in S1. But in S2, the writers kind of forgot all about that and made her seem pretty helpless. So it's confusing.
Wiktor
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Well..to be honest...the people she faced in S2 were a lot higher level than in S1. It's understandable that some defense classes can help you dispatch a goon. But a trained soldier or assassin? Lol..not gonna happen.
I laughed at exactly this, but I let it slide.
Jest Chillin
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There was at least one time that she was put against a normal goon in S2 and was portrayed at a Lois Lane/Mary Jane level of damsel in the way that her attacks were shrugged off and she was ragdolled around. I think it was when Huntress came back?
I expect that against Mirakuru thugs and League members, she'd be ineffective.. but not against average ass people.
70lbs? But that is a compound bow that does most of that job I assume it has a pull of 40lbs and shot like a 90lbs bow
Discotheque
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uh did anybody remember when laurel's gun misfired (or ran out of bullets or whatever) in season 1? lmao shit was like something out of hot fuzz
User 100115
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You still have to have a ton of strength to get the cams to turn over and support the weight of the pull. I've been shooting for a long time and in peak health it was a struggle to pull a 70 lb bow. Right now I can't manage to pull a 30
When people say a compound does most of the work they mean after the initial pull. It lets you aim at your leisure. Btw, 55-70 lbs is the usually the optimal for deer hunting, it's likely Oliver's bow would be higher than 70
There is no way the prop bow had any weight on it honestly.
StopMakingSense
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I wish just one of the times in the finale episodes that he woke up from being possibly mortally wounded, he would have done a Captain Jack-esque gasp for air.
Wiktor
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God, this makes me want to give archery a go, at least for a whileYou still have to have a ton of strength to get the cams to turn over and support the weight of the pull. I've been shooting for a long a long time and in peak health it was a struggle to pull a 70 lb bow. Right now I can't manage to pull a 30
When people say a compound does most of the work they mean after the initial pull. It lets you aim at your leisure. Btw, 55-70 lbs is the usually the optimal for deer hunting, it's likely Oliver's bow would be higher than 70
There is no way the prop bow had any weight on it honestly.
Rafa=FedKilla
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I haven't even had the urge to watch the last two episodes of the season. I guess I am one of the few that greatly prefer season one......
User 100115
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God, this makes me want to give archery a go, at least for a while
It's a lot of fun, but more work than most people expect. Very stress relieving too.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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The only game I want to hunt... is man.
You still have to have a ton of strength to get the cams to turn over and support the weight of the pull. I've been shooting for a long a long time and in peak health it was a struggle to pull a 70 lb bow. Right now I can't manage to pull a 30
When people say a compound does most of the work they mean after the initial pull. It lets you aim at your leisure. Btw, 55-70 lbs is the usually the optimal for deer hunting, it's likely Oliver's bow would be higher than 70
There is no way the prop bow had any weight on it honestly.
I'm a bit of a noob about bows, but I had a 40 lb recurve bow and I didn't find it that difficult to pull as long as I used the muscles on my back to sustain the effort, so I assume that a compound would be as easy to use, guess I was wrong
NotTheGuyYouKill
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No.
Any examples of similar programming?
I really can't find a similar show, it's simply non stop action and an incredibly fast paced story that keep on delivering
SlowRevolution
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At first it's like a typical CW show trying to be Nolan Batman movie, but about halfway through the first season it starts really coming into its own.
It can still be dumb and it's still got some of the trappings of a CW/teen show, but it's really fun in a way that a ton of shows aren't, and it totally embraces being a comic book show.
Nope, not in any way what so ever. It helps that this doesn't take place in a high school.
I hated Smallville and I love this show.
PhoncipleBone
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I miss Arrow.
But I'm busy with Supernatural now.
On Season 4. Still a lot more left.
Ooooooh. You are just getting to the good stuff. Seasons 4 and 5 are the best.
PhoncipleBone
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Dean requires only the best.
You want to keep it that way avoid this topic until you see all the episodes
BlackNMild2k1
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overall I think s2 was better than s1, but I was disappointed with the 3part finale for Arrow s2. So many things were wrong, so many things could have been better that it took away alot of the suspension of disbelief that was easily in place for the rest of the season.
From nuking the city, to beating up Mirakuru thugs, to the compound bow, to the scene skips and the assumptions made because of them.
But I know s3 will be good... or so I hope.
I was surprised to see that shortly after AoS found it's stride, Arrow started to lose it's step.
hopefully they can both be pedal to the metal next season and both end on good notes.
Septimus Prime
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Howard Hill ("arguably," though there's no argument from me, the best archer in the last century) used a bow with a draw of 120 lbs. or so. I would honestly expect Green Arrow to be better than him and to use a bow that's at least comparable. This is doubly true when you consider that Green Arrow "cheats" by using a compound bow (Hill used standard recurves only).
Outside of Slade (well, mostly Manu), I think I may prefer the first season as well.
Funky Papa
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Yeah... S2 was damn good until it kind of tripped over itself near the finale. I enjoyed it a great deal despite the lack of hilarious gifs (that's a good thing in itself, I guess), but I could have done with a more refined second half. S1 was more even in that regard.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Funky Papa
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Net gain.
User 100115
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I'm also coming from the perspective of a girl who doesn't lift weights
I've always found recurve and straight bows to be easier than compound, but that might just be me.
Wiktor
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Person of Interest. Both are bassicaly Batman shows, just one realizing this concept differently
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Well, important thing to note: Arrow is very pulpy. Person of Interest is not.
Wiktor
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Yep. Arrow aproaches it as superhero pulp, while PoI does it techno-thriller style.
That said, both are episodic, with cases of the week bleeding into bigger narrative. Both put large focus on saving people and having kick-ass villains, and both have kickass action.
They're not the same, but I can't imagine somebody liking Arrow and not liking PoI, even if it might not work the other way around.
PHOENIXZERO
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With the lack of TV last week I decided it check out Orphan Black, only took me a couple days to get through the first season and catch up of course that only has four episodes left in its season to the cycle will start again in a month with another show I'll be waiting to come back. It's always fun with all these shows produced in Canada to see the same actors/actresses and sometimes locations popping up across a bunch of different shows.
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