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Started by Eddie Teach, March 06, 2011, 09:29:27 AM

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Martinus

Do seasons of Arrow beyond the first feature the "island flashbacks"? I find this part of the show least appealing.

celedhring

Yes. And it was my favorite part of season 1, actually.

Neil

Quote from: Viking on December 21, 2014, 06:55:07 AM
Quote from: Neil on December 20, 2014, 09:42:25 PM
Quote from: Viking on December 20, 2014, 02:36:04 PM
Quote from: Neil on December 20, 2014, 01:54:25 PM
How can Arrow be any good without Green Lantern?
Less social commentary, more shooting people with arrows.

I thought you would approve.
Green Arrow wasn't my favorite superhero, but I felt he worked fairly well in the context of the JLA.
He had a following.  After all, he was really the first superhero to do the darker, grittier stuff that would eventually make Batman the king of the superheroes.

Green Arrow is nobody's favorite superhero.. well, maybe he is now, due to the show, but before the show, no.
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

Viking

Quote from: Martinus on December 21, 2014, 09:37:42 AM
Do seasons of Arrow beyond the first feature the "island flashbacks"? I find this part of the show least appealing.

Every season has "island flashbacks". At their best the flashbacks either address the theme of the episode or illuminate the actions and motivations of the characters better. Very often they present similar plots of themes where the choices the characters make are often reversed with very different outcomes.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Martinus

I get it. They just feel sometimes as "bottle episode".

celedhring

Quote from: Viking on December 21, 2014, 10:22:56 AM
Quote from: Martinus on December 21, 2014, 09:37:42 AM
Do seasons of Arrow beyond the first feature the "island flashbacks"? I find this part of the show least appealing.

Every season has "island flashbacks". At their best the flashbacks either address the theme of the episode or illuminate the actions and motivations of the characters better. Very often they present similar plots of themes where the choices the characters make are often reversed with very different outcomes.

Aye, they worked well in that regard; without them, the "creep of the week" plots of the first season wouldn't have resonated much.

Maladict

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on December 13, 2014, 12:15:08 AM
Wings of Desire. Young Hitler is an angel who wishes to be human so he can woo a trapeze artist and so people will hear him when he gives the order to invade Poland. It was awesome. Peter Falk plays himself, except that he is also a former angel and can sense the presence of other angels. Cool soundtrack, with cameos by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and Crime and the City Solution. Also, the Berlin Wall.

Re-watched it today. I think it might be my favourite film.  :wub:

11B4V

Blasting through season 1-3 of Longmire.
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

jimmy olsen

Quote from: Razgovory on December 16, 2014, 07:11:52 PM
You know why murder graves are always shallow?  Cause digging those bastards take for fucking ever.  Especially at night and you have to keep a gun on a guy.  You start out thinking, "Yeah, we're going to dig this so deep they'll never find him", and three hours later you going, "Right, let's just dumb some leaves over him and go to the waffle house."
Is there something you need to tell us Raz? :unsure:
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Sophie Scholl

Quote from: 11B4V on December 22, 2014, 07:22:26 PM
Blasting through season 1-3 of Longmire.
:alberta:  I rather enjoyed that show.  I'm glad it was picked up by Netflix, especially with the cliffhanger ending of season 3.
"Everything that brought you here -- all the things that made you a prisoner of past sins -- they are gone. Forever and for good. So let the past go... and live."

"Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did."

celedhring

Fast and Furious flicks director Justin Lin will direct Star Trek 3; guess they will go for a straight action flick.

Syt

Quote from: celedhring on December 23, 2014, 03:01:51 AM
Fast and Furious flicks director Justin Lin will direct Star Trek 3; guess they will go for a straight action flick.

... as opposed to the previous two. :P
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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celedhring

The previous Star Trek films are 2001 and Blade Runner compared to the FF flicks though.

Syt

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Martinus

Quote from: celedhring on December 23, 2014, 03:01:51 AM
Fast and Furious flicks director Justin Lin will direct Star Trek 3; guess they will go for a straight action flick.

I was hoping for a gay action flick instead.  <_<

Spock/Kirk :wub: