Arrow Recap: Pleasantly Surprised

Recaps

By fatcamp | Monday, October 15, 2012 | 6:00 am | 7 Comments
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Holler, gasmii!  It’s my pleasure to recap a new trashy program from the CW, Arrow.  ­My initial attraction to this show was two-fold.  The CW is notorious for making ridiculous shows that seem to beg for snarkcapping, and the guys in this cast are really bringing the hotness.  Only really being into X-Men growing up, I’m largely unaware of anything DC Comics, so it’s nice to come into this fresh.

I only recognized a few of the names while looking through the cast list, but upon further inspection, we’ve seen pretty much all these people before.  Here are a couple pics of Green Arrow and another main character:

 Look they’re friends in real life!

 Let’s use our imaginations for a minute. . .

The show opens with a figure in a green hoodie running through a wooded area.  He’s climbing rocks, and swinging on trees, and he’s barefoot, which makes me cringe a little.  The guy must have Hobbit style feet to withstand that treatment. 

 Grandalf the Green

 He spies a boat in the distance and runs some more.  Then he decides to show off his muscles for us and shoots a flaming arrow across the mysterious island into a pile of logs that explodes.

 Suck it, Katniss.

 This gets the attention of the boat crew, and this guys takes time out of being a stereotype to notice.

 “If only we were good enough drivers to make it over there!”

 A voiceover tells us the name of the island is Lian Yu and means purgatory in Mandarin.  The narrator has been stuck all alone on this island for 5 years, and he’s had to grow some balls to get by.  We get it, this was some Survivor shit.  Just be grateful Russell wasn’t there.  He says that he’s going to return to his city to bring justice to those who have been wronged or something.  That was fast.  So this Oliver Queen decided to become a super hero after being stranded?  Sure, makes sense.  I’m guessing he was betrayed and left for dead by some criminals and will try to bring them down.

 You’ve got some schmutz on your face.  Here, let me get that.

 Oh snap, it turns out Ms. Queen was a billionaire playboy whose ship was lost at sea.  They live in Starling City, and his daddy died is confirmed dead in the accident.  All the makings of a classic super hero, I suppose.  

A doctor tells his mom Moira that Ollie has tons of scars and shit and is likely psychologically damaged. 

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7 Comments

  1. 1
    Enrique's Mole
    Posted October 15, 2012 at 6:29 am

    I liked it, especially Oliver’s workout routine. They need to show more of that, less of David Cassidy’s daughter. She and Oliver had ZERO chemistry. What poor casting for Black Canary. She must give great blowjobs ‘cuz girl keeps getting roles but she couldn’t act her way out of a wet paperbag.

  2. 2
    See-Jay
    Posted October 15, 2012 at 9:19 am

    The premiere was pretty good but the show would be great if Oliver and Tommy became lovers with sex scenes each episode.

    Just sayin’.

  3. 3
    sagittariuskim sagittariuskim
    Posted October 15, 2012 at 12:03 pm

    I mainly watched this because I love superhero and fantasy shows,but based on the commercials I had kind of low expectations. Which is probable good since I had high expectations for Grimm and turned out to be disappointing. But I really like this show, I thinks it helps that I don’t know much about Green Arrow. I love that he’s already Green Arrow. I was kind expecting this to be an origin story, but I’m glad it’s not.

  4. 4
    eyediosmio eyediosmio
    Posted October 15, 2012 at 12:25 pm

    I need to watch this show! I forgot to DVR it, but at least I got to read your awesome recap so I wont be far behind.

  5. 5
    alicecarroll13
    Posted October 15, 2012 at 12:52 pm

    wish they had used the guy who played green arrow on smallville………..wonder if superman will show up..i have 1st eps on my computer so have not seen it yet..

  6. 6
    carol
    Posted October 15, 2012 at 5:33 pm

    This recap was great and full of snark. Best line that summed up while I will be watching next week – “Then Queenie is shirtless for no good reason, so this show is really shaping up to be good.” They really just need to spend about five minutes on GA’s workout routine, but only if he is shirtless the whole time.

    I have never heard of the Green Arrow comics so I am happy that they are giving back story to the character.

  7. 7
    sheesh sheesh
    Posted October 16, 2012 at 10:11 am

    “I said Diagon Alley”
    Hahahahahahaha

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