Arrow, S1E1. SQUEE!

Saw the pilot for Arrow. SQUEEEEEEEE!

They drop few nods to the comic... "Judge Grell" teehee,
  • *Interesting red dragon tat on back left shoulderblade (Shado, anyone?)
    I love these the most since Longbow Hunters (by Grell) was my first GA.
  • *The Buddhist hozen (though they have yet to explain why he would have a link to Buddhism, since it wouldn't be for the comic's reason of accidentally killing a man. 
  • *OH the tribal mask at the veeeery beginning, Deathstroke! 
  •  *Diggle, wrote Green Arrow Year One [1].
  • I didn't jaw drop over his sister's nickname Speedy, since I'd seen it in a preview (sister, heh). "Thea" is kinda close to "Mia".
  • I did dropjaw at "Tommy Merlyn" though. Bangarang. 
  • Seriously though, what are the carvings on the stones on the island? I can find them, and see them, but not cap them to show YOU.
  • Oh, and I dig the green greasepaint in lieu of the rubber eye mask.
I'm trying not to dissect every little thing and see if/where it connects.  Still... it's so hard... I just do that. Remember Captain America's medals?
I wish I had screen for these little tidbits, but I can't since I'm forced to watch it through the original stream and can't put it through my VLC.


Obviously, a few sticking points for me... I'm calling them gaps. "How does he know this, where did he learn that?"  I get the feeling the Buddhism, language knowledge, hand to hand, tattoos (because the others aren't exactly "playboy Ollie" material) will be explained. I hope.

On a weird note, I absolutely cannot find where I talked about his little girlie bow in a previous post. It was right before the Olympics and I tucked in whining about Hawkeye's absoterrible archery form. Huh. It's just missing... and I really don't like that.

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