W(F)BoA -- Why the Arrow Clan Hate?

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In which I promise last week's blog of awesome (which I seem now to have lost), and you get to see me the kind of mouth-foaming mad I usually showcase in text posts. You're welcome, I think.

NSFW. If you think I've cursed before, you haven't heard me curse mad.

Comments

[looking2dastars.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I decided to be serious in describing "Cry For Justice" now. Since i posted my comments, I've seen three people describe Hal's plan for starting a new proactive JLA with a Futurama reference.

"Fine! I'll start my own Justice League! With Blackjack! And hookers!"

[looking2dastars.livejournal.com]

Sorry. Random thought above there. Just something that occurred to me after starting the video.

And now that it's finished... wow. I'm tempted to propose marriage but I stopped doing that as a joke after one woman took me seriously. But if you ever need the genetic material to create Judd Winick hating babies, look me up. ;)

Seriously, though. Great rant.

And I agree - that's what I love most about Ollie too. His entire motivation for becoming a superhero was originally "Cause it's fun!" I do like the modern take by Diggle, which does give Ollie a little more of that "sense of responsibility to others" early on, making his eventual change a little more believable. And it's certainly better than Denny O'Neil's "I'm poor now, so I must do something to help the poor..." neo-Robin Hood motivaiton.

[perpet-fic.livejournal.com]

I'm tempted to accept, just to see you twitch. It still amazes me that Winick gets work anymore. At least Tony Daniel didn't bother following up on the, "Batman knew more about the Grayson death than he was telling!" bullshit.

I really enjoyed Ollie's new origin from Diggle. Like you said, he gave Ollie a sense of responsibility, but he allowed for Ollie to still be Ollie. He can still crack jokes and poke at Bats and save the day. I never read O'Neil's "Oh, I'm poor and now care" take because the whole premise always struck me as kind of lame. I mean, he was out there fighting bad guys before he was broke. He was already helping the poor.

I just really, really want to know who has it in for the Arrows. Because this has been an obvious, steady decline in any sort of attempt to keep them legit, and now they've basically fridged the whole clan.

[looking2dastars.livejournal.com]

Well, O'Neil's take was good for what it was. It set Ollie on the path to being more of an modern Robin Hood - the noble son who is disposed by a corrupt power and learns of the suffering of the common man, becoming their champion... even when he didn't give a crap about them before.

But since most of the modern takes on Robin Hood seem to have abandoned him being idle nobility who reformed into heroism, I can cope with Ollie's legend changing a bit to make him a well-meaning, hard-drinking jackass who is very generous of spirit but also a man of action. Bit like Errol Flynn was, In Real Life...

And yeah... the entire Arrow Family has been in a slow decline since Archer's Quest.

[perpet-fic.livejournal.com]

That's faboulous.

Also: "Stupid anti-pimping laws."

[looking2dastars.livejournal.com]

And "I'm starting to think that there will be no forced mating at all."