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Can Thanos Come Snap Comics TV Shows?: Titans Disappoints

Karra Shimabukuro — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 18:29:21 +0000

Titans Disappoints" title="Can Thanos Come Snap Comics TV Shows?: Titans Disappoints" style="float:left;" />When Arrow first premiered on the CW, I was excited because the weekly format seemed the perfect fit for telling comic stories. As more shows got rolled out, I was even more excited. The Flash,… [more]

Sequart Releases Moving Target: The History and Evolution of Green Arrow

Julian Darius — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 14:39:12 +0000

Moving Target: The History and Evolution of Green Arrow" title="Sequart Releases Moving Target: The History and Evolution of Green Arrow" style="float:left;" />Sequart is proud to announce the publication of Moving Target: The History and Evolution of Green Arrow, by Richard Gray. For 75 years, Green Arrow has been a part of the DC Comics world, working… [more]

Berlanti Drops the Ball on CW-DC Universe

Karra Shimabukuro — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 16:30:07 +0000

I have reviewed CW’s DC superhero shows since Arrow first appeared. Despite its rocky first half season, I had high hopes that it would find its footing in the second half of its freshman year… [more]

Why CBS Would be Right to Cancel Supergirl: A Ratings and Narrative Analysis

Nicholas Yanes — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 11:00:50 +0000

Supergirl: A Ratings and Narrative Analysis" title="Why CBS Would be Right to Cancel Supergirl: A Ratings and Narrative Analysis" style="float:left;" />Before diving into this very long article I feel that I should lay my cards on the table. I enjoy watching Supergirl. I enjoy watching most television shows based on comic books. I also have a… [more]

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow: News and First Look

Dom Fonce — Tue, 19 May 2015 15:00:36 +0000

Legends of Tomorrow: News and First Look" title="DC’s Legends of Tomorrow: News and First Look" style="float:left;" />The Arrow and The Flash spin-off Legends of Tomorrow is set to debut during the CW’s 2015-2016 season (most likely in early 2015). The show will star Doctor Who‘s Arthur Darvill as Rip Hunter, multiple Emmy… [more]

Supergirl Set for Monday Nights on CBS: Images, Cast, and Trailer Released

Dom Fonce — Mon, 18 May 2015 15:00:32 +0000

Supergirl Set for Monday Nights on CBS: Images, Cast, and Trailer Released" title="Supergirl Set for Monday Nights on CBS: Images, Cast, and Trailer Released" style="float:left;" />It’s set: Supergirl will debut on CBS this November with Glee star Melissa Benoist playing the girl with superhuman powers. Per Vcpost.com, Owain Yeoman has been cast to play Vartox, Supergirl’s mortal enemy; Mehcad Brooks… [more]

Arrow Season 3 Episode 23 Review

Logan Ludwig — Sat, 16 May 2015 17:00:22 +0000

Arrow Season 3 Episode 23 Review" title="Arrow Season 3 Episode 23 Review" style="float:left;" />Arrow’s third season finale is, for the most part, what one might expect out of a season finale from the show. It’s big, nearly apocalyptic, and features more than a few fights and heartfelt speeches.… [more]

The Flash Season 1 Episode 22 Review

Logan Ludwig — Fri, 15 May 2015 17:00:44 +0000

The Flash Season 1 Episode 22 Review" title="The Flash Season 1 Episode 22 Review" style="float:left;" />“Rogue Air” is a near perfect penultimate episode of a season. It manages to reinforce the central themes and purpose of The Flash while simultaneously building off of all the material and characters the season… [more]

Arrow Season 3 Episode 22 Review

Logan Ludwig — Sun, 10 May 2015 17:00:37 +0000

Arrow Season 3 Episode 22 Review" title="Arrow Season 3 Episode 22 Review" style="float:left;" />“This Is Your Sword” pretty quickly goes back on the biggest development of last week’s episode. It turns out that Oliver hasn’t actually been indoctrinated by the League of Assassins and has merely been playing… [more]

Arrow Season 3 Episode 21 Review

Logan Ludwig — Wed, 06 May 2015 17:00:34 +0000

Arrow Season 3 Episode 21 Review" title="Arrow Season 3 Episode 21 Review" style="float:left;" />It’s amazing what a little focus can do. “Al Sah-Him” is an episode of Arrow that’s trimmed away just about any useless parts. Even regular cast member Paul Blackthorne fails to make an appearance as… [more]

Arrow Season 3 Episode 20 Review

Logan Ludwig — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 17:00:40 +0000

Arrow Season 3 Episode 20 Review" title="Arrow Season 3 Episode 20 Review" style="float:left;" />Despite all the problems with Arrow’s third season, “The Fallen” manages to work, tying together many disparate plots into one cohesive hour that is propulsive, full of emotion, and driven forward by the strong characters… [more]

The Flash Season 1 Episode 19 Review

Logan Ludwig — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 17:00:17 +0000

The Flash Season 1 Episode 19 Review" title="The Flash Season 1 Episode 19 Review" style="float:left;" />Characters crossing over between shows is getting to be something of a pattern with both The Flash and Arrow. “Who is Harrison Wells?” marks the third straight episode that has featured at least one cast… [more]

Arrow Season 3 Episode 19 Review

Logan Ludwig — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 17:00:18 +0000

Arrow Season 3 Episode 19 Review" title="Arrow Season 3 Episode 19 Review" style="float:left;" />“Broken Arrow” isn’t a cross-over episode in the strictest sense of the word, unlike the previous installment of The Flash where both Felicity and Ray dropped by for the entirety of the episode, the only… [more]

Arrow Season 3 Episode 18 Review

Logan Ludwig — Sun, 12 Apr 2015 17:00:23 +0000

Arrow Season 3 Episode 18 Review" title="Arrow Season 3 Episode 18 Review" style="float:left;" />Arrow is a dark show. It started as a fairly obvious riff on the Christopher Nolan school of superheroes, and while it has since developed its own unique identity, that dour outlook persists. That’s part… [more]

Arrow Season 3 Episode 17 Review

Logan Ludwig — Sat, 11 Apr 2015 11:00:13 +0000

Arrow Season 3 Episode 17 Review" title="Arrow Season 3 Episode 17 Review" style="float:left;" />It’s becoming harder and harder to talk about the third season of Arrow without sounding like a broken record. The season keeps circling improvement but never quite manages to sort out its disparate pieces into… [more]

Arrow Season 3 Episode 16 Review

Logan Ludwig — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 11:00:24 +0000

Arrow Season 3 Episode 16 Review" title="Arrow Season 3 Episode 16 Review" style="float:left;" />Television series tend to be lumbering beasts, built to move in a specific manner and slow to change course when problems arise. Series can evolve and shift direction, so it’s essential that shows figure out… [more]

Arrow Season 3 Episode 15 Review

Logan Ludwig — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 18:00:03 +0000

Arrow Season 3 Episode 15 Review" title="Arrow Season 3 Episode 15 Review" style="float:left;" />The League of Assassins has loomed large over the third season of Arrow. Malcolm’s attempts to escape the death sentence he’s been saddled with has been the motivating factor for much of the season’s overarching… [more]

Arrow Season 3 Episode 14 Review

Logan Ludwig — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 18:00:53 +0000

Arrow Season 3 Episode 14 Review" title="Arrow Season 3 Episode 14 Review" style="float:left;" />Episodes that delve into the past are a dangerous business. They tread the same fraught ground that prequels tread, trying to find enough compelling, new story to justify an examination of a time that the… [more]

Arrow Season 3 Episode 13 Review

Logan Ludwig — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 18:00:33 +0000

Arrow Season 3 Episode 13 Review" title="Arrow Season 3 Episode 13 Review" style="float:left;" />There are some obvious flaws with “Canaries.” Thankfully, a good portion of those flaws show up early and then fade away before too long. Most of the issues arise from story lines and scenes where… [more]

Arrow Season 3 Episode 12 Review

Logan Ludwig — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:00:01 +0000

Arrow Season 3 Episode 12 Review" title="Arrow Season 3 Episode 12 Review" style="float:left;" />After last week’s episode pulled most of the disparate pieces of Arrow’s third season into a more cohesive whole, this week’s installment takes advantage of that newfound clarity to plunge ahead, turning out an action… [more]

Arrow Season 3 Episode 11 Review

Logan Ludwig — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 12:00:46 +0000

Arrow Season 3 Episode 11 Review" title="Arrow Season 3 Episode 11 Review" style="float:left;" />“Midnight City” looks like the episode where all of the third season’s various parts finally snap into place. Arrow’s been plagued this year by a myriad of plots that have never cohered, and while many… [more]

Arrow Season 3 Episode 10 Review

Logan Ludwig — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 12:00:26 +0000

Arrow Season 3 Episode 10 Review" title="Arrow Season 3 Episode 10 Review" style="float:left;" />The third season of Arrow has struggled to figure out exactly what it is. This season has introduced plot after plot and has found itself lacking coherence due to this fact. There have been standout… [more]

Arrow Season 3 Episode 9 Review

Logan Ludwig — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 13:00:42 +0000

Arrow Season 3 Episode 9 Review" title="Arrow Season 3 Episode 9 Review" style="float:left;" />“The Climb” begins in media res, with Oliver struggling his way up the side of a mountain. At first it’s hard to tell whether or not this moment is in the present or past, whether… [more]

The Flash Season 1 Episode 8 Review

Logan Ludwig — Sat, 06 Dec 2014 18:00:44 +0000

The Flash Season 1 Episode 8 Review" title="The Flash Season 1 Episode 8 Review" style="float:left;" />One of the exciting things about bringing two superheroes together is seeing how they interact with one another. Most of the big, marquee heroes have their own distinct outlook on the world; Superman is optimistic,… [more]

Arrow Season 3 Episode 8 Review

Logan Ludwig — Sat, 06 Dec 2014 18:00:37 +0000

Arrow Season 3 Episode 8 Review" title="Arrow Season 3 Episode 8 Review" style="float:left;" />One of the things that the creative teams of Arrow and The Flash truly excel at is understanding the inherent appeal of superhero stories. The writers on the shows just get why so many people… [more]

Arrow Season 3 Episode 7 Review

Logan Ludwig — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 18:00:50 +0000

Arrow Season 3 Episode 7 Review" title="Arrow Season 3 Episode 7 Review" style="float:left;" />This week’s installment of Arrow goes all in on the series’ romantic couplings and complications and it’s readily apparent from the word go that this is not particularly fruitful ground for the show. Many of… [more]

Arrow Season 3 Episode 6 Review

Logan Ludwig — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 18:00:19 +0000

Arrow Season 3 Episode 6 Review" title="Arrow Season 3 Episode 6 Review" style="float:left;" />One of the issues that Arrow can sometimes struggle with is in adequately developing its one-off characters. This week that means the man attempting to frame Ted Grant, his vigilante ex-sidekick Isaac, comes off as… [more]

Arrow Season Three, Episode 5 Review

Logan Ludwig — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 18:00:02 +0000

Arrow Season Three, Episode 5 Review" title="Arrow Season Three, Episode 5 Review" style="float:left;" />“The Secret Origin of Felicity Smoak” isn’t necessarily the best hour of Arrow, in fact it’s a pretty decent representation of the ways that the show can rely on too obvious plotting in its villain-of-the-week… [more]

Too Many Targets: Arrow Season Three, Episode 3 Review

Logan Ludwig — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 18:00:46 +0000

Arrow Season Three, Episode 3 Review" title="Too Many Targets: Arrow Season Three, Episode 3 Review" style="float:left;" />While Arrow has, to some extent, narrowed its focus in the early going of its third season, “Corto Maltese” is a reminder of just how big a world the show has created. The episode sends… [more]

The Fallen and a Mystery: Arrow Season Three Episode 2 Review

Logan Ludwig — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 17:00:17 +0000

Arrow Season Three Episode 2 Review" title="The Fallen and a Mystery: Arrow Season Three Episode 2 Review" style="float:left;" />The third season of Arrow is starting off in a subtly different fashion than the previous two years. In a strange and compelling way it’s almost managed to transform itself into a more modest show.… [more]

Straight Shooting: Arrow Season 3 Episode 1 Review

Logan Ludwig — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 11:00:20 +0000

Arrow Season 3 Episode 1 Review" title="Straight Shooting: Arrow Season 3 Episode 1 Review" style="float:left;" />Partial spoilers ahead: The problems with happy endings in the middle of a TV series are that they must, by the very nature of storytelling, be undone. Arrow’s second season ended with just such a… [more]

A Leap Forward: The Flash Pilot Review

Logan Ludwig — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 17:00:37 +0000

The Flash Pilot Review" title="A Leap Forward: The Flash Pilot Review" style="float:left;" />One of the smartest things The Flash manages to do in its first full episode as a TV series is establish just about everything it needs to hum along as both a show and as… [more]

Legitimizing a Hero: Green Arrow’s Rocky Journey to Success

Nathan Harmon — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:00:50 +0000

In the last two years we have seen a sudden rise of popularity of what, at one time, could have been considered fringe heroes: heroes that had a fan base but for some reason couldn’t… [more]

Review of Arrow Season 2, Episode 23

Logan Ludwig — Fri, 23 May 2014 15:00:17 +0000

For a good long while Arrow’s second season finale looked like it was going to be just about perfect. After last week’s installment that both set that pace and upped the stakes for this final… [more]

Review of Arrow Season 2, Episode 22

Logan Ludwig — Sun, 11 May 2014 17:00:02 +0000

Arrow Season 2, Episode 22" title="Review of Arrow Season 2, Episode 22" style="float:left;" />“Streets of Fire” is the kind of breathless climax that TV is uniquely capable of. It’s nearly forty-five minutes of pure, unbridled forward momentum. Recklessly charging forward while paying off nearly an entire season’s worth… [more]

Review of Arrow Season 2, Episode 21

Logan Ludwig — Sun, 04 May 2014 11:00:36 +0000

Arrow Season 2, Episode 21" title="Review of Arrow Season 2, Episode 21" style="float:left;" />“City of Blood” has a mostly unenviable task, effectively setting the stage for the finale of a twenty-three episode season of television. It’s mostly devoid of action, and generally a talky episode of Arrow, which… [more]

Review of Arrow Season 2, Episode 20

Logan Ludwig — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 17:00:47 +0000

Arrow Season 2, Episode 20" title="Review of Arrow Season 2, Episode 20" style="float:left;" />For a good portion of “Seeing Red” I was convinced that the variety and complexities of this season’s plotlines might have finally gotten the better of the writers. Roy’s trail of carnage simply wasn’t illuminating… [more]

Review of Arrow Season 2, Episode 19

Logan Ludwig — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 19:22:43 +0000

Arrow Season 2, Episode 19" title="Review of Arrow Season 2, Episode 19" style="float:left;" />“The Man Under the Hood” starts out strong, showcasing Team Arrow demolishing a research division of Queen Consolidated with copious amounts of C4 to prevent Isabelle and Slade from utilizing the research to further their… [more]

Review of Arrow Season 2, Episode 18

Logan Ludwig — Sun, 13 Apr 2014 17:00:31 +0000

Arrow Season 2, Episode 18" title="Review of Arrow Season 2, Episode 18" style="float:left;" />In just about any story, the hero has to be laid low before the climax. Doing so serves multiple purposes, it showcases that the hero is fallible and must struggle greatly to succeed while also… [more]

Review of Arrow Season 2, Episode 17

Logan Ludwig — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 17:00:30 +0000

Arrow Season 2, Episode 17" title="Review of Arrow Season 2, Episode 17" style="float:left;" />I didn’t take any notes while watching “Birds of Prey”. Not to say I’m a prolific transcriber of material when I’m watching TV, but generally when I’m watching something I intend to write about later… [more]

Review of Arrow Season 2, Episode 16

Logan Ludwig — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 17:00:40 +0000

Arrow Season 2, Episode 16" title="Review of Arrow Season 2, Episode 16" style="float:left;" />There comes a time in just about any season of television where a show has to slow down for a bit and push its pieces around the board. Slowly edging forward conflicts and building to… [more]

Review of Arrow Season 2, Episode 13

Logan Ludwig — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 18:00:08 +0000

Arrow Season 2, Episode 13" title="Review of Arrow Season 2, Episode 13" style="float:left;" />If there’s one well of actors Arrow seems intent on drawing on for its guest stars, it seems to be folks who spent some amount of time on Starz’s Spartacus. It’s a smart choice, as… [more]

Review of Arrow Season 2, Episode 12

Logan Ludwig — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 18:00:44 +0000

Arrow Season 2, Episode 12" title="Review of Arrow Season 2, Episode 12" style="float:left;" />I was excited when it was announced that Michael Jai White had been cast in a villainous role for Arrow’s second season. He’s a magnetic performer who hasn’t really had anywhere near the opportunities to… [more]

Review of Arrow Season 2, Episode 11

Logan Ludwig — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 03:54:32 +0000

Arrow Season 2, Episode 11" title="Review of Arrow Season 2, Episode 11" style="float:left;" />“Blind Spot” is the kind of episode that was needed after last week’s subpar outing. It’s not an all-time classic episode, but it’s a good, solid hour of TV that hinges on a strong central… [more]

Review of Arrow Season 2, Episode 10

Logan Ludwig — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 21:24:03 +0000

Arrow Season 2, Episode 10" title="Review of Arrow Season 2, Episode 10" style="float:left;" />Arrow’s second season has been marked primarily by the series delivering on the promise of its first season. The show started out unevenly, alternating episodes that showcased the potential of the concept and characters with… [more]

Archer Archetype

Chance Thulin — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:00:40 +0000

On October 10, American audiences were introduced to the newest attempt to bring super-heroes to television in the form of the CW’s Arrow. While I have yet to see this show, I do find pleasure… [more]