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Arrow - Season 1

It took me some time, but I have finally finished watching Arrow season 1! Before I start ranting about certain events in the show, I will give you my overall opinion of the show.

Superheroes are awesome. But is the vigilante, the hood or commonly known as Green Arrow in the comics really a hero? This question follows through the show and is a dilemma Oliver Queen struggles with. It’s interesting to see him change his way of thought, constantly overweighing what he believes to be right and wrong. But… even though it’s interesting, it’s also a bit confusing. I still haven’t made up my mind about what he is; a hero, or a murderer.

The title of the show is Arrow, but the focus is on Oliver Queen and his peers, and not his alter-ego. That’s a good thing, because all the people around Oliver grew on you as the episodes went forward. They all have characteristics that are unique to their individual’s personality and as the story goes on, as their life and personalities.

Stephen Amell and David Ramsey are portraying some of the best bromance tv has ever seen as Queen and Diggle. Emily Bett Rickards is quite quirky as Felicity, but sometimes it feels like a bad rip-off of Felicia Day’s character Charlie in Supernatural. Thea is just there and annoying in the beginning but she becomes more likeable as the show progress. And then we have Tommy, the best friend, the person who grew on me the most. Tommy is ordinary with real-life problems one could relate to. Oh, there’s also Katie Cassidy’s Laurel, but we hate her. I don’t know why because I loved her as Ruby on Supernatural (yay for Supernatural references!), but the chemistry between her and Stephen Amell is below zero and I pray to the almighty tv-people that he will get another love interest!

The show’s biggest letdown was the lack of main villains, or villains you actually cared about. The closest we got was the huntress and she went down another path than Mr. Queen had planned so, we don’t know what is going to happen to her. She disappeared too quickly. The lack of villains and short-plots episodes made that some episodes felt repeating. And, when you figure out who the villain is or how he is doing it before the main characters, it’s a proof that someone got lazy and a bad episode is ahead of you.

Even though it has it’s up and downs, Arrow is a stable show and gives the feeling it has a lot more to give. There are still many mysteries unanswered, new lovers to be found and then the continuation from all the angst in the season finale, because boy oh boy, that season finale! One of the best I’ve seen. I’m pumped for season two which I hope will be deeper and improve the things I wrote about!

Ds. Tv.com have the best and funniest reviews about Arrow. Did you know that Mr. Amell’s abs was voted as one of the best new characters?

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2013-08-28 @ 23:04:19 Permalink Film Kommentarer (0) Trackbacks ()

The Mortal Instruments - City of Bones

A shimmering book-cover. My eyes were drawn to it. I picked it up and started reading. Shadowhunters, a hidden world, and starcrossed lovers. How could this not be good? Without hesitation I went to the cashier, and now four years later the images that I had in my mind were transferred to the big screen.

Clary Fray is just a normal teenage girl, until the day she witness a murder. Problem is, she is the only one who can see it. She later finds out that the victim is a demon and the murderers are people called Shadowhunters, half-angel, half-human, and she’s one of them. In the midst of all of this, her mum gets kidnapped. In this new world of demons and Shadowhunters, how will Clary make it?

There is one word that describes this movie; fast. The story’s pace is definitely over the speed-limit. Characters are thrown in, new storylines are viewed in the rear window and you are always on edge and trying to follow the story’s pace. When the big moments in the film was happening, when you were supposed to feel like; “O M G,” the feeling was instead “meh”. Which is too bad! All the characters have great potential and depth, we just doesn’t get too see it.

What surprised me was the soundtrack. It was really good, especially the ones in the fighting scenes. It turned the level up a step, and made the hectic pace of the movie seem fine, for a moment or two, until you asked yourself: What just happened? The silent brothers were introduced, and just as fast they were gone. The vampires were there, the next second they were gone. And having things like that happening for over two hours wear you down.

As a fan of the book-series, I am pleased with the choice of the actors, and I think they all made a fantastic job. But it failed in other aspects. They tried to make the characters act as the ones in the book too hard. It didn’t follow a red line. In some areas it was good, others, not so. Overall, the movie was chaotic, hectic and you just didn’t care. There were some cool scenes, and some cheesy ones that me, myself enjoyed. But so much was rushed and didn’t make any sense. The joy of watching it disappeared because the thoughts streaming through the head trying to make sense of everything. No, this could have been better. I am not particularly looking forward to the second one. I am looking forward to re-reading the books.

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2013-08-24 @ 10:27:37 Permalink Rambles Kommentarer (0) Trackbacks ()