Well said. I mentioned recently on Twitter (just this morning in fact) that The Flash, while they're doing their own thing (that's Marc Guggenheim's big thing, that Arrow is doing its own thing) they also do their best to respect the source material with their storylines. Sure, some of it can come off bad, no denying that. But stuff like discovering the Multiverse, Flashpoint, Barry going into the Speed Force at the end of S3 and passing the mantle onto Wally, however temporarily... my LIMITED knowledge of the comics tells me those were all storylines that were in the comics at one point or another.
Legends is really its own thing & Supergirl takes place in another part of the multiverse. But Arrow goes OUT OF ITS WAY to crap on the source material under the banner of "doing our own thing". Sure, I like the show, in some ways, but I ain't gonna ignore the crapfest, either.
On another note: Evelyn's whole thing doesn't make sense. Sorry to those who say it does. Why do I say that?
Her big thing is that Oliver was the Hood, aka a serial killer. She doesn't look at what kind of people he was taking down, just sees them as being 'lawyers, doctors, etc.' as she said in 5x06. So what does she do? Nothing much. Just joins a multi-cop killer and ACTUAL serial killer who targets innocent people. No, Evelyn's decision doesn't make sense no matter how you bend it. She's just the same little brat whose parents went along with Damien Darhk, and who nearly destroyed the legacy of the Black Canary by killing the mayor at the time while dressed as BC. Sure, Laurel wasn't perfect, but the one thing she did have over The Canary & The Arrow was that she had never killed while wearing the mask, and she felt guilty whenever she flubbed. Evelyn did none of those things.
Evelyn didn't join Adrian because Oliver's a serial killer. She joined him because, at best, she's a weak-willed toadie and at worst, because she's as unhinged and psychopathic as he is because of what happened to her parents. She didn't have a good reason for joining Prometheus. She just used Oliver's past as the Hood to justify it.
But, to be fair, the oh-so-holy OTA could have maybe revealed who all Oliver actually killed and what they did. I remember Season 1 pretty good. . . and Oliver mainly killed the guards wielding automatic weapons while he had a bow & arrow and people who had done serious harm to the city: Leo Mueller, 1x05, was going to sell military-grade weapons to STREET gangs; Justin Claybourne, we now know, was probably one of those Oliver took down in between 1x08 & 1x09, and I don't know about everyone else, but if I found out that someone was making people sick and then jacking up the price on a treatment (if I remember the 5x09 flashbacks correctly), I'd probably do the same as Oliver, but also get the treatment and distribute it through a free clinic somewhere; 1x16 Jose Barerra, a hitman, though I'm sure if Oliver knew Malcolm was behind the Undertaking he'd have let him or Deadshot deal with Malcolm; 1x19, the doctor who was manufacturing a new strain of Vertigo knew Oliver's identity and would expose him; and from 1x20, Mr. Blank, the hitman, would have killed Oliver, Laurel, Tommy, & a little boy.
The remainder of Oliver's kills (which as of 1x21 or 22 was listed by Quentin Lance as 26) were hired thugs with automatic weapons while he was either unarmed or had a bow & arrow.
But sure, Oliver is worse than Chase because he killed 26 bad guys and left dozens more white collar criminals live to face justice in a court of law instead of killing housewives and cops like Chase did.
Legends is really its own thing & Supergirl takes place in another part of the multiverse. But Arrow goes OUT OF ITS WAY to crap on the source material under the banner of "doing our own thing". Sure, I like the show, in some ways, but I ain't gonna ignore the crapfest, either.
On another note: Evelyn's whole thing doesn't make sense. Sorry to those who say it does. Why do I say that?
Her big thing is that Oliver was the Hood, aka a serial killer. She doesn't look at what kind of people he was taking down, just sees them as being 'lawyers, doctors, etc.' as she said in 5x06. So what does she do? Nothing much. Just joins a multi-cop killer and ACTUAL serial killer who targets innocent people. No, Evelyn's decision doesn't make sense no matter how you bend it. She's just the same little brat whose parents went along with Damien Darhk, and who nearly destroyed the legacy of the Black Canary by killing the mayor at the time while dressed as BC. Sure, Laurel wasn't perfect, but the one thing she did have over The Canary & The Arrow was that she had never killed while wearing the mask, and she felt guilty whenever she flubbed. Evelyn did none of those things.
Evelyn didn't join Adrian because Oliver's a serial killer. She joined him because, at best, she's a weak-willed toadie and at worst, because she's as unhinged and psychopathic as he is because of what happened to her parents. She didn't have a good reason for joining Prometheus. She just used Oliver's past as the Hood to justify it.
But, to be fair, the oh-so-holy OTA could have maybe revealed who all Oliver actually killed and what they did. I remember Season 1 pretty good. . . and Oliver mainly killed the guards wielding automatic weapons while he had a bow & arrow and people who had done serious harm to the city: Leo Mueller, 1x05, was going to sell military-grade weapons to STREET gangs; Justin Claybourne, we now know, was probably one of those Oliver took down in between 1x08 & 1x09, and I don't know about everyone else, but if I found out that someone was making people sick and then jacking up the price on a treatment (if I remember the 5x09 flashbacks correctly), I'd probably do the same as Oliver, but also get the treatment and distribute it through a free clinic somewhere; 1x16 Jose Barerra, a hitman, though I'm sure if Oliver knew Malcolm was behind the Undertaking he'd have let him or Deadshot deal with Malcolm; 1x19, the doctor who was manufacturing a new strain of Vertigo knew Oliver's identity and would expose him; and from 1x20, Mr. Blank, the hitman, would have killed Oliver, Laurel, Tommy, & a little boy.
The remainder of Oliver's kills (which as of 1x21 or 22 was listed by Quentin Lance as 26) were hired thugs with automatic weapons while he was either unarmed or had a bow & arrow.
But sure, Oliver is worse than Chase because he killed 26 bad guys and left dozens more white collar criminals live to face justice in a court of law instead of killing housewives and cops like Chase did.
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