Wish I were able to be so forgiving but having seen and loved Black Canary in the JLU cartoon, I admit to being biased. She is an independent woman with cool abilities but knowing how she has looked in previous incarnations and liking the look, when I see Dinah on Smallville I'm just a tad disappointed. Look at how loathed Clark's red jacket is. Despite the symbolism, people still want to torch it. Clothes do make the man (or in this case, woman!) and attach strong sentiment to them.
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Wish I were able to be so forgiving but having seen and loved Black Canary in the JLU cartoon, I admit to being biased. She is an independent woman with cool abilities but knowing how she has looked in previous incarnations and liking the look, when I see Dinah on Smallville I'm just a tad disappointed. Look at how loathed Clark's red jacket is. Despite the symbolism, people still want to torch it. Clothes do make the man (or in this case, woman!) and attach strong sentiment to them.Comment
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I like Dinah and I like Alaina Huffman as Black Canary, my only real problem with her on Smallville is the look: I want Black Canary in the long blonde wig and Dinah with the short dark hair. The lower pitched cry is something I'm learning to live with. And thanks for the recommendation. I haven't bought comics in quite a while and am completely out of touch on who is good.Comment
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Wish I were able to be so forgiving but having seen and loved Black Canary in the JLU cartoon, I admit to being biased. She is an independent woman with cool abilities but knowing how she has looked in previous incarnations and liking the look, when I see Dinah on Smallville I'm just a tad disappointed. Look at how loathed Clark's red jacket is. Despite the symbolism, people still want to torch it. Clothes do make the man (or in this case, woman!) and attach strong sentiment to them.Comment
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Personally i think she has a degree of arrogance about her but i still like her. Alot. Phwaar... fishnets.Comment
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I like her. But I guess I'm biased cuz shes one of my favorite DC comics characters,and her JLU interpretaion was pretty freaking awesome. So maybe I was just so fangirl excited to see her on SV that I overlooked anything to not be excited over, lol.
For anyone who doesn't know much about BC, watch the JLU episodes or pick up Simone's run on Birds of Prey!Comment
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honestly, i do not get the knives thing myself. what's the purpose of those things anyway? i believe that her screams need to be advanced like the the black carnary on the cartoon show called...i think justice league of america or something. anyway, the cartoon version of her screams are better. does it said in the comics that she wears wigs?Comment
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The decision to have her be in the selective JLA in this episode made sense. There's not too much Bart or Victor couldn't done in this instance, especially because Chloe pretty much IS Victor these days.
I think I liked her more in this episode than in her introduction episode. Maybe the reason people didn't like her introduction episode, "Siren" is because it didn't display her character like "Run," "Aqua," "Cyborg," or to an extent "Arrow," did.
I'm just a little upset that at this point they didn't give a nod to her future relationship with Ollie.Comment
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I like her - I'm glad they have more chicks that can kick some booty on the show. Right now they have three strong chicks they just need to give them a little more to work with. Her power is strange at times but I think that she has potential to be an interesting character.Comment
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I like arrogant characters. Look at my avi - she's got quite a bit of arrogance to her. But I like that when she's taken down a peg or two, she learns from it. *shrug* No, she doesn't fall to her knees and sob for forgiveness, but she does accept her mistakes and take them to heart.
The mask looks great! But yeh I agree its poorly conceived, however I dont think its meant to imply that she takes forever to go into costume
I don't think that we're meant to take too much out of that, but it's one of those things that any girl who's gotten dressed for a date on a Friday night and had to deal with makeup would probably notice right off. I think that seriously needed to be rethought.
Not going to help to save someone being mugged. Well if you're saying that for her, say it for Oliver aswell. He doesnt wear his costume underneath his normal clothes, he would have to rush off and get changed aswell. They both have to change into costume, so if they were out on the streets then yes, she could save someone from being mugged.But if there was someone being mugged before her not as BC then Im pretty sure she'd save them rather than run off and change.
And yes I say that even knowing the teaser for 'Rage'. As if the muggers would be so slow to let oliver change and sneak out to the car park.
She believed they were terrorists, she was misguided. Lets not forget how many times thats happend to Clark, he's fallen for many people's lies. E.G Brainiac/Milton Fine.
You cant expect to be totally heroic straight away. 1, This was the first time she was introduced, she made a few mistakes but made up for them. 2, Clark and Oliver have done more unheroic stuff than her:
If BC isnt heroic to you because of 'Siren', then heres some points to show how Oliver is much worse:
Oliver took a drug, got hooked on it, hit Lois, shot Lex.
Oliver didnt know BC had a power, but yet he fired 3 FREAKIN ARROWS at her! If she didnt have her power, then you must admit that would of killed her! Look what happened to Clark in 'Odyssey'.
Oliver had Lex kidnapped, and he was then subsequently tortured
Not heroic
Not at all.
Yes, this was the first thing we saw her do, by the way, but I kinda got the impression watching it that she was a little too good at what she was doing to infer that this was the first job she'd done ever.
Totally heroic I didn't expect. But I didn't feel much if any heroism coming off her at all in that episode, and that highly disappointed me.
I almost felt that they didn't want me to like her in the end. I felt like I was given plenty of reason to dislike her - from the "didn't bother to Google someone" in the beginning to the hitting a person tied up and defenseless to the attacking of Clark. And yet I wasn't given much reason to like her - certainly not enough to balance out the good and the bad. No, we didn't have much time with her, in that she only had an episode, and yet it seems to me like previous episodes introducing other JLAers, they weren't always doing good things (like Bart), but it seemed to me like the writers took the time to also try to make the audience like, feel connected to, care about, or at the very least see the good and/or feel sympathy for the character. I feel like they didn't bother this time - they gave a lot of bad and not very much if any good, IMO. I wasn't left feeling warm fuzzies in my heart that she and Ollie would end up together...or care particularly much what happened to her in future. If I was told she'd never show up again after watching "Siren" I'd have been perfectly fine with that. Whereas there are other characters I'd like to see again, if given the chance.
That they made her have attitude is fine. I like attitude, when done well, and I liked the verbal back and forth she had at times in the episode. But I do feel they dropped the ball with her. Again, there was a lot of bad and very few things I could point to and say I liked.
Well as you may tell, I think you've been way to harsh on her.
Oliver was a bully at school, a real jerk. But he isnt anymore, why cant you give BC a chance to learn from her mistakes? She's only been in 2 episodes.
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honestly, i do not get the knives thing myself. what's the purpose of those things anyway? i believe that her screams need to be advanced like the the black carnary on the cartoon show called...i think justice league of america or something. anyway, the cartoon version of her screams are better. does it said in the comics that she wears wigs?Comment
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