This week, or maybe this month, I have found myself consumed in superheroes. I've been reading and viewing many photos from /film regarding Thor 2, Captain America 2, The Avengers 2, and The Amazing Spiderman 2. Since there is some time between now and their theatre release, I have sunk into high school nostalgia and it's name is Smallville. I am in season three, one season prior to where I stopped watching it before, out of ten. As I mentioned before, I wanted to learn more about the Green Arrow. So what did I do? I started watching cw's Arrow while watching Smallville. I am in love with both.
Clark Kent is a man forged by the search for an identity with a "do-gooder" complex.
Oliver Queen is a good man forged by hard times. A former party boy turned seeker of justice.
They are sort of alike, but their skill set is totally different. And I love that. I think I am a little biased about Superman because of Smallville , but its a great origins show. Arrow seeks to do something similar, but in a much different fashion. Arrow is darker, for one, and both are at much different points in their life when the show starts.
I think being a librarian has jaded me in the sense that I believe all issues(all episodes) should be made available via the CWs website. Articles from magazines are readily made available in these databases, why not shows? Articles/databases owned by libraries, or previously owned, are then paid for and can be accessed whenever, wherever. Places like Netflix and Amazon Instant Watch help, but typically by sending a disc. My attitude with Netflix is not as great at the moment as it once was because they continue to send me discs out of order...I disgress. To watch these shows, I have had to find...methods. One of which involves Swedish subtitles. And I don't speak Swedish. But if I did, Arrow would sure teach me a lot.
I have not seen enough of Arrow to explain what it is that I feel makes the show successful, but I can say that the pilot and episode two have kept me watching. More on that another day.
As for Smallville, the teen-love dynamics, high school, enemies, small town life versus the city, and great villains in the form of Luthers. It's a good show and I like it as much now as I did in high school. I m very intrigued to see where they take the show, having seen a few images prior.
Stay tuned heroes and villains of the night!
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