Sure, Justin Hartley looks good as Green Arrow on Smallville, but what’s the deal with his weaponry and equipment? MacQuarrie at Suspension of Disbelief is wondering the same thing:
The telescopic-night-vision targeting sunglasses. What’s wrong with letting him just be that good? He’s supposed to be a superhero; maybe it would help if he were a little bit, well, super.
The semi-automatic crossbow. With a retracting cable, no less. I’m still trying to figure out how that thing reloads and draws itself. But that pales beside…
The self-folding compound bow. They made a point of only showing this gadget in the dark and on the move, so you never really got a good look at it, but no matter how much they tried to hide it, they have a few serious problems ….
There’s much more at the link, of course.
October 30th, 2006 at 10:40 am
I actually thought some of the trick arrows on Smallville were pretty good ideas. I know DC’s gone out of their way to avoid the high-tech arrows of years past with Comic Book Ollie, but the occasional cool tech arrow isn’t that big of a deal. Yeah, it can easily become a gimmicky crutch…but so can the moritorium on tech arrows.
October 30th, 2006 at 12:54 pm
Yeah all the points are valid and I wish the Smallville writers were handling him with less hightech nonsense, but STILL! Hartley/Green Arrow’s the best thing to happen to Smallville since Season One! He’s the star of the dang show, stealing Clark’s wussy, indecisive thunder on a weekly basis! GO OLLIE!
October 30th, 2006 at 3:19 pm
That stuff doesn’t bother me. Boxing glove arrow? Dumb. EMP arrow? Pretty darn cool.
February 20th, 2008 at 11:04 am
what name brand of compound bow he uses