And I lost interest in Arrow because they kept adapting Batman stories and kept trying to turn him into *Batman, but with a bow" instead of the Green Arrow I knew from the comic books.
I got tired of Arrow because of all the "I must lie to them to protect them", "But you lied to me, I can never trust you!!!" which was pretty much every character.
But I did see a recent episode, and Felicity has toughened up.
[YOUTUBE]https://youtu.be/nVJh6Xv8V0g[/YOUTUBE]
The first season drew men in. I thought "Wow, how are they going to go from this revenge-crazed vigilante into the swashbuckling social justice guy from the comic books? I bet this journey will be interesting! Instead, they went from revenge-crazed vigilante guy to less-lethal revenge-crazed vigilante Batman-knockoff, at which point I promptly lost interest.
I know there are a lot of different incarnations of Green Arrow, but the character in the TV show doesn't seem like any of them, at least not any that I recognize.
Anyway, it's interesting to watch all the people complain about the Captain Marvel trailers. Part of the problem is the story they're telling doesn't lend itself to good fodder for trailers.
In the comic books, the defining moment of Carol Danvers' life was when the X-Men villain Rogue permanently stole her powers and personality. This led to Rogue doing a heel-face turn from villain to hero as well as a permanent identity crisis, but for Danvers, it meant she had to begin the long process of rebuilding her life and rebuilding herself.
In the comic books, she was simply and completely erased (at least her powers and memories were erased) and she had to rebuild herself and her life from scratch.
It looks like the movie will involve Carol having an accident involving Kree technology, then the Kree will give her superpowers to use her as a weapon in their war against the Skrulls, and the Kree wipe her memory to make her easier to control. So it's the same story in that she has been erased and has to rebuild/remake herself.
And that's what leads to a lot of complaints about the trailer (and I confess, I was one of the complainers).
Because of the nature of the story, we're going to have a lot of flashback sequences in which she seems to have no personality of her own because she doesn't. That's the story. She's had her personality erased and has to figure out how to build a new one. I'm sure it will make for a compelling movie, but right now it's a story that results in a trailer with a lot of wooden, personality-free facial expressions.
