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Great Hera!

BREAKING: A Reason to Care About Arrow

by Susana Polo | 2:47 pm, August 15th, 2012


Because Doctor Who, Torchwood, and The Producers veteran John Barrowman is returning to a regular television role in it.

The CW’s Arrow, an adaptation of the character Green Arrow of DC Comics, has not exactly captured our imaginations, despite some considerable effort on our part. I mean, it should be hitting all the marks: it’s a superhero adaptation, it’s not going for camp, and appears to be harboring some of the same thematic elements of its original source. Maybe it’s the fact that there looks to be a lot of drama with the extended Queen family in with the buttkicking. Maybe it’s that while Dinah Laurel Lance is a character in the show, there’s no indication yet that she’ll also become Black Canary. Okay, maybe it’s because it’s on the CW and not, say, HBO, A&E, or Showtime.

But now… now we have to care. Because Captain Jack is going to be playing some mysterious business guy. Time to root for the dark side, perhaps.

The Doctor Who and Torchwood star has signed for a recurring role in Arrow’s debut season. Producers are not saying much about his character, only revealing that he will play a “well-dressed man” who is “as mysterious as he is wealthy … he is an acquaintance of the Queen family and a prominent figure in Starling City.”

Sounds to me like a second season villain, sown throughout the first season just so when we think the hero’s made a big accomplishment, he can trot out to sneer at him like a show’s fabulous and untouchable even bigger big bad should. Or he’s another character entirely, I know pretty much zip about Green Arrow’s supporting cast. Speculate as you will.

(via Entertainment Weekly.)

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  • Anonymous

    Damnit, now I have to watch it. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Brown/100003806213451 Mark Brown

    Hmm. Well-dressed, rich, mysterious.

    And one of the trailers showed the Deathstroke mask. Could he be playing Slade Wilson?

  • http://roseeclipse.livejournal.com/ Rose Jones

    That would be the most awesome thing ever since Ron Perlman voiced Slade in “Teen Titans”.

  • Anonymous

    Arrow, your viewing numbers just went up. :) 

  • http://www.facebook.com/Travis.K.Fischer Travis Kyle Fischer

    He’s Batman!

  • Anonymous

    That….is actually a turn-off for me as I’m not a fan of that guy at all.   I think Arrow just lost me.

  • Anonymous

    I was going to watch the pilot anyway, this just sweetens the deal.   Torchwood has always been hit or miss for me but I loved his and Tennant’s interplay in Dr. Who. 

    Now cast Tennant in this somehow and I’ll watch every week!  ;^)

  • John Wao

    I wonder how many heads exploded when that was announced.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kaela-PerLee/505736107 Kaela PerLee

    I watched the pilot at the SDCC panel, which didn’t pull me in. On the other hand, the producers and writers did allude to the possibility of Dinah Laurel Lance becoming the Black Canary on the show, which with this news means I’ll give it a try. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OD35QQZNBPZJXWTCBY7N4EE7VY Sarah

    You’re not alone.

  • http://www.mygeekygeekyways.com Starman

    Or Hal Jordan. 

  • http://twitter.com/chandri Chandri MacLeod

    One more reason to loiter innocently near filming sits in Downtown Van…

  • http://cyber-istari.livejournal.com/ CyberIstari

    Saw this somewhere else, have to admit I, a grown woman (old geek, even) squee’d. 

  • Anonymous

    Oh snap, how did I miss this announcement? Despite my self-imposed DC embargo, I now HAVE to watch this.

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