ARROW'S Count Vertigo Inspired By Liam Neeson's Ra's al Ghul

Hmm ... we'll see. I'm not against updating a character but sometimes they take away too much.

You know, I have nothing against taking inspiration from Nolan, but in this case, it feels like they're going with "Nolan Realism" because it was popular, not because it makes sense.

In the case of the Nolan Batman movies, they grounded the characters and the mythology to make them MORE interesting. The movies were about a man becoming a symbol to save a dying city from the crime that ate away at it from within. A larger-than-life villain with superpowers wouldn't have felt credible in that context. Making the villains feel plausible served to make us care about what happened to Gotham (at least in the first two films). That's not to say they didn't go over-the-top. I mean, pretty much every Bat-vehicle in those movies is completely ridiculous. But they managed to make the action feel gritty in order to help flesh out the character of Gotham.

But in "Arrow", making the bad guys smaller and simpler generally only serves to make the story LESS interesting. When they turned Deadshot into just some weird, tattooed assassin that got killed in like two seconds, it may have been more "realistic", but it was way less interesting. I mean, what does making Deadshot more realistic accomplish? If he was a larger-than-life, suave super-assassin, it would have been fun and it would have fit the show's tone just fine. He could have been a recurring villain. Or what about the Royal Flush Gang and turning them into a poor family of bank robbers? Out of all the versions of the Royal Flush Gang they could have gone with, they went with that? I would have gone with the "Batman Beyond" version. The "Aristocrats of Crime" would fit in perfectly with Ollie's own family background and his mission to take out the white collar criminals that are killing his city. But no, that's not "realistic" or whatever.

I'm all for grounding things in some amount of realism if it makes the content more interesting, but in the case of "Arrow", it feels like they're just trying to copy the Nolan formula without making an effort to understand why it works.

question. was the christmas episode the end of season1?

An evil guy with these powers whose name happens to be Count Vertigo... I kinda have to agree that this might seem a little ridiculous. ;)

It's a joke???. ...right???

This show if [frick]ing lame...

As soon as it came on CW I knew it was gonna be more Gossip Girl/tween shit and not a great superhero show.

The headline excited me, but hearing all that ruined my excitement.

I want Count Vertigo to be more original. I don't want him to be inspired by Ra's Al Ghul from Nolan's Batman trilogy.

Heh, I hope it turns out well.