Official character description:
JEAN LORING is a savvy attorney from the DC COMICS UNIVERSE who would do anything for her clients. Jean makes her way onto “Arrow” as a longtime friend and legal counsel to Moira Queen, who is on trial for her role in the destruction of The Glades, but soon finds herself pulled into the scandalous lives of the entire Queen family.
Source: greenarrowtv
JEAN LORING is a savvy attorney from the DC COMICS UNIVERSE who would do anything for her clients. Jean makes her way onto “Arrow” as a longtime friend and legal counsel to Moira Queen, who is on trial for her role in the destruction of The Glades, but soon finds herself pulled into the scandalous lives of the entire Queen family.
Source: greenarrowtv
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ReplyDeleteGlad to see more DC characters making "guest star" appearances on Arrow. I hope with the introduction of Barry Allen we can finally have some super-powered people make occasional appearances. Not too many, but enough that we know this is really the DC universe.
ReplyDeleteLets just hope she doesn't go all Identity Crisis on us. :)
ReplyDeleteLet's hope not, the whole purpose of this show is not having superpowers. If you want them, go back to Smallville.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't want super powers, go watch something not based on a superhero.
ReplyDeleteActually the purpose of the first season was to ride The Dark Knight trilogy's cock and make everything dark, gritty, and realistic. Then the success of the Avengers gave them another cock to ride. Now they realize the audience can accept superpowers. I predict another tonal/world change when the next blockbuster movie hits.
ReplyDeleteReally, I would give the credit to Man of Steel, but you're not wrong with the general idea. The Dark Knight was DC's movie. That's the tone Arrow got. Man of Steel came out, and now they're trying to do that tone.
ReplyDeleteI like this idea. I'm interested to see what her relationship with Moira will be like and how she'll get along with the rest of the Queen family.
ReplyDeleteI would be deeply disappointed by that, and yet nothing suggests that they won't work out a realistic Flash.
ReplyDeleteYou do realize the whole concept of this tv show is not having superpowers, right?
ReplyDeleteI am liking her already. Here's hoping she's a no nonsense type since we apparently aren't getting Walter back anytime soon. Someone needs to straight the Queens out. Also glad that we will be getting a Moira trial. Surely that means we have to get some more Moira.
ReplyDeleteNot me. One of the things I like best about Arrow is there are no superpowers.
ReplyDeleteOliver has been doing just fine without super powers. I would hope the villains would become more human also instead of these bizarre cartoonish villains we got in season one.
ReplyDeleteI hope she's a confidante of Moira's and will shed more light on her pre-yacht sabotage. I think Thea is going to need someone there.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a character I can totally get into.....
ReplyDeleteI'm so excited about this!!! ngghh!!
ReplyDeleteOliver doesn't have powers. So of course he's fine.
ReplyDeleteDo you wanna know a character who isn't fine without powers? Laurel. In the comics, she's a great character. On the show, she became Oliver's love interest and was striped of her powers. And she sucks. Giving her powers makes her eventually becoming a hero so much easier, because as of right now, she's nowhere near to becomes Black Canary.
And do you wanna know why the villains are cartoonish? Because they weren't meant to be powerless. Count Vertigo wasn't meant to not have powers. So when you try to put them into some ~realistic world, it doesn't work. Because they're comic characters.
No, the concept of this show is a series based off of a comic book superhero. A guy who dresses up as Robin Hood and runs around a city fighting villains with arrows.
ReplyDeleteThe Dark Knight was the top dog superhero movie when it was created, so that's the tone DC went with. Then The Avengers and Man of Steel took things into a different direction, so now DC is rethinking their plan to do The Dark Knight for TV. Now they want Man of Steel for TV. Which is why they're suddenly adding The Flash and other superpowered characters.
A realistic Flash? So, what, he becomes a guy who can just run a little bit faster than most people? Great concept for a show. And that's not happening. They've already said that much.
ReplyDeleteIt's not unrealistic if they base Flash's power into reality, after all, we can't exactly call the Hood's prowess and Batman's tech something of this world, they just set those things into the reality of the show/movies so that they SEEM possible.
ReplyDeleteThe next DC character they should introduce and spin-off? Plastic-Man.
ReplyDeleteThis show is NOT the comic. They made that very clear from the start and some viewers like me prefer it that way. I am not interested in the comic book version at all. Laurel doesn't need superpowers to be a good character. She needs good writing and a personality that is not limited to martyr, shrew, or girlfriend. Put in the right hands she would be awesome without any superhuman skills. She can fight crime without a sonic boom.
ReplyDeleteThe villains were cartoonish because the writers were trying to appease the comic book fans while still remaining in the realistic world they chose. If they had abandoned that conceit and maybe the villains realistic and cast actors who did not overact the parts, they would have been better off. There is nothing going on in Arrow that demands superpowers and the sooner the writers embrace that full force, the better the story of Arrow will be.
They have already said that this is the origin story of Flash and have strongly hinted that he will not come into powers until the spin-off. This allows Arrow to still stay realistic while the spin-off can become anything it wants.
ReplyDeleteGiven that this IS a comic book character and that DC fans are a decent-size part of the audience, if they lose the DC fans, you can kiss Arrow good-bye. And the fastest way for them to lose us is to completely water down the powered characters. They need to at least acknowledge their existence, even if it ends with Ollie telling them to "get the hell out of my city."
ReplyDeleteBut that's precisely what should NOT be happening. Smallville was a superhero show which showcased multiple DC characters every season, and that's that. We've had that already. The different grounding that Arrow's set into is that it is a superhero show WITHOUT superpowers and from the very first conversation the producers said they wanted to eventually bring different characters from the DCverse into the show, but ONLY those that didn't have superpowers or that could be adapted into this more realistic world. That's why I say "if you want superpowers, go back to Smallville", because if this show started following this trail, it'd be Smallville 2.0, and who wants that? Not me.
ReplyDeleteYeah, and Smallville lasted for 10 seasons. Ollie can't carry Arrow by himself for 10 seasons, sorry.
ReplyDeleteWho says it should?
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