Arrow. Green Arrow tv show.

Do they even have to give it a name? Just call it the base.

You assume Cisco didn't call dibs on naming it. And I can see it catching on.

I mean, it turned out Roy thought of their first base as the Arrow Cave on his own too.

It looks like the kind of place one would have a superhero business meeting and talk about quarterly reports.

Alas, they don't have a Harley to coin the name "Quiver" in this universe. She's still locked up by Waller, apparently.

Actually, she was locked up by Embargo.

edited 14th Aug '15 9:12:22 PM by Guy01

Starling City is now officially confirmed to be changed to Star City.

edited 17th Aug '15 5:23:18 PM by Halberdier17

IIRC, they were cutting her out of episodes before the Embargo was even a thing.

I preferred Starling City as a name. It actually sounds more like something a city would be called more than Star City.

At least it does not come out of nowhere, it has been introduced in the show prior to the change.

I honestly can't say that "Star City" shocks me more than "Starling City". No matter which one, it sounds silly if I translate it in my native language, so I take it at face value. Same with Los Angeles btw, or even with Des Moines which is in my native language.

Hey, why does Los Angeles sound silly? I mean, it's just a shortening of it's real name, El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula.

I guess that most cities with religious names in France are named "Saint-Someone", or "Saint-Someone-of-Something", so "The Angels" would really sound weird. We have a couple of exceptions (La Rochelle and, ironically considering the thread, La Flèche, which translates as "The Arrow") but neither is a religious name and most of the plural forms (La Rochelle and La Flèche are singular) depict very tiny municipalities, if not hamlets.

To be honest, we also have a rather large ski station named Les Arcs, which ironically again considering the thread, translates as "The Bows". But it is not a town.

edited 18th Aug '15 8:58:35 AM by Julep

La Flèche, which translates as "The Arrow"

We found the home of the French Arrow!

This makes me realize that all superheroes that have "their" towns are American (like most superheroes, admittedly), whether it is real like Spidey or fake like Batman, Flash or GA. I wonder how the action would look with a European superhero(ine) that is bound to his/her town. The scenery would be quite different.

Batman Inc. had versions of Batman from around the world. Knight and Squire were the Batman and Robin of England. I think they were based in London.

Astro City also has a bunch of various superheroes scattered throughout the world, each one pretty much symbolizing their city. Boston has the Silversmith, Atlanta has the Real Thing (because Atlanta is home to Coca-Cola), Las Vegas has Mirage, Austin has Lonestar, Australia has Kookaburra, Brazil has the Birds of Paradise, and England has the Lion and the Unicorn.

Production Art from Season 4◊

It is a Green Lantern reference.

We did find out in The Flash that a big-name pilot at Ferris Air went missing a while back.

Man, if they bring in GL I'm gonna be so happy.

With all of the teasing I hope they follow through.

The only problem with Green Lantern is that he's CGI-heavy, which is hard on a tv budget. They can't even do too much recycled effects, since the whole point of the Ring is being able to use it for anything you can think of.

Though they will cut down on cost by spending five bucks on a physical mask instead of ten thousand on a CGI one.

Maybe they could do something where an entire story happens in the background over in Coast City, offscreen but told bit by bit by news reports and papers. Since both GL and GA are green, people might make comments to Ollie about it but he could dismiss it as a rumor (while actually looking into it in pure Ollie fashion).

Sort of similar to the Particle Accelerator bit in Season 2, but tiny tidbits of a Hero of Another Story.

Even just using newspaper headlines. Something like...

• EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT SABOTAGED: PILOT CLAIMS "GREEN LIGHT" SAVED HIM
• MISSING FERRIS AIR ACE RETURNS IN AFTERMATH OF FLAMING SPEAR DISASTER: STOCKS EXPECTED TO RISE
• GREEN LIGHT SIGHTINGS CONTINUE - DUBBED "THE GLOW" BY CITIZENS
• INVESTIGATORS SEEK OUT CONNECTION BETWEEN GREEN GLOW AND STAR CITY VIGILANTE
• CONNECTIONS FOUND BETWEEN COAST CITY LIGHTS AND GOTHAM "GREEN LANTERN" LEGEND(*)
• THE GLOW APPEARS IN PERSON: FIGHTS YELLOW ASSAILANT!
• FERRIS AIRCRAFT CEO VANISHES: "WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING?" SAYS BOARD
• WOMAN WIELDING PURPLE GLOW RANSACKS FERRIS AIR: STOCKS EXPECTED TO PLUMMET
• THE GREEN LANTERN SPEAKS: SHOWCASE OF A HERO!

(*) Provided Alan Scott isn't in Earth 2 (a real possibility), the Gotham bit refers to him.

edited 31st Aug '15 2:55:38 PM by KnownUnknown

That last bit reminds me of Ant-Mans "Tales to Astonish" reference.

So, um, Diggle got a costume and well just take a look

http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/john-diggle-suits-up-in-first-look-at-new-arrow-costume

Looks like he stole Magneto's helmet.

When I heard he had a helmet I pictured Guardian instead of what we got.

Might just be that the still looks awkward. Lets see how it looks in motion.

It looks too small. If they lower the sides, it'll look better.