Royal Flush Gang Set To Tangle With The CW's Green ARROW

@Grif

You haven't seen it yet.

RFG best character addition I've heard so far. I'm afraid they might be saturating the first season with so many great characters though.

They're really gooing all or nothing, which I don't mind. If I only see one season it'll be this one.

This is so cool! I love how this show is embracing the mythology right from the start. I loved RFG in Batman Beyond and Justice League

I was just hoping that this would happen on this show! Just the other day!!!

Will people stop deleting/getting upset over Grif's comments already? Sheesh!
Yea, i'm liking the sound of this show more and more!

Keep on raping DC characters CW.

@calin88
When they will be robbing a bank, why not?

I am pretty sure that most of the superheroes or super vilains will be smallvillized (meaning shitty costumes and shit origins).

Deadshot and Deathstroke could have been wearing black special ops suit (with small parts colored with the original colors, but darker). Add a high tech helmet for Deadshot and a [frick]ing balaclava for Deadstroke. We might see something better in Arrow but it's still made by CW, the channel that [frick]ing raped DC superheroes and vilains.

Arrow will have its ups and downs, but it looks ten times better then smallville

I actually agree 100% with AtomicChipmunk. He's right. CW raped Deathstroke and Deadshot horribly. Those assholes made Deathstroke into [frick]ing john mcccain with an eye stone (they didn't even get the eye patch right)

With Deadshot they made him into a cowboy hick.

Deathstroke and Deadshot should pop up in movies, at least there they would be done justice AWAY from the [frick]ing retarded CW.

Smallville raped at least a dozen other characters too including even SUPERMAN himself.

@zachman2013- No offense but you can't really say it'll be ten times better than lame ass Smallville when all we have seen are a few set pics here and there. And with this show recycling the use of Lex's mansion from Smallville and the tired idea of ollie and merlyn being friends before enemies it seems this show will definitely revert into Smallville sadly.

I really want to like this show and am willing to give it a go, but it doesn't make sense that they aren't going to have any villains with superpowers, yet they are going to have a super strong android and that is realistic enough for them?

I know the Royal Flush Gang is technologically-powered, but there can be a fine line sometimes between superpowers and technology. Just make the villains the way they are intended to be and don't worry about whether they have powers or not.

@Ranger14, He's going to be the human version, not the android.

They want to make a specific type of show. And that means unnatural or supernatural things don't fit in their world. They want to make a crime-thriller about a vigilante, not a straight-up superhero show. If that what it takes to keep a show on the air, then I'll roll with it. It actually fits Green Arrow, as he rarely encounters superhumans in his solo series, and didn't for a longtime during the Mike Grell run.

The producers said they will be using characters who have powers in the comics, but will creatively work around them not actually having powers. I figure technology will substitute metahuman abilities for these characters.

@blackagar94, this is what I'm talking about. The CW, which is a network and not a person, doesn't write these shows. It's up to the showrunners and their staff. The network president gives suggestions, but he/she isn't involved in the writing process.

Also keep in mind that Dawn Ostroff, president of The CW since it's inception, left in June of last year. She was the former head of Lifetime and had a focus on fashion and soap opera-esque drama. She developed America's Next Top Model, Gossip Girl and 90210 and championed those shows. She's the one who eventually decided the network would solely focus on a female audience, something The WB and UPN didn't do.

But Mark Pedowitz is now the head of The CW. While he headed ABC Studios, he developed shows like Lost, Desperate Housewives,Criminal Minds, Ugly Betty and Reaper (a show Ostroff canceled) and is a more well-rounded network president. He's made it clear the network can't survive if it focuses on that one demo and excludes the male audience.

He's said he's using the combo of Supernatural and Arrow to make a night that's aimed at male audiences. He also says that if Arrow is successful, he hopes to work with DC on developing more male-oriented superhero series.

Anyway, Pedowitz has held high positions at both MGM and ABC and is a lot more competent than the former CW president. He doesn't appear to favor the same shows Ostroff did at the detriment of other shows and he doesn't seem to be pushing the melodramatic plots on the shows.

I'm honestly looking forward to this season. Arrow, Supernatural, Nikita and Cult. Cult is a show that was in development at The WB back in 2006 and was then at ABC a few years ago. Pedowitz thought the project was so strong back when it was at ABC that it was the first thing he picked up when pilot season came around. Looks interesting.

This should be a great battle! Can't freaking wait for Arrow!

this will be even gayer than smallville

@cipher: So? Ever seen the Warriors? Great movie. If they can have gangs dressed up in costumes, then Arrow can. It can be adapted for the screen to work.

Been pretty "neutral" about this show but it's a bit hard not to get excited about all the major appearances happening. I don't watch the CW like... at all so I'm going to have to try really hard to remember to watch when it premieres.

And I'm going to hazard a guess that the main reason they're overloading this show with major players is because it's the only platform they have right now to test drive characters and see which ones the general audience will dig enough to check out in future projects.

It will be interesting to see how the RFG will look and be portrayed.If anything Arrow seems like it's going to be loaded with a lot of action. Iwant to see how the Huntress looks on the show, I hope she looks really close to the comic book version.

well, that's what is left after they have to discard 90% of the characters they could have used with the stupid "no superpowers" policy.