Manu Bennet On Arrow's "Deathstroke"

I think he's the only one from arrow who could have transferred successfully to the DCCU. He was [frick]ing awesome in season 2. He should have his own deathstroke show.

He's not wrong. Season 3 has overall been dissapointing.

Yeah I gotta agree, they completely wasted him this season

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Same. I love Arrow's Deathstroke but Im not buying his motive at all.

Deathsroke has been the best villain in this series but he has been heavily depowered. Thea was able to hold her own against Slade, like what the heck?!? Then Laurel in the last episode was competing with League of Assassins members with 2-3 weeks of training from Nyssa... And don't get me started on Oliver abandoning Roy after the fight with Atom. Like this show has some major writing issues

" but [season three] was just a beating of Slade, adding insult to injury.”

1000% Truth.

Damn, he spoke the truth about the writing of the character. IT was dumb to take the mirikuru out of him and it was totally insane to have him be defeated so easily by Ollie and his sister.

Dumbing down villains in this series have made it unwatchable for me. Especially when Laurel is on the screen. Everyone she comes across has to be dumbed down in fighting abilities. He'll she was taking out League of Assassin members last episode and was like wtf....

I was one of the bigger supporters of Arrow for the first two seasons, but this one has been a total letdown.

The weak thing about this season is lack of action and a sane villain. Ra's just talks and does nothing.

I don't know what happened to action choreographers who were great in season 2, they're like high in this season.Romance is shoved down our throats.

I completely lost it when they showed Shado's twin sister. [frick]ing stupid. I think the producers are so involved in Flash that they aren't caring about Arrow anymore. They need to step up real fast.

@dinotron i agree. season 3 has been the weakest of the show, but to be fair the wildcat thing wasn't their fault the actor got cast on another show so his appearances on arrow were reduced.

Can't disagree with him at all, sadly. Despite being left with somewhat weak motivations by the writers Slade was easily one of my favourite Arrow characters, and he is dearly missed.

Manu being on the show as Slade was actually the one thing that made me give the show another chance during S1 (I quit watching again, though), and he was one of the main reasons why I stayed during thw whole of S2 and enjoyed most of it.

Now as I said the writing for the character wasn't always the most convincing, and the way he was defeated in the end of S2 wasn't all that great. But Manu is a beast and has enough charisma to make me overlook those flaws. I was really excited about seeing Slade return in S3, and was kind of crushed after the way the dealt with him.

Hearing him talk like that doesn't give me confidence in an appropriate comeback of the character, and for the direction of the whole show. Quite a lot of questionable decisions were made in S3. I really want the show to get back on track, and I feel kind of bad for the cast (I do like pretty much all of them) - can't be easy getting a lot of criticism while so many fans seem to just love The Flash. :(

Marv Wolfman take was amazing. Also, the writers gve deathstroke a dum motive for doing what he did. The Shado thing was weird . Sounds like he doesn't want to return to arrow. HE WOULD BE AN AMAZING TASKMASTER

Brief little James Wan interview: twitter.com/SuperheroFeed/status/584419775268298753

CB: I do hear whispers that you might be in talks for a DC or Warner Brothers movie. Is that true?

Wan: There's lots of talks about lots of things so who know what is true.

CB: Would you want to direct Dwayne Johnson again in Shazam?

Wan: Well, put it this way: I freakin' love Dwayne. He's an awesome guy and I would love to work with him again in a heartbeat. I know Dwayne wants to find something for me and him to do again in the future.

Sounds to me like he could be directing a film.

100% agree with Manu, where's the defenders of Arrow now? yeah that "critically acclaimed" tv show... some of you are pretty pathetic.

I use to defend Arrow.....That was before season 3.

I agree with him completely and the character started out kind of unstoppable without the Mirakaru, he even took down Deathstroke 1.0 pretty easy. I don't really think it was that great of an idea for him to complain when he is on an MTV show right now, it kind of seems like career suicide. This article also doesn't list any source for the interview.

MANU BENNETT FOR TASKMASTER

Manu should go over to Marvel. America needs a Punisher Dammit! Right?