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Its both sad and rather ironic that after decades trying to distance Green Arrow from his status as nothing more than a Batman clone; DC has, through the Arrow series managed to make him more of a Batman clone than ever before. The arrow cave, the dark and gritty, that every major enemies he faces is a main Batman villain (or Nightwing villain). Culiminating ultimately in them taking some of the most defining events in the Batman comics such as the offer of the demon and giving them to Oliver Queen.

Arrow is a great series, but it is beginning to really suffer due to their attempts to make the Arrow the new Batman.

They actually screened this in Australia prior to the TV Movie coming out, I enjoyed it as a child, can't remember much of it though, and of course its not available anywhere, legitimate copy or not.

The "general knowledge" is that Disney canceled the series after only 6 episodes and refuses to let it out of The Vault because its central theme is a divorced woman with children finding happiness with the (in this version) single Jim Douglas. And Disney will not tolerate the idea of divorce, nor support it in any way; doesn't matter that 1/2 of American marriages fail, divorce is wrong. That's the word on the street anyway, and its at least an explanation, even if it is a downright stupid one.

Also, only Herbie Goes Bananas was truly terrible, Herbie Fully Loaded was pretty good if you ignore the general laziness of the production and stupidity of the main characters. Even the TV movie is saved from the trash heap by virtue of Bruce Campbell and his power of being awesome.

OK, I have only watched the first episode so maybe it gets better, I sincerely hope so, but for a pilot, it failed miserably.

Bad writing, bad voice-acting, lazy animation, cliché and predictable story. The pilot fails on all counts.

Bad writing: Iron man comes across as an unlikable dick in the opening line, OK. he is supposed to be a dick, but a likable one. The plot of the episode is cliché and predictable; the dialogue is almost entirely entirely cliché one-liners, no conversations, no banter, no distinct characters, just cliché line after cliché line. To make matters worse the voice acting is incredibly bland, they don't even try to put some emotion into the lazy script. So the dialogue is boring, the characters are boring and the episode is predictable, the old mind-switch, been done a million times before, and here its not even done well.

Animation: Less bad, and more lazy. It looks faded, not exactly HD, and at times it switches to motion comic style, which jars with the rest of the episode. For a series which is supposed to bridge the movies it fails miserably' the characters look nothing like their movie counterparts and Iron Man still has the circular uni-beam. Also, there is no explanation of where the mansion came from.

Its almost like a cross between Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (a truly excellent series) and the movie. Perhaps its based on the comics, as someone who does not read comics I would not know.