TV in Turkey is weird; we’re thankful for the four English-language channels which are available: BBC News 1&2, BBC Entertainment, and “NBC.” That’s in quotes because the station IDs and promotional materials are all thematically consistently NBC, but the channel has shown The Simpsons (Fox), Arrow (CW), and Hit the Floor (VH1) in addition to How I Met Your Mother and Big Bang Theory.
The “NBC" channel is also fond of showing just part of a show, with no explanation. The other night, we watched an episode of BBT, and another episode began. However, only five minutes or so if it played, it went to a commercial break, and then came back to show Fargo... or the first 10 minutes of a Fargo episode. Next it showed 5 minutes of some police procedural, before starting an episode of Arrow.
It’s strange.
Anyway, this is the first I’ve seen of Arrow, and I like it. You guys are right, the drama stuff is really lame. “You should talk to her.” “He can come talk to me whenever he is ready.” Jesus. Lame, passive-aggressive drama based on an unwillingness to communicate. Nothing heroic there. The rest of it is really neat, though. I enjoyed realizing that the young troublemaker who is trying to surreptitiously help Ollie is named Roy, and wearing a red hoodie.
Neat stuff like that.
I’ll probably stick with it once I get somewhere that I can start with the first episode.