Hey ATA Listeners, this week's podcast is titled “Slow Ride” as the writers of our favorite TV shows took it easy on story development with the set of episodes we reviewed to give us what Nico and I called a slow week of television. I don't know if it was Person of Interest being preempted due to the presidential election but many of the shows we watched this week were lacking action as character development and overarching stories stayed in place. In fact, Bones as you'll hear in our Airwaves Rundown section was downright boring this week!
Now, this philosophy didn't apply to all the shows that aired this week as the sitcoms (Go On, The Big Bang Theory and two episodes of Modern Family) all had solid outings that delivered big laughs. In addition, Once upon a Time and Supernatural made huge strides in making up for the shortcomings their shows had during the previous season but this still did not save this week from being deemed as slow. We even thought we could make up for this issue by filling in the place Person of Interest left open in our schedule with a full review of the week's Alphas episode but that turned out to be slow as well with things needing to be ramped up into the Season Finale.
However, where Alphas needed to ramp up the new CW show Arrow hit the ground running with one of the best new pilots of the Fall 2012 TV Season, right up there with ABCs Last Resort. I personally thought Arrow was better but Nico and others might disagree with me on that one because I'm kind of biased when it comes to superheroes and I really miss watching Smallville on a weekly basis. Anyway, I do agree with Nico's review on the pilot for Arrow given in our Rundown sections where he raves about the new series calling it an action show that looks nothing like a CW teenybopper show but something more reminiscent of Christopher Nolan's Batman or the Bourne Movies.
I also piggyback onto Nico's positive reviews with my comic book based theories on how the series next five seasons are going to play out but for my full review on the pilot itself you're going to have to check out my section on Michael and Woo's new show Longbow Hunters, the ATA podcast slowly dedicated to just reviewing episodes of Arrow. So from here what you listeners need to do is check out this podcast episode to stay updated on TV Shows that act as your old favorites and then check out Longbow Hunters to hear about Arrow, the new show that all of you should be watching especially if you are having Smallville or DC Nation withdrawals.
