Stephen Amell and Katie Cassidy
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stargazer_1682 — 9 years ago(December 01, 2016 05:08 PM)
Stephen
has better chemistry with David, than with Emily.
The only person I've remotely liked Oliver with over the last four and a half seasons, has been Sara, in my opinion.
He lied to us through song! I hate when people do that." -
WinterRavyn — 9 years ago(December 02, 2016 05:23 AM)
Stephen has better chemistry with David, than with Emily.
The only person I've remotely liked Oliver with over the last four and a half seasons, has been Sara, in my opinion.
^Basically this for me as well. I think it was mostly because the show didn't seem to be trying to convince anyone that what they had was some epic love or whatever. I think the harder the writers of this show try to convince the viewers that a pairing are in love or are "meant to be", the more forced it comes off to me. -
rvoight92 — 9 years ago(December 02, 2016 05:49 AM)
The only person I've remotely liked Oliver with over the last four and a half seasons, has been Sara, in my opinion.
Oliver and Sara have had the best chemistry of any of Ollie's romantic pairings thus far. I think that they work well together because they are both so damaged/lived through so many traumatic experiences. Sara is the only one who really knows what Oliver went through on the island. -
lilune79 — 9 years ago(December 01, 2016 05:30 PM)
To answer the OP yes Stephen and Emily do have amazing chemistry People who aren't big comic book fan enjoyed the chemistry and wanted to see more scene between them.
like critics who's job is to watch a show and criticize it base on how they like the characters, story line and how the entire show is enjoyable. sure they may or may not get on the super fan shipping but if you read prev reviews from earlier seasons they enjoy the dynamics between these 2 actors.
A few celebrities who enjoys the rapport and the romance between these 2 are- William Shatner (capt. Kirk) and Orlando Jones and even Stephen's cousin's new wife Italia Ricci loves the paring, among others.
Now Katie Cassidy and Stephen Amell did not mash well together when the show first start airing(the producers just gave Cassidy the job without doing a screen test between the 2 important leads.) Big mistake.
it had a lot to do with the horrible back story between the characters (banging her sister and countless women, including impregnating one) can make a girl bitter, bitchy and unforgiving and it was hard to like a character like Laurel.
To be fair by the time we get to S4 (and the 100th Epi )and having the actors work together for so long there was a nice rapport between them and it was soooo enjoyable to watch them interact with each other. Now people are saying OMG they have amazing chemistry, they should have rekindle their love for the love god go back and watch S1 &S2. it was not enjoyable to watch them on screen together. -
RightfulFireLordIroh — 9 years ago(December 01, 2016 10:30 PM)
Literally, and I mean literally in the literal sense, not the overused exaggerated sense. Literally none of the romantic pairings on this show where we have to suffer through the "will they wont they?" or the dating phase are convincing, or enjoyable. The only pairings that haven't been a pain to watch are the one's where the history is already there and they're either married, like Maseo and Tatsu, or Walter and Moira, or they're reconnecting and we don't see most of the reconnecting like Diggle and Lyla.
Put LeVar Burton on Money -
Dash99 — 9 years ago(December 02, 2016 12:16 AM)
Oliver looks like he's molesting his little sister when he's with Felicity. It's super awkward and they don't work at all in my opinion. If I had to pick he has the best romantic chemistry with Laurel, the 100th episode crossover I feel like is evidence of that. But I agree with people he's not a very good leading man in terms of chemistry with his female lead.
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dearcass — 9 years ago(December 02, 2016 04:47 AM)
I ended up reading this board before I saw the 100th episode and so I was expecting to see great chemistry between Oliver and Laurel. I 'm not a fan of the pairing but I honestly legitimately expected to see it and was kind of disappointed when I didn't. I watched their scenes a couple of times hoping to catchsomething.
I binge watched Arrow seasons 1-3 in a vacuum. I'd barely heard of the show before and I didn't read anything about it before or during that initial viewing. And I loved the Felicity character, loved the scenes with her and Oliver and during seasons 2 and 3 was really rooting for them to get together. All this with definitely no outside influence and supposedly no romantic chemistry between the two actors and supposedly no indications in story of a possible love interest situation.
So. What would you like to do now? Oliver Queen, Arrow -
lilune79 — 9 years ago(December 02, 2016 07:00 AM)
Well said dearcass
Those who were not influence by comics and message boards are the ones who enjoys the show and characters better. Like my friend who is a mother of 3 was able to binge watch all 3 seasons on netflix since her kids hold the tv hostage with cartoons. She enjoys the paring of O/F and like their rapport and also enjoys the team arrow dynamic.
Also keep on mind that when given the right material i.e a great story line many of the actors shine well together.
Oliver/ Thea all 5 seasons- S3 when he reveal he was the GA, 1/2 of S4 was amazing between them
Oliver/Diggle-same as above
Oliver/Laurel- S1-S3 their interaction were not enjoyable. My friend wanted to know why in gods and would Laurel take someone back who disrespected her by cheating and chose her sister 2x over her. S2 the hallway scene after the disaster family dinner, when he told he was done chasing- great scene between them. All their scene in S4 were enjoyable because they were given good material and the actors have a great rapport after 4yrs of coworkers.
Oliver/ Felicity- the network president loves her and her interaction with Stephen. S1/S2 good material = great scene between them. S3-The writers paint themselves in a corner with a crappy storyline and First half of S4 was good they had a mature relationship for like 7 episode then a nosedive, by then people were annoyed with the pairing, but the fandom put their hate on the female (Felicity) instead of both of them.since they both were given crappy matetials. SMH -
stargazer_1682 — 9 years ago(December 02, 2016 12:51 PM)
Those who were not influence by comics and message boards are the ones who enjoys the show and characters better.
Bull. I'm an avid fan of the comics, but when they brought on Sara in season 2, I made no hesitation to say, "screw it, let Sara being this iteration's take on the classic Black Canary." They did what I wouldn't have thought possible when they half-assed "Laurel", between changing her name and forgoing the necessary background to set her up become her costumed alter ego. They not only recast the role of Sara's sister, but they managed to find someone with the right look and screen presence to pull off the Black Canary; they also gave her the appropriate background, and nailed the perfect screen adaptation of her costume on the first try. And as I said previously, unlikely every other attempt at a romantic pairing between Oliver and anyone else, and in spite of any perceived expectations of who Oliver should end up with based on the comics; Stephen and Caity's dynamic on screen worked for me; well enough that I would not have cared if they completely ignored "Dinah Laurel Lance". Even Sara's romantic history with Nyssa didn't affect that; the show still maintained a love triangle between the three characters, and it remained a no different than if Sara was choosing between Oliver and another man, which is a solid way to go if you're going to make a character bisexual, or incorporate some form of sexual fluidity with her. She may legitimately be attracted to women, but her involvement with Oliver was never a cover or diminished in any way because of that. They didn't even specify or try to classify it; whereas now it's practically become a punch line, and Sara on Legends has become a caricature of herself.
After season 2, I did not event want Laurel to become any kind of superhero, because I had very little faith in that measuring to what they managed to do with Sara in season 2; and I was right. They completely screwed the pooch; killing Sara off like a punk, and Laurel as the official Black Canary in that ridiculous costume was an utter joke.
He lied to us through song! I hate when people do that." -
lilune79 — 9 years ago(December 02, 2016 02:41 PM)
Stargazer the general public who watches the show dont know or care that GA/BC are iconic couple. They did not care for them in prev seasons and enjoyed O/F relationship . Its the writers who ruin both relationship pairing. O/F and O/L
im glad as a comic book fan you were able to enjoy the show and not allowed obvious bias to ruin the enjoyment of the show. Cant say the same for other comic book fan who wont let it go when it comes to how certain characters and pairing are not quite the same as the comics.
The live action show is their own version of the GA mythology. What works in the comics probably wont work in live actions. You said it best Caity Lotz have the screen presence and natural athletic to pull of the black Canary role. Cassidy is good actor but lack the intimidation that caity brought on screen. Same for justin Hartley who played GA in smallville. He was able to pull off the charmer, easy going, playboy Oliver, but Amell own the Green Arrow "i will put the fear of god" intimidation.
Based on many threads about how from Wed epi cassidy and Amell had spicy chemistry etc like, they had a great scene plus many good ones from S4 but that does not mean it should be romantic. The writers fail on so many aspect of the show including the romance between the 2 leads and it
seems
to come from die hard comic book fans who keep on harboring on how awesome laurel is and death to her "replacement" Felicity.