On 19 Mar 98  12:56:12, David Harding said this to Stephen Turner.
It had Something to do with "Re: Green Arrow?".
DH> Hi, Stephen.
DH> 
ST> What kind of monstrous writer/artist team would have a character's
ST> ARMS ripped off at the shoulders??? You call THIS entertainment??
ST> You call THIS good "character development"?? I call it >!!
DH> 
DH>      And what you're calling "sick" NEVER happened.  He didn't get his
DH> arms ripped off.  He didn't take Superman up on his offer to amputate
DH> his arms.  He removed his arm from the device and it exploded.
Well, ex-CUSE me!!! This is SOOO much better than getting his arms "ripped"
off! Dude, when this character was in his prime, stuff like that didn't
happen! 
When did Jadarowsky ever start writing the breakdowns for these things?
ST> Why couldnt they just have Ollie getting old and infirm, passing
ST> on the mantle gently to his son, (BTW, where DID his son COME
ST> from!?) instead of THIS El Topo bull****??
DH> 
DH>      Consider what DC was trying to do.  Ollie Queen, like Hal Jordan,
DH> wasn't a young guy anymore.  DC wanted to introduce a younger
DH> generation Green Arrow (seeing as just about every other major DC
Always a mistake. Remember Robin? Speedy? Wertham? (g)
DH> character has one).  Are people going to give Connor Hawke a fair
DH> shake at being Green Arrow or are they gonna start WHINING about why
DH> the writers chose to retire Ollie (and I've seen plenty of that around
DH> here over the last year or so...  and that was after Ollie Queen's
DH> supposed DEATH)...  who, they're still convinced has a few good years
DH> in him yet?  I think we both know the answer.
No, I don't think we do! Sometimes it's not good to mess with something that 
was done well. 
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