Showing posts with label Black Lightning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black Lightning. Show all posts

Saturday, April 6, 2013

TV5 is Ripping Off Green Arrow with Robin Dude

I screamed profanities when I browsed the TV this afternoon when they show this were about to premiere entitled Robin Dude. Based on what I saw, the guy was running around rooftops and I assume he's fighting crime in the barrios.



What's wrong with this channel? I mean really? I'm greatful that they're pushing comic book/ superhero genre in the limelight but I think it's a bit pathetic that they're not even coming up with their own heroes. Rather, the station just greenlights stuff and then rip off everything. 

Case in point: Kidlat; the Derek Ramsay starrer which looks uncannily like DC's Black Lightning. 



If you're unfamiliar who this is based on, this is based on the DC character Green Arrow. A Justice League member and secretly Oliver Queen, a millionaire who operates in Star City. Going back to Robin Dude, I'm not really sure that this is going to be a TV series or it's a one-shot thing. What I do know is that it's the following:


  • It's riding on the popularity of CW's 'Arrow' starring Stephen Amell, which is a more legit TV series based on DC's Green Arrow. 
  •  I find it ridiculous that they took almost everything about the costume from the Smallville version of Green Arrow...

I'm actually surprised that they didn't even snag the same type of arrow and bow. 

Honestly, I'm appalled with this. Oh and I smell a lawsuit, scratch that, I'm half wishing they get slapped with a lawsuit for this one. 

Update 2: Yup it's a series apparently.

Robin Dude. pweh.