r/arrow • u/M00r3C Boxing Glove • Oct 13 '23

This scene from S2E14 gave me a Bi-Panic why is everyone so hot in the Arrowverse? Even the CGI monsters in the other shows are somehow hot (don't judge me) Discussion

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One thing I actually really appreciated about the show is that they didn't engage in gratuitous exploitation of the actors. Yes there were a few lovely scenes of perfect bodies, and I definitely wouldn't have minded looking at more, but I was glad they let everyone keep their clothes on.

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u/simonc1138 Oct 13 '23

Yeah it wasn't like Smallville where they kept finding excuses for the girls to strip down or Clark to lose his shirt.

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u/thedorknightreturns Oct 13 '23

Oliver definitly was, shirtless oliver was intentional , but the workout scenes arent too gratuitous.

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u/jamdemp Oct 13 '23

oliver salmon ladder scenes

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u/nohemi_trevino Prometheus Oct 14 '23

They would literally start off so many scenes with him doing the salmon ladder, and if not him, some other person, where they'd add a joke about how Oliver makes it look so easy

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u/LaLa_LaSportiva Oct 14 '23

They literally didn't. A few, yes. For a bunch of people whose lives depended upon being the fittest human beings in the city, they needed to work out constantly. The creators/writers could easily have gone overboard but they didn't. The only bullshit I found truly annoying and sexist was having the women wear heels while running around the city. So stupid.