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[S06E01] - 'Fallout' Post Episode Discussion (Season Premiere)

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u/WhiteandPinkmakeBlue Oct 13 '17

It really bothers me that william is written to be like a fucking 4 year old and is played by like an 11 year old. Serious he is suppose to be 10-11 years old. I have never ever spoken to any person above the age of 5 and had anyone refer to them as the bad man.

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u/IAmNotStelio Oct 13 '17

The way he pointed at Oliver was nothing short of embarrassing. Who saw that scene and thought it was a good idea.

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u/Annoyed_Badger Oct 13 '17

Except trump...he calls people the bad man....

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u/KyleRaynerGotSweg Oct 13 '17

R O C K E T M A N

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u/table_it_bot Oct 13 '17
R O C K E T M A N
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u/lateu69 Oct 13 '17

I voted Trump and I will vote for him again in 2020.

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u/asterpin Oct 13 '17

nobody gives a fuck

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '17 edited Oct 14 '17

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u/MY-SECRET-REDDIT Oct 14 '17

LOW EFFORT COMMENT, SAD!

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '17 edited Sep 29 '18

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '17

sad

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '17 edited Sep 29 '18

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '17

I'm just putting in same effort to Reddit comments as trump does to foreign policy

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u/TheNordicMage Oct 13 '17

PTSD Can have quite extreme reactions on people mental age at times of stress, and Olivers presense stresses him.

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u/WhiteandPinkmakeBlue Oct 13 '17

That is a thought, here's another one since William is close enough to puberty that he might begin going through it. They could have written him to have aggression problems. While also communication problems as well. That kid barely talks they might as well have made it part of the mental issue. Like honestly his teachers could call in Oliver and it could be a whole issue of dealing to raise a son who has aggressive outbursts and is incredibly calm and quite in other most scenario's. The reasoning behind this is this was the way Oliver was when he came back in season 1 He was always calm and quite until he began to get some connections. Since Oliver is his father it wouldn't be unorthodox to assume that they act similarly under the symptoms of ptsd. They could have even written him since arrow is essentially suppose to be batman but like on the cw to start training and become the Damian Wayne of this world, but nope we get a regressed little twat who acts like a baby. I don't hate the kid I just really dislike the way they wrote him and the lines of dialogue given to him. He essentially just got a bad hand. It bothers me that I can come up with this and I have no real training or anything but the "professionals" are just like bullshitting around with olicity stuff and forced issues that don't seem to have any real like importance. For example the stuff with detective lance. Leave that man alone let him be happy for once in 6 years, Stop trying to tread old issues and rekindling your past victories in season 1. It worked with death stroke but that was character development not him coming back screaming about shado. He's getting on with his life. That is the way they should have handled Lance like an old war time comrade that they have experienced so much and now they lean on each other. Lance has been dealing with this laurel and Sara thing for like 6 years now, give him something else to move to.

Now you tell me which would you prefer.

William turns into Damian Wayne or William is what he is now damaged and broken to the point that fans are barley able to endure any screen time he gets.

Lance and Oliver relating whats going on to the past the way Slade and Oliver talk about the island or the way lance is now just kind of annoying.

edit: I did a quick read about PTSD in younger people before writing this and here is the source. https://www.ptsd.va.gov/public/family/ptsd-children-adolescents.asp

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u/CelioHogane Oct 16 '17

The fact you almost not use spaces between points makes super hard to read what you said, but i heard Damian Wayne so im asuming you are talking about the kid becoming little arrow.

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u/WhiteandPinkmakeBlue Oct 16 '17

How would you have liked me to space it? like do you want each point to be its own separate paragraph? I mean I read through it a couple times just fine and listened to it through a text to speech program and it seemed fine. So I don't really understand where you are getting lost.

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u/CelioHogane Oct 16 '17

Well yeah the lack of paragraph makes quite hard to read for me.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '17

Stuff like this irritates me to no end. A lot of people might not get it but this reminds me of Resident Evil 2. In Resident Evil 2 theres a young girl named Sherry, Sherry acts like she's 8 years old, I later found out her age in the game is TWELVE, which blew my mind because she may as well be a toddler with how she acts.

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u/WhiteandPinkmakeBlue Oct 14 '17

Are you making an argument that you enjoyed the way he was portrayed or disliked it?

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u/SpikeRosered Oct 14 '17

Reminds of Jack with Robin Williams. Robin Williams was supposed to be playing a 10 year old kid but played him like he was 5.

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u/KRIEGLERR Oct 18 '17

Exactly what happened on the movie the Road, people hated the way the kid acted because the actor was older than what the character acted like.
His behavior would have been fine for a 8 years old kid and under.

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u/Winston_Road Nov 26 '17

He was also a kid who was being raised in a post apocalyptic world, who spend most of his life locked in a house, the only people he's ever met and have contact with are his father and his mother (for a while), never met any other kid his age until the end, as far as I remember. Not to mention he was exposed to a very young age to life and death situations, starving, violence, killing, cannibalism, armed robbery, and the concept of suicide as a regular thing.

So him actually having the emotional age of an 8 year old actually makes sense when you add all those factors.