I love Ollie because he's so *honest*, even when he's being inconsistant. Even when he's changed his mind/gone off and done something else within ten seconds. It's why he can't keep a secret identity without *heavy* retcanonical obliviousness; beyond the beard, he's just so very much OLLIE, whether he's Green Arrow or not. He loves his people and his causes with *all* of him, even while he's constantly restless, always going to find new people and places--but he'll always love the people he loves, even after ignoring them for years on end.
Like Hal, he also struggles with being anachronistic; his character, official timeline or not, clearly came of age *before* the social movements of the sixties/seventies, and as fervently as he throws himself into them, there are always parts of them that are *still* the playboy he used to be. This comes out especially in his relationship to women; occasionally he crosses the line from 'gentlemanly' into 'chauvinistic', but he's *trying*, and with Dinah especially, he protects because he loves, so it's usually a loveable flaw rather than a bad one.
I love Ollie because he carries all the hasty, agressive, not-fully realized, charm and bluster of the 1970s.
I think you're the one I owe, so you get your choice.
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Date: 2006-03-02 11:32 pm (UTC)Like Hal, he also struggles with being anachronistic; his character, official timeline or not, clearly came of age *before* the social movements of the sixties/seventies, and as fervently as he throws himself into them, there are always parts of them that are *still* the playboy he used to be. This comes out especially in his relationship to women; occasionally he crosses the line from 'gentlemanly' into 'chauvinistic', but he's *trying*, and with Dinah especially, he protects because he loves, so it's usually a loveable flaw rather than a bad one.
I love Ollie because he carries all the hasty, agressive, not-fully realized, charm and bluster of the 1970s.
I think you're the one I owe, so you get your choice.