Episode 01 definitely didn't WOW me, but as a new entry of the CWverse, I can dig it. Her backstory seems to be a lot lighter than that of the comics, which for some reason majority of the reviewers here assume CW inserted that in. She's always been this exact character with this exact background.
One major difference, is that after the whole military thing, she becomes an alcoholic and goes down the road promiscuity, and recovers herself by traveling the world and literally has a whole island arc like Oliver Queen before returning to Gotham. Which honestly, I'm glad she doesn't have flash backs to, because I hated that in Arrow.
With that said, I'm pretty hopeful for this series. It's nothing like those horrible trailers. A lot of those one-liners were not present, which I'm glad they weren't. Whoever worked on the episode did much better than whoever was in charge of trailers.
One major difference, is that after the whole military thing, she becomes an alcoholic and goes down the road promiscuity, and recovers herself by traveling the world and literally has a whole island arc like Oliver Queen before returning to Gotham. Which honestly, I'm glad she doesn't have flash backs to, because I hated that in Arrow.
With that said, I'm pretty hopeful for this series. It's nothing like those horrible trailers. A lot of those one-liners were not present, which I'm glad they weren't. Whoever worked on the episode did much better than whoever was in charge of trailers.