The CW's Upfront today featured the debut of footage from the network's five new series - including the DC Comics adaptation Arrow. The full trailers (which all ran several minutes long) are not available online, at least not yet, but clips are. Check them out below, along with my reactions to the trailers.

Arrow

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Emily Owens, M.D.

Note that CW have not put any footage online yet for their two midseason series, The Carrie Diaries and Cult - which is too bad, because the Cult trailer looked awesome to me. Dark, trippy, twisty and very cool.As far as recent DC adaptations go, this looked far more influenced by Batman Begins than Smallville. There are echoes of Begins in how Oliver Queen is seen returning home after being away a long time (though his absence was for very different reasons - Oliver's caused by an accident, that left him stranded on an island), as he begins his life as a superhero. The action looked very good and the re were some rather brutal moments, as it appears Oliver does not have a code about not killing his enemies. The full trailer also had a glimpse of the mask of a major DC villain seen at once point (no one was wearing it - it looked to be stuck on a spike or such on a beach). If you want to know who it is, check outabout it. Oh, and the full trailer made it clear he just calls himself Arrow, not Green Arrow.While the full trailer was perhaps more action-filled and violent than one might expect, it also had some very cliche and cheesy lines of dialogue given to poor Kristin Kreuk, like, "You look pretty good for a dead guy" and, "We are not done here!"Have you seen Grey's Anatomy? Because this sure feels familiar.