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Why Rene acting like he innocent of this?
Oh lawd Mia gotta go.
Such a great concept only mia messing it up.
Partly not her fault. The angry blonde teen daughter thing is tired
Partly not her fault. The angry blonde teen daughter thing is tired
Anybody notice the color scheme of Diggle jacket and shit?? 
The Monitor is a straight asshole.....
Im liking this season....
Im liking this season....
I dont like,how they're doing this Crisis event....I would have thought every show would be dealing with the event but it's only Arrow and Flash....
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Arrow alum Paul Blackthorne returning for multiple final season episodes
Chancellor Agard
6 days ago
Rudolph makes 1-handed catch of jump pass for TD
Mulvaney's move to join lawsuit rankles Bolton allies
Not even death can keep Quentin Lance away from the final season of Arrow.
© Jack Rowand/The CW
EW has confirmed that original cast member Paul Blackthorne, who played the former SCPD captain, is returning for multiple episodes in the CW superhero’s farewell eighth season. At the moment, the how of his encore is unclear given that Quentin is dead. TVLine broke the news of his return.
“We could not have a final season without @PaulBlackthorne,” Arrowshowrunner Beth Schwartz tweeted Monday morning.
For six seasons, Blackthorne starred as Laurel (Katie Cassidy) and Sara (Caity Lotz) Lance’s detective father who eventually went on to join Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) in the mayor’s office and succeeded Oliver as Star City’s mayor. His time on the show came to an end when Quentin died after taking a bullet for Laurel’s Earth-2 doppelgänger in the season 6 finale. His death set up Laurel’s season 7 redemption arc, which has culminated with her becoming a member of Team Arrow in season 8.
Arrow has a history of finding relatively plausible ways of bringing back characters who have perished. Since Tommy Merlyn’s season 1 finale death, Colin Donnell has returned several times in flashbacks, as a ghost/hallucination, and most recently, as an evil alternate-reality version of Tommy in the season 8 premiere. “Starling City” also featured appearances from Colin Segarra, Susanna Thompson, and John Barrowman, all of whom played characters who died. In other words, there are many ways for Quentin to pop back up on the show.
The news of Blackthorne’s return arrives several days after Stephen Amell revealed that recently departed series regular Emily Bett Rickards is returning as Felicity Smoak in the series finale, which began production last week. The final season of Arrow is turning into quite the homecoming.
After departing the show, Blackthorne went on to star on the recently-canceled NBC drama The InBetween.
Arrow airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. on The CW.
Chancellor Agard
6 days ago
Rudolph makes 1-handed catch of jump pass for TD
Mulvaney's move to join lawsuit rankles Bolton allies
Not even death can keep Quentin Lance away from the final season of Arrow.
© Jack Rowand/The CW
EW has confirmed that original cast member Paul Blackthorne, who played the former SCPD captain, is returning for multiple episodes in the CW superhero’s farewell eighth season. At the moment, the how of his encore is unclear given that Quentin is dead. TVLine broke the news of his return.
“We could not have a final season without @PaulBlackthorne,” Arrowshowrunner Beth Schwartz tweeted Monday morning.
For six seasons, Blackthorne starred as Laurel (Katie Cassidy) and Sara (Caity Lotz) Lance’s detective father who eventually went on to join Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) in the mayor’s office and succeeded Oliver as Star City’s mayor. His time on the show came to an end when Quentin died after taking a bullet for Laurel’s Earth-2 doppelgänger in the season 6 finale. His death set up Laurel’s season 7 redemption arc, which has culminated with her becoming a member of Team Arrow in season 8.
Arrow has a history of finding relatively plausible ways of bringing back characters who have perished. Since Tommy Merlyn’s season 1 finale death, Colin Donnell has returned several times in flashbacks, as a ghost/hallucination, and most recently, as an evil alternate-reality version of Tommy in the season 8 premiere. “Starling City” also featured appearances from Colin Segarra, Susanna Thompson, and John Barrowman, all of whom played characters who died. In other words, there are many ways for Quentin to pop back up on the show.
The news of Blackthorne’s return arrives several days after Stephen Amell revealed that recently departed series regular Emily Bett Rickards is returning as Felicity Smoak in the series finale, which began production last week. The final season of Arrow is turning into quite the homecoming.
After departing the show, Blackthorne went on to star on the recently-canceled NBC drama The InBetween.
Arrow airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. on The CW.
Had to rewind it back when I saw your post. Nice catch.Anybody notice the color scheme of Diggle jacket and shit??
Yeah....
This arrow daughter aint working
Something off about her.
Again his half sister should have been the one.
Amell is wonderful as always
And this would WORK if he lead the spin off.
This arrow daughter aint working
Something off about her.
Again his half sister should have been the one.
Amell is wonderful as always
And this would WORK if he lead the spin off.
She's not a likeable character, but it's the way she was written.
I don't know maybe you right.
Again Amell is KILLING IT
I feel like those father daughter moments should have been classic and she wasn't ready to bring it.
It could also be the lack of Felicity.
She comes off as a know it all, arrogant even when dealing with her father who's the king of this shit. She's nerve racking. There's no good quality to her so far. Where was Lil Digg this week though??
Lil dig was apparently spending time with family.
I just dont get her character...
She started off being a stereotypical estranged child character
But i was happy it didnt last long.
She looks the part and the chemistry is not bad its just...
I don't believe her.
Oh no!!!!!
Man oliver and diggle’s convo... almost got me.
Man I’m really going to miss this show. Like serious.
I was going to say something about last night's episode but ill keep it moving since it's the last season....
For whatever reason, they have a hard time writing women. For,years they shitted on Laurel until the season she died. And,when Earth-2 Laurel came they did a good job with her.
what the hell I fell TWO episodes behind cause I was so focused on CRISIS!!!
I fell behind on this cuz...
Real talk
you already know me and you the Dig and Ollie of this sh*t
That is maybe the BEST relationship on CW and maybe ALL superhero shows
outside Barry and Joe on the father and son vibe.
Those men NEED to be in another series together.
I feel like Amell DESERVES some type of award
and the writer of the groundhog day script needs to be made full time if they aint already
EVERY SINGLE scene with Amell seemed GENUINE and speaking like it wasn't about no crisis
it was talking about life the show the business the journey...
man I don;t want to get emothional up in here.
So they really think they can end this show without Deathstroke?
Arrow recap: Livin' in the future
By Chancellor Agard
January 21, 2020 at 09:28 PM EST
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“Green Arrow & The Canaries,” a backdoor pilot for a potential Arrow spin-off, definitely succeeds at its main purpose: getting me excited about watching an entire show about this. The episode does a good job of building on what Arrow has done before while also offering several new things and setting up some very interesting mysteries. That being said, as I watched, I couldn’t stop thinking about how odd it is that this is Arrow’s penultimate episode. When it ended, it didn’t feel like we were heading toward the series finale. Nevertheless, I still had a lot of fun watching it. Let’s dig in.
Written by Beth Schwartz, Marc Guggenheim, Jill Blankenship, and Oscar Balderrama, the episode opens with Laurel arriving in Star City 2040 and failing to stop Helena Bertinelli’s daughter Bianca from being kidnapped. Starting the hour with Laurel was a great decision; this is very much Katie Cassidy’s hour. Sure, this is an ensemble show, but Cassidy steals every scene with her hilarious and snarky performance as Earth-2 Laurel and livens up the already exciting proceedings. It seemed as though Cassidy was having the time of her life throughout the whole episode.
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After the cold open, the pilot introduces us to this new Star City. It turns out Star City has been crime-free for 20 years. That fact is repeated several times in the dialogue; however, it’s also conveyed visually. The grit of present-day Star City has been replaced by a glossy sheen, and the episode doesn’t spend time in any abandoned warehouses. Instead, every location looks and feels new and shiny.
Laurel heads to a bar called the Fishnet where she finds present-day Dinah playing a piano and singing. It turns out Dinah simply woke up in the future the day after Oliver’s funeral and has no idea how she got here. No one in the future knows who she is, so she just decided to open up a bar and chill. All of this bores Laurel, who needs Dinah’s help finding Bianca before she dies because her death apparently causes Star City to fall into chaos in 2041. So immediately, the episode sets up a couple of mysteries that I want answers to: How the hell did Dinah get here? How is Bianca’s death connected to Star City’s future?
With Dinah on board, it’s time to get their Green Arrow: Mia Queen. Except this Mia is completely different than the one we’ve known for the past season and a half. See, in this new post-“Crisis” timeline, Mia grew up with Felicity and William, lives a very comfortable life, is about to graduate college, and never went through any of those traumatic experiences the other version did. Not only that but Zoe is alive and Mia is engaged to JJ, who never became Deathstroke. All in all, it seems as though Oliver’s sacrifice gave Mia the perfect life.
Unfortunately, Mia’s life is turned upside down when Laurel and Dinah, whom she has never met, show up at her graduation party and use a device that restores all of her memories from the old timeline. Now, Mia has two sets of memories in her head, which makes things very awkward, especially for her relationship with JJ. And she’s not happy about having these memories back either because they’re painful and she’s not equipped to handle that trauma. Of course, Laurel doesn’t care and is focused on the mission at hand.
Even though Mia enjoyed not being a hero, she agrees to help the Canaries find Bianca. So, the trio starts investigating, which gives us a chance to see Mia use her newly acquired social skills to subtly question Bianca’s family. Eventually, they discover that Bianca’s cousin is moving something out of the city, and they go after the convoy. Unfortunately, someone in a Deathstroke mask shows up and attacks them.
With the arrival of Deathstroke, Laurel immediately assumes JJ is the one behind Bianca’s kidnapping. Even though Mia refuses to believe that, she still goes along with their plan to investigate him. When JJ catches her digging through his computer, she accuses him of kidnapping Bianca, which obviously ruins their relationship. JJ, who is blissfully unaware of what’s going on, assumes that this is symptomatic of Mia’s fear of commitment. So, he basically breaks things off because he’s tired of being kept at an arm’s distance.
Meanwhile, Dinah and Laurel work on finding Bianca’s location, which leads to them having a heart-to-heart. Cassidy and Juliana Harkavy have amazing chemistry, which is on full display in every scene in the episode but especially this one. There’s a warmth between them. Dinah wonders why Laurel is pushing Mia so hard to become the Green Arrow, and Laurel explains she doesn’t want Mia to make the same mistake she did by pretending to be someone she’s not. Eventually, Laurel decides to say all of that to Mia, who reveals that she hadn’t done anything with her life in this timeline because she didn’t know how she could possibly live up to her father’s legacy. Nevertheless, Mia agrees to help them because Laurel makes a point that she needs a purpose and this could be it.
So the trio suits up and heads out to save Bianca. It turns out her boyfriend Trevor is the one behind the Deathstroke mask and kidnapped Bianca at the behest of some mysterious woman. Alas, he dies before he can give up any more information about what he or his boss was planning. But before his death, Mia noticed he had a familiar tattoo on his wrist.
As the episode wraps up, Dinah decides to get up off of the sidelines and start the Canary Network with Laurel, and Laurel reveals she was so insistent on making sure Mia became the Green Arrow because somehow Mia is connected to Star City’s fall in 2041. Elsewhere, Mia and William visit their father’s memorial statue, and Mia realizes that Trevor’s tattoo matches the etchings on the Queen family’s hōzen. Right as she has that epiphany, a bunch of masked men knock her out and kidnap William. Meanwhile across town, another hooded figure breaks into JJ’s apartment and restores his memory of his past life, which can’t mean anything good.
Overall, I really enjoyed this episode. As I said above, it set up many interesting mysteries. I’m very intrigued by what this tattoo means and what will happen now that JJ’s memories are back. I really hope The CW orders this show because I want those answers. That being said, it’s weird that this is Arrow’s penultimate episode because it feels separated from the rest of the season, and I doubt that the series finale will actually pick up on any of the threads here.
Wall of Weird:
By Chancellor Agard
January 21, 2020 at 09:28 PM EST
FBTwitterMore
COLIN BENTLEY/THE CW
Arrow
B+
TYPE
- TV Show
GENRE
“Green Arrow & The Canaries,” a backdoor pilot for a potential Arrow spin-off, definitely succeeds at its main purpose: getting me excited about watching an entire show about this. The episode does a good job of building on what Arrow has done before while also offering several new things and setting up some very interesting mysteries. That being said, as I watched, I couldn’t stop thinking about how odd it is that this is Arrow’s penultimate episode. When it ended, it didn’t feel like we were heading toward the series finale. Nevertheless, I still had a lot of fun watching it. Let’s dig in.
Written by Beth Schwartz, Marc Guggenheim, Jill Blankenship, and Oscar Balderrama, the episode opens with Laurel arriving in Star City 2040 and failing to stop Helena Bertinelli’s daughter Bianca from being kidnapped. Starting the hour with Laurel was a great decision; this is very much Katie Cassidy’s hour. Sure, this is an ensemble show, but Cassidy steals every scene with her hilarious and snarky performance as Earth-2 Laurel and livens up the already exciting proceedings. It seemed as though Cassidy was having the time of her life throughout the whole episode.
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After the cold open, the pilot introduces us to this new Star City. It turns out Star City has been crime-free for 20 years. That fact is repeated several times in the dialogue; however, it’s also conveyed visually. The grit of present-day Star City has been replaced by a glossy sheen, and the episode doesn’t spend time in any abandoned warehouses. Instead, every location looks and feels new and shiny.
Laurel heads to a bar called the Fishnet where she finds present-day Dinah playing a piano and singing. It turns out Dinah simply woke up in the future the day after Oliver’s funeral and has no idea how she got here. No one in the future knows who she is, so she just decided to open up a bar and chill. All of this bores Laurel, who needs Dinah’s help finding Bianca before she dies because her death apparently causes Star City to fall into chaos in 2041. So immediately, the episode sets up a couple of mysteries that I want answers to: How the hell did Dinah get here? How is Bianca’s death connected to Star City’s future?
With Dinah on board, it’s time to get their Green Arrow: Mia Queen. Except this Mia is completely different than the one we’ve known for the past season and a half. See, in this new post-“Crisis” timeline, Mia grew up with Felicity and William, lives a very comfortable life, is about to graduate college, and never went through any of those traumatic experiences the other version did. Not only that but Zoe is alive and Mia is engaged to JJ, who never became Deathstroke. All in all, it seems as though Oliver’s sacrifice gave Mia the perfect life.
Unfortunately, Mia’s life is turned upside down when Laurel and Dinah, whom she has never met, show up at her graduation party and use a device that restores all of her memories from the old timeline. Now, Mia has two sets of memories in her head, which makes things very awkward, especially for her relationship with JJ. And she’s not happy about having these memories back either because they’re painful and she’s not equipped to handle that trauma. Of course, Laurel doesn’t care and is focused on the mission at hand.
Even though Mia enjoyed not being a hero, she agrees to help the Canaries find Bianca. So, the trio starts investigating, which gives us a chance to see Mia use her newly acquired social skills to subtly question Bianca’s family. Eventually, they discover that Bianca’s cousin is moving something out of the city, and they go after the convoy. Unfortunately, someone in a Deathstroke mask shows up and attacks them.
With the arrival of Deathstroke, Laurel immediately assumes JJ is the one behind Bianca’s kidnapping. Even though Mia refuses to believe that, she still goes along with their plan to investigate him. When JJ catches her digging through his computer, she accuses him of kidnapping Bianca, which obviously ruins their relationship. JJ, who is blissfully unaware of what’s going on, assumes that this is symptomatic of Mia’s fear of commitment. So, he basically breaks things off because he’s tired of being kept at an arm’s distance.
Meanwhile, Dinah and Laurel work on finding Bianca’s location, which leads to them having a heart-to-heart. Cassidy and Juliana Harkavy have amazing chemistry, which is on full display in every scene in the episode but especially this one. There’s a warmth between them. Dinah wonders why Laurel is pushing Mia so hard to become the Green Arrow, and Laurel explains she doesn’t want Mia to make the same mistake she did by pretending to be someone she’s not. Eventually, Laurel decides to say all of that to Mia, who reveals that she hadn’t done anything with her life in this timeline because she didn’t know how she could possibly live up to her father’s legacy. Nevertheless, Mia agrees to help them because Laurel makes a point that she needs a purpose and this could be it.
So the trio suits up and heads out to save Bianca. It turns out her boyfriend Trevor is the one behind the Deathstroke mask and kidnapped Bianca at the behest of some mysterious woman. Alas, he dies before he can give up any more information about what he or his boss was planning. But before his death, Mia noticed he had a familiar tattoo on his wrist.
As the episode wraps up, Dinah decides to get up off of the sidelines and start the Canary Network with Laurel, and Laurel reveals she was so insistent on making sure Mia became the Green Arrow because somehow Mia is connected to Star City’s fall in 2041. Elsewhere, Mia and William visit their father’s memorial statue, and Mia realizes that Trevor’s tattoo matches the etchings on the Queen family’s hōzen. Right as she has that epiphany, a bunch of masked men knock her out and kidnap William. Meanwhile across town, another hooded figure breaks into JJ’s apartment and restores his memory of his past life, which can’t mean anything good.
Overall, I really enjoyed this episode. As I said above, it set up many interesting mysteries. I’m very intrigued by what this tattoo means and what will happen now that JJ’s memories are back. I really hope The CW orders this show because I want those answers. That being said, it’s weird that this is Arrow’s penultimate episode because it feels separated from the rest of the season, and I doubt that the series finale will actually pick up on any of the threads here.
Wall of Weird:
- Apparently, Sara is the one who found Dinah in the future several months ago.
- Dinah lives in a clocktower, which is a cool homage to the Birds of Prey series.
- The Green Arrow and the Canaries vs. Deathstroke’s goons fight was so fun and dynamic and didn’t feel like just another Arrow fight scene.
Man You can tell that Stephen put in a lot of fucking work on this show and he burned himself out.
Man the more i see this type of shit from Stephen the more I feel like a minority of Arrow fans just didn't appreciate what this dude was doing... Kats forget that in the beginning he was doing all of his own stunts..
He had a legit Panic attack
Also... The fact that Michael Rosenbaum isn't on TV now is a fucking tragedy
Man the more i see this type of shit from Stephen the more I feel like a minority of Arrow fans just didn't appreciate what this dude was doing... Kats forget that in the beginning he was doing all of his own stunts..
He had a legit Panic attack
Also... The fact that Michael Rosenbaum isn't on TV now is a fucking tragedy
Let me know when you seen this new episode of green arrow and the canaries
I aint saying sh*t till you do
Holla at me @ansatsusha_gouki
I aint gonna give my opinions yet
However i appreciate the effort that is all for now
I might go back and rewatch the first two seasons of arrow...