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This sneak peak actually dealt with the emotional aftermath of something that happened in the previous episode? I think that's the first time it ever happens on the show. The fact that the episode was written by newbies is at the same time depressing and encouraging. Depressing because seasoned writers never bothered to ever give us that kind of aftermath. They always skip the important emotional beats. Encouraging because it means someone on the staff actually knows how to write human emotions/reactions.

After seeing the pictures/rumors on twitter I'm actually, for the first time in such a long time, excited about the show, it actually made me dust off my account here. I hope I won't be disappointed. I don't think CG ever said the cast hated EBR, just that he personally hates her and Felicity. Anyways, I don't think KC was fired, isn't she AK's wife business partner? My guess is her contract ended and/or they promised her another show/project to soften the blow.

I don't believe they'll ever let Oliver go evil but yes there's still a big difference between FB Oliver and s1 Oliver. Dark!Oliver is not as far as I'm concerned killing little children on his way to the supermarket and I think everyone agrees it's a CW show and it's a superhero show so obviously it's never going to go there, I don't expect it nor want it to. However the Oliver who left Hong Kong is not the Oliver who arrived in SC. He might have killed only bad guys in S1 but he did it without hesitation, without feeling bad about it. We even had the VO at the beginning if he was torn about it we would have known. In Hong Kong everytime he had to torture someone you could see how it affected him. So sure, Anatoli could give him the Bratva title without doing anything but that would be a waste of the storyline. We need to see how Oliver got so cold about taking another human being's life even if that person was a bad guy. We saw him kill people that were protecting a man who scammed people of money. I'm not judging him or anything, (I actually really liked the concept, very refreshing after Smallville and on the CW no less) but I'm not sure white collars' crime deserve the death penalty.

I never considered Jerry Maguire a rom-com even if it had all the clichés scenes. I never thought he was in love with her, even after his stupid speech, he just convinced me he didn't want to be alone. At least the writers on Arrow have convinced me Oliver is really in love with Felicity. I know he'll go dark eventually but in s2 they should have made him really do something messed up to Slade. Instead he supposedly chose Sara over Shado when we all saw that wasn't the case. Slade's motivation for revenge suffered from that. I know Oliver is the hero of the show but S1 started with a pretty crazy murderous Oliver. I just hope they don't keep on shying away from that part of him. Maybe they're waiting for s5 to make him go really dark though. I was not thinking rape or selling kids in the black market but Oliver is a Bratva captain. He had to have done a few questionable things to get there. Just like Sara being part of the LOA meant she was an assassin for some time.

I want Oliver to go very dark in the FB and I hope they don't shy away from that. I want him to go dark and enjoy it and be disgusted with himself for enjoying it. In 3x01 he talked about not trusting people but we haven't seen that in the FB yet, so him no trusting that woman and betraying her/using her could be interesting. They could constrast it with F/O being a team and making decisions together

I didn't really know KC either, remembered her a little from a few episodes I saw of Melrose Place and it's true I think SA totally eclipsed her now but she's still a Cassidy and people who don't watch Arrow probably have no idea who EBR is.

I think Jen was supposed be much more important. I always got the feeling they wanted to keep the love triangle longer (a Some kind of Wonderful series) but then changed their mind and it showed because in s2 they didn't really know what to do with Jen and put her in an alcohol fueled downward spiral. Anyways, in Arrow I don't think they'll ever change the billing. KC is still the biggest name.

Remember when Tommy thought Oliver hadn't gotten laid in 5 years? Good times. The way Oliver reacted I always thought he had various relationships while away. I just don't think, given the way he was haunted by Shado's death, they are going to repeat the "she died because of me" theme. However knowing Oliver he probably cared for that woman too, because in s1 it looked like he fell for every girl he dated. Anyway, I'm not sure I like MG's idea to use that past relationship to contrast with the one with Felicity because I'm afraid they won't resist cutting from a loving scene of F/O in bed to a purely sexual scene in bed with Oliver and that woman. That's just not something I want to see.

Maybe he'll be sleeping with her to get information.

That is something I never bought, Oliver being in love with Laurel and even less being childhood friends. The way he treated her (and still does actually) isn't the way you treat someone you love, someone you respect, someone you were friend with.

Dawson's Creek made a big change between S1 and S2. In S1 It was James Van Der Beek, Michelle Williams, Joshua Jackson then Katie Holmes and in S2 Katie Holmes took Michelle Williams' place and got 2nd billing, making Michelle third. I'm not sure what they were planning before but it seemed like Joey was a hit and they decided to focus on the D/J lovestory. So yeah it happens even without having to kill a character. They basically changed the leading lady.

Yeah, seems like Felicity holds grudges only towards people who hurt people she cares about, not herself.

I never bought they were ever friends, but selling out a person you loved half your life who's been trying to protect the city up until recently for an assassin who kidnapped your mother because you had a milkshake together? That's cold and doesn't speak well of her sense of loyalty. I wouldn't want someone like that on my team. Do not get me started on her saying Lyla's life was worth Nyssa's. I think they should have put Diggle and Felicity on the list because even if they didn't share a lot of scenes together, the one when they think they're dying and Felicity tells him she doesn't regret anything because she got to know him was really touching and believable. They should separate romantic pairing and platonic ones for next time.

We never really saw her in a relationship apart from Palmer, so I'm really hoping it's not the way she is when in a relationship and it was only the writers wanting to have the break up in 3x20. I don't know if it was the power dynamic (him being her boss) but she didn't even get to be angry with him after they got together. She's always been her own person with Oliver, and she's never been afraid to speak her own mind with him. Hoping the writers don't change that.

Thea, Roy and Sin were on it first so they could have kept on digging. And Quentin could have been Sara's cheerleader.