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I'm going by PB's comment about it being nice to have the Clauses at the Christmas party.

From PB's Facebook page. Nice to see Mr & Mrs Claus at the Arrow Christmas party. So the party was apparently held at the loft set. Which I don't know whether I find cute (at least one party held there without being crashed by a villain, presumably) or a bit on the you-couldn't-take-this-people-out-somewhere side of things. I also stumbled across this pic from last season. I at least haven't seen it before. This one takes me down a path where Felicity and Thea will make a pact to never, ever show Oliver photos from the bachelorette party.

There are some additional photos from EBR's shoot, but I'm just going to link to Tumblr posts so as not to clutter the thread. Songbin 1 Songbin 2 Felicitys 1 Felicitys 2

I read this spec on Tumblr about Laurel being shown protecting kids in both the season premiere and mid-season finale and this potentially being a clue towards her dying in protecting William. Now, I think this would suck so bad even for Laurel, but I haven't taken note of this and could it be that putting her with kids could mean more than just trying to make her likable? A direction for her character further in the season, Laurel's Basement for Lost Boys & Girls?

This is a lovely, seasonal gifset. Dig chillin' with the drugs waiting to be busted is my favorite. Tumblr

It's a really good interview. Even though I know she's young, it just hit me that she got this adult role at 21. When really, usually she would still be playing a teenager now four years in. What's Bello like usually? They really should pay more attention to polishing their articles before they go into press. Plus, it bothers me for some reason that they call them over the knee boots in the third picture posted. They obviously do not go over the knees. ETA: A few more pics:

Agreed. The one on the cover is a silly pose. She doesn't look that comfortable with it either. What are we going for here? The one you chose is lovely.

Oh, it's from Instagram, its not mine.

I'm not really sure this qualifies as fan art, but I'm procrastinating and it's making me giggle.

That's very rational. I'm not currently feeling like that, I just waaant Walter. Could be becuse I saw 1x06 last night where he's had it with Moira and hightails it to Australia.

Felicity: (sigh) Why can't we have nice things?

That would have actually been a good storyline then and gone into Moira's relationship with Oliver, probably Thea and, iwith Oliver and Felicity together, her as well. It would have made a ton of sense to do it were that the case. I went to check, and Walter's last appearance was in City of Blood, 2x21. Jesus, that's almost 40 episodes since we have seen him. Why? He's Thea's dad just as much as Robert and certainly more than Malcolm. And he called Oliver son after he was saved from his abductors. Why, why isn't he there? Have him drop by the hospital to see Felicity. After all, she came to visit him and joined the whole cause because of him. Really, here you have a cool guy with connections to three main characters. Use him.

A page out of Oliver's diary. Bonus: green pen. Tumblr

Yay, I've been waiting for these. PB truly does post the best bts photos. The hokey pokey?

Huh. I completely forgot about that as well. I though she was just introduced as "love interest" but I figured that could be anything from female on the island interacting with Oliver onwards. Okay, there are still 14 episodes left to the season, but nothing points in that direction so far. Where's Laurel's photo anyhow?

Well, I'm not really sure why two women Oliver loved were supposed to die to be honest. According to Slade, he lost Shado because of Oliver. But that was it. So was it like a morbid game of poker, I call one loved woman and raise you another? It's not the eye either, because Slade announced he would put an arrow through Oliver's eye once the second woman dies.

I bought Slade being in love with Shado, too. And before she was killed, he actually did really well on the unrequited love front. He never seemed to blame either her or Oliver for his feelings not being returned.

I was actually asking about this location.

What set are they on? I assume it's a set. Some more last day of filming pics.

Really? It looks like a lump to me. Its shape reminds me most of a compact bow, but that's not it either. Here's a bigger image without Malcolm in the way. I still don't know.

They're welcome to have him.

Since Oracle as the original title of The Secret Origin of Felicity Smoak has been brought up, what about Ninja as her code name? Shortened for Ninja Hacker Goddess as Cooper's roommate called her.

Well, now I definitely don't want Felicity paralyzed after a lame shooting. If anyone ends up in a wheelchair, it better be because of a demonic wonder dog. Just typing that brings a smile to my face.

That is an excellent point about Thea link Malcolm, and thus LoA, with the main plot. But you are right, they would contort themselves like crazy to keep Malcolm regardless.

Oh my God. That's sort of brilliant. Although I'm placing my bets on Donna. And if it is a genuine good person who finds out, I assume they would be understanding of Oliver, not encouraging him to go on lying. More, I get where you're coming from, rather than going, Rah, rah, go on wih the lying. Following up on that, not presenting whatever Felicity's feelings end up being ass wrong to her or anyone else, just giving another perspective on Oliver's actions. While on the subject, I'm betting he gets made the first time he tries to visit William after the crossover. There have been no reports of him and the mother shooting if I'm not mistaken.