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Oliver & Felicity are up against D.J. & Steve (Fuller House) in Round 1 of Zimbio's TV Couples March Madness Challenge - Round 1 closes on Sunday, March 6, at 9pm PST... http://www.zimbio.com/brackets/TV+Couples+March+Madness+2016

TV Fanatic round table discussion of 415 (incidentally, "Jay" is Jay Ruymann - the same guy who wrote all those articles defending Laurel on UntitledTV.com)... Arrow Round Table: Team Oliver or Team Felicity? Carissa Pavlica at March 1, 2016 3:00 pm http://www.tvfanatic.com/2016/03/arrow-round-table-team-oliver-or-team-felicity/

DC All Access interview with Flarrow composer Blake Neely (starts at around 2:30 mark)... -- For Arrow music, he got the idea to use only instruments that were "bowed". -- He also talks about music for Flash and Supergirl. The Flash, Arrow & Supergirl Music + New Batman v Superman Collectible Published on Mar 1, 2016, by DC Entertainment

Box Angeles podcast interview with Echo Kellum... BA #118: Echo Kellum 21 February 2016 https://soundcloud.com/boxangeles/ba-118-echo-kellum

For all we know, Alex Kingston may be filming only the flashback scenes for Sara's funeral, and Dinah may not show up for the present day funeral at all.

Wizard World's Philadelphia Comic Con, June 2-5, 2016 (Philadelphia, PA) Stephen Amell, John Barrowman and Alex Kingston (also Arthur Darvill) http://wizardworld.com/comiccon/philadelphia

Apologies that Should've Been Made in 415 But Weren't: Oliver (to Felicity) - "I'm sorry I didn't tell you about William. I'm sorry I lied to you about [whatever excuse used when traveling to Central City]. I'm sorry I shut you out." Oliver (to Diggle, Felicity, Laurel and Thea) - "I'm sorry I told Samantha about your secret identities and the location of our lair without getting your agreement first." Oliver (to Laurel) - "I'm sorry I cheated on you and lied to you when we were dating 10 years ago." Samantha (to Oliver) - "I'm sorry I lied to you 10 years ago when I told you our baby died. I'm sorry I kept our son a secret from you for 10 years. I'm sorry I made you promise not to tell Felicity about William as a condition to seeing your son." Samantha (to Felicity) - "I'm sorry I made Oliver promise not to tell you about William in order for him to see his son, when I knew it would damage your relationship." Thea (to Felicity) - "I'm sorry I encouraged my brother to continue lying to you and deceiving you about his son, when I know better than anyone how much it hurts to have those I love lie to me and keep secrets from me." Any others?

The only reason I suggested that there might be another BC is that maybe the EPs would try to appease the comics BC fans - like, 'see, Laurel might be dead, but BC will live on.' I mean, from what I understand, comics canon has multiple versions of superheroes and universes. We know that the DC Rebirth will include new titles for Birds of Prey but not Black Canary. Maybe the new BoP will be a next generation version. Morrigan2575, I would be thrilled if you got the chance to say "I told you so." :)

As previously reported, TV critic Laura Hurley co-hosted a panel on superheroes and shipping at Wizard World's Cleveland Comic Con this past weekend. Here's her report from Day 1 (the day before her panel) where she writes about looking to see if they had Felicity's funko pop... Day 1 of Wizard World Cleveland Feb 26, 2016 6:50 pm http://laurawritesabout.tumblr.com/post/140054471796/day-1-of-wizard-world-cleveland

I'm not saying the death isn't Laurel... I'm just saying that I'll believe it when I see it.

I agree that the latest spoilers narrow the grave suspects down to Quentin and Laurel. I'm still not totally convinced that the death is Laurel, though. The absence of any pics showing a blonde Laurel and/or Donna at the present day funeral could be easily explained - for example, 418 ends with a scene where Quentin, Donna and Laurel are together when they're attacked and left for dead; and then 419 opens with one character dead while the other two are in the hospital, too critically injured to attend a funeral. Donna being in the hospital could also help explain Felicity's extreme anger in the limo. One CR tweet kinda hinted that she was returning to film while 418 was shooting*, and another CR tweet outright stated that she was returning to film while 419 was shooting. So it's possible that Donna is in 417, 418 and 419. (* On Feb. 18, 2016, CR tweeted: "Nooooo @EmilyBett -I want to Nemo w/ you!! ❤ We'll have Nemo pajama party next week!" ) The only actual things tipping the scale in favor of Laurel appear to be two papp reports (Canadagraphs and Steve Ginsburg of AKM-GSI photo agency). But it's also possible these papps were fooled by deliberate misdirection by the EPs. If, however, the EPs do kill off Laurel, then I wouldn't be surprised if 419 contains a hint that someone else might take up the Black Canary mantle in the future - for example, Madison McLaughlin's character. She could be Nyssa's protege - someone Nyssa rescued and is training to fight. Maybe she tells Nyssa that she wants to be like her, but Nyssa tells her that she (Nyssa) has too much darkness in her and that she would do better to look to Laurel as her role model - someone with light inside her and who died heroically fighting for others as the Black Canary. Should that happen, that wouldn't necessarily mean that there would be any future romance with Oliver. Aside from the 'ick' factor, Oliver has already romanced two different women on the show who each played a variation of the Black Canary.

This is an interesting article (for more than just the CW show discussion)... What the Winter TCA's and Birth of a Nation Revealed About Netflix and the Future of Television By Abbey White | February 28, 2016 | 12:36pm http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/02/what-the-winter-tcas-and-birth-of-a-nation-reveale.html

'Arrow' Season 4: 3 Reasons Oliver And Felicity Should Stay Separated Until Season 5 [VOTE] Peter Anthony Feb, 27, 2016, 02:00 PM http://www.designntrend.com/articles/70946/20160227/arrow-season-4-3-reasons-oliver-and-felicity-should-stay-separated-until-season-5-vote.htm

Another Den of Geek review of 415 - this time written by Caroline Preece... Arrow season 4 episode 15 review: Taken Caroline Preece 29 Feb 2016 - 13:00 http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/arrow/39140/arrow-season-4-episode-15-review-taken

CR at Elton John's Oscar Party... https://www.facebook.com/Charlotte.Ross.Official/

Here's the entire Riverdale cast... https://twitter.com/RapaportCasting/status/703390809136058368

New additions to the Heroes & Villains FanFest-Chicago... https://www.facebook.com/HeroesFanFest/photos/a.546922688779678.1073741828.535055039966443/621010598037553/?type=3&theater https://twitter.com/heroesfanfest/status/704003248173101056

Camila Mendes has been cast Veronica in Riverdale... ‘Riverdale’ CW Pilot Finds Veronica by Nellie Andreeva • February 26, 2016 5:16pm http://deadline.com/2016/02/riverdale-archie-comics-pilot-veronica-camila-mendes-cw-1201710249/

PB has posted more b-t-s pics from the Arrow set (I've posted the EBR ones below): https://twitter.com/PaulBlackthorne/status/704041166346518528 https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.479258488951978.1073741899.171286136415883&type=3

Presumably on Oscar night... https://twitter.com/caitylotz/status/704170563112083456

KC's hair is blonde again. See Social Media thread.

About 7 or 8 hours ago, KC posted a short video clip and also a pic of her and her boyfriend walking down a hotel corridor with the hashtag #oscars. Her hair looks blonde with brown roots. https://www.facebook.com/OfficialKatieCassidy/?fref=nf

Craig Wack (Pajiba) and Tatiana Torres talk about Arrow 415 (starts at 1:40:40, you can drag cursor forward and audio will pick right up)... Agents of GEEK podcast Episode 17 Posted on 02/26/2016 http://agentsofgeekpodcast.com/wordpress/ -- Craig said it was another episode that "just laid there until the last 2 or 3 minutes." -- Tatiana said there was some good stuff but some "horrible stuff". She is also "so done with the island." -- Tatiana: "It was almost kinda silly how fast her legs worked." -- Craig was surprised at how quickly they broke up Oliver & Felicity considering how well they portrayed the couple, but now fears they will now go back to "the depths of season 3" when Felicity was completely defined by her relationship with Oliver.

These articles are all interpreting the leaked funeral pics to mean that Quentin is the one in the grave (and that PB came to set both with and without his wig to throw off fans)... SPOILERS: Revealing ARROW Set Photos Reveal Who Is And Isn't In That Grave Josh Wilding 02/28/16 http://www.comicbookmovie.com/dc_tv/arrow/spoilers-revealing-arrow-set-photos-reveal-who-is-and-isnt-in-that-a131544 Spoiler Alert! 'Arrow' Set Photos Reveal Who's in the Grave In NewsFebruary 29, 2016 10:20:35 GMT http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00094757.html 'Arrow' Season 4 spoilers: Grave set photos reveal who is going to die By Sachin Trivedi @sachintrivedig on February 29 2016 9:12 PM http://www.ibtimes.com.au/arrow-season-4-spoilers-grave-set-photos-reveal-who-going-die-1506591

As previously posted, Laura Hurley (Examiner, CinemaBlend, WhatCulture) is co-hosting a panel on superheroes and shipping this weekend at Wizard World's Cleveland Comic Con (hope someone records and posts on youtube)... http://wizardworld.com/comiccon/cleveland/programming-cleveland.html I wonder if she'll still have time to write her usual in-depth review of 415? I hope so.