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Full MB/DN/CC panel at Paris Manga & Sci-Fi Show on Sep. 30 (questions were all in French, of course, but MB and DN answered in English) - warning: spoilers...

Paris Manga & Sci-Fi Show 24 - Manu Bennett, Colin Cunningham et David Nykl (30 09 2017)
Published on Oct 4, 2017, by Tribulations Chimériques

-- MB talked about how he got the role of Slade Wilson on Arrow (same story that he's told at previous cons about how he choked the guy into unconsciousness during his audition).

-- For Stargate fans: CC said that he originally auditioned for the part of Daniel but didn't get it, and then the part of Major Davis came up and he worked ten times as hard to get it.

-- MB talked about Peter Jackson and working on The Hobbit.

-- (Question was in French) MB: "Well, the truth, the truth, my friend. Ready? Here we go, here we go - the truth is, DC created Slade Wilson. And then Marvel created Wade Wilson... But Deathstroke is the original." He also said that they should put the two characters together in one film, either as friends or as enemies.

-- When asked if he ever competed with SA on the salmon ladder and if so, who won, MB said that "David slaughtered him" and then said that SA is "really super fit" and on "top of his game." MB also said that he has a shoulder tear (from working on Spartacus) and now is out of the salmon ladder.

 

-- MB: "The new storyline on Arrow is, uh - you know, at the end of Season 5, you know, Slade was asked to help Oliver out to find his son, to help get his son back. Uh, so, in Season 6, uh, Slade asks Oliver if he'll ask him - if he'll help him to find his son. So what Season 6, the Deathstroke/Slade Wilson character is about, is that he has a son called Joe - Joe Wilson. And, uh - yeah, Joe's a bit of a naughty boy. And, uh - but it's a really well-written two episodes. It's going to be episodes 5 and 6 of Season 6. It's called 'Deathstroke Returns' and then episode 6 is called 'Promises Kept.' And it's a very interesting new take on Slade Wilson/Deathstroke, but the relationship with his son is something that's opening up a whole new can of worms and a whole bunch of new storylines. There's a mention of Slade Wilson's wife - or ex-wife - another son as well. So, I think they're opening up kind of new avenues in which to take the Slade Wilson/Deathstroke sort of storyline. Yeah."

-- DN talked about the evolution of the Anatoly character on Arrow and how he was brought back on the show. He also said that the EPs keep things close to their chest and that it's a constant surprise what happens to his character. Per DN, Anatoly was originally a prisoner and friend of Oliver, but they are "becoming enemies."

-- MB: "I never thought that they could repair the relationship between Oliver and Slade after Slade killed his mother. You know, usually when you kill somebody's mother, that kinda puts the end of that friendship. But somehow they managed in one episode at the end of the 5th season to dispel the whole idea that Slade was evil on the basis that the mirakuru wore off. And what's happening in Season 6 is furthering that kind of return to sort of an eye-to-eye level between Oliver and Slade. You know, the deflection now is about Slade's son, Joe."

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That Big Belly Burger promo was cute, but I can't believe they didn't include a clip of Felicity delivering a BBB to the Merlyn Global security guard in 122. That entire sequence is still one of my favorite things on this show ever.

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Full DN/CC panel at Paris Manga & Sci-Fi Show on Oct. 1 (I transcribed a few bits that I found interesting)...

Paris Manga & Sci-Fi Show 24 - Colin Cunningham et David Nykl (01 10 2017)
Published on Oct 4, 2017, by Tribulations Chimériques

-- DN:"The tough thing about acting is finding the work... When you are doing it, then it is the best job in the world, because you can be anyone that you want to be."

-- When asked what he would do if he could change Falling Skies, CC: "Yeah, I would change it so that it didn't suck... The show started off really good, and we had so many new writers would come in, and it lost its way. And by the end of it, I don't know what happened with the last season. And I don't think I'm hurting anyone's feelings - if any of you were watching - it was just - it just kinda - it got weird... it was hard, but - yeah."

-- About Amanda Tapping, DN: "She is a consummate professional and has this ability to put everybody that she works with at ease." (CC had told this story at his other panel about how he kept messing up and then AT was messing up, and he learned later that she never messes up but was doing it on purpose to make him feel better.)

-- DN: "Arrow is, like every other show, filmed in Vancouver... And I'm not really Russian."

 

When asked about what's going to happen in S6 of Arrow, DN: "All I can say is that Oliver and I are not friends any more. And that's a big problem for him."

-- DN said that he's going to Prague this week for a "potential project... so fingers crossed."

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Based on the tweeted excerpts that I've read from the above book, I would disagree, however, on one point: I think that some of these essays give the fans too much influence on the show's shifting of Oliver's romantic pairing from Laurel to Felicity. These essays overlook the failure of the Oliver-Laurel pairing on its own merits and the lack of chemistry between SA and KC.

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4 minutes ago, tv echo said:

Based on the tweeted excerpts that I've read from the above book, I would disagree, however, on one point: I think that some of these essays give the fans too much influence on the show's shifting of Oliver's romantic pairing from Laurel to Felicity. These essays overlook the failure of the Oliver-Laurel pairing on its own merits and the lack of chemistry between SA and KC.

So really we owe Katie and Stephen, they did us all a solid ;) 

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I'd argue that fan support could have helped (in a "Look, network execs, it's not just us, this shift actually has some audience support, here's some numbers and reviews" way), but yeah way more went into it than just fans, but the "fans made Olicity happen" narrative has been going on for years now. 

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Wait, are folks still trying to push that old saw that fans pushed Olicity when it's been stated by the writers, showrunners, actors, network, everybody and their brother, sister, cousins aunts uncles,grandparents that the dailies they saw before the audience ever saw a minute of SA and EBR screentime is why they started writing towards Olicity and away from non existent Lauriver?

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Lots of shows have very popular fan pairings that never get more than a tease or hint, producers/network are happily doing what they want to. Same in this scenario, they'd already made ERB recurring and were probably plotting out how to bring her into the team before the show even aired 103. If Lauriver and Tommy/Laurel/Oliver had worked out as originally planned they wouldn't have needed to drastically change direction and Olicity would most likely be a popular but non canon ship. They sped up the Oliver and Laurel hook up to the end of S1. Seriously, it comes very quickly, they were muddling along with a long plotline and boom! suddenly Laurel and Tommy are broken up, Lauriver have sex, Tommy dies, Lauriver decide never to get back together again. That normally takes at least 3 seasons for an "end game pairing" and it's over by the beginning of S2. It can't have been random fan pressure that kickstarted their date in S3 or if it was the fan pressure had been building since their first scene together which means it didn't come out of nowhere and certainly wasn't random. But as I said, it takes more than shippers to get a show to course correct so massively when they still want/have to hang on to the other actress who is a much bigger CW name and is really pushing for her BC/LI role. 

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Fan Expo Vancouver is shaping up to be a major Arrowverse con - updated guest list (so far)...

Fan Expo Vancouver, November 10-12, 2017 (Canada)
Stephen Amell, David Ramsey, Paul Blackthorne and Neal McDonough (also Grant Gustin, Candice Patton, Tom Cavanagh, Carlos Valdes, Danielle Panabaker and Caity Lotz)
http://fanexpovancouver.com/guests/

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Blake Neely's Arrow S5 sountrack has been released - you can purchase or just listen to audio snippets at iTunes or Amazon - see links below (I think Track 23-"Not Saying Never" and Track 24-"Because I Liked It" were for Ep. 520)...

Arrow: Season 5 (Original Television Soundtrack)
Blake Neely   October 10, 2017
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/arrow-season-5-original-television-soundtrack/id1292108594

Arrow: Season 5 (Original Television Soundtrack)
Blake Neely  October 10, 2017
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B076BB6BWZ/ref=dm_ws_sp_ps_dp

1  Back With a Vengeance / Meet Tobias Church  (1:45)
2  Time to Hang Up the Hockey Mask  (1:36)
3  Bratva Brothers  (1:29)
4  On the Line!  (2:09)
5  Everyone Left  (2:51)
6  Team Fights Church / Wild Dog Taken  (2:25)
7  Penance  (2:54)
8  Prometheus  (2:15)
9  So It Begins  (2:28)
10  Who is Vigilante?  (3:10)
11  Lance Goes to Rehab  (2:04)
12  Invasion of Old Enemies and Friends  (4:11)
13  Goodbye Laurel / Leaving the Hallucination  (2:31)
14  Escaping Alien Ship / Building a Weapon  (2:11)
15  Thinning the Herd  (2:03)
16  Get Far Away From Me  (3:10)
17  Laurel, not Laurel  (2:47)
18  Lunch with Kovar / Anatoly Becomes Pakhan  (4:27)
19  Rene’s Loss  (2:56)
20  Home of the Brave  (2:31)
21  Cemetery Confrontation  (1:57)
22  Talia Connection  (3:03)
23  Not Saying Never  (3:12)
24  Because I Liked It  (3:27)

25  Shutting it Down  (1:49)
26  Have to Find Another Way  (3:29)
27  Lured Back to the Island One Last Time  (4:01)
28  Your Son is Dead  (2:15)
29  Blown Away  (2:24)

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6 hours ago, Angel12d said:

I feel tired just watching EBR work out. JFC.

Preach.   I work out constantly and i look at her videos and feel exhausted.   She's also working I assume 40 plus,  like damn girl take a nap. 

 

@tvecho thanks for bolding the tracks that I'd want to listen to. 

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Here's my Arrow S6 social media list (warning: includes old, new and possible returning cast members, so skip this post if you don't want to know)..

Official CW Arrow 
https://twitter.com/CW_Arrow
https://www.facebook.com/CWArrow
http://thecwarrow.tumblr.com/
https://instagram.com/cw_arrow/

Arrow Writers Room
https://twitter.com/arrowwriters
https://www.instagram.com/arrowwriters/

Arrow Production Office
https://twitter.com/ArrowProdOffice

Greg Berlanti
https://twitter.com/GBerlanti

Andrew Kreisberg
https://twitter.com/AJKreisberg

Marc Guggenheim
https://twitter.com/mguggenheim
http://marcguggenheim.tumblr.com/

Wendy Mericle 
https://twitter.com/MericlesHappen

James Bamford (Arrow producer/director)
https://twitter.com/JamesBamford
https://www.instagram.com/james2bambamford

Mark Bunting (Arrow 1st AD and director)
https://twitter.com/mrkbunting

Ben Sokolowski (Arrow producer/writer)
https://twitter.com/thesoko

Brian Ford Sullivan (Arrow executive story editor and writer)
http://www.twitter.com/briforsul

Beth Schwartz (Arrow co-executive producer and writer)
https://twitter.com/SchwartzApprovd

Corey Robson (Arrow cinematographer)
https://twitter.com/coreyrobson
http://coreyrobson.com/

Blake Neely (Arrow composer/conductor)
https://twitter.com/cowonthewall

Andy Poon (Arrow concept illustrator)
https://twitter.com/andypoondesign

Stephen Amell
https://twitter.com/stephenamell
https://www.facebook.com/stephenamell
https://www.instagram.com/stephenamell/

Emily Bett Rickards
https://twitter.com/emilybett
https://www.facebook.com/emilybettrickards/
http://instagram.com/emilybett

David Ramsey
https://twitter.com/david_ramsey
https://www.facebook.com/davidpaulramsey
http://instagram.com/davidpaulramsey

Willa Holland
https://twitter.com/willaaaah
https://www.instagram.com/willaaaahh/

Paul Blackthorne
https://twitter.com/paulblackthorne
https://www.facebook.com/OfficialPaulBlackthorne

Echo Kellum
https://twitter.com/echok
https://www.facebook.com/EchoKellumActor/
https://instagram.com/echokells/

Rick Gonzalez
https://twitter.com/officialrickg

Juliana Harkavy
https://twitter.com/JulianaHarkavy
https://www.instagram.com/julianaharkavy
http://www.julianaharkavy.com/

Katie Cassidy
https://twitter.com/MzKatieCassidy
https://www.facebook.com/OfficialKatieCassidy/
https://instagram.com/katiecassidy

Kirk Acevedo
https://twitter.com/kirkacevedo

Tom Amandes
https://twitter.com/tom_amandes

Audrey Marie Anderson
https://twitter.com/aud_anderson
https://www.instagram.com/Audrey_MarieAnderson

John Barrowman
https://twitter.com/johnbarrowman
https://www.facebook.com/JohnBarrowmanMBE/
http://www.johnbarrowman.com/
http://www.barrowmanbooks.com/

Manu Bennett
https://twitter.com/manubennett 

Dominic Bogart
https://twitter.com/dominicbogart

Joe Dinicol
https://twitter.com/joedinicol
https://www.instagram.com/joedinicolofficial/

Michael Emerson
https://twitter.com/MichaelEmerson 

Gaalen Engen
https://twitter.com/gaalenengen
https://www.instagram.com/gaalenengen/

William Franklyn-Miller 
https://twitter.com/willfmofficial

Kathleen Gati
https://twitter.com/gatitweet

Liam Hall
https://twitter.com/_liamh_
https://www.instagram.com/liamhall_/
https://www.facebook.com/liamhallactor/

Colton Haynes
https://twitter.com/coltonlhaynes
https://www.instagram.com/coltonlhaynes
https://www.coltonhaynes.com/

Tobias Jelinek
https://twitter.com/tobiasjelinek

Kris Holden-Ried
https://twitter.com/KrisHolden_Ried
https://www.instagram.com/kris_holden_ried/

Adrian Holmes
https://twitter.com/adrianholmes  

Ashton Holmes
https://twitter.com/ashtonholmes
https://www.instagram.com/ashtonholmes

Tina Huang
https://twitter.com/tinahuang

Chenier Hundal
https://twitter.com/ChenierHundal
http://www.chenierhundal.com/

Katrina Law
https://twitter.com/katrinalaw
https://instagram.com/katrinalaw

Madison McLaughlin
https://twitter.com/MadisonMcLaugh

Jack Moore
[no twitter account]
https://www.instagram.com/jackmoore003/

David Nykl
https://twitter.com/dnykl 
https://www.instagram.com/dav.nyk/

Sydelle Noel
https://twitter.com/sydelle_noel
http://instagram.com/sydellio

Carly Pope
https://twitter.com/pope_onarope

Cody Rhodes
https://twitter.com/CodyRhodes

Evan Roderick
[no twitter account?]
https://www.instagram.com/eroderickanderson/

Kacey Rohl
https://twitter.com/KaceyKadoodles

Charlotte Ross
https://twitter.com/charlotteross

Johann Urb
https://twitter.com/urbjohann
https://www.instagram.com/urbjohann

Pej Vahdat 
https://twitter.com/pejvahdat 

Kyra Zagorsky
https://twitter.com/KyraZagorsky
https://www.instagram.com/kyrazag/

Official CW Network
https://twitter.com/TheCW

Official CW Publicity team
https://twitter.com/thecw_pr

Suzanne Gomez (CW SVP, Primetime Publicity, for Arrow, Flash and Supergirl)
https://twitter.com/chico6

Warner Bros. TV
https://twitter.com/warnerbrostv

Geoff Johns
https://twitter.com/geoffjohns

Marguerite Bennett 
https://twitter.com/EvilMarguerite

DC Comics
https://twitter.com/DCComics

David Rapaport (Casting Director for Arrow, Flash, Supergirl and LoT)
https://twitter.com/rapaportcasting

T3 Athletics (Thomas Taylor)
https://twitter.com/t3athletics
https://www.facebook.com/t3athletics
https://www.instagram.com/t3athletics 

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