Jump to content

Type keyword(s) to search

Spoiler Discussion Thread

Morrigan2575

By Morrigan2575
in Arrow

  • Start Topic

Recommended Posts

bijoux

bijoux

1 hour ago, leopardprint said:

MG said on Twitter that the cake was an inside joke.

Maybe Felicity baked a cake burnt to a crisp and just covered it in frosting and poor Oliver is going to force himself to eat it. True love, y'all. 

I think all it means is that the cake is store bought and therefore good. The cupcakes on the other hand are Felicity's effort and they suck. But they look nice.

  • Replies 90.8k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

  • apinknightmare

    7534

  • Morrigan2575

    5006

  • Chaser

    4512

  • statsgirl

    3172

Popular Days

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Popular Posts

Carrie Ann
Carrie Ann

Me for all of last summer hiatus and 5A: Me after reading the WM interview from a few weeks back about Felicity's arc giving her a more profound understanding of Oliver: Me after r

BkWurm1
BkWurm1

I tend to think that trying to make KC a place on the show had a ripple effect that did hurt the show pretty badly.  She's what turned Quentin stupid and into a creepy stalker.  So that wipes off the

calliope1975
calliope1975

Challenge accepted.

Posted Images

JamieLynn832002

JamieLynn832002

7 hours ago, Sunshine said:

Has Vigilante been set up as a villain or just a reckless vigilante with no regard for collateral damage?  I think the latter which is why I lean towards Dinah's thought to be dead partner. I thought Pike once but I don't think he'd be so casual about collateral damage.

Is Pike still in a coma? Because that would explain Vigilante's sudden disappearance. Although I agree that I can't see him being okay with collateral damage.

  • Love 5
Primal Slayer

Primal Slayer

(edited)
4 hours ago, lemotomato said:

If you're using MG as a source for what you think Olicity fans want, he said he got questions about Oliver and Felicity going to "Bed Bath and Beyond" (IMO, probably joking questions, since SA and EBR were talking about how Olicity's first fight would be about towels in this interview). Please get your quotes right if you're accusing a fandom of anything.

 

And people need to learn that not everyone is expecting her to turn into BC or a goody 2 shoes hero. Olicity fans want them to go on a date to bed bath and beyond and smell some candles....but not all of them want or care about that

2 hours ago, Sunshine said:

Why is that considered shade?  The only person who should be emotional in the scene is Lance.  BS knows who she's going after. Even if he's aware of her existence (I don't think he's been told onscreen), it must still be a shock to see the face of a daughter you've loved and lost belonging to a villain.  It's not a father/daughter reunion.

Causeeverything is "shade" ans publicity when it comes to KC. Though your right, it would 99% more emotional for Q so he answered it correctly. 

Edited by Primal Slayer
  • Love 3
BkWurm1

BkWurm1

15 minutes ago, lemotomato said:

It's a joke. Alien: Covenant was released in theaters today. Its prequel was Prometheus. 

Oh! Thanks.  Phew, I'm relieved. It did not sound good.

3 minutes ago, statsgirl said:

Isn't Diggle supposed to get his own foe next season (like Felicity may be getting Helix)?  Where do you think that might come from?

My first thought is a military guy, but that happened this year.  Maybe a former friend?  Andy Jr?  Dude in the first suicide squad episode he set up?

  • Love 1
way2interested

way2interested

3 minutes ago, SmallScreenDiva said:

What if Oliver & Felicity realize the team is getting picked off one by one and Felicity comes up with a plan that Oliver doesn't agree with but supports? What if they assume she and Digg were gonna be kidnapped and created a plan based on that? Wendy mentioned OTA as well as Slade as Central to plan to defeat Chase.

One of my random specs was just that they do realize that the team is getting picked off one by one and then Oliver and Felicity (and maybe Diggle) at least make a contingency of swallowing those tracking nanites to find out where Chase is keeping everyone so that Oliver wouldn't be completely dependent on waiting to see what Chase does next. Granted, I know it will probably be Malcolm or something that tells Oliver that everyone's on Lian Yu, but it would at least be refreshing if Oliver knew something over Malcolm (plus I could picture them going for a dramatic scene of Malcolm asking Oliver where Chase/the team are and Oliver replying, "He's taken them to Purgatory," DUN *cue title card*).

  • Love 1
Hiveminder

Hiveminder

5 minutes ago, insomniadreams88 said:

I worry that even if the tracking nanites are in play that somehow Chase will come up with some way to disable them. And with little or no explanation as to how because he's always X steps ahead of Oliver. 

As well as JS is doing with this role, I'm so sick of how he's written to be apparently omniscient. It's sloppy and lazy. 

  • Love 6
SmallScreenDiva

SmallScreenDiva

52 minutes ago, Sunshine said:

Why do the cops appear to be arresting Oliver in the stills for next week?  Does Chase reveal him as Green Arrow aka Billy Malone's killer? I can't figure out why they have Mayor Queen at gun point otherwise.

I thought those were cops, too, but closer look said ARGUS on their patches. I wonder if Lyla wanted to bring Oliver in to protect him. Looks like that's when Merlyn shows up, though

  • Love 2
SmallScreenDiva

SmallScreenDiva

(edited)
31 minutes ago, DeadZeus said:

I still can't believe they barely did anything with Malcolm this season and suddenly kill him off.. Like what was the point of keeping him alive then if he's just showing up to die? Can someone explain this logic to me? :S

Maybe that was the point of keeping him alive, so they could kill off somebody who's been on the show since the beginning? Someone tied to Season 1? Other shows do this, too. Bring a recurring character back just to kill them.

Spoiler

NCIS Los Angeles did it recently with the wife of a main character.

Edited by SmallScreenDiva
kill "off" not of, SMH
  • Love 1
Primal Slayer

Primal Slayer

45 minutes ago, DeadZeus said:

I still can't believe they barely did anything with Malcolm this season and suddenly kill him off.. Like what was the point of keeping him alive then if he's just showing up to die? Can someone explain this logic to me? :S

This is what the show does. When they are ready to get rid of someone they practically just ignore them till the end of the season.

I wonder if Barrowman knew before he signed on to appear.

  • Love 1
bijoux

bijoux

(edited)
47 minutes ago, BkWurm1 said:

Maybe I'm confused, but I thougtht the nanites in the blueberry pancakes happened before episode 519

I thought it was how they located Felicity with Helix, but I could very well be totally wrong.

ETA: It was in 518 that Curtis tracked her to the Helix HQ. Those things take forever to get out of the system.

Edited by bijoux
  • Love 2
insomniadreams88

insomniadreams88

You know what I'd like to see explained regarding ARGUS? Why Chase gets a TV. Did James get a TV when they weren't expecting people to break him out? Did the writers think beyond having Chase watching Oliver's press conference when they gave him that type of cell? Will that be explained in 522? Will it even be brought up? Probably not. 

15 minutes ago, leopardprint said:

Could it be possible that Oliver breaks Chase out of custody because he finds out William, etc. is missing thus the ARGUS agents going after him? 

Hmm, if Oliver breaks Chase out, I wonder if his type of cell is to make that easier. 

way2interested

way2interested

58 minutes ago, insomniadreams88 said:

You know what I'd like to see explained regarding ARGUS? Why Chase gets a TV. Did James get a TV when they weren't expecting people to break him out? Did the writers think beyond having Chase watching Oliver's press conference when they gave him that type of cell? Will that be explained in 522? Will it even be brought up? Probably not. 

Tbh, I don't care and would rather them use that time to show more of the party or give me insight into Chase's plan regarding kidnapping the team.

  • Love 2
theOAfc

theOAfc

(edited)
20 hours ago, DeadZeus said:

I still can't believe they barely did anything with Malcolm this season and suddenly kill him off.. Like what was the point of keeping him alive then if he's just showing up to die? Can someone explain this logic to me? :S

There is no logic to it,when it comes to big main characters, since one would think that a show would want to honor the character that they are going to let go off ,so it would make sense to give them a big story or some focus. However i cant say im surprised with them bringing MM back only to kill him off(i guess they think him dying to save Thea is honoring his  character,but it makes no sense considering  that he was MIA for so long so its kinda underwhelming). It actually reminds me of other characters being written off similarly in the show. 

In s3 they ignored Roy for the most part(he got more story in s2 thant he ever did in s3) and then gave him a centric episode only to write him off. Similar to how Laurel was irrelevant for majority of s4 and then she got a little focus just in time to be killed off. I feel like this is their mindset the recent years,regarding characters they plan on writing off. I think its bad writing ,since thats not how fans expect a show to treat its core characters. At least Merlyn was dragged out and he is a villain so i can actually let it go but it was  bad writing with Laurel and Roy imo.

Considering this mindset and seeing Thea getting so little focus this season,i believe she will  be written off too, by end of season. 

Edited by theOAfc
lemotomato

lemotomato

33 minutes ago, theOAfc said:

In s3 they ignored Roy for the most part(he got more story in s2 thant he ever did in s3) and then gave him a centric episode only to write him off.

CH asked to be let go from the show because of health issues he was undergoing at the time. (Most of the EW interview with him is behind a paywall now)

  • Love 3
theOAfc

theOAfc

6 minutes ago, lemotomato said:

CH asked to be let go from the show because of health issues he was undergoing at the time. (Most of the EW interview with him is behind a paywall now)

Yeah im not saying they wanted to write him off, im saying they knew he was gonna be written off (because he asked them to) and yet they treated the character a specific way,ignoring him for the most part of the season and only giving him focus just in time to write him off. Now i cant know if Colton himself asked them to not give Roy story(its not like Colton didnt have screentime in s3,he just did nothing most of the time,just being there in the background throwing random lines). I also cant know if he let them know about his health issues from start of season or later in the season(even though i think i had read an article that implied they knew about his exit from start of season but i am not sure about that). All i know is it was not the only time they treated a character like that. They treated similarly Laurel in s4. 

Midnight Lullaby

Midnight Lullaby

Imo Roy and Laurel had little focus the season they were written off because in that season they were supporting characters, it was their role. They established Roy as a team member and when they were done with that he was pushed in the background because that was his role. Same with Laurel. Tommy, Moira and Sara instead all got focus before getting killed because they had an important role to play in the story.

Malcolm should have been written off a couple of years ago when he stopped being relevant to the story and they started twisting the main characters' behavior to fit him in..bad writing imo was not giving closure to his part of the story sooner because the writers liked the actor or the character or both.

  • Love 5
way2interested

way2interested

From a narrative standpoint, I don't think someone would want to put too much onto a character that he/she plans on writing out because it could make them too indispensable to the plot and then you hypothetically couldn't go on without them (that's what they did with Roy, make him do something that only his character could do, but then highlight that there were new team members coming so that his "role" wasn't going to be empty). I think "ignoring" them is kind of subjective (someone could say that a character-centric episode has too little of the character while also saying that a character having one line in an episode is too much) and context-dependent (bts, their role in the story, comparatives, etc.), plus the same could always have been said for Lance but he gets the similarly-structured story attention every year (background with some highlights) without being written off.

  • Love 1
Sunshine

Sunshine

I'm not concerned that they are writing off those contracted as regulars for S6.  That said the only 3 IMO who are definitely safe are SA, JH & RG.  One is the titular character. The other 2 were just promoted.  MG isn't going to tell people that they are out (if they are) before the cliffhanger.  I tend to think the cliffhanger might thin the ranks of guest stars whose characters are still in limbo and not only through death (i.e. Slade could get his freedom in exchange for helping Oliver).

Velocity23

Velocity23

I have a hard time believing JH & RG got more than 1 season contract. 

13 minutes ago, Sunshine said:

I'm not concerned that they are writing off those contracted as regulars for S6.  That said the only 3 IMO who are definitely safe are SA, JH & RG.  One is the titular character. The other 2 were just promoted.  MG isn't going to tell people that they are out (if they are) before the cliffhanger.  I tend to think the cliffhanger might thin the ranks of guest stars whose characters are still in limbo and not only through death (i.e. Slade could get his freedom in exchange for helping Oliver).

Guest
This topic is now closed to further replies.
Go to topic listing
×
×
  • Create New...