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The alliances are going to be very surprising. You’re not going to believe who Oliver is working with to defeat Prometheus. It’s going to be really emotional. It’s going to be all about Oliver’s family, but not the family we’re thinking of right now. It’s going to end in a giant explosion, but not where we think it’s going to end, and the emotional punch is going to be bigger than the actual physical part of the bombs going off.
Whatever the circumstances of Laurel’s seeming resurrection, seeing her familiar face back in the Arrowcave has bolstered talk that a Black Canary will return to Green Arrow’s crimefighting side.
Asked if a Canary might suit up as soon as by Season 5’s end, co-showrunner Wendy Mericle told TVLine, “There’s definitely a possibility.”
The EP went on to note, “Look, it’s hard to do a show about Green Arrow without having a Black Canary. I don’t know if it will happen this season or when, but… we are going to be true to origins in the DC universe, and she’s always going to be there.”
Katie Cassidy did sign a deal to be a series regular across all Arrow-verse shows. What ways might we see her appear in Arrow outside of just flashbacks? Mericle: I can tell you that we're really excited about having her back. You will see in the episodes where she appears - Episode 510 definitely, our midseason premiere. Keep your eyes out for that. We're so excited about getting to work with her again and her willingness to come back. It's one of the fun parts of the show. People can leave and get killed and you can still find new and crazy ways for them to come back. I can definitely tell you that there's a way we're going to bring her back and she's going to be alive and well. And Flashpoint might have a little bit to do with that. x
TVGuide.com: In the premiere, we see the ruthless side of Oliver that we haven't really seen since the first season. How will that mindset affect his relationships and the way he functions as a hero? Wendy Mericle: It's complicated. As we know from Seasons 1 and 2, that is a huge decision, to go back to his old ways, to go back to his use of lethal force. Again, I think this speaks to the threat that Damien Darhk presented and ... Laurel died. What they're taking on as vigilantes is a serious business. People can die out there. And as he says in the premiere, if he's not willing to go to that place, he shouldn't be out there at all. So I think it really sets up the framework for this season. He's going to be looking back at what he's done and what he's accomplished and he's assessing that. But he's also looking forward to think about, 'What is my legacy going to be? Is it going to be the legacy of a hero, or the legacy of a murderer?' x
Any teases on where we will find Arrow‘s John Diggle, mentally and emotionally, at the start of the season? —PJ “He’s stationed in Chechnya,” executive producer Wendy Mericle reveals. “He’s still in the military, and he’s very much a man without a state. He’s away from his family, and he’s away from the team, so he’s away from that family. He’s trying to figure out how he can get that sense of himself back after killing his brother.” Once Dig does come back to Star City, he won’t be a fan of Oliver’s ragtag new superfriends. “He’s not going to love all these little upstarts, trying to take over his role,” Mericle says. “But he’ll adjust. He’s going to find some common ground with Wild Dog, and that will help take the sting out of it.” (source)
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Arrow Cast interview with Entertainment Weekly: Arrow EP teases a return to season 1-type villainy (x)
“Obviously Arrow is always a show that’s evolving, it’s always a show where every character, arguably – except for The Arrow – is fair game,” Arrow executive producer Marc Guggenheim told reporters on Monday. “We make the creative choices that we feel benefit the show as a whole, and the story that we’re telling overall.”
The foreshadowed death will finally play out in Wednesday’s episode, titled “Eleven-Fifty-Nine,” which the producers describe as a “game-changing” hour that will irrevocably alter the course of the series and deeply affect all who are left behind.
"It’s easy to forget that our characters are vigilantes,” EP Wendy Mericle explained of the “shocking” episode. “They’re out on the street, doing really dangerous things. What this does is it brings that reality back, in a kind of rude and brutal way. I think that’s good for the audience to be reminded of that, and our characters as well.”
"Every time we’ve killed off a character on the show, it’s really been for the effect it has on all the characters left behind,” Guggenheim added.
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@MericlesHappen: With minutes to go before you see it on your screens... the #CodeOfSilence #ComicPreview! #Arrow
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