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Oliver and the team are off to Hub City to look into a possible new team member while Felicity gets back to her hacker roots to help out the team. We also get some very interesting flashbacks!
Listen in to hear The Shadow, Cammie and The Flash discuss “Second Chances” (5×11). As always we love getting feedback from the Arrow Squad members so please send in your thoughts too!
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Hey guys!
I really liked last week’s podcast because you articulated something that I was having a hard time putting my finger on – as much as I think this season has been an improvement and has fixed a lot of flaws, the show has lost so much heart. Technically I think it’s executed better but I find myself so less invested this year, and what you talked about is exactly why – because of the lack of OTA, Thea and Lance interactions. The new people are fine but I wish they were more backgrounded for the characters I love. I’m also not comforted by rumours that Tina will be around all the time now, and that Wild Dog is getting his own episode complete with flashbacks. Even the last IGN review suggested Diggle and Felicity should be written out of the show to focus on the newbies. That’s not the type of show I want to see. Not that it hasn’t happened before (X Files, ER, Grey’s Anatomy, etc all ended up with very few from their original cast in later seasons), but the originals are why I watch.
PS – I really appreciate that you guys are trying to keep it under an hour now! Perfect length.
Oh Shadow you tickle me!
I agree with Flash regarding the Black Canary being a metahuman! Some interesting discussions on the Canaries by Flash. I do wonder if because she’s named Dinah on top of being the new Black Canary we’ll see a triangle with she, Oliver, and Felicity and they’ll tease Dinah/Oliver for the comic purist but still do Olicity for those fans and it’ll be this big thing of who’s endgame? I hope they don’t do a triangle like that, but I do wonder. Have Dinah and Oliver date if they want to callback to Black Canary/Green Arrow and have Felicity a little jealous but don’t go teen drama where the girls bicker over Oliver but do leave enough time to do Olicity if that’s endgame so they don’t feel thrown together at the end because they’re always going to be endgame.
Honestly for me Talia was way more interesting in the flashbacks than Oliver, now that could be because she’s connected to Nyssa and I love Nyssa so I’m thinking of how they’d interact but I definitely did enjoy Talia first then Oliver in the flashbacks.
I kind of lean towards Talia is dead because if not where was she during the whole thing with Raz and him forcing Oliver and Nyssa to marry? Why was she not challenging Malcolm and Nyssa for control of the league post Raz’s death? If she’s still alive why has she been hiding will be a very important topic for me.
If Thea is going to be full time again can she still be mayor because if anyone should be mayor in that group it’s her! I agree with Cammie, Wild Dog is not on the top of my list of characters to see in scenes; I still haven’t really grown to him because of his attitude at times and how much screen time he takes from the other newbies (Evelyn seriously got screwed in the screen time count for them) so I could do with less Wild dog personally…he doesn’t have to be off the show though I do worry about him and Diggle and Dinah blending together because of similar skills should she got more gun over voice in fights, but less him and more others would be nice to see for me. If he has to be in a scene then can it be with Thea because they haven’t interacted and she needs some screen time!