Hey Youtubers it’s Charlie and since Arrow is on break this week I’m doing some bonus
predictions for the rest of the season.
Based on the episode descriptions and behind the scenes pictures here are at least five
big questions that I’m going to ask and try to answer in this video.
I’m going to leave a lot of the Season 3 talk for a future video.
So this will just be stuff happening in the rest of season 2.
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Next week is a really cool Flash Crossover.
So here are my top 5 questions for the rest of the season, I’m going to answer these,
but please write your own opinions in the comments as we go down the list, number 5
- What is Slade going to do with the Super Soldier Army?
Not just this season, but what’s he intending to do with them once their done?
I think the Army is just a means to an end.
The end of Oliver that is.
Slade is trying to tear down Oliver’s life, and of all the relationships in his life,
his Family and his friends, one of the biggest is Starling City itself.
Slade could have just killed Oliver by himself, he didn’t need Brother Blood or Ravager,
who I’m just calling Summer Glau now.
Because he’s all about making Oliver suffer, he needs to make the city suffer.
So he’s just going to blow up a big part of the city and kill a lot of people.
Basically turn the city into something you’d see in Grand Theft Auto.
If he’s successful, what’s he planning on doing with them after?
I don’t think he’s going to use them like a new League of Assassins, he’s not building
an evil organization.
So I think he intends to just walk away when it’s all done.
He’s a loner, we saw in Episode 18 that he doesn’t even really care about Brother
Blood.
So he’s just going to disappear again when it’s all done.
There’s also the chance that he’ll destroy all the new super soldiers himself.
They’re convicts, so the arrangement he made with them, seems very temporary.
Like he doesn’t really care if they survive after his business with Oliver is over.
Number 4 - What is Laurel going to do now that she knows Oliver is the Arrow?
The producers made this really offhanded comment that audiences are expecting her to freak
out, but we’ll be surprised when we see her actual response.
I think that just means that Laurel will be down with it.
She saw a little action during Birds of Prey and in the description for episode 21 City
of Blood it says that she’s on the hunt for Sebastian again.
Ever since they started showing her with him way earlier this season I’ve thought she
might end up being the one to take him down.
It’s like you have Oliver versus Slade and over on the side, you have Laurel taking on
Brother Blood.
Now that we know Ravager is a villain I wonder if Sara will take her on directly or if they’ll
let Felicity do the honors.
There’s all this Laurel Black Canary talk in the periphery, I still think it’s way
too early for her to become Black Canary.
I’m still crossing my fingers that Sara will survive to next season.
Which brings me to Number 3 - Who Is Going To Die?
We also should ask, is anyone going to die.
I think so, I just feel like the show has been escalating things so much, eventually
the only way to top it all will be to kill a major character.
It could totally be a supporting character like Moira or Merlyn, but think about it this
way.
Any Characters that are either currently or will become superheroes are probably safe.
But reportedly there was a bunch of extras on set for episode 21 for a funeral scene.
No word on who the funeral was for, but I think that we can consider said funeral to
come after a big character death.
Side note though, I will be super bummed if it all turns out to be misdirection.
Like it’s a funeral for a character we didn’t really see a lot.
Here’s something else that’s really important and hopefully it will make you feel better.
Caity Lotz was listed on the call sheet for episode 22 Streets of Fire.
So Sara will still be alive then.
Meaning she’s not going to die.
I actually cheered a little when I saw this.
So I think she’s going to survive to season 3.
Meaning Laurel won’t become Black Canary yet.
It also means they can do more Birds of Prey next season.
Amanda Waller has to recruit Huntress at some point.
on to Number 2 - Will Ivo Turn Out To be Felicity’s Father?
We still haven’t seen the rest of what happened on the Island before Oliver took Slade’s
eye out.
Ivo is also still alive.
There are so many things that line up with what Felicity has said about her father and
what Ivo has said about himself in all the Island scenes.
Andrew Kriesberg said that we would learn more about Felicity’s backstory in the next
couple of episodes, but they’re holding a bunch of stuff till season 3.
The only reason they’d do that is if it’s something really important.
So even if her father isn’t Ivo, he’s someone very important in the DC Universe.
That doesn’t mean he’s evil, but it does mean the show isn’t going to tell us outright
who he is.
For now, let’s just stick with Ivo until we get more details.
and my Number 1 Question - How is Oliver going to defeat Slade?
We’ve got the description for episode 21 and that’s it.
Oliver tries to just flat out surrender to Slade but it sounds like Team Arrow locks
him up so he can’t.
I also don’t think Slade would stop his plans just because Oliver surrendered.
So there are a couple possible solutions.
Oliver could find a way to overpower Slade and mortally wound him.
He’s almost invincible, Slade talking about how the Mirakuru healed his body proves Oliver
isn’t going to be able to kill him without chopping his head off.
Which I don’t think he’s going to do.
He’s not a killer, that’s the whole arc of this season.
He’s not killing people anymore.
So that opens the door on a bigger threat coming along like Ra’s Al Ghul.
Something that would force Slade to stop attacking Oliver for a minute and make him redirect
his evil energy to the League of Assassins.
Manu Bennett kind of teased this, but the producers said that some special things might
end up happening in the finale.
But they completely depended on a bunch of stuff working out.
I think they were just talking about wanting to do Ra’s Al Ghul and Warner Brothers just
had to agree to let them use the character.
It took a long time for them to get permission to do Barry Allen and The Flash, so hopefully
it all worked out and we’ll see Ra’s.
That would mean Slade and Oliver could temporarily cease fire and be brothers again so to speak,
while they try to fend of the League.
That doesn’t really address the issue of Evil Tinkerbell Shado.
I don’t think Oliver will take the Mirakuru out of Slade’s body, but I do think Team
Arrow will find a way to get rid of evil Shado.
I don’t think they’ll kill off Slade, they didn’t even kill Merlyn.
They’re just to awesome to completely get rid of.
Plus John Barrowman was on set for the finale.
So Merlyn will play a role in whatever the final outcome is.
Now it’s your turn though, how do you think they’ll fix Slade and do you think Moira
is going to die?
Or someone else?
I’m not doing a Q&A this week, so I’ll just be answering questions in the comments.
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