Hey youtubers it’s Charlie and this week in my Arrow and Flash videos I asked you to
submit all your questions about the new seasons so I picked 10 of them to answer and one bonus
question.
Since yesterday we also got a much longer extended trailer for The Flash, so I’ll
mention the new stuff we learned.
If you’re finding me for the first time I’m going to be doing Arrow and Flash videos
every week until the new seasons premiere.
Be sure to subscribe to get everything and leave me suggestions for bonus videos.
So let’s pick apart the new footage from The Flash.
Most of the stuff we saw we already knew about.
The Costume being from Star Labs, his inner circle of Caitlin and Cisco.
Tom Cavanagh looks like he’s going to be their version of Feliticy, the tech person.
Which I think is funny.
I loved the way Star Labs looks.
It seems like they’re going to have a secret or special area inside the facility that they’ll
use as their version of the Arrow Cave.
The big news is Weather Wizard.
He’s going to be the first villain and the first Rogue on the show.
What is seems like they’re doing is combining aspects of the New 52 versions of the characters
and the classic Flash Rebirth story.
In the classic Flash stories, the rogues aren’t meta-humans.
They just have technology that gives them their powers.
In the new 52 comics, they all get exposed to a special Star Labs device that gives them
real powers.
It seems like some or all of the villains on the show will have real powers.
Based on the particle accelerator causing all the weird energy to spill into their dimension.
I loved the way Weather Wizards powers looked on the show.
I think the special effects are great.
Zoom as a villain was confirmed.
It’s pretty clear he was the one who killed Barry’s mother.
We can unpack that in the comments for people who don’t know that story from the comics.
The show itself is premiering in October at the same time as Arrow Season 3.
It’s going to be on Tuesday Nights at 8PM and Arrow will still be on Wednesdays at 8.
Which means it will be way easier for me to do videos for both of them, yay.
Also it was confirmed at the upfronts that Malcolm Merlyn would be a cast regular.
Meaning he’d be in most of the episodes.
Not necessarily as the main villain, but as his antagonistic self.
So he’s probably going to cause trouble for Team Arrow even if he’s not the big
bad.
Time to answer some questions though.
Careful for spoilers from the Arrow Finale if you haven’t seen it yet.
Here we go Question 1 - Adri on Facebook asks Andrew Kriesberg said one of the main cast
members would not be starting Season 3.
Who do you think it is?
It’s probably Paul Blackthorne, Detective Lance.
He was at the CW Upfronts, which means he’s still part of Season 3, so he’s not dying
or anything.
He just sustained internal injuries during that Police Station fight.
He might go into a coma or just sit out a few episodes on ‘medical leave’ or something
like that.
But he’ll be back!
Question 2 - Niels asks Could Edward Fryers from Season 1 on the Island have been hired
by Amanda Waller?
Yes it’s possible but they’d have to mess with a few things.
Edward Fryers was going to use weapons to destabilize the Chinese Hong Kong situation.
The lady in the red shoes in that scenario did not look black.
But Amanda Waller was operating in Hong Kong around that time.
They cast Amanda Waller during season 2, so it’s possible they could retcon that woman
in red shoes to be Amanda Waller.
They retconned Sara Lance when they cast Caity Lotz.
The other possibility is that it’s someone from HIVE.
I know a lot of people thought it might be Isabel Rochev, but she didn’t seem powerful
enough five years ago to pull off an operation that big.
Question 3 - DigiDestined asks what was happening in that scene after Oliver left the island?
So the Amazo boat blows up and Oliver wakes up in Hong Kong with Amanda Waller inducting
him into service.
It looks like he worked with her and then ended up back on the island at some point.
In the pilot episode he seemed much more cool and level headed.
But that mega beard makes me think he was stranded.
So clearly he went on missions for ARGUS in the five years he was away, then something
went bad and he ended up stranded back on the island before coming back to Starling.
The interesting thing is that the show always goes back to the Island.
Because it’s purgatory it’s this metaphor for Oliver’s life as well as his hero’s
journey.
For all you Joseph Campbell Geeks.
It’s the transitory state between Justice League and his old life.
So until he either dies or the show reaches that Justice League moment, he’s always
going to go back there.
So there will still be island scenes in season 3.
Question 4 - McLovin asks Will Team Arrow and Team Flash ever combine forces to fight
a single villain?
Yes, they can’t have their schwarma Avengers crossover moment until they defeat some common
enemy.
Oliver isn’t going to drop in to just say high.
Whenever they go on each other’s shows it will be because there’s a problem in Central
City that only Oliver and Felicity can solve and vice versa on Arrow.
As for who that villain is?
It will depend on who the other big villains both shows bring on.
Zoom is the big bad on The Flash, so there’s the possibility Team Arrow could help Barry
with that.
Or Felicity could help him with his Mother’s murder.
Her skills are very CSI friendly.
Whenever everyone goes to comic con this summer they’ll also probably talk about what the
crossovers will be like..
Question 5 - Peacekeeperboy asks Who do you think is going to be the main villain next
season and how many episodes of the Flash will there be?
Just talking about the Flash, Zoom will always be the main villain.
But there’s always a big villain that works for the main villain.
So it might secretly be Tom Cavanagh’s character.
Like a wolf in sheep’s clothing kind of thing.
Or it could be one of the Rogues like Captain Cold.
My money is on one of the Rogues.
If not all of them.
I think we’ll get to see the Rogues unite during season 1.
We saw Weather Wizard in the trailer.
As for episodes.
They haven’t said officially, but the show has at least 8 or 9 episodes.
If they get picked up for the second half they’ll at least get a full 22.
Arrow on the other hand usually gets 23 episodes.
Which is a lot.
Most shows only get 20 or 22.
At the upfronts, the CW was saying that The Flash is the one show they are sure is going
to be a hit.
So all of their energy is going into promoting it as the Flagship of all their new shows.
Question 6 - magnettoa Which villains do you think we’ll see on the Flash?
I think they’ll stick to core rogues in season 1 with maybe a curveball or two.
I think there will be at least one surprise.
Like someone that Arrow shares in common.
Someone we’ve already heard about on Arrow.
Like HIVE.
As for Weather Wizard in the trailer.
If you’re not familiar.
In the pre-new 52 comics.
He used a Weather Control Rod to control the Weather.
Like he was just a regular guy with technology.
In the new 52 comics and on the show he’s a meta-human with real superpowers that enable
him to control weather.
It looks like he’s mostly going to be generating tornadoes.
Based on those last moments in the trailer it seems like in defeating Weather Wizard’s
tornado, Barry is going to learn that there are levels of speed he can achieve.
The speedforce isn’t like stop and go.
It’s like internet bandwidth.
If you have internet at your house.
It moves slower when a bunch of people are downloading stuff at once.
But when it’s just once person downloading it’s way faster.
So the more Flashes that are in one place accessing the speed force, the slower Barry
can run.
Because we know Zoom is Edward Thawne and he works with Barry you’ve got two people
drinking from the fountain.
Plus if John Wesley Shipp ends up being Jay Garrick, you’ve got a third Flash.
In the comics, when Barry is the only one accessing the speed force, he can run so fast
that he can go forwards and backwards in time.
So him trying to run back in time and prevent his mother’s murder might be a thing this
season.
I think it will take most of the season for him to figure out the speed force though.
So don’t plan on time travel any time soon.
This is mostly going to be superhero CSI.
Question 7 - Michelle asks What do you think Felicity’s backstory is going to be?
Yes, we’re supposed to get a lot more Felicity backstory in Season 3.
I think they might invoke some of the Firestorm aspects of her character from the comics.
In the comics the Ronnie Raymond version of Firestorm is part of Firestorm.
So they might make her father part of that mythos.
Like make her father the Professor Martin Stein part of the character.
It’s a little far fetched, but I think it would be so cool.
There’s also the possibility that they could change all that and make her Father part of
HIVE.
Usually when people in comic book shows don’t like to talk about their parents a lot it’s
because something really awful happened to them, like they were fused with the Firestorm
Matrix.
Or they did something really awful.
A la villains.
Question 8 - Neto del Toro asks Do you think Oliver knows about Connor?
I don’t think he knows.
It think they would be trolling us the fans too much if Oliver always knew everything
and just never told Team Arrow.
Like when he had a vial of the cure this season and just hadn’t told any of the Team about
it.
He had the cure the whole season and he waited six months to tell them.
That made me kind of mad.
So I don’t think he’d turn around and do the exact same thing.
But I do think he’ll try to keep his distance just so his son can stay safe.
Remember that speech he gave Felicity about not keeping the ones you love too close.
That was in the first couple of episodes.
Question 9 - Green Quiver asks, could Thea become Cheshire?
Totally, I saw a bunch of you commenting on how she looks a lot more like Chesire in the
comics than Artemis.
And remember, regardless of who is what in the comics, they can give any minor super
hero persona to any of the characters.
So even though Artemis in the comics is the daughter of Sportsmaster, Thea on the show
could still become her.
Regardless, she’s going to be more like the Canary when we see her again.
She’s going to be a much bigger badass.
I can’t wait to see her and Roy have a big fight scene.
Or her and Oliver.
Question 10 - Jean Loup asks Will HIVE come back?
Even if HIVE isn’t the main villain or group of villains in season 3, they teased them
as a pretty big thing this year.
So we’ll at least get to learn more about them.
They’ll just be like an evil version of ARGUS.
Don’t be surprised if Merlyn gets mixed up with them.
Remember, he lost his company and all his money like Oliver.
So where did he get that limo at the end?
He’s got to be getting money from somewhere.
Bonus Question - Iron Guardian asks do you think The Flash will have Flashbacks like
Arrow or be more like CSI with mystery solving side quests?
They cast Barry’s mother, so there will be some flashbacks.
That murder mystery will probably tie into the finale.
But in terms of daily flashbacks, I think we’ll see more cut-to’s.
Like the murder mystery investigation will be going on off in the background of each
episode.
So think of it more like an episode of Bones with superpowers.
He’ll be using his abilities and Star Labs to connect crime scenes to the particle accelerator
explosion and metahumans.
So thank you so much for submitting questions.
These are always a ton of fun to do.
Because both shows are on different days I’ll be doing separate videos for each.
But in the meantime I’ll probably just use wednesdays for Arrow and Flash bonus videos.
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first.
Also, let me know if you want me to keep doing Q&A videos once a week.
I’ll probably just combine Flash and Arrow questions based on the bonus videos I do.
Right now click here for my Arrow Finale video and click here to learn about my top 5 flash
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