Hey youtubers it’s Charlie and yesterday in my Arrow video I asked you all to submit
questions.
So I picked 10 to answer in this video with one bonus questions.
We also just found out when Merlyn is coming back.
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My countdown series starts next wednesday too.
So before we answer questions there’s just been a huge news update.
Malcolm Merlyn will be back in Episode 22, based on the description, Thea is going to
run into him or he’ll run into her.
We can talk more about that in the comments, but until now I almost didn’t think he’d
show up until the finale.
So we’ll have to wait and see what happens before we can guess what Merlyn will do in
the finale.
Whether he’ll fight with Team Arrow against Slade or do something totally different.
And now, to questions!
Careful for spoilers from the episode if you haven’t seen it yet.
Question 1 - Drew Cole asks Do you thin laurel will tell Oliver she knows he's the arrow
or will she just keep it to herself?
I think she’ll listen to Quentyn and just keep it to herself.
When she went to hug him you could tell she wanted to support him.
If she had told him he’d probably be too distracted worrying about her to fight Slade.
Add to that all the extra problems with Queen Industries, Thea and Roy right now and you
arrive at Hug Time.
The best thing she could have done for him in that moment, was just give him a hug.
And she did, which is why it was such a good moment.
I think her relationship with Team Arrow will be like Quentyn’s in Season 3, except she’ll
know who they are, but they won’t know that she knows.
She’ll be a stealth team Arrow member.
So stealth that Oliver won’t even know she’s on the team.
Question 2 - Baby Maker asks why does Oliver keep calling Thea speedy?
Speedy is his affectionate little sister nickname for her.
He uses it whenever he wants to show her he cares about her.
It’s one of the ways he shows brotherly affection.
It’s not meant to imply she’s going to become the Speedy character from the comic
books at some point.
I know a lot of you are wondering if she’ll become the Artemis character at some point
too.
I think we’ll have to wait till after this season to guess where her character is going.
Especially her relationship with Merlyn.
Although I think that situation will be like Oliver’s Father choosing his family over
Isabel Rochev.
Thea will just be forced to choose between Merlyn and her family.
I don’t think he’s going to train her or anything like that.
If she ever did become a Team Arrow member, it would be way more fun to watch Oliver train
her like he’s training Roy.
Just imagine her slapping endless bowls of water.
Question 3 - Sharmilan (no avatar) asks What about the bandage on Roy's arm?
Could be to do with the clone that CADMUS makes?
So you’re thinking like a Superman Superboy situation.
That would be interesting, but I think they’d only clone a meta human.
Like someone with actual superpowers.
And Roy is just juiced up on Mirakuru.
The bandages are probably just where they attached the machine to his veins.
I think if there end up being any cloning storylines in the future, especially with
STAR Labs involved, they’ll use them as Flash crossover opportunities.
So it would have to be some big epic thing.
That seems like a little too complicated for the show to tackle in it’s first season,
The Flash that is, but it could always happen in the future.
Question 4 - Legitimate Gamer asks How did Slade get inside the Arrow Cave if he didn’t
have one of those super keys like the one Felicity stole off The Clock King?
He’s ex-special forces and the mirakuru has made him almost indestructible.
But even before he became a super soldier he had experience in breaking into places.
Mostly to kill people I imagine, like he almost did to Team Arrow.
The only reason he broke in was to spank them for setting his operation back.
That’s why he had to raid STAR Labs for that device.
I loved that Felicity stole that key technology off the Clock King though.
It just reminds us that she knows an opportunity when she sees one.
Like window shopping for cool toys.
Question 5 - Green Quiver asks How do you think Danielle panabaker will become Killer
Frost?﻿
This is where things get really interesting, because she totally seems like one of the
good guys based on her relationship with Felicity and Cisco.
Since she’s such a big character from the comics, yes eventually she’ll become a version
of Killer Frost.
But I think on the show, she’s going to start out being good.
The real question is what her character arc is going to be.
Like good person researcher, then she gets in a horrible accident and turns evil.
Or is she just a normal person that gets corrupted by Zoom or someone else.
There’s also the possiblity that they could be messing with the character and just call
her “Frost” like the way Green Arrow became just “The Arrow” on the show.
I think that’s more likely.
When you use the name Killer Frost, you kind of telegraph what a character’s story will
be and I think they want it to be more of a mystery for us as fans.
No matter what happens, I think she’ll be a normal human for most of the first season.
I think The Flash and Zoom will be the only real super powered people for a while.
I think any Rogues that pop up will just be using tech, like Arthur Light’s tech they
had locked up in storage.
As opposed to being full on meta-humans.
They did say there would eventually be more superpowered people on the show though.
Just not right away.
Question 6 - Fsniper asks Do you think team arrow will use the cure for Slade and use
it on Roy?
I think we should ask if they’re going to have to pick which one to use it on, like
they’ll have to either cure Slade or Roy, but not both.
Logically you’d think they’d be able to synthesize a ton of it.
And now that we know there really is a cure, I think that’s how Oliver will get rid of
all the new Super Soldiers.
So let’s just say they’ll have a bunch of it, enough to do Roy and Slade.
I definitely think they’ll cure Roy, Colton Haynes isn’t leaving the show.
He’s still got to finish his Jedi Training so he can become Arsenal.
As for Slade, I think everyone even the writers want him to be able to continue on as the
Deathstroke character, but a slightly less insane version.
So I think they’ll end up using the cure on him too.
They won’t kill him and he’ll just dissapear the same way Merlyn did after season 1.
They’ll just leave it open for him to return in the future.
I don’t think he’ll be around a lot in Season 3 though.
They’ll make room for new villains to come in.
Question 7 - Danielle Mawdesley (no avatar) asks do you think Laurel will confront Sara
about being The Canary before the end of the season?
I think we’ll get a Spider-Man 2 situation, the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man 2.
Remember when he was saving Mary Jane from Doctor Octopus and his mask came off and she
saw it was him and they had that moment.
I think they’ll do a reverse version of that.
It will be more from Sara’s perspective, since Laurel already knows it’s her.
They’ll have a sister moment when Sara gets unmasked in battle.
I’m expecting something like that to happen in the finale.
But until then, I think Laurel will treat her just like she’s treating Oliver.
Question 8 - Harsh asks Do you think Oliver will become Mayor of the city like in the
comics?
Only if Moira is the one to die this season.
There’s still a funeral scene in episode 21, we don’t know who it’s a funeral for,
it could be Slade doing a fake funeral for Isabel Rochev.
So that he can surprise them with Ravager later.
Otherwise I think they’ll give that Mayor storyline to Moira like they are right now.
I don’t think she’s the most interesting character, and yes I do think Oliver as mayor
would be more interesting.
But we’ll have to just wait and see.
Question 9 - Lizbeth (no avatar) asks Producers have hinted that Felicity's backstory is going
to be a big thing for season 3 but could we possibly get a cliff hanger about this in
the finale?
Definitely, the major arc for next season always gets teed up by what happens during
the finale.
So whatever the resolution of the Slade storyline is, it will be related to Felicity’s backstory.
Maybe in just a minor way, but keep your eyes peeled for special Felicity stuff in episode
23.
I’m really hoping that her Father is the season 3 villain and is someone connected
to HIVE.
Question 10 - Schmoley (no avatar) asks With a Booster Gold tv series supposedly in the
works, do you think we'll see a cameo in Flash or Arrow?﻿ (prob flash)
Booster Gold always spent more time in the Flash comics, so if he shows up anywhere it
would be there.
That episode could also be an Arrow Crossover, just to guarantee the show a bigger audience,
but I don’t think we’ll see him until Season 2.
I don’t think they’ll try to complicate The Flash storyline in season 1 by throwing
in a ton of new characters right away.
But Geoff Johns has been trying to get a Booster Gold show going for a long time, so you’ll
see him eventually.
Bonus Question - Vaughan O’Hara asks Do you think we will see any more Flash characters
this season?
I think the only Flash Crossover we’ll see the rest of the season is one, for the mirakuru
cure from STAR Labs and two Felicity actually going to visit Barry.
I don’t think they’ll show that, they’ll just have a scene where she says she’s going
to Central City to visit him.
So thanks so much for submitting questions guys, I always like being able to answer you
directly in a video.
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