Season 1 "Arrow" ended tonight with an epic, heartbreaking, and completely shocking episode. We said a tragic goodbye to Tommy Merlyn, and the rest of Starling City was left hanging. So what's in store for Season 2? The cast and executive producers aren't spilling much, but we managed to wring a few vague teases out of E.P. Andrew Kreisberg and series star Stephen Amell.
1. More Deadshot! If you were wondering what happened to Diggle's vendetta against Floyd Lawton, the assassin murdered his brother, rest assured that it's still burning him up. "Diggle's pursuit of Deadshot is going to be a big part of Season 2," Kreisberg reveals. "The finale was already bigger and crazier and more nuts than we ever envisioned, so it's not like we dropped the ball with that story, it story was just a story we knew could live on into Season 2. Don't worry. It is far from dropped."
2. Roy Harper getting closer to The Hood. "We'll definitely find out how Oliver feels about taking Roy on as part of the team in Season 2," Kreisberg says. "Oliver Queen and Roy Harper will have a long and storied career together. As with all of these things, especially stuff that's derived from the comic books, we've tried to both satisfy fans' expectations, and turn them on their head. I think that Roy's desire to be under the Arrow and Oliver's desire to be as private a person as possible are going to collide."
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1. More Deadshot! If you were wondering what happened to Diggle's vendetta against Floyd Lawton, the assassin murdered his brother, rest assured that it's still burning him up. "Diggle's pursuit of Deadshot is going to be a big part of Season 2," Kreisberg reveals. "The finale was already bigger and crazier and more nuts than we ever envisioned, so it's not like we dropped the ball with that story, it story was just a story we knew could live on into Season 2. Don't worry. It is far from dropped."
2. Roy Harper getting closer to The Hood. "We'll definitely find out how Oliver feels about taking Roy on as part of the team in Season 2," Kreisberg says. "Oliver Queen and Roy Harper will have a long and storied career together. As with all of these things, especially stuff that's derived from the comic books, we've tried to both satisfy fans' expectations, and turn them on their head. I think that Roy's desire to be under the Arrow and Oliver's desire to be as private a person as possible are going to collide."
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Great stuff man! Great stuff! Looks like Season 2 will not only pick up where Season 1 left off, but also continue to expand the series in new and exciting ways.
ReplyDeleteIt's mostly just Amell's opinions but a nice article nonetheless.
ReplyDeleteMy season 2 wishlist:
- Diggle-centric and Quentin-centric episodes
- Better integration of Thea into Arrow's main storylines
- A return to emphasizing Oliver's family matters as they did in the first half of season one
- Creating a few 2 or 3 episode mini arcs in place of villain of the week episodes
- More Laurel-Quentin material
- Keep Walter involved somehow
- Explore Felicity's personal life and how her association with Oliver has changed her
- A better emphasis on realistic guest villains (and fewer China White / The Count type villains)
- Get into the backstory detailing how Oliver ended up in the Bratva
- No more arrow catching. EVER.
I like your list, especially the last one, Malcom did it in the finale, AGAIN...
ReplyDeleteWhen Malcolm caught that one last week (ep 22), Oliver didn't even seem surprised. Liked how he used Malcolm's ridiculous skill against him by having an exploding arrow. But yeah, I'm sick of it.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone think that it's about time that Oliver got his own place? He is a grown man.
ReplyDeletehaha I posted that before I read the article. I'm glad Stephen feels the same way!
ReplyDeleteI want him to get his own place but I don't want him to leave Thea alone. She already lost enough.
ReplyDeleteYeah he should be w/ his sister, I agree.
ReplyDeleteI would have been more impressed by that if it wasn't an Avengers rip off....
ReplyDelete"Roy's desire to be under The Arrow" ---- I know shows like this are known for having inadvertent, homo-erotic undertones, but yikes, that will surely pour a whole tonne of gas on the fan-fiction flames.
ReplyDeleteLooks like some of your wishlist will be fulfilled. They are talking about Diggle-Centric episodes, push Thea (and Roy) to their endgames, which I assume are Speedy and Red Arrow respectively, sounds like they have a plan for Quentin and intend to give him a larger role than I originally thought, and we'll get to see Moira's trial and how the Queens handle that.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if we'll see Walter again though, am not sure..