Flicks and the City caught up with Roy Harper actor Colton Haynes at the opening night of the new West End musical "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" directed by Academy Award winner Sam Mendes. Carefully tip-toeing around spoilers, Haynes stated that he thinks, "Roy will have to go through a little gamut, he's going to have to go through a lot to experience the level that Oliver has because he was fighting for his life for five years. I'm thinking Roy's going to have to be beatdown a lot before he gets built back up." In terms of the three different costumed personas of Roy Harper, there's Speedy, Arsenal and Red Arrow. Of the three, it's the Arsenal monicker that undergoes the most mental and physical trauma.
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I have no idea who these three personas are or even why 1 character needs 3 personas. I'm just happy Roy has an active role. However no more love triangles or baby mama drama please. Let's skip that persona.
ReplyDeleteI think the most logical explanation is that there are three characters who will each take on one of those three personas. Roy will become Red Arrow, Diggle will be Arsenal, and Thea will be Speedy.
ReplyDeleteFelicity can simply stay Felicity forever; that will be just fine with me. (Please, please, please don't ever kill her off.)
They're just three superhero identities that Roy took on over the course of his career, as things happened to him and his character changed. He was Speedy while he was simply Green Arrow's sidekick, and became Arsenal after he started working on his own (using a variety of high-tech weapons instead of arrows). Then he switched to the name Red Arrow later on. (For a simpler version of this progression, without all the parallel universes and interdimensional crises, try the excellent animated series Young Justice. It deals heavily with Roy's character, and draws on a lot of the stories from the original comics. The ordering of the names is different, but it doesn't really matter.)
ReplyDeleteConsidering how quickly Emily Bett Rickards went from minor recurring character to written into the main cast I'd say Felicity is safe from the long haul of the show. And that I'm happy with. Her character is a fun twist on the anti-dumb blonde character. She's always accidentally saying inappropriate things but she's also the genius hacker.
ReplyDeleteOne of the best things about "Arrow" is the fact that they've succeeded in introducing great original characters alongside the figures from the comic books. Unlike Smallville, which threw in Chloe Sullivan and proceeded to struggle for ten years to sort out what she was even doing there.
ReplyDeleteI loved the Young Justice story line of Roy Harper where he was kidnapped by the light and unknowingly knowing that Lex Luther was part of it along the fact he cut his arm off for further research for the light and Lex kinda did create Arsenal by providing the weapon lol
ReplyDeleteWhat i don't get was did the real Roy Harper have a baby with Cheshire or was it the clone who knocked her up lol
I'm sure they not gonna go in that direction lol