Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2017 6:51:07 GMT
For those who watched the first episode of the new season of 'Arrow' you would have seen Oliver's identity was revealed on TV at the end and I am wondering who do you think was behind revealing him and how do you think this is going to affect the show going forward? I think Oliver will lose his job as the mayor in Star City 'cause they won't allow a person who is a vigilante to be mayor and this could lead to Oliver trying to regain his fortune and create a new company called 'Queen Industries.' I am not surprised they outed his secret identity 'cause I thought they would eventually have this happen but I was under the impression they would have gone down the 'Smallville' path and had somebody threatening to expose him and have him call a press conference and reveal he is the Green Arrow to everybody like he did in Season 10 of 'Smallville.' Oliver being exposed is different 'cause less people will trust him going forward and this is going to change the show entirely. 
Arrow's Return Brings With It A Big Old Problem For Oliver Queen
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Arrow's Return Brings With It A Big Old Problem For Oliver Queen
When we left Oliver Queen at the end of Arrow's fifth season, he was standing over the smoking ruins of pretty much everything the show had built up over its first five years. Last night's premiere mostly dealt with the fallout of said explosiveness, but, because this is Arrow, it also threw a familiar giant wrench into Ollie's life. Spoiler alert!
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The beating heart of Arrow for all these years has been the push and pull of how much Ollie gives himself over to his duties as the Green Arrow. Can a man that does what he does when he dons the emerald hood still have the opportunity for a life outside of the mask? It's been a question Arrow has struggled to answer multiple times over the past 5 seasons, and it's one that comes to the fore once more in the aptly titled "Fallout".
That's a lot of bang to kill off, what, maybe two people.
But before the episode could allow itself time to tackle that age-old question again, we had to check in with who survived the great Lian Yiu explosapalooza of summer 2017 — and it turns out almost everyone did, save for seemingly Talia al Ghul (I'm sure she'll be back because duh, that's what al Ghuls do) and definitely Arrow's favourite walking plot device of late, Samantha, the mother to Ollie's son William.
Although the episode also did spend its sweet time trying to make us think Thea bit the bullet too, but it turns out she's just in a coma, so please be excited for a lot of bedside monologues from Stephen Amell until she recovers.
So if Lian Yiu's destruction was less immediately deadly than we expected, its lingering effects will be more personal than a hasty application of red marker through Arrow's cast list. Almost everyone who got out is damaged in some way, especially Diggle, who's PTSD begins to flare up again, and Quentin Lance, who now has to try and deal with the fact that not only did he have to attempt to kill his alternate-Earth daughter to save Dinah, said alternate-Earth daughter is now wreaking violent havoc across Star City.
The real bulk of that impact however is saved for Oliver and William, as, turns out, kids get pretty depressed when the parent that actually raised them dies in a horrifying gigantic explosion. For once, Ollie doesn't use his struggle to connect with William as an excuse to feel sorry for himself — he actually talks to people about his feelings in this episode, holy shit! — and he's rewarded for making an attempt with his son (OK so he gives William junk food and promises to let him watch a football game, but it's a start) with a level of emotional stability that is downright rare for both Oliver Queen and Arrow in general.
It's a great sign that the show really wants to build on Ollie's journey across season five to accepting himself instead of wallowing in self-pity... which then brings us to the giant spanner the show gleefully throws in the works. Because Ollie turns on the news to find the media has gotten hold of a picture of him in his Green Arrow costume, hood down and mask off.
Oh boy. Poor Ollie just can't catch a break, can he?
This "twist" — which was telegraphed from a mile away when Slade bumped into Ollie in the hospital to promptly inform him it won't be long before he has to choose between vigilantism and being there for William — would be a lot more intriguing if... well, if Arrow hadn't already exposed Ollie's identity back in season 3, and made the collective population of Star City so dumb in the process that they managed to not just forget that but also elect him Mayor.
Given the promise of the rest of this episode for actually forging some newer ground with Ollie's disposition and character, it's almost a shame for Arrow to return to a familiar well of drama — one it didn't exactly handle well the last time — in a bid to once again tackle its most important question. But we'll have to wait and see how this plays out to really see where Arrow is going this season. Hopefully it will be a new twist on what's become familiar ground for the show.
Hey, at least in a few weeks he'll have an evil Nazi version of himself from another Earth to maybe pin the blame on?
All Images: CW
The beating heart of Arrow for all these years has been the push and pull of how much Ollie gives himself over to his duties as the Green Arrow. Can a man that does what he does when he dons the emerald hood still have the opportunity for a life outside of the mask? It's been a question Arrow has struggled to answer multiple times over the past 5 seasons, and it's one that comes to the fore once more in the aptly titled "Fallout".
That's a lot of bang to kill off, what, maybe two people.
But before the episode could allow itself time to tackle that age-old question again, we had to check in with who survived the great Lian Yiu explosapalooza of summer 2017 — and it turns out almost everyone did, save for seemingly Talia al Ghul (I'm sure she'll be back because duh, that's what al Ghuls do) and definitely Arrow's favourite walking plot device of late, Samantha, the mother to Ollie's son William.
Although the episode also did spend its sweet time trying to make us think Thea bit the bullet too, but it turns out she's just in a coma, so please be excited for a lot of bedside monologues from Stephen Amell until she recovers.
So if Lian Yiu's destruction was less immediately deadly than we expected, its lingering effects will be more personal than a hasty application of red marker through Arrow's cast list. Almost everyone who got out is damaged in some way, especially Diggle, who's PTSD begins to flare up again, and Quentin Lance, who now has to try and deal with the fact that not only did he have to attempt to kill his alternate-Earth daughter to save Dinah, said alternate-Earth daughter is now wreaking violent havoc across Star City.
The real bulk of that impact however is saved for Oliver and William, as, turns out, kids get pretty depressed when the parent that actually raised them dies in a horrifying gigantic explosion. For once, Ollie doesn't use his struggle to connect with William as an excuse to feel sorry for himself — he actually talks to people about his feelings in this episode, holy shit! — and he's rewarded for making an attempt with his son (OK so he gives William junk food and promises to let him watch a football game, but it's a start) with a level of emotional stability that is downright rare for both Oliver Queen and Arrow in general.
It's a great sign that the show really wants to build on Ollie's journey across season five to accepting himself instead of wallowing in self-pity... which then brings us to the giant spanner the show gleefully throws in the works. Because Ollie turns on the news to find the media has gotten hold of a picture of him in his Green Arrow costume, hood down and mask off.
Oh boy. Poor Ollie just can't catch a break, can he?
This "twist" — which was telegraphed from a mile away when Slade bumped into Ollie in the hospital to promptly inform him it won't be long before he has to choose between vigilantism and being there for William — would be a lot more intriguing if... well, if Arrow hadn't already exposed Ollie's identity back in season 3, and made the collective population of Star City so dumb in the process that they managed to not just forget that but also elect him Mayor.
Given the promise of the rest of this episode for actually forging some newer ground with Ollie's disposition and character, it's almost a shame for Arrow to return to a familiar well of drama — one it didn't exactly handle well the last time — in a bid to once again tackle its most important question. But we'll have to wait and see how this plays out to really see where Arrow is going this season. Hopefully it will be a new twist on what's become familiar ground for the show.
Hey, at least in a few weeks he'll have an evil Nazi version of himself from another Earth to maybe pin the blame on?
www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/10/arrows-return-brings-with-it-a-big-old-problem-for-oliver-queen/
But I was not expecting it to happen so soon.
I think we will see them on the show again too and Talia is going to want revenge on Oliver and it could have been Talia who exposed Oliver as the Green Arrow at the end of the episode but I think it is more likely it is going to turn out to be Vigilante. I read an interview with Marc a few weeks ago where he said every member of the team was going to have their own villain this season while Oliver would be facing the main villain, Richard Dragon and I think Richard and the others will team up together towards the end and they will all have a big fight with each other in the final episode. I did hear about it being about children too and I believe there was a trailer that showed Slade's son. There has been a synopsis of episode 5 revealed where Deathstroke returns to the show and Oliver teams up with him to help him find his son so I don't think we will have to wait too long to see him. 