Arrow - Season 3

[Taylirious]

http://deadline.com/2015/04/arrow-colton-haynes-exits-1201410756/

‘Arrow’ Co-Star Exits: Show Producers On Tonight’s Departure & What’s Next?

I didn't see tonight's EP yet but wow. I wonder if they will make Thea "Speedy" or just go with a new character like Artemis.

 

[kirk55555]

Oliver is really becoming Lance's white whale. Hopefully Lance will go the way of Ahab by the end of the season, I really don't see anyway he can come back from how he's been acting. He's completely unsympathetic at this point. Maybe a big, heroic death can make him be remembered for how he used to be, and not how he's been the last few episodes.

I did really like that we have a superhuman who didn't get his powers in the Central City event. Hopefully that happens more often, on Arrow and Flash.

 

[Gryffindorian]

So tonight's episode takes place ar least a week after last night's Flash story. I still don't like the fact that Dick Lance has gone all Captain Ahab on Oliver. I mean I could understand it when Ollie first started as a vigilante. But one could say Dick Lance's judgment has been compromised. He should be relieved of command.

Electro/Deathlok is such a two-dimensional villain, just a generic metahuman byproduct of Central City (or ARGUS?).

Oh Roy! I'm sorry to see you leave. Will you be going back to Beacon Hills soon???

Thea! Looks like she's going to take a dip in the Lazarus Pit.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Death Bolt is barely tied to the Suicide Squad in the 1980s.

Amanda could be making Metahumans?

If Wells doesn't have a few more less public particle accelerators, then maybe some one else does?

Maybe the particle accelerators wake didn't stop at the towns city limits?

A Hemisphere could have been saturated in exotic particles.

 

[cylkoth]

And we finally have someone ask the big bathroom question in Flash's dungeon of doom.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Metahumanism can be communicable.

Wells may be using his stockpile of metawaste to make more metahumans elsewhere.

 

[sojourner]

Back during the old Invasion Earth event in DC it was stated that 10 percent of humans possess the metagene and it could be activated through a wide range of circumstances usually involving some kind of stressful event.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Did Wells, a man from the 25th century, coin the phrase "metahuman" in the 21st century earlier this season?

If it was Wells, then it's a common enough phrase from where he comes from, from a culture that knows all about the metagene and how it relates to humanity and super powers.

If it was Cisco who coined the phrase "metahuman" then he pulled it out of his ass, with no foreknowledge that the metagene exists.

If in the Timeline Wells called home, it was still Cisco who invented the word metahuman and all the science surrounding metahumanology, then he is a massive monolith with regards to the greatness of the human race oushing ever forward.

Superman can travel through time.

I wonder if Wells is using Clark Kent's speed as a plan B?

 

[Taylirious]

Kara.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Eobard Thawne's plan B is Supergirl?

He's already entrenched in her life?

Which means that he is using his super speed to live in two cities simultaneously as he monitors both Barry and Kara, as a close personal friend above reproach who they would never suspect of being an evil SOB.

Good thinking Taylalala!

 

[JanewayRulz!]

Thea! Looks like she's going to take a dip in the Lazarus Pit.

When he stabbed Thea, all I could think of was my prediction that since Dad died in season 1 and Mom died in season 2 that Thea would end up dying in season 3.

Jinx!

Then they mentioned the Lazarus pit.

Yea!

I wonder if Roy will come back because Thea is on her deathbed.

I'm confused why Roy couldn't say goodbye to Thea in person, so she wouldn't doubt Ollie's story that he survived the knife attack.

 

[Christopher]

In this day and age, I'm most impressed that they managed to keep Haynes's departure a secret.

Clearly there's a mystery being set up with Deathbolt/Simmons, if he wasn't created by the accelerator explosion. I'm wondering if there'll be some connection to Shrieve's plot in the flashbacks. After all, in the comics, Shrieve is the head of the Creature Commandos, so maybe he'll turn out to have a metahuman connection here. Alternatively, this could be part of the setup for the new spinoff.

Speaking of which, if the "killing" of Thea is meant to lead to her resurrection by Lazarus Pit, as Ra's's line about resurrection suggests (I assume Ra's will offer to revive her in exchange for Ollie accepting his offer), then that could point toward Sara's resurrection too, leading into her inclusion in the team spinoff.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Sarah dressed as the Canary was briefly shown in the preview for the next episode.

 

[Dick Whitman]

In the comics Deathbolt was given his powers by the Ultra-Humanite. He is another possible villain for the spin-off.

 

[Corran Horn]

I was always so/so about Roy - if they bring in someone to play an Artemis-type role that'd be neat.

 

[JD]

Honestly, if I had any choice of character who was going to leave, it would have been Roy, so I wasn't to disappointed to see him go. I still like the character, but just not as much as most of the rest of the main characters. I wonder if Thea will become Speedy now that she can fight and she knows about Ollie and the others.
So it looks like from the preview we will be seeing Thea take a dip in Ra's Lazarus Pit.
I like seeing Ray try to take on his first supervillain solo. It should be fun to see him develop into a real superhero. I think I'm almost more interested in his superhero origin story than I was in Laurel's. Although her character has improved a lot lately IMO.

Oliver is really becoming Lance's white whale. Hopefully Lance will go the way of Ahab by the end of the season, I really don't see anyway he can come back from how he's been acting. He's completely unsympathetic at this point. Maybe a big, heroic death can make him be remembered for how he used to be, and not how he's been the last few episodes.

I do have to wonder where exactly they are going with Capt. Lance because, and I can't believe I'm writing this, but I actually kind of agree with Kirk here, he's starting to approach irredeemable here. It would be hard to see him just going back to cooperating with Team Arrow after all of this.
So we have our first metahuman who wasn't in the Central City when the STAR Labs particle accelerator exploded. I wonder if that is just a way to introduce metahumans from outside of CC and with more diverse origins, or if there's going to be a story there.
We actually had Ray address the issues with the Pipeline, but sadly we didn't get an answer. But it was still nice to see the writers acknowledge the issue.

 

[Corran Horn]

Honestly, if I had any choice of character who was going to leave, it would have been Roy, so I wasn't to disappointed to see him go. I still like the character, but just not as much as most of the rest of the main characters. I wonder if Thea will become Speedy now that she can fight and she knows about Ollie and the others.
So it looks like from the preview we will be seeing Thea take a dip in Ra's Lazarus Pit.
I like seeing Ray try to take on his first supervillain solo. It should be fun to see him develop into a real superhero. I think I'm almost more interested in his superhero origin story than I was in Laurel's. Although her character has improved a lot lately IMO.

Oliver is really becoming Lance's white whale. Hopefully Lance will go the way of Ahab by the end of the season, I really don't see anyway he can come back from how he's been acting. He's completely unsympathetic at this point. Maybe a big, heroic death can make him be remembered for how he used to be, and not how he's been the last few episodes.

I do have to wonder where exactly they are going with Capt. Lance because, and I can't believe I'm writing this, but I actually kind of agree with Kirk here, he's starting to approach irredeemable here. It would be hard to see him just going back to cooperating with Team Arrow after all of this.

I agree - here's hoping his colleague telling him he's going off the reservation sinks in somehow.

 

[Christopher]

I wonder if Thea will become Speedy now that she can fight and she knows about Ollie and the others.

Maybe. Not sure she should use that name, though, since presumably it's a known nickname of Thea Queen.

So it looks like from the preview we will be seeing Thea take a dip in Ra's Lazarus Pit.

Interesting that they're presenting it as special water, rather than a chemical mix as in the comics.

I like seeing Ray try to take on his first supervillain solo.

Oh yeah, that's right... he only took on Bug-Eyed Bandit's swarm of robo-bees while the Flash took on the villain herself. So yeah, I guess this is his first.

 

[DWF]

In this day and age, I'm most impressed that they managed to keep Haynes's departure a secret.

Clearly there's a mystery being set up with Deathbolt/Simmons, if he wasn't created by the accelerator explosion. I'm wondering if there'll be some connection to Shrieve's plot in the flashbacks. After all, in the comics, Shrieve is the head of the Creature Commandos, so maybe he'll turn out to have a metahuman connection here. Alternatively, this could be part of the setup for the new spinoff.

It's obviously a set up for both Supergirl and the new spinoff and Roy could appear on both shows. but then ikf they bring Thea back, if people are so upset about Iris not knowing Barry's secret the same should said if Thea isn't told that Roy is still alive.

 

[DWF]

Oliver is really becoming Lance's white whale. Hopefully Lance will go the way of Ahab by the end of the season, I really don't see anyway he can come back from how he's been acting. He's completely unsympathetic at this point. Maybe a big, heroic death can make him be remembered for how he used to be, and not how he's been the last few episodes.

I did really like that we have a superhuman who didn't get his powers in the Central City event. Hopefully that happens more often, on Arrow and Flash.

Ollie started out as a killer and judge and jury as well, the Arrow's relationship with the police started out badly. If Ollie had spent some time helping the police catch criminals in the beginning it'd be a different story, but Lance does have a point. He doesn't need killed off, but I can't say the same for Malcolm, as far as fathers go Malcolm is the worst of the two and he is a killer and a criminal, Lance might be misguided but he's not above the law.