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Spoilers Arrow - Season 5

This week was way better though, as it wasn't saddled with an alien plot at the same time; not dissing it though, the whole "Invasion!" thing was a great adaptation of how comic books do crossover arcs by focusing on each book / show / team's own part in the overall story while incorporating all sorts of goodies from the other entries.

I think that's pretty normal for TV crossovers too. Like in last season's Bones/Sleepy Hollow crossover, the Bones half was mostly Bones stuff with some SH guest stars, and the SH half was mostly SH stuff with some Bones guest stars.
 
Based on Prometheus being trained by the same person as Oliver in Russia, and the bottle of Russian vodka the reporter had, I'm thinking that she is Prometheus, and perhaps the daughter of the guy Oliver killed in the Russian jail. I believe it was mentioned he had a daughter, but I'm not sure if her age was mentioned. If it was and she was just a little girl at the time then that would disprove my theory. If I'm wrong I still think the camera focusing on the vodka bottle is significant, and she is involved with Prometheus somehow.
 
I think that's pretty normal for TV crossovers too. Like in last season's Bones/Sleepy Hollow crossover, the Bones half was mostly Bones stuff with some SH guest stars, and the SH half was mostly SH stuff with some Bones guest stars.

Possibly, but IMO there are tons of crossovers which just happen to feature characters from another show dropping in and helping out with the plot of the week, with no effect on a story that affects the whole shared universe. Pretty much all Trek crossovers were like this, as was the Brooklyn Nine-Nine / New Girl crossover earlier this fall. "Invasion!" had a shared plot that involved everyone, with the Flash, Arrow and Legends components contributing to the overall story. If this is done often, then I guess the novelty here is that it involves three (and a bit) shows and not just two. How often does that get done? CSI, maybe?

Mark
 
Stole fire from the gods.

Tied to a rock, stomach eaten by eagles by day, regenerate by night, and re-eaten the following day ad infinitum.

Clue?

Slade?
 
Amell was talking about how important the Black Canary is to Green Arrow lore, and said it wasn't a hallucination, but I'm not sure if it was even hinted at (beyond our assumptions) that it is the exact same Laurel that we lost last year. It seemed vague enough.

If it IS Black Siren, it could stlil completely work.... originally employed by Prometheus, but totally swooning to Ollie's side once she finds out he is alive - if on her Earth, Ollie died at sea, it could have been the trigger for her going darkside. This could be the reverse Artemis; Siren's redemption story, AND the fixing of the BC/Dinah character, as I suggested both last year and after the anniversary episodes stressing of the Laurel/Oliver love story.
 
If it IS Black Siren, it could stlil completely work.... originally employed by Prometheus, but totally swooning to Ollie's side once she finds out he is alive - if on her Earth, Ollie died at sea, it could have been the trigger for her going darkside. This could be the reverse Artemis; Siren's redemption story, AND the fixing of the BC/Dinah character, as I suggested both last year and after the anniversary episodes stressing of the Laurel/Oliver love story.

Did Black Siren have a preference for her first or middle name? It would be nice to see her go by Dinah if Oliver is going to get together with her.
 
Black Siren is either in the custody of Team Flash or else is locked up in Iron Heights, and, in both scenarios, the chances of her escaping unnoticed are slim to none.
 
Maybe Sarah managed to change history after all? Somehow go back and fake Laurel's death just as it happened originally thus minimising the impact on the timeline. Then she'd just have deposit her several months later, right when Ollie finds her.

Whatever is going on, poor Quentin is going to have an aneurysm.

Another Flashpoint wrinkle perhaps?
If that were the case then she would just be alive and only Barry would know she originally died, just like with baby Sarah.
 
Possibly, but IMO there are tons of crossovers which just happen to feature characters from another show dropping in and helping out with the plot of the week, with no effect on a story that affects the whole shared universe.

Of course, but I'm talking specifically about a crossover that has two or more parts spread across two or more different shows, because that's the relevant kind of crossover in this discussion. I considered specifying as much, but I figured it was implicit. I guess it wasn't.


If this is done often, then I guess the novelty here is that it involves three (and a bit) shows and not just two. How often does that get done? CSI, maybe?

There was a 3-part crossover between the Vegas, Miami, and New York CSI series, and it was the same approach I'm talking about -- each installment focused primarily on its own main cast with only a few guest characters from the other shows.



Black Siren is either in the custody of Team Flash or else is locked up in Iron Heights, and, in both scenarios, the chances of her escaping unnoticed are slim to none.

Or she's been returned to Earth-2 for imprisonment there. Most of her crimes were committed there, after all, so they have more of a right to her. And it's not as if interdimensional travel is difficult for the SuperSTARs these days.
 
Is there any way that past Laurel could have come forward in time?

That means that she has to be sent back to die, or time falls apart.
 
There was a 3-part crossover between the Vegas, Miami, and New York CSI series, and it was the same approach I'm talking about -- each installment focused primarily on its own main cast with only a few guest characters from the other shows.

The Law & Order/Homicide crossover episodes generally followed that same model.
 
I just had an insight... Felicity was able to forgive Oliver for his part in killing Billy so readily because it's the same situation as her own part in destroying Havenrock. They were both forced to do what they did by the actions of the villains, so while they may have been the ones to deliver the weapons, they weren't the ones who were truly to blame for the deaths. So Rory forgiving Felicity helped Felicity pay it forward by forgiving Oliver.
 
Is she easier to play than a flute?

They want me to hate you, because they made you do something that would make me hate you.
 
I just had an insight... Felicity was able to forgive Oliver for his part in killing Billy so readily because it's the same situation as her own part in destroying Havenrock. They were both forced to do what they did by the actions of the villains, so while they may have been the ones to deliver the weapons, they weren't the ones who were truly to blame for the deaths. So Rory forgiving Felicity helped Felicity pay it forward by forgiving Oliver.
That is actually some really good insight.... didn't even think about that...though I think it would be perfectly realistic for a wave of grief to hit a few episodes later and Felicity rethinks that, for just an episode or so.
 
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