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6 Spoilers secretos con Stephen Amell
Por Alex Zalben 30 enero 2014 2:32 PM EST 4,876
This week's episode of "Arrow" was a bevy of teases and set-up for comic book fans, as well as pay-off for the long simmering Roy (Colton Haynes) storyline, finally bringing him into the fold as part of Team Arrow. But things, according to series star Stephen Amell (Oliver Queen) and Executive Producer Marc Guggenheim, are just getting started. Here are some big teases for what's coming up in the next few weeks:
Roy Joins Team Arrow
Guggenheim, who wrote this week's episode, on whether we'll see Roy (and others) in costume soon.
Marc Guggenheim: "If people just suddenly start putting on costumes and fighting crime alongside Oliver, I maintain that diminishes what Oliver went through on the island for five years. If it was as simple as putting on a mask and fighting crime, then everybody could be doing it, and the five years of hell that transformed Oliver into the Arrow would be meaningless by comparison. So we're very careful not to do that. At the same time, whenever you do expand the circle of trust that Oliver has, and you invite new people into learning about it, you do open up story possibilities for that character."
Episode 13, "Heir Of The Demon"
The February 5 airing episode features the return of the evil League of Assassins, and debuts Nyssa al Ghul, the daughter of Batman baddie Ra's al Ghul.
Marc Guggenheim: "You haven't seen the last of the League of Assassins, but the role that they have to play, my guess is, it will probably surprise you. Their involvement is not what you expect."
Stephen Amell: "There's something that we haven't seen yet... I think it's pretty safe to say that Slade is our Big Bad. But we don't know what his plan is, you know? So as we find that out, could it include the League of Assassins? Of course. Of course, of course. We are meeting another member of the League in episode 13."
Oliver vs. Slade
As mentioned, the overarching Big Bad is Manu Bennett's Slade Wilson. Amell talks about working with him as friend, and villain.
Stephen Amell: "It's great. Manu is super intense. He cares a bunch about everything. He's incredibly particular and exacting when it comes to the story, and his character, and the way he moves and dresses. It's an interesting study to watch. Slade in the present day... He's always been a badass, but it's next level. And I can only be as good as our villains. If there's not someone formidable for me to match up against, then the stakes aren't high enough. It makes for compelling television working with Manu, and I love his version of present day Slade, and what we've seen so far."
Episode 15: "The Promise"
Where most episodes of the show are about 25% set on the island Oliver was trapped on for five years, episode 15 flips the script, only sparingly showing present day Starling City.
Stephen Amell: "It's pretty grueling. You know, I have a pretty good handle on things this year. Last year, it took me by surprise, and it left me bedridden and blowing my nose, and coughing for a month and a half after the season ended. My body gave out. This year, we've had episodes where I've had two, three days off. The island episode? That was not one of those episodes. I worked every single day, except for a day that I flew to Los Angeles to do press, and then flew back that night. It's been pretty gnarly, but it is what it is. It's not an actual problem, it's a blast."
Episode 17, "Birds of Prey"
With Black Canary (Caity Lotz) still in the mix, episode 17 brings back Huntress (Jessica De Gouw), a character traditionally paired with Canary in the comics as the heroic team Birds of Prey.
Stephen Amell: "It's awesome. It's great to have Jessica De Gouw come back, she was great in her three episodes last season. There's a romantic history there with Oliver so that's always fun to play. But, I mean, The Huntress is a badass character. And Birds of Prey, the connotations there, and the connections to the comic book history... I would expect fireworks on this episode. I'm excited to start shooting. We start shooting next week."
Ra's al Ghul
The 'Batman Begins' baddie has been mentioned multiple times on the show. With Amell commenting on separate occasions that no name is brought up on the show without a reason, and that coming up there was a DC Comics character's name he wanted to get just right, could we soon see the Head of the Demon on TV?
Marc Guggenheim: [Laughs] "I can't comment on that!"
Stephen Amell: "I hope so! I really hope so. I hope DC gives us the opportunity to use that character. We're certainly on a trajectory that would suggest that eventually that will happen. But man, that would be fantastic. I would be in full support of that."
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Por Alex Zalben 30 enero 2014 2:32 PM EST 4,876
This week's episode of "Arrow" was a bevy of teases and set-up for comic book fans, as well as pay-off for the long simmering Roy (Colton Haynes) storyline, finally bringing him into the fold as part of Team Arrow. But things, according to series star Stephen Amell (Oliver Queen) and Executive Producer Marc Guggenheim, are just getting started. Here are some big teases for what's coming up in the next few weeks:
Roy Joins Team Arrow
Guggenheim, who wrote this week's episode, on whether we'll see Roy (and others) in costume soon.
Marc Guggenheim: "If people just suddenly start putting on costumes and fighting crime alongside Oliver, I maintain that diminishes what Oliver went through on the island for five years. If it was as simple as putting on a mask and fighting crime, then everybody could be doing it, and the five years of hell that transformed Oliver into the Arrow would be meaningless by comparison. So we're very careful not to do that. At the same time, whenever you do expand the circle of trust that Oliver has, and you invite new people into learning about it, you do open up story possibilities for that character."
Episode 13, "Heir Of The Demon"
The February 5 airing episode features the return of the evil League of Assassins, and debuts Nyssa al Ghul, the daughter of Batman baddie Ra's al Ghul.
Marc Guggenheim: "You haven't seen the last of the League of Assassins, but the role that they have to play, my guess is, it will probably surprise you. Their involvement is not what you expect."
Stephen Amell: "There's something that we haven't seen yet... I think it's pretty safe to say that Slade is our Big Bad. But we don't know what his plan is, you know? So as we find that out, could it include the League of Assassins? Of course. Of course, of course. We are meeting another member of the League in episode 13."
Oliver vs. Slade
As mentioned, the overarching Big Bad is Manu Bennett's Slade Wilson. Amell talks about working with him as friend, and villain.
Stephen Amell: "It's great. Manu is super intense. He cares a bunch about everything. He's incredibly particular and exacting when it comes to the story, and his character, and the way he moves and dresses. It's an interesting study to watch. Slade in the present day... He's always been a badass, but it's next level. And I can only be as good as our villains. If there's not someone formidable for me to match up against, then the stakes aren't high enough. It makes for compelling television working with Manu, and I love his version of present day Slade, and what we've seen so far."
Episode 15: "The Promise"
Where most episodes of the show are about 25% set on the island Oliver was trapped on for five years, episode 15 flips the script, only sparingly showing present day Starling City.
Stephen Amell: "It's pretty grueling. You know, I have a pretty good handle on things this year. Last year, it took me by surprise, and it left me bedridden and blowing my nose, and coughing for a month and a half after the season ended. My body gave out. This year, we've had episodes where I've had two, three days off. The island episode? That was not one of those episodes. I worked every single day, except for a day that I flew to Los Angeles to do press, and then flew back that night. It's been pretty gnarly, but it is what it is. It's not an actual problem, it's a blast."
Episode 17, "Birds of Prey"
With Black Canary (Caity Lotz) still in the mix, episode 17 brings back Huntress (Jessica De Gouw), a character traditionally paired with Canary in the comics as the heroic team Birds of Prey.
Stephen Amell: "It's awesome. It's great to have Jessica De Gouw come back, she was great in her three episodes last season. There's a romantic history there with Oliver so that's always fun to play. But, I mean, The Huntress is a badass character. And Birds of Prey, the connotations there, and the connections to the comic book history... I would expect fireworks on this episode. I'm excited to start shooting. We start shooting next week."
Ra's al Ghul
The 'Batman Begins' baddie has been mentioned multiple times on the show. With Amell commenting on separate occasions that no name is brought up on the show without a reason, and that coming up there was a DC Comics character's name he wanted to get just right, could we soon see the Head of the Demon on TV?
Marc Guggenheim: [Laughs] "I can't comment on that!"
Stephen Amell: "I hope so! I really hope so. I hope DC gives us the opportunity to use that character. We're certainly on a trajectory that would suggest that eventually that will happen. But man, that would be fantastic. I would be in full support of that."
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/172150 ... mell.jhtml?
- Preparáos para 'Un Episodio del que todo el mundo estará hablando' (global.christianpost):
Preparáos para 'Un Episodio del que todo el mundo estará hablando'
Por Clare Morris 27 de Enero, 2014|4:45 pm
The CW's popular show "Arrow" will be expanding its cast to include Jessica de Gouw for an episode airing in March. For spoilers and more about de Gouw joining the cast from executive producer Marc Guggenheim, read on.
"We consider Jessica a member of the "Arrow" family and we're looking forward to having her back for an episode everyone will be talking about after," executive producer Marc Guggenheim told TV Guide.
Jessica de Gouw played The Huntress on the show and will play that role again in her next appearance.
In other "Arrow" spoiler news, many fans are eager to see what will become of the romantic possibility between Oliver and Felicity. In a recent interview with TV Guide, Guggenheim discussed the possibility of Oliver and Felicity becoming a couple.
"There's always potential. There's clearly a connection between the two of them and a lot of chemistry between Stephen and Emily. Whether that gets consummated in some way, I would say everyone has to keep watching. Part of the fun for us with the show is doing this razor's edge walk with them. The characters are two very different people, yet they're drawn together. They're also drawn to other people at the same time. A big part of Episode 10 is the fallout from the Barry-Felicity flirtation. They have some quintessential Oliver-Felicity moments in the first four to five episodes of the second half of the season," the executive producer said.
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Por Clare Morris 27 de Enero, 2014|4:45 pm
The CW's popular show "Arrow" will be expanding its cast to include Jessica de Gouw for an episode airing in March. For spoilers and more about de Gouw joining the cast from executive producer Marc Guggenheim, read on.
"We consider Jessica a member of the "Arrow" family and we're looking forward to having her back for an episode everyone will be talking about after," executive producer Marc Guggenheim told TV Guide.
Jessica de Gouw played The Huntress on the show and will play that role again in her next appearance.
In other "Arrow" spoiler news, many fans are eager to see what will become of the romantic possibility between Oliver and Felicity. In a recent interview with TV Guide, Guggenheim discussed the possibility of Oliver and Felicity becoming a couple.
"There's always potential. There's clearly a connection between the two of them and a lot of chemistry between Stephen and Emily. Whether that gets consummated in some way, I would say everyone has to keep watching. Part of the fun for us with the show is doing this razor's edge walk with them. The characters are two very different people, yet they're drawn together. They're also drawn to other people at the same time. A big part of Episode 10 is the fallout from the Barry-Felicity flirtation. They have some quintessential Oliver-Felicity moments in the first four to five episodes of the second half of the season," the executive producer said.
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- Productor ejecutivo de Arrow habla sobre dos revelaciones de la temporada: Slade, Suicide Squad, Birds of Prey (digitalspy):
- Los jefes de 'Arrow' Bosses sobre los villanos unidos, 'Provocativas' Entradas y detalles sobre el Suicide Squad (THR):
- Productores de "Arrow" llaman a Nyssa al Ghul "Uno de los mejoeres personajes" en la historia de la serie (cbr):
- Katrina Law y los productores de Arrow adelantan el debut de Nyssa al Ghul's (IGN):
- A Caity Lotz le encanta que "Arrow" esté "dejando que Black Canary sea fuerte" ():
- Caity Lotz adelanta su 'batalla emocional' con Nyssa al Ghul (mtv):
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Productor ejecutivo de Arrow habla sobre dos revelaciones de la temporada: Slade, Suicide Squad, Birds of Prey
Por Morgan Jeffery and Catriona Wightman 03 de Febrero 2014, 09:00 GMT
Arrow exec Greg Berlanti has revealed to Digital Spy what fans can expect from the climax of season two.
Berlanti promised more "adrenaline-fuelled storytelling" in future episodes, and teased the introduction of both the Birds of Prey and the Suicide Squad.
"Those are all things that are coming up - our own versions of those things," he confirmed.
"It's now been revealed that Slade (Manu Bennett) is in cahoots with Brother Blood (Kevin Alejandro) and so we have a two-pronged approach to the big bad of the year which has been fun and different. That'll really heat up."
The rivalry between Slade and Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) will also be explored in an upcoming episode that will finally see the pair come face-to-face in the present day.
"Every year we do one episode that's more primarily an all-island episode and the wraparounds for that - the story that's happening in the present - is a direct confrontation between Oliver and Slade," Berlanti said.
"You're seeing where they went south - what truly happened with them in the past. And if we do it right, that's going to be really terrific."
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/s206/a ... -prey.html
Por Morgan Jeffery and Catriona Wightman 03 de Febrero 2014, 09:00 GMT
Arrow exec Greg Berlanti has revealed to Digital Spy what fans can expect from the climax of season two.
Berlanti promised more "adrenaline-fuelled storytelling" in future episodes, and teased the introduction of both the Birds of Prey and the Suicide Squad.
"Those are all things that are coming up - our own versions of those things," he confirmed.
"It's now been revealed that Slade (Manu Bennett) is in cahoots with Brother Blood (Kevin Alejandro) and so we have a two-pronged approach to the big bad of the year which has been fun and different. That'll really heat up."
The rivalry between Slade and Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) will also be explored in an upcoming episode that will finally see the pair come face-to-face in the present day.
"Every year we do one episode that's more primarily an all-island episode and the wraparounds for that - the story that's happening in the present - is a direct confrontation between Oliver and Slade," Berlanti said.
"You're seeing where they went south - what truly happened with them in the past. And if we do it right, that's going to be really terrific."
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/s206/a ... -prey.html
- Los jefes de 'Arrow' Bosses sobre los villanos unidos, 'Provocativas' Entradas y detalles sobre el Suicide Squad (THR):
Los jefes de 'Arrow' Bosses sobre los villanos unidos, 'Provocativas' Entradas y detalles sobre el Suicide Squad
Por Philiana Ng 6:00 AM PST 04/02/2014
A powerful member of the al Ghul family is heading to Starling City, and they're not going down without a fight on Arrow.
Nyssa al Ghul (Spartacus' Katrina Law), daughter of the dangerous (and often name-dropped) Ra's al Ghul, comes into Oliver Queen's (Stephen Amell) orbit in this week's episode of the CW comic-book series, "Heir to the Demon," in an attempt to take back what's rightfully the property of the deadly League of Assassins: Sara Lance (Caity Lotz). The episode heavily features the Lance family in flashbacks.
"Second to [Ra's al Ghul], [Nyssa]'s one of the most important figures in the League. They sent their first round of minions to come for Sara and that didn't go so well for them, so now they're bringing out the big guns," executive producer Andrew Kreisberg told reporters.
Nyssa's introduction will have a significant effect on everyone in Starling City -- but not in the way that they may have imagined. "The way Nyssa comes into the story is in a far more provocative and surprising way than the last round," Kreisberg hinted.
By bringing in a character such as Nyssa, who hasn't been featured as prominently in popular media, the Arrow producers had room to play with her characterization. (She has been highlighted in only a handful of DC Comics titles.) For one thing, this iteration of Nyssa has a slight hint of a British accent and a deep connection to Sara. "Everything about her is wide open," Law said of her stunt-heavy role.
Law did feel the pressure portraying a character who was supposed to have gone through combat training for a good portion of her life. "She is precision and precise and everything she does has a purpose and an intent, so I tried to make sure my movements were sharp -- that was the biggest stress," the actress admitted.
Though Arrow, as of late, has focused on the Lance family dynamic -- and certainly Wednesday's episode continues that trajectory -- Kreisberg said that the next batch of episodes, kicking off Feb. 26 after a short break, are villain-centric ("villains a go-go," as he endearingly termed it). "It's just villain, villain, villain, great big villains, one after the other," Kreisberg said, hinting that some will be "returning favorites and a couple of amazing brand-new ones."
Executive producer Marc Guggenheim added that episodes 14 through 18 "are very much the villains' chapter [of the story] and it builds" to episode 18, which he promised is Arrow's "big mid-midseason cliffhanger, if you will."
Birds of Prey arc will "get there": The 17th episode, airing March 26, won't be a direct adaptation of the Birds of Prey comics; instead, it'll have an Arrow spin. "We gave ourselves room to grow and evolve," Guggenheim said. "Birds of Prey is very much the same thing. You're not going to end up with the Holy Trinity of Oracle, Black Canary and Huntress right out of the gate. We'll get there." When the Huntress (Jessica De Gouw) returns, "Helena is gone, all that's left is the Huntress," Kreisberg teased. "She's become consumed by this vengeance for her father and when we see her she's in a very haggard and worn-out state. It's the big final confrontation between her and her father, and Laurel (Katie Cassidy) gets in the crossfire, and the Canary has to go into the rescue."
Roy isn't in the clear yet: Though the last episode finally saw Roy Harper (Colton Haynes) join Team Arrow, with Oliver introducing him to Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) and Diggle (David Ramsey) as part of his team, Roy will still be struggling with his powers the next time viewers catch up with him. "The next five episodes really chart Oliver's attempts to keep Roy on the straight and narrow," Kreisberg said. Roy's interactions with the other members of Team Arrow will be unfurled in future episodes. "The cave's getting full," Kreisberg said with a laugh, "and we don't shy away from the fact and we're hopefully using that to our advantage."
Isabel's return trip: What has Isabel Rochev (Summer Glau) been up to since viewers last saw her? The businesswoman, who has been on the periphery as of late, will make a return appearance in the 18th episode of the season. "We'll find out what she's been up to," Guggenheim teased.
Details on the Suicide Squad episode: The teases have been sprinkled throughout the series, with the Suicide Squad set up in last week's episode. Producers revealed that the 16th episode, airing March 19, will be titled "Suicide Squad." And yes, it will revolve around the Suicide Squad. The episode will see Lyla (Audrey Marie Anderson) return, with her recruiting Diggle for a mission, and she "saddles him with the Suicide Squad, including Floyd Lawton (Michael Rowe)," Kreisberg revealed. There will be Diggle-centric flashbacks during his time in Afghanistan with then-friend Ted Gaynor (Ben Browder).
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Por Philiana Ng 6:00 AM PST 04/02/2014
A powerful member of the al Ghul family is heading to Starling City, and they're not going down without a fight on Arrow.
Nyssa al Ghul (Spartacus' Katrina Law), daughter of the dangerous (and often name-dropped) Ra's al Ghul, comes into Oliver Queen's (Stephen Amell) orbit in this week's episode of the CW comic-book series, "Heir to the Demon," in an attempt to take back what's rightfully the property of the deadly League of Assassins: Sara Lance (Caity Lotz). The episode heavily features the Lance family in flashbacks.
"Second to [Ra's al Ghul], [Nyssa]'s one of the most important figures in the League. They sent their first round of minions to come for Sara and that didn't go so well for them, so now they're bringing out the big guns," executive producer Andrew Kreisberg told reporters.
Nyssa's introduction will have a significant effect on everyone in Starling City -- but not in the way that they may have imagined. "The way Nyssa comes into the story is in a far more provocative and surprising way than the last round," Kreisberg hinted.
By bringing in a character such as Nyssa, who hasn't been featured as prominently in popular media, the Arrow producers had room to play with her characterization. (She has been highlighted in only a handful of DC Comics titles.) For one thing, this iteration of Nyssa has a slight hint of a British accent and a deep connection to Sara. "Everything about her is wide open," Law said of her stunt-heavy role.
Law did feel the pressure portraying a character who was supposed to have gone through combat training for a good portion of her life. "She is precision and precise and everything she does has a purpose and an intent, so I tried to make sure my movements were sharp -- that was the biggest stress," the actress admitted.
Though Arrow, as of late, has focused on the Lance family dynamic -- and certainly Wednesday's episode continues that trajectory -- Kreisberg said that the next batch of episodes, kicking off Feb. 26 after a short break, are villain-centric ("villains a go-go," as he endearingly termed it). "It's just villain, villain, villain, great big villains, one after the other," Kreisberg said, hinting that some will be "returning favorites and a couple of amazing brand-new ones."
Executive producer Marc Guggenheim added that episodes 14 through 18 "are very much the villains' chapter [of the story] and it builds" to episode 18, which he promised is Arrow's "big mid-midseason cliffhanger, if you will."
Birds of Prey arc will "get there": The 17th episode, airing March 26, won't be a direct adaptation of the Birds of Prey comics; instead, it'll have an Arrow spin. "We gave ourselves room to grow and evolve," Guggenheim said. "Birds of Prey is very much the same thing. You're not going to end up with the Holy Trinity of Oracle, Black Canary and Huntress right out of the gate. We'll get there." When the Huntress (Jessica De Gouw) returns, "Helena is gone, all that's left is the Huntress," Kreisberg teased. "She's become consumed by this vengeance for her father and when we see her she's in a very haggard and worn-out state. It's the big final confrontation between her and her father, and Laurel (Katie Cassidy) gets in the crossfire, and the Canary has to go into the rescue."
Roy isn't in the clear yet: Though the last episode finally saw Roy Harper (Colton Haynes) join Team Arrow, with Oliver introducing him to Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) and Diggle (David Ramsey) as part of his team, Roy will still be struggling with his powers the next time viewers catch up with him. "The next five episodes really chart Oliver's attempts to keep Roy on the straight and narrow," Kreisberg said. Roy's interactions with the other members of Team Arrow will be unfurled in future episodes. "The cave's getting full," Kreisberg said with a laugh, "and we don't shy away from the fact and we're hopefully using that to our advantage."
Isabel's return trip: What has Isabel Rochev (Summer Glau) been up to since viewers last saw her? The businesswoman, who has been on the periphery as of late, will make a return appearance in the 18th episode of the season. "We'll find out what she's been up to," Guggenheim teased.
Details on the Suicide Squad episode: The teases have been sprinkled throughout the series, with the Suicide Squad set up in last week's episode. Producers revealed that the 16th episode, airing March 19, will be titled "Suicide Squad." And yes, it will revolve around the Suicide Squad. The episode will see Lyla (Audrey Marie Anderson) return, with her recruiting Diggle for a mission, and she "saddles him with the Suicide Squad, including Floyd Lawton (Michael Rowe)," Kreisberg revealed. There will be Diggle-centric flashbacks during his time in Afghanistan with then-friend Ted Gaynor (Ben Browder).
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- Productores de "Arrow" llaman a Nyssa al Ghul "Uno de los mejoeres personajes" en la historia de la serie (cbr):
Productores de "Arrow" llaman a Nyssa al Ghul "Uno de los mejoeres personajes" en la historia de la serie
Por Albert Ching 04/02/14
The first season of "Arrow" hinted that DC Comics supervillain Ra's al Ghul was a looming presence in the show's world, and the second season has brought the character to prominence. His League of Assassins has been established as training both Sara Lance (Caity Lotz) and Malcolm Merlyn (John Barrowman) and the lingering threat of Ra's has increased as the season has progressed.
Despite numerous mentions of Ra's, the character hasn't actually yet been seen on the show, and the "Arrow" creative staff won't confirm if there are any plans in place to change that in the near future. But this week's episode, "Heir to the Demon," sees the series get a whole lot closer, with the introduction of Ra's daughter -- Nyssa al Ghul, played by "Spartacus" alum Katrina Law.
"She's second to him [Ra's]," "Arrow" executive producer Andrew Kreisberg said during a press event at The CW's Burbank headquarters. "She's one of the most important figures in the League. They sent their first round of minions to come for Sara, and that didn't go so well for them, so now they're bringing out the big guns. The way Nyssa comes into the story is in a more provocative and surprising way than the last round [of League of Assassins members]."
The show's producers stated the choice to use Nyssa rather than Ra's most famous daughter was motivated by Talia recently being portrayed on screen in 2012's "The Dark Knight Rises." Nyssa -- known in the comic books as "Nyssa Raatko" -- was introduced in 2003's "Detective Comics" #783 by Greg Rucka and Klaus Janson. Unlike Ra's or Talia, this is Nyssa's first adaptation to another medium.
"I love the fact that she hasn't been in any movies, and interpretation is left wide open between the writers and myself, and what we want to do," Law told reporters. "I love that she's only been in the comic books I think a total of 19 times. Everything about her is just wide open. It's so much more fun than having something that's rigid and defined for you that you have to play with in the confines of a box."
In a sign of Law's enthusiasm, executive producer (and comic book writing veteran) Marc Guggenheim shared that Law "ended up doing a lot more stunts" for the episode than expected. Though Law had performed stunts during her time on Starz's various "Spartacus" series, she said playing the highly trained Nyssa al Ghul was a different experience.
"[Mira, Law's character on "Spartacus"] was untrained, so she could be wild, whereas this girl is precise, and everything that she does has a purpose and intent," said Law, adding that she tried to make sure to keep her movements "sharp."
Playing Nyssa al Ghul also granted Law one of the distinct fringe benefits that comes with acting in genre TV: Wearing a costume.
"As an actor, you want to play," Law said. "The first time I put the costume on, I had this moment where I just kind of geeked out in front of myself in the mirror. It was so good."
"Maya Mani is our costume designer, and every week we're like, 'Hey, can you do a costume for this incredibly iconic comic book character that feature films have years to devise?,'" Kreisberg shared. "In a week we have yet another amazing costume that you can't imagine the show without."
Ra's al Ghul is primarily known as a Batman villain, but the "Arrow" team is keenly aware there's a precedent for the villain making an impact throughout the DC Universe -- including Green Arrow's corner of it.
"DC has been really amazing about letting us open that playbook," Kreisberg said. "Although a lot of people associate Ra's al Ghul with Batman -- which is true, that's where he started -- he really encompasses a lot more than that. I think now that the Dark Knight movies are completed and that storyline has been wrapped, it's allowed us to open it, and put it through the 'Arrow' lens, and do it in a new way."
"Merlyn on our show is a member of the League of Assassins, but also Merlyn in the comic books was a member of the League of Assassins," Guggenheim pointed out to the assembled press. "The comics made this possible for us, in a way."
Nyssa and Sara's shared past with the League of Assassins makes for a natural connection between the characters, one that's explored in "Heir to the Demon." For Kreisberg, it made for an especially meaningful villain encounter.
"I think Nyssa's one of the best characters we've ever had on the show," Kreisberg said. "Not wrongly, it's been pointed out that sometimes our villains get short-shrift. We don't always do right by the villains coming onto the show. Some of that is just because our show is so dense with so many different characters. We've gotten away with just casting very cool people in the parts, and asking the audience to fill in the rest.
"I think that's why, to me, this is one of our most successful episodes that we've ever done," he continued. "Every single aspect of it is working, not just with our main characters."
Both Kreisberg and Guggenheim stress the importance of "Heir to the Demon" to the overall "Arrow" mythology -- even if the full payoff may not be apparent for a while.
"We're always not just thinking a season ahead, but into next season," Guggenheim said. "There are little nuggets that we've actually already sprinkled throughout this season that won't pay off this year -- it'll pay off next year. You'll see, 'There really was a plan. They really did know what they were doing.'"
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page ... e&id=50706
Por Albert Ching 04/02/14
The first season of "Arrow" hinted that DC Comics supervillain Ra's al Ghul was a looming presence in the show's world, and the second season has brought the character to prominence. His League of Assassins has been established as training both Sara Lance (Caity Lotz) and Malcolm Merlyn (John Barrowman) and the lingering threat of Ra's has increased as the season has progressed.
Despite numerous mentions of Ra's, the character hasn't actually yet been seen on the show, and the "Arrow" creative staff won't confirm if there are any plans in place to change that in the near future. But this week's episode, "Heir to the Demon," sees the series get a whole lot closer, with the introduction of Ra's daughter -- Nyssa al Ghul, played by "Spartacus" alum Katrina Law.
"She's second to him [Ra's]," "Arrow" executive producer Andrew Kreisberg said during a press event at The CW's Burbank headquarters. "She's one of the most important figures in the League. They sent their first round of minions to come for Sara, and that didn't go so well for them, so now they're bringing out the big guns. The way Nyssa comes into the story is in a more provocative and surprising way than the last round [of League of Assassins members]."
The show's producers stated the choice to use Nyssa rather than Ra's most famous daughter was motivated by Talia recently being portrayed on screen in 2012's "The Dark Knight Rises." Nyssa -- known in the comic books as "Nyssa Raatko" -- was introduced in 2003's "Detective Comics" #783 by Greg Rucka and Klaus Janson. Unlike Ra's or Talia, this is Nyssa's first adaptation to another medium.
"I love the fact that she hasn't been in any movies, and interpretation is left wide open between the writers and myself, and what we want to do," Law told reporters. "I love that she's only been in the comic books I think a total of 19 times. Everything about her is just wide open. It's so much more fun than having something that's rigid and defined for you that you have to play with in the confines of a box."
In a sign of Law's enthusiasm, executive producer (and comic book writing veteran) Marc Guggenheim shared that Law "ended up doing a lot more stunts" for the episode than expected. Though Law had performed stunts during her time on Starz's various "Spartacus" series, she said playing the highly trained Nyssa al Ghul was a different experience.
"[Mira, Law's character on "Spartacus"] was untrained, so she could be wild, whereas this girl is precise, and everything that she does has a purpose and intent," said Law, adding that she tried to make sure to keep her movements "sharp."
Playing Nyssa al Ghul also granted Law one of the distinct fringe benefits that comes with acting in genre TV: Wearing a costume.
"As an actor, you want to play," Law said. "The first time I put the costume on, I had this moment where I just kind of geeked out in front of myself in the mirror. It was so good."
"Maya Mani is our costume designer, and every week we're like, 'Hey, can you do a costume for this incredibly iconic comic book character that feature films have years to devise?,'" Kreisberg shared. "In a week we have yet another amazing costume that you can't imagine the show without."
Ra's al Ghul is primarily known as a Batman villain, but the "Arrow" team is keenly aware there's a precedent for the villain making an impact throughout the DC Universe -- including Green Arrow's corner of it.
"DC has been really amazing about letting us open that playbook," Kreisberg said. "Although a lot of people associate Ra's al Ghul with Batman -- which is true, that's where he started -- he really encompasses a lot more than that. I think now that the Dark Knight movies are completed and that storyline has been wrapped, it's allowed us to open it, and put it through the 'Arrow' lens, and do it in a new way."
"Merlyn on our show is a member of the League of Assassins, but also Merlyn in the comic books was a member of the League of Assassins," Guggenheim pointed out to the assembled press. "The comics made this possible for us, in a way."
Nyssa and Sara's shared past with the League of Assassins makes for a natural connection between the characters, one that's explored in "Heir to the Demon." For Kreisberg, it made for an especially meaningful villain encounter.
"I think Nyssa's one of the best characters we've ever had on the show," Kreisberg said. "Not wrongly, it's been pointed out that sometimes our villains get short-shrift. We don't always do right by the villains coming onto the show. Some of that is just because our show is so dense with so many different characters. We've gotten away with just casting very cool people in the parts, and asking the audience to fill in the rest.
"I think that's why, to me, this is one of our most successful episodes that we've ever done," he continued. "Every single aspect of it is working, not just with our main characters."
Both Kreisberg and Guggenheim stress the importance of "Heir to the Demon" to the overall "Arrow" mythology -- even if the full payoff may not be apparent for a while.
"We're always not just thinking a season ahead, but into next season," Guggenheim said. "There are little nuggets that we've actually already sprinkled throughout this season that won't pay off this year -- it'll pay off next year. You'll see, 'There really was a plan. They really did know what they were doing.'"
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page ... e&id=50706
- Katrina Law y los productores de Arrow adelantan el debut de Nyssa al Ghul's (IGN):
Katrina Law y los productores de Arrow adelantan el debut de Nyssa al Ghul's
Por Eric Goldman 04 de Febrero, 2014
It’s another big Arrow episode this week, as Katrina Law (Spartacus) makes her debut as Nyssa al Ghul. Nyssa comes to Starling City as a member of the League of Assassins, determined to bring one of their members back into the fold – Sara Lance, AKA Canary. This quickly puts her into conflict with the Arrow himself, Oliver Queen, especially as Nyssa goes to drastic and dangerous lengths to force Sara to return.
Said Arrow executive producer Andrew Kreisberg, “Nyssa is obviously Ra's al Ghul's daughter, and second to him she's one of the most important figures in the League. They sent their first round of minions to come for Sara, and that didn't go so well for them, so now they're bringing out the big guns. I think the way Nyssa comes into the story is in a far more provocative and surprising way than the last round [of the League] that came in episode 205.”
Season 2 has had multiple mentions of Ra’s al Ghul and Kreisberg remarked, “DC has been really amazing about letting us open that playbook. It really all goes back to [Malcolm] Merlyn, because his origins [in the comics] -- he was part of the League of Assassins. Although a lot of people associate Ra's al Ghul with Batman, which is true because that's where he started, he really encompasses a lot more than that. So to have our primary villain, to not be able to discuss where he came from, Geoff Johns and everybody at DC agreed that that was such a big part of it. I think now that the Dark Knight movies are completed and that storyline has been wrapped, it's allowed us to open it up and do things in a slightly -- as we always do these things, we take it and put it through our lens and do it in a new way and find somebody like Katrina to fill the quiver.”
Ra’s al Ghul and his daughter Talia have both been depicted in animation and then, most notably, in live-action via Christopher Nolan’s Batman films. Talia's half-sister Nyssa on the other hand doesn’t have as big a history in the comics and has never been depciated in any other medium. Law was fine with that though, explaining, “I love it. I love the fact that she hasn't been in any movies. The interpretation is left wide open between the writers and myself and what we want to do, even with everything down to how she looks and her costume. Everything is just creative. I love that she's only been in the comic books I think a total of 19 times, so everything about her is just wide open… It’s much more fun than having something that's rigid and defined that you kind of have to play within the confines of a box.”
Nyssa gets several opportunities to show off her formidable fighting prowess in the episode and Law had a ton of praise for Arrow stunt cordinator James Bamford and her stunt double, Atlin Mitchell, saying, “This woman is so strong, I can't even tell you what an amazing stuntwoman she is.” However, executive producer Marc Guggenheim noted to Law, “You ended up doing a lot more stunts than we would normally have an actress do. Atlin would usually end up doing more, but you came in with all this experience.”
Said Law, “I love doing my own stunts, and the fact that I have this character who's kick-ass and legitimately trained was a lot of fun. It was also a lot more stress because -- I don't know how many of you saw Spartacus with Mira, but she was untrained, so she could be wild and kind of throw herself at things, whereas this girl is precise. Everything that she does has a purpose and intent, so I tried to make sure that my movements were sharp. I think that was probably the biggest stress, but other than that the stunt team's amazing. James Bamford took great care of me. He broke everything down, made it simple for me and just a lot of fun.”
As to what Nyssa makes of her new oponent, the Arrow, Law said, “When it comes to fighting, I think it's during the epic battle that they have together that she suddenly realizes that just because he's only had a couple of years compared to her -- I think more than a decade's worth of training -- that he is a formidable opponent. So I think the respect-factor for a legitimate fighter standing in front of her goes up.”
Kreisberg said of Nyssa, “I think this is one of the best characters we've had on the show,” causing Law to throw up her arms and exclaim, with a laugh, “I win!”
Following Manu Bennet ( Slade“) and Cynthia Addai-Robinson (“Amanda Waller“), Law is the third Spartacus alum to be a part of Arrow. Asked if there was another of her former costars she thought would be a good fit for the series, Law replied, “I would love Nick Tarabay to come over. I think Nick Taraby would be great! He's one of those villains where he rounds the character out, and he makes them human. He's not a mustache-twirling villain, and that's why I think he is so great at what he does."
Said Guggenheim, with a smile, “We're always struggling to make the show for the budget that we have, and people are always coming up with ideas on where we can save money. I think someone suggested, ‘Just fire the casting people and just cast people who have been in Spartacus.’ I’m joking!”
Katrina Law makes her debut as Nyssa on Arrow on Wednesday, February 5th on The CW.
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Por Eric Goldman 04 de Febrero, 2014
It’s another big Arrow episode this week, as Katrina Law (Spartacus) makes her debut as Nyssa al Ghul. Nyssa comes to Starling City as a member of the League of Assassins, determined to bring one of their members back into the fold – Sara Lance, AKA Canary. This quickly puts her into conflict with the Arrow himself, Oliver Queen, especially as Nyssa goes to drastic and dangerous lengths to force Sara to return.
Said Arrow executive producer Andrew Kreisberg, “Nyssa is obviously Ra's al Ghul's daughter, and second to him she's one of the most important figures in the League. They sent their first round of minions to come for Sara, and that didn't go so well for them, so now they're bringing out the big guns. I think the way Nyssa comes into the story is in a far more provocative and surprising way than the last round [of the League] that came in episode 205.”
Season 2 has had multiple mentions of Ra’s al Ghul and Kreisberg remarked, “DC has been really amazing about letting us open that playbook. It really all goes back to [Malcolm] Merlyn, because his origins [in the comics] -- he was part of the League of Assassins. Although a lot of people associate Ra's al Ghul with Batman, which is true because that's where he started, he really encompasses a lot more than that. So to have our primary villain, to not be able to discuss where he came from, Geoff Johns and everybody at DC agreed that that was such a big part of it. I think now that the Dark Knight movies are completed and that storyline has been wrapped, it's allowed us to open it up and do things in a slightly -- as we always do these things, we take it and put it through our lens and do it in a new way and find somebody like Katrina to fill the quiver.”
Ra’s al Ghul and his daughter Talia have both been depicted in animation and then, most notably, in live-action via Christopher Nolan’s Batman films. Talia's half-sister Nyssa on the other hand doesn’t have as big a history in the comics and has never been depciated in any other medium. Law was fine with that though, explaining, “I love it. I love the fact that she hasn't been in any movies. The interpretation is left wide open between the writers and myself and what we want to do, even with everything down to how she looks and her costume. Everything is just creative. I love that she's only been in the comic books I think a total of 19 times, so everything about her is just wide open… It’s much more fun than having something that's rigid and defined that you kind of have to play within the confines of a box.”
Nyssa gets several opportunities to show off her formidable fighting prowess in the episode and Law had a ton of praise for Arrow stunt cordinator James Bamford and her stunt double, Atlin Mitchell, saying, “This woman is so strong, I can't even tell you what an amazing stuntwoman she is.” However, executive producer Marc Guggenheim noted to Law, “You ended up doing a lot more stunts than we would normally have an actress do. Atlin would usually end up doing more, but you came in with all this experience.”
Said Law, “I love doing my own stunts, and the fact that I have this character who's kick-ass and legitimately trained was a lot of fun. It was also a lot more stress because -- I don't know how many of you saw Spartacus with Mira, but she was untrained, so she could be wild and kind of throw herself at things, whereas this girl is precise. Everything that she does has a purpose and intent, so I tried to make sure that my movements were sharp. I think that was probably the biggest stress, but other than that the stunt team's amazing. James Bamford took great care of me. He broke everything down, made it simple for me and just a lot of fun.”
As to what Nyssa makes of her new oponent, the Arrow, Law said, “When it comes to fighting, I think it's during the epic battle that they have together that she suddenly realizes that just because he's only had a couple of years compared to her -- I think more than a decade's worth of training -- that he is a formidable opponent. So I think the respect-factor for a legitimate fighter standing in front of her goes up.”
Kreisberg said of Nyssa, “I think this is one of the best characters we've had on the show,” causing Law to throw up her arms and exclaim, with a laugh, “I win!”
Following Manu Bennet ( Slade“) and Cynthia Addai-Robinson (“Amanda Waller“), Law is the third Spartacus alum to be a part of Arrow. Asked if there was another of her former costars she thought would be a good fit for the series, Law replied, “I would love Nick Tarabay to come over. I think Nick Taraby would be great! He's one of those villains where he rounds the character out, and he makes them human. He's not a mustache-twirling villain, and that's why I think he is so great at what he does."
Said Guggenheim, with a smile, “We're always struggling to make the show for the budget that we have, and people are always coming up with ideas on where we can save money. I think someone suggested, ‘Just fire the casting people and just cast people who have been in Spartacus.’ I’m joking!”
Katrina Law makes her debut as Nyssa on Arrow on Wednesday, February 5th on The CW.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/02/04/ ... huls-debut
- A Caity Lotz le encanta que "Arrow" esté "dejando que Black Canary sea fuerte" ():
A Caity Lotz le encanta que "Arrow" esté "dejando que Black Canary sea fuerte"
Por Albert Ching 05 Febrero, 2014
For a newcomer to "Arrow," Caity Lotz has already had an eventful season. Her character, Sara Lance, has been established as the show's version of DC Comics hero Black Canary, down to fighting crime alongside Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) as a costumed vigilante. She's also featured heavily in the show's flashback sequences, given that she, like Oliver, was stranded on Lian Yu -- before becoming a member of Ra's al Ghul's League of Assassins.
This week's episode, "Heir to the Demon," introduces Ra's daughter and high-ranking League of Assassins member, Nyssa al Ghul, played by "Spartacus" vet Katrina Law. Nyssa has a significant history with Sara -- as strongly hinted at in promos for the episode -- and "Heir to the Demon" contains both insights into Sara's past, along with hints of her future.
CBR News spoke with Lotz about her "Arrow" experience thus far, playing a prominent female superhero, working with Katrina Law and concurrently playing the same character in two decidedly different points in life.
CBR News: Caity, you're now a few months into your "Arrow" experience, which for multiple reasons has to be unique from a typical acting gig. How have you enjoyed the ride so far?
Caity Lotz: I've had a blast. I love working on this show. The whole cast and crew, everybody's so cool. We have so much fun on set. I love doing the action stuff, and we always get to do all these crazy stunts. Yesterday, I was watching what they were shooting -- people flying in the air, all these crazy stunts. It's really cool, everything you get to see. And I love my character, so it's really fun, all the stuff I get to do as Sara.
From a broader, pop cultural perspective, there's always talk about an underrepresentation of female superhero characters, both in movies and TV and in comic books themselves -- given that, how does it feel for you to be playing, in a very visible role, a costumed female vigilante who's presented as a peer to the male main character?
It's really cool. I love it, and I love that I get the opportunity to play such an awesome character, and someone who's so strong -- and that they like writing her that way, and they're not trying to make her weak; make her into a damsel in distress. They're really letting the character be strong. It's a lot of fun, and it's exciting to be a part of that, and hopefully there will be more of that.
Obviously, the show has diverged in a lot of major ways from the original comic book Black Canary, but throughout this process, have you looked at all at the source material, and maybe picked up any insight?
DC sent me comics -- some of the "Birds of Prey" and "Green Arrow and Black Canary" comics -- which I checked out for fun. This world is a little different; it's not just taking the comics and literally putting them on screen. Most of my inspiration I draw from my life, and the writing -- how I feel she would be in those situations.
I think it's great. I know some of the fans want things to stay literal to the comic books, but I think it's pretty fun that the writers are giving a fresh new take on it. If you let it have a life of its own rather than trying to dictate everything, if you let the show and the characters live and breathe, they do create their own stories, just naturally.
A major element of "Arrow" is the dual timeline, showing the current day events and the flashbacks, which you've been heavily involved in this season. What kind of challenge is that for an actor, playing the same character in two different positions in life?
Sometimes I find it hard when I'm playing Sara on the island, because I still kind of have present-day Sara lingering in my head a little bit. I want to give her that strength. I feel bad for Sara on the island, because she doesn't have that strength yet. As the character is making decisions, and the reactions, she's insecure, and she's scared. I think that's hard, because sometimes I just want her to be badass already -- be like, "Nope, sorry! Screw you guys, this is what's happening."
Even within the present-day "Arrow" storyline, there's a balance between the big action and fighting scenes, and the more grounded family drama -- in this week's episode, there are a lot of emotional scenes between Sara and her family members. Is it fairly natural for you to switch between those two types of acting?
Yeah, it is. Sometimes it can get hard when you're playing a strong character. You want to protect that strength of the character, and sometimes that can make you want to be unemotional, or not open. I think that's a trap that you have to really be conscious not to fall into. Knowing that your character still has its strength, even when you give it that humanity, and the emotion, and the weakness. You have to feel it, but then you have to hide it. If you just have it too much out, then you do kind of lose that strength. But if you don't have it at all, then you don't feel for the character. It's got to be there, but you've got to be fighting with that emotion.
"Heir to the Demon" is the episode introducing Katrina Law as Nyssa al Ghul, a character who has a past with Sara. How'd you enjoy working with her, and getting to do fight scenes with a fellow League of Assassins member?
Katrina's awesome. She's such a cool chick. I really enjoyed working with her. We had a blast together. We talked a lot about the history of our two characters; it's fun digging into all of that.
The fight stuff, of course, was really fun. I remember when we were shooting that episode -- it was the coldest night ever in Vancouver. We went outside, and it was like negative-7 degrees. We battled through that together.
When it gets really cold, still, in my head, I'm like, "They're going to cancel shooting. There's no way! They can't expect us to stand out in the cold." But, nope, we do it. [Native Canadian] Stephen [Amell]'s always like, "Come on, California blood. You better get used to it."
This season has gradually revealed more about your character, with a whole lot of that in this week's episode. How have you enjoyed seeing Sara progress over the course of the season?
I love it. It's fun, because you just get more and more information about the character. There's more and more twists and turns, and things you weren't expecting. It's a lot of fun, because you never know what to expect.
Is there anything you can tease that viewers should look out for with your character in the near future?
This next episode is really going to show us what's planned for Sara's future. We're really going to get to find out what's going to happen with Sara, and it's not going to leave it too open-ended. We actually get some good information on that.
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Por Albert Ching 05 Febrero, 2014
For a newcomer to "Arrow," Caity Lotz has already had an eventful season. Her character, Sara Lance, has been established as the show's version of DC Comics hero Black Canary, down to fighting crime alongside Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) as a costumed vigilante. She's also featured heavily in the show's flashback sequences, given that she, like Oliver, was stranded on Lian Yu -- before becoming a member of Ra's al Ghul's League of Assassins.
This week's episode, "Heir to the Demon," introduces Ra's daughter and high-ranking League of Assassins member, Nyssa al Ghul, played by "Spartacus" vet Katrina Law. Nyssa has a significant history with Sara -- as strongly hinted at in promos for the episode -- and "Heir to the Demon" contains both insights into Sara's past, along with hints of her future.
CBR News spoke with Lotz about her "Arrow" experience thus far, playing a prominent female superhero, working with Katrina Law and concurrently playing the same character in two decidedly different points in life.
CBR News: Caity, you're now a few months into your "Arrow" experience, which for multiple reasons has to be unique from a typical acting gig. How have you enjoyed the ride so far?
Caity Lotz: I've had a blast. I love working on this show. The whole cast and crew, everybody's so cool. We have so much fun on set. I love doing the action stuff, and we always get to do all these crazy stunts. Yesterday, I was watching what they were shooting -- people flying in the air, all these crazy stunts. It's really cool, everything you get to see. And I love my character, so it's really fun, all the stuff I get to do as Sara.
From a broader, pop cultural perspective, there's always talk about an underrepresentation of female superhero characters, both in movies and TV and in comic books themselves -- given that, how does it feel for you to be playing, in a very visible role, a costumed female vigilante who's presented as a peer to the male main character?
It's really cool. I love it, and I love that I get the opportunity to play such an awesome character, and someone who's so strong -- and that they like writing her that way, and they're not trying to make her weak; make her into a damsel in distress. They're really letting the character be strong. It's a lot of fun, and it's exciting to be a part of that, and hopefully there will be more of that.
Obviously, the show has diverged in a lot of major ways from the original comic book Black Canary, but throughout this process, have you looked at all at the source material, and maybe picked up any insight?
DC sent me comics -- some of the "Birds of Prey" and "Green Arrow and Black Canary" comics -- which I checked out for fun. This world is a little different; it's not just taking the comics and literally putting them on screen. Most of my inspiration I draw from my life, and the writing -- how I feel she would be in those situations.
I think it's great. I know some of the fans want things to stay literal to the comic books, but I think it's pretty fun that the writers are giving a fresh new take on it. If you let it have a life of its own rather than trying to dictate everything, if you let the show and the characters live and breathe, they do create their own stories, just naturally.
A major element of "Arrow" is the dual timeline, showing the current day events and the flashbacks, which you've been heavily involved in this season. What kind of challenge is that for an actor, playing the same character in two different positions in life?
Sometimes I find it hard when I'm playing Sara on the island, because I still kind of have present-day Sara lingering in my head a little bit. I want to give her that strength. I feel bad for Sara on the island, because she doesn't have that strength yet. As the character is making decisions, and the reactions, she's insecure, and she's scared. I think that's hard, because sometimes I just want her to be badass already -- be like, "Nope, sorry! Screw you guys, this is what's happening."
Even within the present-day "Arrow" storyline, there's a balance between the big action and fighting scenes, and the more grounded family drama -- in this week's episode, there are a lot of emotional scenes between Sara and her family members. Is it fairly natural for you to switch between those two types of acting?
Yeah, it is. Sometimes it can get hard when you're playing a strong character. You want to protect that strength of the character, and sometimes that can make you want to be unemotional, or not open. I think that's a trap that you have to really be conscious not to fall into. Knowing that your character still has its strength, even when you give it that humanity, and the emotion, and the weakness. You have to feel it, but then you have to hide it. If you just have it too much out, then you do kind of lose that strength. But if you don't have it at all, then you don't feel for the character. It's got to be there, but you've got to be fighting with that emotion.
"Heir to the Demon" is the episode introducing Katrina Law as Nyssa al Ghul, a character who has a past with Sara. How'd you enjoy working with her, and getting to do fight scenes with a fellow League of Assassins member?
Katrina's awesome. She's such a cool chick. I really enjoyed working with her. We had a blast together. We talked a lot about the history of our two characters; it's fun digging into all of that.
The fight stuff, of course, was really fun. I remember when we were shooting that episode -- it was the coldest night ever in Vancouver. We went outside, and it was like negative-7 degrees. We battled through that together.
When it gets really cold, still, in my head, I'm like, "They're going to cancel shooting. There's no way! They can't expect us to stand out in the cold." But, nope, we do it. [Native Canadian] Stephen [Amell]'s always like, "Come on, California blood. You better get used to it."
This season has gradually revealed more about your character, with a whole lot of that in this week's episode. How have you enjoyed seeing Sara progress over the course of the season?
I love it. It's fun, because you just get more and more information about the character. There's more and more twists and turns, and things you weren't expecting. It's a lot of fun, because you never know what to expect.
Is there anything you can tease that viewers should look out for with your character in the near future?
This next episode is really going to show us what's planned for Sara's future. We're really going to get to find out what's going to happen with Sara, and it's not going to leave it too open-ended. We actually get some good information on that.
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- Caity Lotz adelanta su 'batalla emocional' con Nyssa al Ghul (mtv):
Caity Lotz adelanta su 'batalla emocional' con Nyssa al Ghul
Por Alex Zalben 05 Feb, 2014 3:20 PM EST 1,829
his week on The CW's "Arrow," Caity Lotz finally gets to come into her own. The actress has guest starred as Sara Lance, a.k.a. superhero Black Canary since the second season began. But with episode 13, "Heir to the Demon," the curtain on her mysterious origin is pulled open, and it involves a character well known to comic book fans.
"Nyssa al Ghul, daughter of Ra's al Ghul comes into town; and she comes into town for Sara," Lotz told us over the phone. "Very specifically for Sara! She wants Sara to come back with her slash to her, and the drama will ensue from there." For a bit of background, five years prior Sara was stuck on the show's mysterious island at the same time as protagonist Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell). We've seen how a bit of her back-story, but not how she escaped the island, hooked up with the villainous League of Assassins, or took on the Black Canary personality. And with this week's flashbacks showing Sara's past, rather than Oliver's, we should get some of those gaps filled in.
"We get to see some of the Lance family before all the drama, and pain and death," Lotz added. "You get to see who they all were before everything went down."
Shooting the flashbacks, which find Sara, Laurel (Katie Cassidy), Quentin (Paul Blackthorne), and guest star Dinah Lance (Alex Kingston) bonding over dinner was a refreshing change for the normally grim show.
"We really enjoyed shooting those scenes," Lotz said. "It felt like we were on a different show. I prefer more darkness for the other characters, but it's a fun change."
In the present day, though, things are back to the grim and gritty as Nyssa (Katrina Law) comes looking for Sara, with the suggestion that the duo may have been more than friends.
"It's not so black and white," Lotz noted on the possible relationship between Sara and Nyssa. "She cares for Nyssa. Nyssa saved her life. The League took her in. She wouldn't be who she was, she wouldn't be alive today if it wasn't for them. Nyssa is the one who gave her the strength of who she is, and was one of the reasons she was able to survive. I think it's going to be a really emotional battle for [Sara], as much as it is a physical."
Assuming Sara survives the end of the episode and doesn't go back to the League of Assassins, there's another big episode in store for the character: "Birds of Prey," the seventeenth episode of the season. For fans of comics this is a big one, as Black Canary and Huntress (Jessica De Gouw) have traditionally been teamed as the titular Birds in multiple books.
Though Lotz isn't meeting Gouw (a returning guest star) for the first time until later this week, it doesn't mean the duo will be all buddy-buddy immediately.
"You're going to see Sara do what Sara wants to do," Lotz said. "In these last few months where she has been free, she does what she wants and she's not used to the whole team player mode. Especially if it comes down to protecting someone she loves, Sara is not going to play by the rules, she doesn't care what anyone tells her."
And further out, fans have speculated that in order to fulfill comic book destinies, Sara will have to die so that Laurel can take up the mantle of Black Canary. Beyond not wanting to be killed off the show, does Lotz think that Sara has a ticking clock?
"I don't think anybody has to do anything," Lotz said. "The writers have done what they want to do with the show, and they're going to continue to do whatever is best for the show. It would be cool to have two Black Canaries, who knows? I think we're all just going with the flow." Back to the episode at hand, Lotz wouldn't give out specific spoilers but did say that we'll just have to watch all the way to the end.
"My favorite scene is the last scene of the episode," Lotz said with a laugh. "The very last scene is a really holy shinkeys moment!"
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/172181 ... ghul.jhtml
Por Alex Zalben 05 Feb, 2014 3:20 PM EST 1,829
his week on The CW's "Arrow," Caity Lotz finally gets to come into her own. The actress has guest starred as Sara Lance, a.k.a. superhero Black Canary since the second season began. But with episode 13, "Heir to the Demon," the curtain on her mysterious origin is pulled open, and it involves a character well known to comic book fans.
"Nyssa al Ghul, daughter of Ra's al Ghul comes into town; and she comes into town for Sara," Lotz told us over the phone. "Very specifically for Sara! She wants Sara to come back with her slash to her, and the drama will ensue from there." For a bit of background, five years prior Sara was stuck on the show's mysterious island at the same time as protagonist Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell). We've seen how a bit of her back-story, but not how she escaped the island, hooked up with the villainous League of Assassins, or took on the Black Canary personality. And with this week's flashbacks showing Sara's past, rather than Oliver's, we should get some of those gaps filled in.
"We get to see some of the Lance family before all the drama, and pain and death," Lotz added. "You get to see who they all were before everything went down."
Shooting the flashbacks, which find Sara, Laurel (Katie Cassidy), Quentin (Paul Blackthorne), and guest star Dinah Lance (Alex Kingston) bonding over dinner was a refreshing change for the normally grim show.
"We really enjoyed shooting those scenes," Lotz said. "It felt like we were on a different show. I prefer more darkness for the other characters, but it's a fun change."
In the present day, though, things are back to the grim and gritty as Nyssa (Katrina Law) comes looking for Sara, with the suggestion that the duo may have been more than friends.
"It's not so black and white," Lotz noted on the possible relationship between Sara and Nyssa. "She cares for Nyssa. Nyssa saved her life. The League took her in. She wouldn't be who she was, she wouldn't be alive today if it wasn't for them. Nyssa is the one who gave her the strength of who she is, and was one of the reasons she was able to survive. I think it's going to be a really emotional battle for [Sara], as much as it is a physical."
Assuming Sara survives the end of the episode and doesn't go back to the League of Assassins, there's another big episode in store for the character: "Birds of Prey," the seventeenth episode of the season. For fans of comics this is a big one, as Black Canary and Huntress (Jessica De Gouw) have traditionally been teamed as the titular Birds in multiple books.
Though Lotz isn't meeting Gouw (a returning guest star) for the first time until later this week, it doesn't mean the duo will be all buddy-buddy immediately.
"You're going to see Sara do what Sara wants to do," Lotz said. "In these last few months where she has been free, she does what she wants and she's not used to the whole team player mode. Especially if it comes down to protecting someone she loves, Sara is not going to play by the rules, she doesn't care what anyone tells her."
And further out, fans have speculated that in order to fulfill comic book destinies, Sara will have to die so that Laurel can take up the mantle of Black Canary. Beyond not wanting to be killed off the show, does Lotz think that Sara has a ticking clock?
"I don't think anybody has to do anything," Lotz said. "The writers have done what they want to do with the show, and they're going to continue to do whatever is best for the show. It would be cool to have two Black Canaries, who knows? I think we're all just going with the flow." Back to the episode at hand, Lotz wouldn't give out specific spoilers but did say that we'll just have to watch all the way to the end.
"My favorite scene is the last scene of the episode," Lotz said with a laugh. "The very last scene is a really holy shinkeys moment!"
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/172181 ... ghul.jhtml
- Una sesión de preguntas y spoilers de Stephen Amell con los fans hacen que Facebook se rompa (zap-2-it):
Una sesión de preguntas y spoilers de Stephen Amell con los fans hacen que Facebook se rompa
By Laurel Brown 05 Febrero, 2014 2:15 PM ET
An "Arrow" Q&A on the show's official Facebook page sounded like a good idea. But there can be too much of a good thing, which became clear when star Stephen Amell responded to too many questions and was blocked from commenting.
Amell was supposed to answer questions about "Arrow" for a full hour starting at 12 p.m. ET on Wednesday (Feb. 5). Unfortunately, he only got about halfway through when Facebook's algorithms stepped in. It seems that the man behind Oliver Queen was posting so many comments that the social-networking site flagged him as a spambot.
Whoops.
Still, the actor was quite cheerful about the situation and explained it quickly on his own Facebook page.
" K... Facebook has fully blocked me from making comments on any and all posts because I'm so prolific at replying their algorithm's determined I must be a spam bot. I AM AMELL THE SPAM BOT.
"Sorry everybody... Wanted to go for another 30 minutes. My apologies if your question didn't get answered.
"We will do this again and it won't mess up.
"In the meantime... I'm sort of glad I broke Facebook."
Before the Facebook shutdown of the Q&A, Amell did manage to answer a few questions:
-The Arrow costume is comfortable but a bit warm in the summer.
-Arrow's hood magically stays on during fight scenes all on its own!
-There will definitely be more on the Suicide Squad.
-It's possible that Oliver will learn something about Thea's father being Malcolm Merlyn in "Heir to the Demon."
-Season 3 might be more intimate that the current, universe-expanding season.
That's about it. Facebook, you have failed this Q&A!
http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/2014/02/a ... ebook.html
By Laurel Brown 05 Febrero, 2014 2:15 PM ET
An "Arrow" Q&A on the show's official Facebook page sounded like a good idea. But there can be too much of a good thing, which became clear when star Stephen Amell responded to too many questions and was blocked from commenting.
Amell was supposed to answer questions about "Arrow" for a full hour starting at 12 p.m. ET on Wednesday (Feb. 5). Unfortunately, he only got about halfway through when Facebook's algorithms stepped in. It seems that the man behind Oliver Queen was posting so many comments that the social-networking site flagged him as a spambot.
Whoops.
Still, the actor was quite cheerful about the situation and explained it quickly on his own Facebook page.
" K... Facebook has fully blocked me from making comments on any and all posts because I'm so prolific at replying their algorithm's determined I must be a spam bot. I AM AMELL THE SPAM BOT.
"Sorry everybody... Wanted to go for another 30 minutes. My apologies if your question didn't get answered.
"We will do this again and it won't mess up.
"In the meantime... I'm sort of glad I broke Facebook."
Before the Facebook shutdown of the Q&A, Amell did manage to answer a few questions:
-The Arrow costume is comfortable but a bit warm in the summer.
-Arrow's hood magically stays on during fight scenes all on its own!
-There will definitely be more on the Suicide Squad.
-It's possible that Oliver will learn something about Thea's father being Malcolm Merlyn in "Heir to the Demon."
-Season 3 might be more intimate that the current, universe-expanding season.
That's about it. Facebook, you have failed this Q&A!
http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/2014/02/a ... ebook.html
¡¡¡¡AY, OMÁ QUÉ CALORES!!!! ¡Gracias por tu regalo, Nitta!
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- Productores de Arrow hablan sobre la historia de LGBT, Ra's al Ghul y revelan una escena borrada (TVGuide):
- Productores de Arrow Comentan la relación de Nyssa al Ghul y Black Canary y lo que estça por llegar (IGN):
- Los jefes de 'Arrow' Bosses desvelan los 10 mayores desarrollos (THR):
- Productores de Arrow Hablan sobre la conexión entre The Nyssa & Black Canary (greenarrowtv):
- Productores ejecutivos de 'Arrow' hablan sobre la sexualidad de Nyssa al Ghul's, la recién encontrada libertad de Sara y más (zap-2-it):
- Jefes de Arrow sobre la sorpresa relativa a Sara, la historia pasada de Felicity y los comflictos de equipo (TVLine):
- Los jefes de Arrow hablan sobre las relaciones del mismo sexo, adelantan la historia pasada de Felicity y más (etonline):
- Spoilers de Arrow: ¡El futuro de Felicity, el pasado de Diggle y la galería de villanos! (tvfanatic):
- El equipo de "Arrow" habla sobre Sara y Nyssa, Sara y Oliver, "Birds of Prey" y más (CBR):
Productores de Arrow hablan sobre la historia de LGBT, Ra's al Ghul y revelan una escena borrada
Por Natalie Abrams 05 Feb, 2014 09:00 PM ET
So that's what Sara Lance has been doing for all these years!
Once rescued by the League of Assassins, Sara (Caity Lotz) found love in the arms of Ra's al Ghul's daughter Nyssa al Ghul (Katrina Law), who came to Starling City during Wednesday's episode of Arrow to bring Sara back to the League — and to her!
However, Sara wasn't willing to give her life back to the League. Sick of all the killing, Sara only pretended to trade herself for her mother Dinah (Alex Kingston), but she really poisoned herself with the snake venom used to incapacitate Laurel (Katie Cassidy) that initially brought Sara back to Starling City in the first place. Fortunately, Oliver (Stephen Amell) revived Sara in time, and Nyssa released her from the League. But will daddy dearest agree with that assessment?
"As far as the Ra's al Ghul of it is concerned, this was not Katrina's only appearance of the season," executive producer Andrew Kreisberg told reporters. However, he played coy on whether Ra's himself would show up on the series, explaining that the writers are planting the seeds for what could happen in Season 3.
Nyssa and Sara's relationship actually should not have come as a huge surprise since there was a reference to "the beloved" not being able to keep Sara safe during the fifth episode when the League first showed up in Starling. However, the producers didn't decide to tell a lesbian story line just to be salacious, which had been a criticism for past portrayals of lesbian relationships on TV. "It's a pretty chaste relationship from what you see on screen," Kreisberg says.
"It just touched on a couple interesting things, like the idea that Sara found herself in this terrible world and found this one person who treated her with love and kindness," he continues. "Even the way it bounced back for Lance [Paul Blackthorne], this hardened, tough cop who's probably not the most progressive guy. Even he was like, 'I'm just glad you had somebody who loved you and took care of you during those nightmare years.' Those little moments felt like they would be special and play for us."
Fellow executive producer Marc Guggenheim points out that in the same episode that Sara's former relationship with Nyssa is revealed, she also sleeps with Oliver again. "We especifically avoid using the term bisexual," he says. "We actually didn't want to label her at all. Let her be her own person. It's a very specific relationship to Sara and Nyssa. And maybe Sara has had other female relationships in her past, but we'll get to that in due course when it's right, if it's right. But we wanted to not just do something to shock."
For now, Sara will be dealing with the fallout of returning from the dead, which Laurel clearly isn't too happy about. But she'll also be learning what it means to be a hero now that she's part of Team Arrow. "Episode 14 really deals with what is Felicity's reaction to Sara, the new member of Team Arrow." Guggenheim teases. "What does this mean for Team Arrow and Felicity? And what does it mean for Oliver and Felicity?"
Her resolve will be tested in the upcoming "Birds of Prey" episode, which TVGuide.com first broke the news on. "Helena [Jessica de Gouw] comes back to town," Kreisberg says. "[But] Helena's gone. All that's left is The Huntress. She's become consumed by the vengeance she has for her father. When we see her, she's in a very haggard and very worn out state. It's the big final confrontation between she and her father and Laurel gets caught in the crossfire and the Canary has to go in to the rescue." However, Laurel doesn't realize the Canary is her sister. "The Canary is all too eager to kill The Huntress if it means protecting Laurel, and it's really an episode about Sara realizing where she's at in her evolution as a hero," Kreisberg says.
But The Huntress' return is the least of Team Arrow's worries as the following episodes will feature plenty of villains coming to Starling, both familiar faces and new ones alike. It's not surprising then that Episode 16 is actually called "Suicide Squad." "In the episode, Amanda Waller [Cynthia Addai-Robinson]... basically recruits Dig [David Ramsey] for a mission and tells him he's going to need a team," Kreisberg says. "She saddles him with the Suicide Squad, including Floyd Lawton (Michael Rowe)." Bonus scoop: The flashbacks for the episode will be told from Diggle's perspective in Afghanistan.
It's interesting to note that Roy (Colton Haynes), who also recently joined Team Arrow, was actually supposed to appear on Wednesday's episode, but his epic battle with Nyssa was cut for time. The deleted scene featured Oliver calling on his protégé to protect Laurel at the hospital, where he ends up coming face-to-face with Nyssa when she comes to kidnap Dinah. "Nyssa shoots him with a dart with snake venom and she says, 'A normal person would be dead by now. You're stronger than you look,'" Kreisberg says. "And he says, 'I get that a lot.' They have a fight, but the venom starts to affect him, and she takes him out." Don't worry about missing the scene. Guggenheim teased it would be on the Season 2 DVD.
http://www.tvguide.com/News/Arrow-Spoil ... 77335.aspx
Por Natalie Abrams 05 Feb, 2014 09:00 PM ET
So that's what Sara Lance has been doing for all these years!
Once rescued by the League of Assassins, Sara (Caity Lotz) found love in the arms of Ra's al Ghul's daughter Nyssa al Ghul (Katrina Law), who came to Starling City during Wednesday's episode of Arrow to bring Sara back to the League — and to her!
However, Sara wasn't willing to give her life back to the League. Sick of all the killing, Sara only pretended to trade herself for her mother Dinah (Alex Kingston), but she really poisoned herself with the snake venom used to incapacitate Laurel (Katie Cassidy) that initially brought Sara back to Starling City in the first place. Fortunately, Oliver (Stephen Amell) revived Sara in time, and Nyssa released her from the League. But will daddy dearest agree with that assessment?
"As far as the Ra's al Ghul of it is concerned, this was not Katrina's only appearance of the season," executive producer Andrew Kreisberg told reporters. However, he played coy on whether Ra's himself would show up on the series, explaining that the writers are planting the seeds for what could happen in Season 3.
Nyssa and Sara's relationship actually should not have come as a huge surprise since there was a reference to "the beloved" not being able to keep Sara safe during the fifth episode when the League first showed up in Starling. However, the producers didn't decide to tell a lesbian story line just to be salacious, which had been a criticism for past portrayals of lesbian relationships on TV. "It's a pretty chaste relationship from what you see on screen," Kreisberg says.
"It just touched on a couple interesting things, like the idea that Sara found herself in this terrible world and found this one person who treated her with love and kindness," he continues. "Even the way it bounced back for Lance [Paul Blackthorne], this hardened, tough cop who's probably not the most progressive guy. Even he was like, 'I'm just glad you had somebody who loved you and took care of you during those nightmare years.' Those little moments felt like they would be special and play for us."
Fellow executive producer Marc Guggenheim points out that in the same episode that Sara's former relationship with Nyssa is revealed, she also sleeps with Oliver again. "We especifically avoid using the term bisexual," he says. "We actually didn't want to label her at all. Let her be her own person. It's a very specific relationship to Sara and Nyssa. And maybe Sara has had other female relationships in her past, but we'll get to that in due course when it's right, if it's right. But we wanted to not just do something to shock."
For now, Sara will be dealing with the fallout of returning from the dead, which Laurel clearly isn't too happy about. But she'll also be learning what it means to be a hero now that she's part of Team Arrow. "Episode 14 really deals with what is Felicity's reaction to Sara, the new member of Team Arrow." Guggenheim teases. "What does this mean for Team Arrow and Felicity? And what does it mean for Oliver and Felicity?"
Her resolve will be tested in the upcoming "Birds of Prey" episode, which TVGuide.com first broke the news on. "Helena [Jessica de Gouw] comes back to town," Kreisberg says. "[But] Helena's gone. All that's left is The Huntress. She's become consumed by the vengeance she has for her father. When we see her, she's in a very haggard and very worn out state. It's the big final confrontation between she and her father and Laurel gets caught in the crossfire and the Canary has to go in to the rescue." However, Laurel doesn't realize the Canary is her sister. "The Canary is all too eager to kill The Huntress if it means protecting Laurel, and it's really an episode about Sara realizing where she's at in her evolution as a hero," Kreisberg says.
But The Huntress' return is the least of Team Arrow's worries as the following episodes will feature plenty of villains coming to Starling, both familiar faces and new ones alike. It's not surprising then that Episode 16 is actually called "Suicide Squad." "In the episode, Amanda Waller [Cynthia Addai-Robinson]... basically recruits Dig [David Ramsey] for a mission and tells him he's going to need a team," Kreisberg says. "She saddles him with the Suicide Squad, including Floyd Lawton (Michael Rowe)." Bonus scoop: The flashbacks for the episode will be told from Diggle's perspective in Afghanistan.
It's interesting to note that Roy (Colton Haynes), who also recently joined Team Arrow, was actually supposed to appear on Wednesday's episode, but his epic battle with Nyssa was cut for time. The deleted scene featured Oliver calling on his protégé to protect Laurel at the hospital, where he ends up coming face-to-face with Nyssa when she comes to kidnap Dinah. "Nyssa shoots him with a dart with snake venom and she says, 'A normal person would be dead by now. You're stronger than you look,'" Kreisberg says. "And he says, 'I get that a lot.' They have a fight, but the venom starts to affect him, and she takes him out." Don't worry about missing the scene. Guggenheim teased it would be on the Season 2 DVD.
http://www.tvguide.com/News/Arrow-Spoil ... 77335.aspx
- Productores de Arrow Comentan la relación de Nyssa al Ghul y Black Canary y lo que estça por llegar (IGN):
Productores de Arrow Comentan la relación de Nyssa al Ghul y Black Canary y lo que estça por llegar
Por Eric Goldman 05 Feb, 2014
This week’s Arrow introduced Nyssa al Ghul (Katrina Law) into the series, as Ra’s al Ghul’s daughter came to Starling City to try to bring Sara Lance / Black Canary (Caity Lotz) back with her to the League of Assassins. But as we (and Oliver Queen) learned, this was a very personal mission for Nyssa, because she and Sara were, in fact, lovers.
Revealing how they decided on this turn of events, executive producer Andrew Kreisberg explained, “It was really more about Sara than anything else. We’d thought of this at the beginning of the season. If you watch [episode] 205, there's a reference to “The Beloved,” and "You think that's going to keep you safe." We talked about, like, "Well, does Ra's al Ghul have a son? Or could it be Talia?" We felt like Talia had just been done in the movies. One of our writers had brought up the idea of Nyssa. It just felt like something new and different. At the same time, we didn't do it to be salacious, because it's a pretty chaste relationship from what you see on screen. For us, it just touched on a couple of interesting things, like the idea that Sara found herself in this terrible world and found this one person who treated her with love and kindness. Even the way it bounced back for [Quentin] Lance, just for Lance to be able to express -- this sort of hardened, tough cop who's probably not the most progressive guy -- that even he was like, ‘I’m just glad you had somebody who loved you and took care of you during those nightmare years.’ Those little moments just felt like they would be special and play for us.”
Execitive producer Marc Guggenheim noted, “We were very anxious about [the fact that] in the same episode we reveal that Sara had had this lesbian relationship, she is also sleeping with Oliver again, and we really wanted to approach it and not be salacious and be sensitive and be realistic. We actually specifically avoided using the term ‘bisexual.’ We didn't want to label her at all. Let her be her own person. If the audience wants to label, fine, but we wanted to not make it that specific -- because it is a very specific relationship to Sara and Nyssa. By the way, maybe Sara's had other female relationships in her past, but we'll get to that in due course when it's right, if it's right. But we wanted to not just do something to shock.”
Law meanwhile said it was a surprise for her to learn Nyssa was a lesbian, because when she’d first read for the part, not only did the sides [pages of the script used for auditions] use a fake character name for Nyssa, but they had her big relationship scenes be with Oliver. Explained Guggenheim, ”For spoilers -- because the sides always make it out onto the Internet — we made up fake sides for Nyssa, because we didn't want to spoil it. So it was a brand new character name, sort of that killer thing, but a scene between this character -- I'm forgetting what we even called her -- and Oliver. Then we narrowed it down to Katrina and one other actress, and we brought them both back for chemistry reads with Caity Lotz. We said, ‘By the way, she's gay -- and, oh, by the way, it's Nyssa al Ghul.’” Kreisberg said that “about 12 seconds in” to seeing Law read with Lotz, they knew that was the right pairing. When Law said, with a laugh, “Our chemistry's just palpable!,” the producers assured her that was actually the case.
Said Guggenheim, “We do these chemistry reads for a reason. The truth is, you can really see it when it's there, and you can see it when it's not there. Added Kreisberg, “We did that with Emily [Bett Rickards] and Grant [Gustin], and there were a couple other actors who were in line for The Flash. You know, it's to our cast's credit that they really understand that, because some actors I'm sure would be like, ‘Well, that's a waste of my time,’ or, ‘I have better things to do.’ But whether it was Grant, Stephen, Caity Lotz -- they've all come down [from Vancouver, where Arrow shoots]. Stephen did it to help us find Caity Lotz, and Caity Lotz returned the favor and helped us to get Katrina on board. It really is important, because you can be a great actor, but it's not the right part, not the right fit, the right chemistry. We've been really lucky with those hookups on the show.”
Regarding Sara’s decision to stay in Starling City at the end of the episode and whether she’s really safe from Ra’s al Ghul now, Kreisberg said, “As far as the Ra's al Ghul of it is concerned, this was not Katrina's only appearance of the season. As far as what the Sara of it means, part of the reason we did this episode was to free Sara, at least for the time being, from the threat of the League of Assassins and allow her to fully be the Black Canary and come home and all the delicious implications that that brought. Part of the reason, again, we did this story from the beginning for Sara was having this dead woman come back and the effect it was going to have on everyone's lives. I think you got a glimpse of how some people are obviously very happy and some people are very upset. So in the next bunch of episodes you're really going to see how Sara's return affects everybody. I think hopefully so far people will be surprised by the reaction.” When I tried to get the producers to say whether we might see Ra’s al Ghul on Arrow soon, Guggenheim replied, “We really can't comment on when or if you'll see Ra's -- and how he'll pronounce his name.”
Kreisberg said they were extremely happy with how Nyssa’s introduction into Arrow had gone, and praised Law, remarking, “You know, we've often been -- and not wrongly -- it's been pointed out that sometimes our villains get short shrift and that we don't always do right by the villains coming onto the show, whether we just don't have enough time with them... Some of that is just because our show is so dense with so many different characters that we've gotten away with, you know, just casting very cool people in the parts and asking the audience to fill in the rest. The number of things that Katrina had to do in this episode, just all the places she had to go… I think the most surprising being that I've watched that episode a zillion times, and I actually feel bad for her, which I think it one of the most amazing things, because she does really seem like this broken-hearted person who really got the shaft. I think that's why, to me, this is, again, one of the most successful episodes that we've ever done, because every single aspect of it is working -- not just our main characters, but having Katrina fill Nyssa's boots, who came in and owned every scene that she's in I think is really amazing.”
Regarding how the audience has taken to the League of Assassins on Arrow, Guggenheim said, “I have to admit, I was completely bowled over by how excited people were.” Said Kreisberg, “We say this all the time, but it really is true: we really write what we want to see and what we like. I mean, we grew up loving comic books and loving this stuff and being steeped in it and being huge fans of the Donner movies and the Burton movies and the Nolan movies -- and Greg [Berlanti], Marc and I have written comics, so we've always set our star by what's going to make us happy and what stories we want to tell and what we want to see. That's never served us wrong. So yes, we're always surprised that anyone likes anything on this, because we're Jewish writers! [Laughs] But that stuff -- we always knew Sara was out there, but when we hit on the idea that she was part of the League of Assassins, we knew that that would open up that world to us, and that connected us to Merlyn and Ra's al Ghul. Once you hit on that one idea, it's the gift that kept on giving, and it kept expanding out and giving us new things and new ways to try stuff.”
“We’re really glad that people have responded to it, because it's funny, we really did sort of go all in on the League of Assassins at the beginning of this year,” noted Guggenheim. “All this stuff that we're talking about was worked out in the hiatus between Season 1 and Season 2, where it was like, ‘Oh, and Sara's a member of the League of Assassins, and that means this, and that means that. Oh, and there's Nyssa, and if Nyssa and they had a relationship, then this and this happens.’ That was all sort of decided almost a year ago at this point. You're hoping that's all going to pay off. You're taking this big leap, and you hope that the audience will take the leap with you. Turns out they did, which was very lucky for us.” Kriesberg added, “It also paid off into the Malcolm story, because who's the only person alive that Malcolm fears? That's Ra's al Ghul. So it's ping-ponging off of every character.”
One semi-odd aspect of “Heir to the Demon” was not seeing Roy Harper, given he had just learned Oliver Queen’s identity and been taken into his lair at the end of the last episode. The producers revealed Roy actually was originally in the episode, with Kreisberg explaining, “There was an amazing sequence in here that we actually had that unfortunately we just had to cut for time because this episode was just so jam-packed. But we actually had Oliver tell Roy, ‘I want you to go down to the hospital and keep an eye on Laurel.' When Nyssa and her goon kidnap Mrs. Lance, Roy actually confronts them. Nyssa shoots him with a dart with snake venom and says, ‘A normal person would be dead by now. You're stronger than you look,’ and he says, ‘I get that a lot.’ Then they have a fight, but the venom starts to affect him, and she takes him out. It's a great sequence, and they're great in it, but it wasn't propelling the story forward. It was just a really neat moment. But yes, the next five episodes -- in addition to everything else that's going on -- it really charts Oliver's attempts to keep Roy on the straight and narrow.”
The producers indicated we’re likely to see that Roy vs. Nyssa fight sequence on the Season 2 DVD.
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Por Eric Goldman 05 Feb, 2014
This week’s Arrow introduced Nyssa al Ghul (Katrina Law) into the series, as Ra’s al Ghul’s daughter came to Starling City to try to bring Sara Lance / Black Canary (Caity Lotz) back with her to the League of Assassins. But as we (and Oliver Queen) learned, this was a very personal mission for Nyssa, because she and Sara were, in fact, lovers.
Revealing how they decided on this turn of events, executive producer Andrew Kreisberg explained, “It was really more about Sara than anything else. We’d thought of this at the beginning of the season. If you watch [episode] 205, there's a reference to “The Beloved,” and "You think that's going to keep you safe." We talked about, like, "Well, does Ra's al Ghul have a son? Or could it be Talia?" We felt like Talia had just been done in the movies. One of our writers had brought up the idea of Nyssa. It just felt like something new and different. At the same time, we didn't do it to be salacious, because it's a pretty chaste relationship from what you see on screen. For us, it just touched on a couple of interesting things, like the idea that Sara found herself in this terrible world and found this one person who treated her with love and kindness. Even the way it bounced back for [Quentin] Lance, just for Lance to be able to express -- this sort of hardened, tough cop who's probably not the most progressive guy -- that even he was like, ‘I’m just glad you had somebody who loved you and took care of you during those nightmare years.’ Those little moments just felt like they would be special and play for us.”
Execitive producer Marc Guggenheim noted, “We were very anxious about [the fact that] in the same episode we reveal that Sara had had this lesbian relationship, she is also sleeping with Oliver again, and we really wanted to approach it and not be salacious and be sensitive and be realistic. We actually specifically avoided using the term ‘bisexual.’ We didn't want to label her at all. Let her be her own person. If the audience wants to label, fine, but we wanted to not make it that specific -- because it is a very specific relationship to Sara and Nyssa. By the way, maybe Sara's had other female relationships in her past, but we'll get to that in due course when it's right, if it's right. But we wanted to not just do something to shock.”
Law meanwhile said it was a surprise for her to learn Nyssa was a lesbian, because when she’d first read for the part, not only did the sides [pages of the script used for auditions] use a fake character name for Nyssa, but they had her big relationship scenes be with Oliver. Explained Guggenheim, ”For spoilers -- because the sides always make it out onto the Internet — we made up fake sides for Nyssa, because we didn't want to spoil it. So it was a brand new character name, sort of that killer thing, but a scene between this character -- I'm forgetting what we even called her -- and Oliver. Then we narrowed it down to Katrina and one other actress, and we brought them both back for chemistry reads with Caity Lotz. We said, ‘By the way, she's gay -- and, oh, by the way, it's Nyssa al Ghul.’” Kreisberg said that “about 12 seconds in” to seeing Law read with Lotz, they knew that was the right pairing. When Law said, with a laugh, “Our chemistry's just palpable!,” the producers assured her that was actually the case.
Said Guggenheim, “We do these chemistry reads for a reason. The truth is, you can really see it when it's there, and you can see it when it's not there. Added Kreisberg, “We did that with Emily [Bett Rickards] and Grant [Gustin], and there were a couple other actors who were in line for The Flash. You know, it's to our cast's credit that they really understand that, because some actors I'm sure would be like, ‘Well, that's a waste of my time,’ or, ‘I have better things to do.’ But whether it was Grant, Stephen, Caity Lotz -- they've all come down [from Vancouver, where Arrow shoots]. Stephen did it to help us find Caity Lotz, and Caity Lotz returned the favor and helped us to get Katrina on board. It really is important, because you can be a great actor, but it's not the right part, not the right fit, the right chemistry. We've been really lucky with those hookups on the show.”
Regarding Sara’s decision to stay in Starling City at the end of the episode and whether she’s really safe from Ra’s al Ghul now, Kreisberg said, “As far as the Ra's al Ghul of it is concerned, this was not Katrina's only appearance of the season. As far as what the Sara of it means, part of the reason we did this episode was to free Sara, at least for the time being, from the threat of the League of Assassins and allow her to fully be the Black Canary and come home and all the delicious implications that that brought. Part of the reason, again, we did this story from the beginning for Sara was having this dead woman come back and the effect it was going to have on everyone's lives. I think you got a glimpse of how some people are obviously very happy and some people are very upset. So in the next bunch of episodes you're really going to see how Sara's return affects everybody. I think hopefully so far people will be surprised by the reaction.” When I tried to get the producers to say whether we might see Ra’s al Ghul on Arrow soon, Guggenheim replied, “We really can't comment on when or if you'll see Ra's -- and how he'll pronounce his name.”
Kreisberg said they were extremely happy with how Nyssa’s introduction into Arrow had gone, and praised Law, remarking, “You know, we've often been -- and not wrongly -- it's been pointed out that sometimes our villains get short shrift and that we don't always do right by the villains coming onto the show, whether we just don't have enough time with them... Some of that is just because our show is so dense with so many different characters that we've gotten away with, you know, just casting very cool people in the parts and asking the audience to fill in the rest. The number of things that Katrina had to do in this episode, just all the places she had to go… I think the most surprising being that I've watched that episode a zillion times, and I actually feel bad for her, which I think it one of the most amazing things, because she does really seem like this broken-hearted person who really got the shaft. I think that's why, to me, this is, again, one of the most successful episodes that we've ever done, because every single aspect of it is working -- not just our main characters, but having Katrina fill Nyssa's boots, who came in and owned every scene that she's in I think is really amazing.”
Regarding how the audience has taken to the League of Assassins on Arrow, Guggenheim said, “I have to admit, I was completely bowled over by how excited people were.” Said Kreisberg, “We say this all the time, but it really is true: we really write what we want to see and what we like. I mean, we grew up loving comic books and loving this stuff and being steeped in it and being huge fans of the Donner movies and the Burton movies and the Nolan movies -- and Greg [Berlanti], Marc and I have written comics, so we've always set our star by what's going to make us happy and what stories we want to tell and what we want to see. That's never served us wrong. So yes, we're always surprised that anyone likes anything on this, because we're Jewish writers! [Laughs] But that stuff -- we always knew Sara was out there, but when we hit on the idea that she was part of the League of Assassins, we knew that that would open up that world to us, and that connected us to Merlyn and Ra's al Ghul. Once you hit on that one idea, it's the gift that kept on giving, and it kept expanding out and giving us new things and new ways to try stuff.”
“We’re really glad that people have responded to it, because it's funny, we really did sort of go all in on the League of Assassins at the beginning of this year,” noted Guggenheim. “All this stuff that we're talking about was worked out in the hiatus between Season 1 and Season 2, where it was like, ‘Oh, and Sara's a member of the League of Assassins, and that means this, and that means that. Oh, and there's Nyssa, and if Nyssa and they had a relationship, then this and this happens.’ That was all sort of decided almost a year ago at this point. You're hoping that's all going to pay off. You're taking this big leap, and you hope that the audience will take the leap with you. Turns out they did, which was very lucky for us.” Kriesberg added, “It also paid off into the Malcolm story, because who's the only person alive that Malcolm fears? That's Ra's al Ghul. So it's ping-ponging off of every character.”
One semi-odd aspect of “Heir to the Demon” was not seeing Roy Harper, given he had just learned Oliver Queen’s identity and been taken into his lair at the end of the last episode. The producers revealed Roy actually was originally in the episode, with Kreisberg explaining, “There was an amazing sequence in here that we actually had that unfortunately we just had to cut for time because this episode was just so jam-packed. But we actually had Oliver tell Roy, ‘I want you to go down to the hospital and keep an eye on Laurel.' When Nyssa and her goon kidnap Mrs. Lance, Roy actually confronts them. Nyssa shoots him with a dart with snake venom and says, ‘A normal person would be dead by now. You're stronger than you look,’ and he says, ‘I get that a lot.’ Then they have a fight, but the venom starts to affect him, and she takes him out. It's a great sequence, and they're great in it, but it wasn't propelling the story forward. It was just a really neat moment. But yes, the next five episodes -- in addition to everything else that's going on -- it really charts Oliver's attempts to keep Roy on the straight and narrow.”
The producers indicated we’re likely to see that Roy vs. Nyssa fight sequence on the Season 2 DVD.
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Por Philiana Ng 6:00 PM PST 05/02/2014
Arrow dropped big revelations during Wednesday's episode, "Heir to the Demon." With several weeks off for the Winter Olympics, the residents of Starling City will have some major issues to deal with when The CW comic-book drama returns in late February.
One of the biggest reveals came in the form of Nyssa al Ghul (Katrina Law) and Sara Lance's (Caity Lotz) surprise relationship. That particular arc was plotted out "at the beginning of the season," said executive producer Andrew Kreisberg, citing the fifth episode when the show referenced the Beloved. (Kreisberg and the writers toyed around with introducing Ra's al Ghul's son and Talia before settling on Nyssa.)
And though the romance gave insight into Nyssa's character, "it was really more about Sara," Kreisberg said. "It felt like something new and different."
The romance between Nyssa and Sara, however, wasn't done "to be salacious," he reassured. "It's a pretty chaste relationship from what you see on screen. For us, it touched on a couple of interesting things: the idea that Sara found herself in this terrible world [of the League of Assassins] and found this one person who treated her with love and kindness. And even the way it bounced back off [Quentin] Lance, this hardened, tough cop who's probably not the most progressive guy -- the fact that he was like, 'I'm just glad you had somebody who loved you and took care of you during those nightmare years,' those moments felt like they would be special and play for us."
Fellow executive producer Marc Guggenheim expressed that the writers "were very anxious" over Sara's romantic developments over the course of the episode, adding that they wanted to "be sensitive and be realistic." By the end of the hour, Sara gets in bed again with former flame Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell).
"We specifically avoid using the term bisexual; we didn't want to label her at all," Guggenheim said. "Let her be her own person and if the audience wants to label, fine. And by the way, maybe Sara's had other female relationships in her past, but we'll get to that in due course when it's right -- if it's right."
The Hollywood Reporter highlights the biggest reveals from Wednesday's episode, with teases on what's to come from Kreisberg and Guggenheim.
Ramifications of freeing Sara: Expect repercussions to come following Nyssa's decision to free Sara from the League. "Part of the reason we did this episode was to free Sara, at least for the time being, from the threat of the League of Assassins, which will allow her to fully be the Black Canary and come home," Kreisberg said. It was crucial for Sara's return to have a profound impact on "everybody's lives." "You got a glimpse of how some people are very happy and some people are very upset," he added. "You're really going to see how Sara's return affects everybody. Hopefully people will be surprised by the reaction."
Not the last of Nyssa: The Ra's al Ghul thread continues to linger past this episode. "As far as the Ra's al Ghul of it is concerned, this was not Katrina's only appearance this season," Kreisberg said, hinting that her reappearance comes after the episode 18 (post-"villains a go-go," if you will).
Felicity's backstory comes to forefront: Before Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) spilled the beans to Oliver about who Thea's biological father was, she offered some insight into her past. "There are two massive things that are going to happen toward the end of the season that you heard in that speech that will pay off," Kreisberg hinted. One of those references dealt with Felicity's father leaving their family when she was younger.
Felicity and Oliver stronger than ever: Though Moira (Susanna Thompson) warned Felicity that Oliver would "hate" her for revealing her Malcolm Merlyn secret, Kreisberg and Guggenheim revealed that that won't be the case. "It's actually going to be strengthened," Kreisberg said. "She's the rock." Guggenheim added: "I don't even think Moira necessarily believed what she was saying to Felicity. Moira was manipulating Felicity into staying silent. It would never even occur to Oliver to be angry at Felicity; all Felicity is is the messenger here. I think his anger is correctly directed at Moira."
A fractured Queen family: When Oliver declared his relationship with Moira was over, it has huge implications for the Queen family. "For her arc this season, it's really about redemption. She went to jail and kind of got away with it. She still hasn't really paid for what she did and in this episode, again she's paying off doctors, she's threatening Felicity, she still hasn't had her 'come to Jesus' moment despite what you think would be rock bottom -- and that's coming," Kreisberg said. "This is a fracture to her relationship with Oliver that is not going to be mended in an episode."
Oliver and Moira's Cold War doesn't go unnoticed: "There's a great scene between Oliver and Thea about this territory in episode 17, where both Stephen [Amell] and Willa [Holland] are absolutely phenomenal together," Guggenheim said. "There's so much in the Queen family that is impacted by just the amount of lies -- not just Moira's lies, just lies all over the place in this family. Almost every episode [after] this one really deals with the ramifications and different dimensions of all those lies. Can you have a family, even, based on lies -- with so many lies present?"
Oliver's power starts to diminish: With Team Arrow growing by the week, and Sara joining the fray, Oliver's power among Team Arrow will be addressed. "Oliver's swift hand will be met with more resistance," Kreisberg said. "With Sara, you've got somebody who in a way is Oliver. She went through everything Oliver did. She's the female him and sometimes the two of them have conflict because it's like he's talking to himself." With Sara roaming around the Arrow cave, episodes 14, 17 and 18 deal with the addition from "different vantage points." Episode 14, for instance, deals heavily with Felicity's reaction to Sara.
Sara and Oliver's romance unclear: Are the former lovers back together? That's a question that remains unanswered -- at least for the next few episodes. "That's part of the journey of the next five episodes is Oliver has not had many successful relationships and part of he and Sara moving forward is, is this something that could work?" Kreisberg said.
Slade's threat to Moira: Near the end of Wednesday's episode, Slade (Manu Bennett) threatened to take care of the Moira problem. (She is running against his minion, Sebastian Blood, for Starling City mayor.) "That's a long-tail thing that will pay off," Guggenheim promised.
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Por Philiana Ng 6:00 PM PST 05/02/2014
Arrow dropped big revelations during Wednesday's episode, "Heir to the Demon." With several weeks off for the Winter Olympics, the residents of Starling City will have some major issues to deal with when The CW comic-book drama returns in late February.
One of the biggest reveals came in the form of Nyssa al Ghul (Katrina Law) and Sara Lance's (Caity Lotz) surprise relationship. That particular arc was plotted out "at the beginning of the season," said executive producer Andrew Kreisberg, citing the fifth episode when the show referenced the Beloved. (Kreisberg and the writers toyed around with introducing Ra's al Ghul's son and Talia before settling on Nyssa.)
And though the romance gave insight into Nyssa's character, "it was really more about Sara," Kreisberg said. "It felt like something new and different."
The romance between Nyssa and Sara, however, wasn't done "to be salacious," he reassured. "It's a pretty chaste relationship from what you see on screen. For us, it touched on a couple of interesting things: the idea that Sara found herself in this terrible world [of the League of Assassins] and found this one person who treated her with love and kindness. And even the way it bounced back off [Quentin] Lance, this hardened, tough cop who's probably not the most progressive guy -- the fact that he was like, 'I'm just glad you had somebody who loved you and took care of you during those nightmare years,' those moments felt like they would be special and play for us."
Fellow executive producer Marc Guggenheim expressed that the writers "were very anxious" over Sara's romantic developments over the course of the episode, adding that they wanted to "be sensitive and be realistic." By the end of the hour, Sara gets in bed again with former flame Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell).
"We specifically avoid using the term bisexual; we didn't want to label her at all," Guggenheim said. "Let her be her own person and if the audience wants to label, fine. And by the way, maybe Sara's had other female relationships in her past, but we'll get to that in due course when it's right -- if it's right."
The Hollywood Reporter highlights the biggest reveals from Wednesday's episode, with teases on what's to come from Kreisberg and Guggenheim.
Ramifications of freeing Sara: Expect repercussions to come following Nyssa's decision to free Sara from the League. "Part of the reason we did this episode was to free Sara, at least for the time being, from the threat of the League of Assassins, which will allow her to fully be the Black Canary and come home," Kreisberg said. It was crucial for Sara's return to have a profound impact on "everybody's lives." "You got a glimpse of how some people are very happy and some people are very upset," he added. "You're really going to see how Sara's return affects everybody. Hopefully people will be surprised by the reaction."
Not the last of Nyssa: The Ra's al Ghul thread continues to linger past this episode. "As far as the Ra's al Ghul of it is concerned, this was not Katrina's only appearance this season," Kreisberg said, hinting that her reappearance comes after the episode 18 (post-"villains a go-go," if you will).
Felicity's backstory comes to forefront: Before Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) spilled the beans to Oliver about who Thea's biological father was, she offered some insight into her past. "There are two massive things that are going to happen toward the end of the season that you heard in that speech that will pay off," Kreisberg hinted. One of those references dealt with Felicity's father leaving their family when she was younger.
Felicity and Oliver stronger than ever: Though Moira (Susanna Thompson) warned Felicity that Oliver would "hate" her for revealing her Malcolm Merlyn secret, Kreisberg and Guggenheim revealed that that won't be the case. "It's actually going to be strengthened," Kreisberg said. "She's the rock." Guggenheim added: "I don't even think Moira necessarily believed what she was saying to Felicity. Moira was manipulating Felicity into staying silent. It would never even occur to Oliver to be angry at Felicity; all Felicity is is the messenger here. I think his anger is correctly directed at Moira."
A fractured Queen family: When Oliver declared his relationship with Moira was over, it has huge implications for the Queen family. "For her arc this season, it's really about redemption. She went to jail and kind of got away with it. She still hasn't really paid for what she did and in this episode, again she's paying off doctors, she's threatening Felicity, she still hasn't had her 'come to Jesus' moment despite what you think would be rock bottom -- and that's coming," Kreisberg said. "This is a fracture to her relationship with Oliver that is not going to be mended in an episode."
Oliver and Moira's Cold War doesn't go unnoticed: "There's a great scene between Oliver and Thea about this territory in episode 17, where both Stephen [Amell] and Willa [Holland] are absolutely phenomenal together," Guggenheim said. "There's so much in the Queen family that is impacted by just the amount of lies -- not just Moira's lies, just lies all over the place in this family. Almost every episode [after] this one really deals with the ramifications and different dimensions of all those lies. Can you have a family, even, based on lies -- with so many lies present?"
Oliver's power starts to diminish: With Team Arrow growing by the week, and Sara joining the fray, Oliver's power among Team Arrow will be addressed. "Oliver's swift hand will be met with more resistance," Kreisberg said. "With Sara, you've got somebody who in a way is Oliver. She went through everything Oliver did. She's the female him and sometimes the two of them have conflict because it's like he's talking to himself." With Sara roaming around the Arrow cave, episodes 14, 17 and 18 deal with the addition from "different vantage points." Episode 14, for instance, deals heavily with Felicity's reaction to Sara.
Sara and Oliver's romance unclear: Are the former lovers back together? That's a question that remains unanswered -- at least for the next few episodes. "That's part of the journey of the next five episodes is Oliver has not had many successful relationships and part of he and Sara moving forward is, is this something that could work?" Kreisberg said.
Slade's threat to Moira: Near the end of Wednesday's episode, Slade (Manu Bennett) threatened to take care of the Moira problem. (She is running against his minion, Sebastian Blood, for Starling City mayor.) "That's a long-tail thing that will pay off," Guggenheim promised.
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- Productores de Arrow Hablan sobre la conexión entre The Nyssa & Black Canary (greenarrowtv):
Productores de Arrow Hablan sobre la conexión entre The Nyssa & Black Canary
Por Craig Byrne 05 Feb, 2014
In a world where major TV show moments are spoiled at every turn, it might have taken viewers by surprise today when Nyssa Raatko, daughter of Ra’s al Ghul, and Sara Lance (Black Canary) were reunited on tonight’s Arrow… and we find out that they were former lovers.
Such effort was made to keep secrecy that fake casting sides were put out for Nyssa — possibly those “Lisa” sides from earlier this year — and even in the early stages of casting, chemistry tests were done between potential “Lisa”s and Stephen Amell. Then, when they found their right actress, they had her screen test for chemistry with Caity Lotz… and the rest is history.
But where did this idea come from?
We spoke with Arrow Executive Producers Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim earlier this week for some more back story.
“It was really more about Sara than anything else,” Kreisberg said, pointing out that hints of this were dropped as early as this season’s fifth episode, where there is a reference to “the beloved” and someone telling Sara that “you think that’s going to keep you safe.”
But whose “beloved” would Sara be? “We talked about, ‘does Ra’s al Ghul have a son?’ and then ‘Could it be Talia?’ and we felt like Talia had just been done in the movies. One of our writers had actually brought up the idea of Nyssa. It just felt like something new and different, and at the same time, we didn’t do it to be salacious. I mean, it’s a pretty chaste relationship, from what you see on screen. For us, it just sort of touched on a couple of interesting things. The idea that Sara found herself in this terrible world and found this one person who treated her with love and kindness,” Kreisberg recalled, pointing out that that love and kindness was enough to even get to Sara’s hardened, tough father, Quentin Lance.
“For Lance, that this sort of hardened, tough cop who’s probably not the most progressive guy, that even he was like ‘I’m just glad you had somebody who loved you and took care of you during those nightmare years.’ Those little moments just felt like they would be special and play for us,” Andrew continued.
Marc Guggenheim pointed out that labels should not be put on anyone, at least in their own preference. “In the same episode where we reveal that Sara had had this lesbian relationship, she also is sleeping with Oliver again, and we really wanted to approach it like not be salacious, and be sensitive, and be realistic. We actually specifically avoid using the term ‘bisexual.’ We didn’t want to label her at all. Let her be her own person. If the audience wants to label, fine, but we wanted to not make it like it’s that specific. It is a very specific relationship to Sara and Nyssa, and maybe Sara’s had other female relationships in her past, but we’ll get to that in due course, when it’s right and if it’s right. But we want to not just do something to shock,” Guggenheim said.
Now that Nyssa has seemingly released Sara from her responsibilities to the League of Assassins, is Ra’s al Ghul really going to let her go? And will we see him? “As far as the Ra’s al Ghul of it is concerned, this was not Katrina’s only appearance of the season,” Kreisberg said. “As far as what the Sara of it means… part of the reason we did this episode was to free Sara, at least for the time being, from the throe of the League of Assassins and allow her to fully be the Black Canary, and come home, and all the delicious implications that that brought In the next couple of episodes, you’re really going to see how Sara’s return affects everybody, and hopefully people will be surprised by the reaction,” he added. And as for the man himself, will we see him? “We really can’t comment on when or if you’ll see Ra’s, and how he’ll pronounce his name,” Guggenheim said.
“I think in the same way that we did with Season 1, we set up the seeds of Season 2 in Season 1, and hopefully – we haven’t been given the go-ahead for Season 3 yet – [but] we’ve thought of the show as this multi-year, epic arc, and that things get introduced and paid off later, and this is one of those epic things that is being introduced now,” Andrew said.
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Por Craig Byrne 05 Feb, 2014
In a world where major TV show moments are spoiled at every turn, it might have taken viewers by surprise today when Nyssa Raatko, daughter of Ra’s al Ghul, and Sara Lance (Black Canary) were reunited on tonight’s Arrow… and we find out that they were former lovers.
Such effort was made to keep secrecy that fake casting sides were put out for Nyssa — possibly those “Lisa” sides from earlier this year — and even in the early stages of casting, chemistry tests were done between potential “Lisa”s and Stephen Amell. Then, when they found their right actress, they had her screen test for chemistry with Caity Lotz… and the rest is history.
But where did this idea come from?
We spoke with Arrow Executive Producers Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim earlier this week for some more back story.
“It was really more about Sara than anything else,” Kreisberg said, pointing out that hints of this were dropped as early as this season’s fifth episode, where there is a reference to “the beloved” and someone telling Sara that “you think that’s going to keep you safe.”
But whose “beloved” would Sara be? “We talked about, ‘does Ra’s al Ghul have a son?’ and then ‘Could it be Talia?’ and we felt like Talia had just been done in the movies. One of our writers had actually brought up the idea of Nyssa. It just felt like something new and different, and at the same time, we didn’t do it to be salacious. I mean, it’s a pretty chaste relationship, from what you see on screen. For us, it just sort of touched on a couple of interesting things. The idea that Sara found herself in this terrible world and found this one person who treated her with love and kindness,” Kreisberg recalled, pointing out that that love and kindness was enough to even get to Sara’s hardened, tough father, Quentin Lance.
“For Lance, that this sort of hardened, tough cop who’s probably not the most progressive guy, that even he was like ‘I’m just glad you had somebody who loved you and took care of you during those nightmare years.’ Those little moments just felt like they would be special and play for us,” Andrew continued.
Marc Guggenheim pointed out that labels should not be put on anyone, at least in their own preference. “In the same episode where we reveal that Sara had had this lesbian relationship, she also is sleeping with Oliver again, and we really wanted to approach it like not be salacious, and be sensitive, and be realistic. We actually specifically avoid using the term ‘bisexual.’ We didn’t want to label her at all. Let her be her own person. If the audience wants to label, fine, but we wanted to not make it like it’s that specific. It is a very specific relationship to Sara and Nyssa, and maybe Sara’s had other female relationships in her past, but we’ll get to that in due course, when it’s right and if it’s right. But we want to not just do something to shock,” Guggenheim said.
Now that Nyssa has seemingly released Sara from her responsibilities to the League of Assassins, is Ra’s al Ghul really going to let her go? And will we see him? “As far as the Ra’s al Ghul of it is concerned, this was not Katrina’s only appearance of the season,” Kreisberg said. “As far as what the Sara of it means… part of the reason we did this episode was to free Sara, at least for the time being, from the throe of the League of Assassins and allow her to fully be the Black Canary, and come home, and all the delicious implications that that brought In the next couple of episodes, you’re really going to see how Sara’s return affects everybody, and hopefully people will be surprised by the reaction,” he added. And as for the man himself, will we see him? “We really can’t comment on when or if you’ll see Ra’s, and how he’ll pronounce his name,” Guggenheim said.
“I think in the same way that we did with Season 1, we set up the seeds of Season 2 in Season 1, and hopefully – we haven’t been given the go-ahead for Season 3 yet – [but] we’ve thought of the show as this multi-year, epic arc, and that things get introduced and paid off later, and this is one of those epic things that is being introduced now,” Andrew said.
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- Productores ejecutivos de 'Arrow' hablan sobre la sexualidad de Nyssa al Ghul's, la recién encontrada libertad de Sara y más (zap-2-it):
Productores ejecutivos de 'Arrow' hablan sobre la sexualidad de Nyssa al Ghul's, la recién encontrada libertad de Sara y más
Por Sydney Bucksbaum 05 Febr, 2014 9:00 PM ET
Every week, "Arrow" outdoes itself in terms of epic fight sequences, game-changing reveals and intense character confrontations, but Wednesday (Feb. 5) night's episode, "Heir to the Demon," was in a class all on its own.
With the introduction of Nyssa al Ghul (Katrina Law) -- Ra's al Ghul's daughter -- hunting down Sara Lance (Caity Lotz) to bring her back to the League of Assassins, the stakes would have been high enough. But the show added another, more emotional level to Nyssa's journey: She was Sara's ex and wanted to win her heart again.
Of course, Nyssa ended up releasing Sara from her duty to the League when it became clear Sara would rather die than leave her family again. But watching Nyssa deal with the pain of that revelation was what made her one of the series' best villains so far -- a fact with which executive producer Andrew Kreisberg wholeheartedly agrees.
"It's been pointed out that sometimes our villains get short shrift and we don't always do right by the villains," Kreisberg tells Zap2it and a handful of other reporters. "We just don't have enough time for them because our show is just so dense. We've gotten away with casting really cool people in the parts and asking our audience to just fill in the rest."
Kreisberg and fellow showrunner Marc Guggenheim are glad that they were able to give Nyssa enough of a backstory to make her a sympathetic villain. "I actually feel bad for her. She really does seem like this broken-hearted person who got the shaft," Kreisberg says. "She has the advantage of having an emotional and personal tie to one of our characters. She goes on a complete journey from start to end as opposed to someone who just wants to rob a bank."
Guggenheim is quick to point out, however, that "Arrow" can't have every villain be like that. "If every episode had a Nyssa, and didn't have let's say a Clock King, when the Nyssas of the world showed up it wouldn't have any import," Guggenheim says. "It would lack the weight that this kind of episode has. Because some episodes, yes, it's just a guy bombing the city, but there's other stuff in that episode that makes it worthwhile and worth watching. If everything becomes special, then nothing becomes special."
Law was excited to portray Nyssa, but she wasn't expecting her to have such a rich history with Sara. "I was surprised that I was going to be a lesbian," Law says with a laugh. "When we did the chemistry read, I wasn't quite understanding why I was [with Lotz]."
According to Kreisberg and Guggenheim, the decision to make Nyssa a lesbian came from the idea of what it could do for Sara. "We thought of this at the beginning of the season," Kreisberg says. "If you watch [episode] 205 there's a reference to 'the beloved,' and 'You think that's going to keep you safe.' We talked about, 'Well, does Ra's al Ghul have a son?' And then we were like, 'Well, can it be Talia?'"
Since Talia al Ghul was portrayed recently in "The Dark Knight Rises," the writers decided to go with the lesser-known story of Nyssa al Ghul.
"It just felt like something new and different," Kreisberg says. "At the same time, we didn't do it to be salacious, because it's a pretty chaste relationship from what you see onscreen. It just touched on a couple interesting things, like the idea that Sara found one person who treated her with love and kindness. And then for Lance to be this hardened, tough cop and probably not the most progressive guy, even he was just like, 'I'm glad you had someone who loved you and took care of you during those nightmare years.'"
Nyssa wasn't the only one getting action with Sara in the episode though, as it ended with her and Oliver (Stephen Amell) hooking up in the Arrow lair.
"We were anxious to have in the same episode where we reveal that Sara had had this lesbian relationship, she was also sleeping with Oliver again," Guggenheim says. "We wanted to be sensitive and realistic. We specifically avoid using the term 'bisexual' because we didn't want to label her at all. Let her be her own person, and if the audience wants to label, fine. We didn't want to do something just to shock."
But just because Nyssa left at the end of the episode, that doesn't mean we -- and Sara -- won't see her ex again. "This was not Katrina's only appearance this season," Kreisberg reveals. "Part of the reason we did this episode was to free Sara, at least for the time being, from the threat of the League of Assassins and allow her to fully be the Black Canary and come home and all the delicious implications that that brought."
He continues, "Having this dead woman come back and the effect that would have on everyone's lives, you got a glimpse that obviously some people are very happy and some are very upset" -- ahem, lookin' at you, Laurel -- "and in the next bunch of episodes you're really going to see how Sara's return affects everybody."
The big question that now looms is because Nyssa released Sara from her duty to the League -- without asking her father's permission -- will we see the big bad Ra's make his way to Starling City? "We really can't comment on when or if you'll see Ra's," Guggenheim says with a smile.
So what's coming next for Team Arrow now that Sara's home for good (for now)? "When we sat down and looked at these [next] four episodes, we looked at it like a comic book with chapters, and this is the Lance family chapter," Kreisberg says. "The next chapter when we come back is really villains a go-go."
"I'm trying to get him to not call it villains a go-go," Guggenheim interrupts with a laugh.
"But episodes 14 through 18 are really just villain, villain, villain, great big villains one after the other," Kreisberg continues. "You're going to see a couple of returning favorites and a couple of amazing brand new ones."
As if Oliver didn't have enough to focus on with the all the upcoming villains headed his way, he's also got some drama at home to deal with now that Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) revealed Moira's (Susanna Thompson) secret to him: Thea's (Willa Holland) real father is actually Oliver's nemesis, Malcolm Merlyn (John Barrowman).
Kreisberg was quick to reassure that Oliver's relationship with Felicity won't be ruined like Moira warned after she told him the brutal truth. "It's actually going to be strengthened," Kreisberg says. "She's the rock."
Guggenheim agrees. "I don't even think Moira necessarily believed what she was saying to Felicity," Guggenheim says. "Moira was trying to manipulate Felicity into staying silent. It would never even occur to Oliver to be angry with Felicity. All Felicity is, is the messenger. His anger was properly directed at Moira."
That anger is no little thing, by the way. He completely dissolved their relationship, which is the worst thing that can happen to family-oriented Moira.
"This is a big thing for her in that, if you've watched the series up until this point, everything that Moira has ever done, she has done to protect her family," Kreisberg says. "It has sometimes been horrifying and terrible and borderline evil but it's always been to protect her son and her daughter. This is a fracture to her relationship with Oliver that is not going to be mended in an episode. This lie is going to have far-reaching implications for the characters of the show."
Hopefully this will be the wake-up call that Moira needs to start making better decisions. "Her arc this season is really about redemption. She went to jail and kind of got away with it. She should have stayed in jail but Malcolm rigged things and she still hasn't really paid for what she did," Kreisberg says. "And then in this episode, she's still paying off doctors and threatening Felicity. She still hasn't had her 'come to Jesus' moment despite what you'd think would be rock bottom. That's coming."
Could that have anything to do with Slade's (Manu Bennett) ominous vow to "take care" of Moira to free up Sebastian Blood to win the Starling City election? "We can't talk about how Slade's going to 'take care' of Moira," Guggenheim says. "That's a long tail thing that will pay off."
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Por Sydney Bucksbaum 05 Febr, 2014 9:00 PM ET
Every week, "Arrow" outdoes itself in terms of epic fight sequences, game-changing reveals and intense character confrontations, but Wednesday (Feb. 5) night's episode, "Heir to the Demon," was in a class all on its own.
With the introduction of Nyssa al Ghul (Katrina Law) -- Ra's al Ghul's daughter -- hunting down Sara Lance (Caity Lotz) to bring her back to the League of Assassins, the stakes would have been high enough. But the show added another, more emotional level to Nyssa's journey: She was Sara's ex and wanted to win her heart again.
Of course, Nyssa ended up releasing Sara from her duty to the League when it became clear Sara would rather die than leave her family again. But watching Nyssa deal with the pain of that revelation was what made her one of the series' best villains so far -- a fact with which executive producer Andrew Kreisberg wholeheartedly agrees.
"It's been pointed out that sometimes our villains get short shrift and we don't always do right by the villains," Kreisberg tells Zap2it and a handful of other reporters. "We just don't have enough time for them because our show is just so dense. We've gotten away with casting really cool people in the parts and asking our audience to just fill in the rest."
Kreisberg and fellow showrunner Marc Guggenheim are glad that they were able to give Nyssa enough of a backstory to make her a sympathetic villain. "I actually feel bad for her. She really does seem like this broken-hearted person who got the shaft," Kreisberg says. "She has the advantage of having an emotional and personal tie to one of our characters. She goes on a complete journey from start to end as opposed to someone who just wants to rob a bank."
Guggenheim is quick to point out, however, that "Arrow" can't have every villain be like that. "If every episode had a Nyssa, and didn't have let's say a Clock King, when the Nyssas of the world showed up it wouldn't have any import," Guggenheim says. "It would lack the weight that this kind of episode has. Because some episodes, yes, it's just a guy bombing the city, but there's other stuff in that episode that makes it worthwhile and worth watching. If everything becomes special, then nothing becomes special."
Law was excited to portray Nyssa, but she wasn't expecting her to have such a rich history with Sara. "I was surprised that I was going to be a lesbian," Law says with a laugh. "When we did the chemistry read, I wasn't quite understanding why I was [with Lotz]."
According to Kreisberg and Guggenheim, the decision to make Nyssa a lesbian came from the idea of what it could do for Sara. "We thought of this at the beginning of the season," Kreisberg says. "If you watch [episode] 205 there's a reference to 'the beloved,' and 'You think that's going to keep you safe.' We talked about, 'Well, does Ra's al Ghul have a son?' And then we were like, 'Well, can it be Talia?'"
Since Talia al Ghul was portrayed recently in "The Dark Knight Rises," the writers decided to go with the lesser-known story of Nyssa al Ghul.
"It just felt like something new and different," Kreisberg says. "At the same time, we didn't do it to be salacious, because it's a pretty chaste relationship from what you see onscreen. It just touched on a couple interesting things, like the idea that Sara found one person who treated her with love and kindness. And then for Lance to be this hardened, tough cop and probably not the most progressive guy, even he was just like, 'I'm glad you had someone who loved you and took care of you during those nightmare years.'"
Nyssa wasn't the only one getting action with Sara in the episode though, as it ended with her and Oliver (Stephen Amell) hooking up in the Arrow lair.
"We were anxious to have in the same episode where we reveal that Sara had had this lesbian relationship, she was also sleeping with Oliver again," Guggenheim says. "We wanted to be sensitive and realistic. We specifically avoid using the term 'bisexual' because we didn't want to label her at all. Let her be her own person, and if the audience wants to label, fine. We didn't want to do something just to shock."
But just because Nyssa left at the end of the episode, that doesn't mean we -- and Sara -- won't see her ex again. "This was not Katrina's only appearance this season," Kreisberg reveals. "Part of the reason we did this episode was to free Sara, at least for the time being, from the threat of the League of Assassins and allow her to fully be the Black Canary and come home and all the delicious implications that that brought."
He continues, "Having this dead woman come back and the effect that would have on everyone's lives, you got a glimpse that obviously some people are very happy and some are very upset" -- ahem, lookin' at you, Laurel -- "and in the next bunch of episodes you're really going to see how Sara's return affects everybody."
The big question that now looms is because Nyssa released Sara from her duty to the League -- without asking her father's permission -- will we see the big bad Ra's make his way to Starling City? "We really can't comment on when or if you'll see Ra's," Guggenheim says with a smile.
So what's coming next for Team Arrow now that Sara's home for good (for now)? "When we sat down and looked at these [next] four episodes, we looked at it like a comic book with chapters, and this is the Lance family chapter," Kreisberg says. "The next chapter when we come back is really villains a go-go."
"I'm trying to get him to not call it villains a go-go," Guggenheim interrupts with a laugh.
"But episodes 14 through 18 are really just villain, villain, villain, great big villains one after the other," Kreisberg continues. "You're going to see a couple of returning favorites and a couple of amazing brand new ones."
As if Oliver didn't have enough to focus on with the all the upcoming villains headed his way, he's also got some drama at home to deal with now that Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) revealed Moira's (Susanna Thompson) secret to him: Thea's (Willa Holland) real father is actually Oliver's nemesis, Malcolm Merlyn (John Barrowman).
Kreisberg was quick to reassure that Oliver's relationship with Felicity won't be ruined like Moira warned after she told him the brutal truth. "It's actually going to be strengthened," Kreisberg says. "She's the rock."
Guggenheim agrees. "I don't even think Moira necessarily believed what she was saying to Felicity," Guggenheim says. "Moira was trying to manipulate Felicity into staying silent. It would never even occur to Oliver to be angry with Felicity. All Felicity is, is the messenger. His anger was properly directed at Moira."
That anger is no little thing, by the way. He completely dissolved their relationship, which is the worst thing that can happen to family-oriented Moira.
"This is a big thing for her in that, if you've watched the series up until this point, everything that Moira has ever done, she has done to protect her family," Kreisberg says. "It has sometimes been horrifying and terrible and borderline evil but it's always been to protect her son and her daughter. This is a fracture to her relationship with Oliver that is not going to be mended in an episode. This lie is going to have far-reaching implications for the characters of the show."
Hopefully this will be the wake-up call that Moira needs to start making better decisions. "Her arc this season is really about redemption. She went to jail and kind of got away with it. She should have stayed in jail but Malcolm rigged things and she still hasn't really paid for what she did," Kreisberg says. "And then in this episode, she's still paying off doctors and threatening Felicity. She still hasn't had her 'come to Jesus' moment despite what you'd think would be rock bottom. That's coming."
Could that have anything to do with Slade's (Manu Bennett) ominous vow to "take care" of Moira to free up Sebastian Blood to win the Starling City election? "We can't talk about how Slade's going to 'take care' of Moira," Guggenheim says. "That's a long tail thing that will pay off."
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- Jefes de Arrow sobre la sorpresa relativa a Sara, la historia pasada de Felicity y los comflictos de equipo (TVLine):
Jefes de Arrow sobre la sorpresa relativa a Sara, la historia pasada de Felicity y los comflictos de equipo
Por Vlada Gelman 05 Febr, 2014 06:00 PM PST
Arrow brought to life an iconic comic-book character on Wednesday night as Ra’s al Ghul’s daughter Nyssa came to Starling City in search of Sara — and planted a kiss on her!
Below, executive producers Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim reveal the story behind the surprise twist and what Sara being home means for her romantic future.
The EPs also preview Team Arrow’s changing dynamics, Oliver and Moira’s cold war and Felicity’s “massive” backstory payoff.
LOCKING LIPS | The decision to have a romantic relationship between Nyssa and the elder Ms. Lance “was really more about Sara than anything else,” explains Kreisberg. “We thought about this at the beginning of the season. If you watch [Episode] 205, there’s a reference to ‘the beloved’ and ‘you think that’s going to keep you safe.’ We talked about, ‘Does Ra’s al Ghul have a son?’ Then we were like, ‘Could it be Talia?’ We felt like Talia had just been done in the movies.” Ultimately, one of the writers suggested Nyssa, which “felt like something new and different.”
Kreisberg maintains that the pairing isn’t meant to be “salacious.” Rather, “It’s a pretty chaste relationship from what you see on screen,” he continues. “For us, it just touched on a couple of interesting things like the idea that Sara found herself in this terrible world and found this one person who treated her with love and kindness.” And although Sara ends the episode reuniting with Oliver, “We actually specifically avoid using the term ‘bisexual,’” points out Guggenheim. “We didn’t want to label her at all.”
But her past will come back to haunt her: Katrina Law will reprise her role as Nyssa later this season. As for whether Sara and Oliver are a couple now, “That’s actually part of the journey of these next five episodes,” reveals Kreisberg. “Oliver has not had many successful relationships, and part of him and Sara moving forward is [the question of], ‘Is this something that can work given both of our [pasts]?’”
NOT-SO-WELCOME HOME | Sara’s readjustment to life in Starling City won’t be entirely smooth, as evidenced by Laurel’s violent reaction to her sis’ return. “Part of the reason we did this episode was to free Sara, at least for the time being, from the threat of the League of Assassins, to allow her to fully be the Black Canary and come home and all the delicious implications that that brought,” says Kreisberg. “You’re really going to see how Sara’s return affects everybody.”
SMOAK SECRETS | Felicity fans finally got some much-wanted backstory about the IT gal this week – and there’s more to come! Make sure to remember the tidbits Ms. Smoak dropped about her parents, because “There are two massive things that are going to happen towards the end of the season that you heard in that speech that will payoff,” teases Kreisberg.
‘OLICITY’ BONDED | It seems Mama Queen’s threats were empty: Felicity and Oliver’s relationship is “actually going to be strengthened” following her decision to spill Moira’s secret, assures Kreisberg. Adds Guggenheim: “I don’t even think Moira necessarily believed what she was saying to Felicity. Moira was trying to manipulate Felicity into staying silent. It would never even occur to Oliver to be angry at Felicity.”
A FAMILY DIVIDED | “The cold war between Oliver and Moira is not going to go unnoticed by anyone,” previews Kreisberg. Meanwhile, despite her stint in prison and the collapse of her relationship with her son, Moira “still really hasn’t had her come-to-Jesus moment… and that’s coming,” teases the EP. Her lie “is going to have far-reaching implications for the characters.” Guggenheim adds that there’s even more deception to come. “There’s just lies all over the place in this whole family… Can you have a family, even, based on lies?” And Oliver, often a liar himself, is going to realize “that as much as he despises his mother, he’s actually a lot more like her than he wants to admit,” says Kreisberg.
TEAM ARROW EXPANDED | With Roy and Sara’s additions to the group, “The cave’s getting full,” says Kreisberg with a laugh. “It used to be a place where Oliver said, ‘Everybody jump,’ and everybody else said, ‘How high?’ What you’re going to start to see is that other people have differing opinions.” Guggenheim says the next episode also will explore “Felicity’s reaction to Sara, the new member of Team Arrow,” as well as what her addition means for the team, Felicity — and Oliver and Felicity.
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Por Vlada Gelman 05 Febr, 2014 06:00 PM PST
Arrow brought to life an iconic comic-book character on Wednesday night as Ra’s al Ghul’s daughter Nyssa came to Starling City in search of Sara — and planted a kiss on her!
Below, executive producers Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim reveal the story behind the surprise twist and what Sara being home means for her romantic future.
The EPs also preview Team Arrow’s changing dynamics, Oliver and Moira’s cold war and Felicity’s “massive” backstory payoff.
LOCKING LIPS | The decision to have a romantic relationship between Nyssa and the elder Ms. Lance “was really more about Sara than anything else,” explains Kreisberg. “We thought about this at the beginning of the season. If you watch [Episode] 205, there’s a reference to ‘the beloved’ and ‘you think that’s going to keep you safe.’ We talked about, ‘Does Ra’s al Ghul have a son?’ Then we were like, ‘Could it be Talia?’ We felt like Talia had just been done in the movies.” Ultimately, one of the writers suggested Nyssa, which “felt like something new and different.”
Kreisberg maintains that the pairing isn’t meant to be “salacious.” Rather, “It’s a pretty chaste relationship from what you see on screen,” he continues. “For us, it just touched on a couple of interesting things like the idea that Sara found herself in this terrible world and found this one person who treated her with love and kindness.” And although Sara ends the episode reuniting with Oliver, “We actually specifically avoid using the term ‘bisexual,’” points out Guggenheim. “We didn’t want to label her at all.”
But her past will come back to haunt her: Katrina Law will reprise her role as Nyssa later this season. As for whether Sara and Oliver are a couple now, “That’s actually part of the journey of these next five episodes,” reveals Kreisberg. “Oliver has not had many successful relationships, and part of him and Sara moving forward is [the question of], ‘Is this something that can work given both of our [pasts]?’”
NOT-SO-WELCOME HOME | Sara’s readjustment to life in Starling City won’t be entirely smooth, as evidenced by Laurel’s violent reaction to her sis’ return. “Part of the reason we did this episode was to free Sara, at least for the time being, from the threat of the League of Assassins, to allow her to fully be the Black Canary and come home and all the delicious implications that that brought,” says Kreisberg. “You’re really going to see how Sara’s return affects everybody.”
SMOAK SECRETS | Felicity fans finally got some much-wanted backstory about the IT gal this week – and there’s more to come! Make sure to remember the tidbits Ms. Smoak dropped about her parents, because “There are two massive things that are going to happen towards the end of the season that you heard in that speech that will payoff,” teases Kreisberg.
‘OLICITY’ BONDED | It seems Mama Queen’s threats were empty: Felicity and Oliver’s relationship is “actually going to be strengthened” following her decision to spill Moira’s secret, assures Kreisberg. Adds Guggenheim: “I don’t even think Moira necessarily believed what she was saying to Felicity. Moira was trying to manipulate Felicity into staying silent. It would never even occur to Oliver to be angry at Felicity.”
A FAMILY DIVIDED | “The cold war between Oliver and Moira is not going to go unnoticed by anyone,” previews Kreisberg. Meanwhile, despite her stint in prison and the collapse of her relationship with her son, Moira “still really hasn’t had her come-to-Jesus moment… and that’s coming,” teases the EP. Her lie “is going to have far-reaching implications for the characters.” Guggenheim adds that there’s even more deception to come. “There’s just lies all over the place in this whole family… Can you have a family, even, based on lies?” And Oliver, often a liar himself, is going to realize “that as much as he despises his mother, he’s actually a lot more like her than he wants to admit,” says Kreisberg.
TEAM ARROW EXPANDED | With Roy and Sara’s additions to the group, “The cave’s getting full,” says Kreisberg with a laugh. “It used to be a place where Oliver said, ‘Everybody jump,’ and everybody else said, ‘How high?’ What you’re going to start to see is that other people have differing opinions.” Guggenheim says the next episode also will explore “Felicity’s reaction to Sara, the new member of Team Arrow,” as well as what her addition means for the team, Felicity — and Oliver and Felicity.
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- Los jefes de Arrow hablan sobre las relaciones del mismo sexo, adelantan la historia pasada de Felicity y más (etonline):
Los jefes de Arrow hablan sobre las relaciones del mismo sexo, adelantan la historia pasada de Felicity y más
by Tierney Bricker Today 6:00 PM PST
"I was surprised I was going to be a lesbian!"
Us too, Katrina Law. Us too. And we loved it. Arrow finally introduced another member of the League of Assassins in tonight's outing: Leader Ra's al Ghul's daughter Nyssa (Law), and in a shocking twist, revealed she and Sara/the Black Canary (Caity Lotz), who she had been sent to Starling City to bring back into the killer group, were in a relationship.
We attended a Q&A with Law and Arrow bosses Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim to talk about the decision to make Nyssa gay and Sara bisexual, as well as what's next for Oliver (Stephen Amell) now that Sara is staying in town and they ended the episode with a hot hookup. Plus, the executive producers tease Felicity's (Emily Bett Rickards) backstory and tension with Sara...
"It was really more about Sara than anything else. By the way, we had thought of this at the beginning of the season," Kreisberg says of the decision to make Nyssa, a character only seen a few times in the DC Comics, a lesbian.
He continues, "It just felt like something new and different. At the same time, we didn't do it to be salacious. It's a pretty chaste relationship from what you see on screen. For us, it just touched on...the idea that Sara found herself in this terrible world and found this one person who treated her with love and kindness."
Guggenheim adds that the writers made it a point not to use the word "bisexual" when talking about Sara. "We really wanted to approach it like not be salacious and be sensitive and be realistic. We actually specifically avoid using the term bisexual. We didn't want to label her at all. Let her be her own person."
And though a heartbroken Nyssa released Sara from the League on behalf of her father by episode's end, Kreisberg teases, "This was not Katrina's only appearance this season." Fans can expect to see her pop back up in Starling City sometime after episode 18.
Felicity Feels: Fans who've been desperate to know more about the fan favorite character learned a little bit about her past in tonight's episode, as she told Oliver about her family issues, including her father abandoning her family, and her mother being, well, her mother. (Sounds ominous.)
"There are two massive things that are going to happen toward the end of the season that you heard in that speech that will pay off," Kreisberg teases, adding that Felicity and Oliver's relationship is "going to be strengthened" by her telling him the truth about his mother. "She's the rock."
Battle of the Blondes: Of course, Felicity will now have to deal with Sara becoming a more permanent presence in Team Arrow and episode 14 is "a very Felicity-centric episode," Guggenheim previews. "[It] really deals with what is Felicity's reaction to Sara, the new member of Team Arrow…what does this mean for Team Arrow and what does it mean for Felicity and what does it mean for Oliver and Felicity."
Kreisberg adds jokingly, "There used to be only one blonde in the lair."
As for Oliver and Sara's relationship status? It's complicated."That's actually part of the journey of the next five episodes," Kreisberg says. "Oliver has not had many successful relationships and part of he and Sara moving forward is: ‘Is this something that can work'" given their respective romantic histories.
And Felicity and Oliver won't be the only characters impacted by Sara's decision to stick around, with Kreisberg explaining, "Part of the reason we did this episode was to free Sara, at least for the time being, from the threat of the League of Assassins and allow her to fully be the Black Canary and come home and all the delicious implications that that brought…in the next bunch of episodes you're really going to see how Sara's return affects everybody."
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"I was surprised I was going to be a lesbian!"
Us too, Katrina Law. Us too. And we loved it. Arrow finally introduced another member of the League of Assassins in tonight's outing: Leader Ra's al Ghul's daughter Nyssa (Law), and in a shocking twist, revealed she and Sara/the Black Canary (Caity Lotz), who she had been sent to Starling City to bring back into the killer group, were in a relationship.
We attended a Q&A with Law and Arrow bosses Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim to talk about the decision to make Nyssa gay and Sara bisexual, as well as what's next for Oliver (Stephen Amell) now that Sara is staying in town and they ended the episode with a hot hookup. Plus, the executive producers tease Felicity's (Emily Bett Rickards) backstory and tension with Sara...
"It was really more about Sara than anything else. By the way, we had thought of this at the beginning of the season," Kreisberg says of the decision to make Nyssa, a character only seen a few times in the DC Comics, a lesbian.
He continues, "It just felt like something new and different. At the same time, we didn't do it to be salacious. It's a pretty chaste relationship from what you see on screen. For us, it just touched on...the idea that Sara found herself in this terrible world and found this one person who treated her with love and kindness."
Guggenheim adds that the writers made it a point not to use the word "bisexual" when talking about Sara. "We really wanted to approach it like not be salacious and be sensitive and be realistic. We actually specifically avoid using the term bisexual. We didn't want to label her at all. Let her be her own person."
And though a heartbroken Nyssa released Sara from the League on behalf of her father by episode's end, Kreisberg teases, "This was not Katrina's only appearance this season." Fans can expect to see her pop back up in Starling City sometime after episode 18.
Felicity Feels: Fans who've been desperate to know more about the fan favorite character learned a little bit about her past in tonight's episode, as she told Oliver about her family issues, including her father abandoning her family, and her mother being, well, her mother. (Sounds ominous.)
"There are two massive things that are going to happen toward the end of the season that you heard in that speech that will pay off," Kreisberg teases, adding that Felicity and Oliver's relationship is "going to be strengthened" by her telling him the truth about his mother. "She's the rock."
Battle of the Blondes: Of course, Felicity will now have to deal with Sara becoming a more permanent presence in Team Arrow and episode 14 is "a very Felicity-centric episode," Guggenheim previews. "[It] really deals with what is Felicity's reaction to Sara, the new member of Team Arrow…what does this mean for Team Arrow and what does it mean for Felicity and what does it mean for Oliver and Felicity."
Kreisberg adds jokingly, "There used to be only one blonde in the lair."
As for Oliver and Sara's relationship status? It's complicated."That's actually part of the journey of the next five episodes," Kreisberg says. "Oliver has not had many successful relationships and part of he and Sara moving forward is: ‘Is this something that can work'" given their respective romantic histories.
And Felicity and Oliver won't be the only characters impacted by Sara's decision to stick around, with Kreisberg explaining, "Part of the reason we did this episode was to free Sara, at least for the time being, from the threat of the League of Assassins and allow her to fully be the Black Canary and come home and all the delicious implications that that brought…in the next bunch of episodes you're really going to see how Sara's return affects everybody."
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- Spoilers de Arrow: ¡El futuro de Felicity, el pasado de Diggle y la galería de villanos! (tvfanatic):
Spoilers de Arrow: ¡El futuro de Felicity, el pasado de Diggle y la galería de villanos!
Por Laura Prudom 06 Febrero, 2014 8:22 am.
It may not have seemed possible, but Arrow raised the stakes even higher this week, introducing Nyssa al Ghul - daughter of the iconic and nigh unkillable comics villain Ra’s al Ghul - into the fold.
Not only did we learn that Nyssa and Sara Lance had a romantic relationship during Sara’s time with the League of Assassins, Arrow Season 2 Episode 13 also saw Laurel and Dinah find out that Sara was still alive – and Laurel didn’t take the news so well.
Things weren’t much better for the Queen family after Oliver discovered that Thea is actually Malcolm Merlyn’s daughter and that his mother has been doing everything in her power to hide the truth so as not to jeopardize her chances of running for Mayor of Starling City.
So what’s ahead for Team Arrow when the show returns on February 26?
TV Fanatic was among a group of reporters who sat down with Arrow executive producers Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim, along with Katrina Law (who plays the ass-kicking Nyssa) to find out what else they have in store.
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You haven’t seen the last of Nyssa: Although Nyssa freed Sara from her duties to the League of Assassins, Kreisberg promised that “this was not Katrina’s only appearance of the season,” and it’s probably safe to assume that Nyssa’s father, the head of the League, won’t be too thrilled when he realizes that his daughter has released one of their most accomplished killers.
The producers wouldn’t comment on when the infamous Ra’s might make an appearance, but Kreisberg did point out that the show has a tendency to introduce plot points that they pay off later, and they’re already well into the process of making plans for Season 3…
The Birds of Prey are coming home to roost: Now that Sara is back in Starling City, the show will dig deeper into the relationship between the Lances, especially siblings Sara and Laurel. The March 26 episode, titled Birds of Prey, will feature the return of Helena Bertinelli, AKA the Huntress.
“Helena’s gone, all that’s left is the Huntress," teased Kreisberg. "She’s been consumed by this vengeance she has for her father, and when we see her, she’s in a very haggard and worn-out state. It’s kind of the big, final confrontation between her and her father and Laurel gets caught in the crossfire, and the Canary has to go to the rescue.
"It’s a fun episode in that you get a lot of Laurel with the Canary, not realizing that it’s Sara, so you get a great sister episode in that sense… The Canary is all too eager to kill the Huntress if it means protecting Laurel. It’s really an episode about Sarah realizing where she’s at in her evolution as a hero.”
But for comic fans hoping that the episode title hints at a team-up between the three core members of the Birds of Prey team - Black Canary, Huntress and Oracle - the producers asked for patience.
Said Guggenheim: “We gave ourselves room to grow and evolve that. The whole show is about evolutions – it’s about the evolution of the Arrow to the Green Arrow, we’ve talked about it in terms of Black Canary, we’ve talked about it in terms of Deathstroke … so Birds of Prey is very much the same thing. You’re not gonna end up with the holy trinity of Oracle, Black Canary and Huntress right out of the gate. The hope is that we’re doing a multi-year, multi-season epic – we’ll get there.”
They don’t believe in labels: The choice to have Sara and Nyssa involved romantically was a character-based decision, not an attempt to be salacious, according to the producers.
“It just felt like something new and different … it’s a pretty chaste relationship, from what you see on-screen,” Kreisberg said. “It touched on a couple of interesting things; the idea that Sara found herself in this terrible world and found this one person who treated her with love and kindness, and even the way it bounced back for Lance, for this hardened, tough cop who’s probably not the most progressive guy, even he was like ‘I’m just glad you had somebody who loved you and cared for you during those nightmare years.’”
Guggenheim agreed: “We were very anxious [that] in the same episode we reveal that Sara had had this lesbian relationship, she’s also sleeping with Oliver again, and we really wanted to approach it and not be salacious, and be sensitive and be realistic.
"We actually specifically avoided using the term ‘bisexual,’ we didn’t want to label her at all. Let her be her own person - if the audience wants to label, fine, but we wanted to make it not that specific, because it is a specific relationship to Sara and Nyssa. And maybe Sara’s had other female relationships in her past, but we’ll get to that in due course, when it’s right, if it’s right.”
Finding Felicity: This episode finally gave us a long-awaited hint about Felicity’s backstory, and thankfully, her cryptic comments to Oliver before Moira’s mayoral debut will be explored in an upcoming episode. “There are two massive things that are gonna happen towards the end of the season that you heard in that speech that we’ll pay off,” Kreisberg teased.
Likewise, Guggenheim said episode 14 will explore “what is Felicity’s reaction to Sara, the new member of Team Arrow, now that Sara’s back in town? What does it mean for Team Arrow; what does it mean for Felicity; what does it mean for Oliver and Felicity? All these interesting things. It’s a very Felicity-centric episode.”
Can you Digg it? Diggle has been relegated to something of a supporting role in recent episodes, but he’ll also find himself front and center in an upcoming installment.
“Episode 16 is called Suicide Squad. And it’s about the Suicide Squad,” Kreisberg laughed, referencing the antihero team of comics villains who perform off-book missions for the government in exchange for commuted sentences. “Digg was our way into Amanda Waller and this episode, Amanda comes to Digg and Lyla and basically recruits Digg for a mission and tells him he’s going to need a team, and she saddles him with the Suicide Squad, including Floyd Lawton [AKA Deadshot, the man who killed Diggle’s brother].”
The episode will also feature flashbacks from Diggle’s POV during his time in Afghanistan, when he was tasked with protecting a drug and child-trafficking warlord. Ben Browder will return as Diggle’s commanding officer, Ted Gaynor, who took a villainous turn in last season’s Trust But Verify.
“Ben is bringing this nice, subtle difference to the flashback, especially in his relationship with Diggle,” Guggenheim teased. “It’s commanding officer and subordinate, but they’re still friends and you see that closeness that was just talked about in episode 11 last year."
Roy’s Rage: We didn’t see Roy in this episode -- although the producers revealed that the newest member of Team Arrow shared an awesome fight scene with Nyssa and her crony in the hospital that had to be cut for time – “but the next five episodes really chart Oliver’s attempts to keep Roy on the straight and narrow…” Kreisberg said, adding:
“There’s a lot of fun stuff. The cave’s getting full and we don’t shy away from that fact … we hopefully use it to our advantage because it used to be a place where Oliver said ‘jump’ and everyone else said ‘how high’? And what you’re gonna start to see is that other people have differing opinions. It’s one of the interesting things about Roy; you’re never quite sure what’s going on in his head – is it himself, is it the mirakuru talking? And then with Sara who in a way is Oliver, she went through everything Oliver did … she’s the female him and sometimes the two of them have conflict because it’s like he’s talking to himself.”
“I think 14, 17 and 18 deal a lot with all the different ramifications of not just Roy but Team Arrow, from different vantage points,” Guggenheim agreed.
Villains united: Episodes 14 through 18 are also the chapter that Kreisberg has affectionately termed “Villains a-go-go,” meaning a run of “great big villains one after the other. You’re gonna see a couple of returning favorites and a couple of brand new ones.” Incidentally, Summer Glau’s Isabel Rochev will also reappear in episode 18.
Mama Drama: While Oliver will undoubtedly be dealing with external threats during the upcoming onslaught of villainy, he certainly has to deal with a foe much closer to home – his mother, Moira.
Now that Oliver has discovered the truth about Thea’s paternity, Kreisberg described Moira’s arc this season as a journey towards redemption:
“She should’ve gone to jail but Malcolm rigged things and she still hasn’t really paid for what she did. In this episode, she’s paying off doctors and she’s threatening Felicity – she still really hasn’t had her ‘come to Jesus’ moment despite what you’d think would be rock bottom, and that’s coming … This is a fracture to her relationship with Oliver that’s not going to be mended in an episode, he’s really mad. This lie, because of how it came out in episodes 7 and 8, is going to have far-reaching implications for the characters of the show.”
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Por Laura Prudom 06 Febrero, 2014 8:22 am.
It may not have seemed possible, but Arrow raised the stakes even higher this week, introducing Nyssa al Ghul - daughter of the iconic and nigh unkillable comics villain Ra’s al Ghul - into the fold.
Not only did we learn that Nyssa and Sara Lance had a romantic relationship during Sara’s time with the League of Assassins, Arrow Season 2 Episode 13 also saw Laurel and Dinah find out that Sara was still alive – and Laurel didn’t take the news so well.
Things weren’t much better for the Queen family after Oliver discovered that Thea is actually Malcolm Merlyn’s daughter and that his mother has been doing everything in her power to hide the truth so as not to jeopardize her chances of running for Mayor of Starling City.
So what’s ahead for Team Arrow when the show returns on February 26?
TV Fanatic was among a group of reporters who sat down with Arrow executive producers Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim, along with Katrina Law (who plays the ass-kicking Nyssa) to find out what else they have in store.
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You haven’t seen the last of Nyssa: Although Nyssa freed Sara from her duties to the League of Assassins, Kreisberg promised that “this was not Katrina’s only appearance of the season,” and it’s probably safe to assume that Nyssa’s father, the head of the League, won’t be too thrilled when he realizes that his daughter has released one of their most accomplished killers.
The producers wouldn’t comment on when the infamous Ra’s might make an appearance, but Kreisberg did point out that the show has a tendency to introduce plot points that they pay off later, and they’re already well into the process of making plans for Season 3…
The Birds of Prey are coming home to roost: Now that Sara is back in Starling City, the show will dig deeper into the relationship between the Lances, especially siblings Sara and Laurel. The March 26 episode, titled Birds of Prey, will feature the return of Helena Bertinelli, AKA the Huntress.
“Helena’s gone, all that’s left is the Huntress," teased Kreisberg. "She’s been consumed by this vengeance she has for her father, and when we see her, she’s in a very haggard and worn-out state. It’s kind of the big, final confrontation between her and her father and Laurel gets caught in the crossfire, and the Canary has to go to the rescue.
"It’s a fun episode in that you get a lot of Laurel with the Canary, not realizing that it’s Sara, so you get a great sister episode in that sense… The Canary is all too eager to kill the Huntress if it means protecting Laurel. It’s really an episode about Sarah realizing where she’s at in her evolution as a hero.”
But for comic fans hoping that the episode title hints at a team-up between the three core members of the Birds of Prey team - Black Canary, Huntress and Oracle - the producers asked for patience.
Said Guggenheim: “We gave ourselves room to grow and evolve that. The whole show is about evolutions – it’s about the evolution of the Arrow to the Green Arrow, we’ve talked about it in terms of Black Canary, we’ve talked about it in terms of Deathstroke … so Birds of Prey is very much the same thing. You’re not gonna end up with the holy trinity of Oracle, Black Canary and Huntress right out of the gate. The hope is that we’re doing a multi-year, multi-season epic – we’ll get there.”
They don’t believe in labels: The choice to have Sara and Nyssa involved romantically was a character-based decision, not an attempt to be salacious, according to the producers.
“It just felt like something new and different … it’s a pretty chaste relationship, from what you see on-screen,” Kreisberg said. “It touched on a couple of interesting things; the idea that Sara found herself in this terrible world and found this one person who treated her with love and kindness, and even the way it bounced back for Lance, for this hardened, tough cop who’s probably not the most progressive guy, even he was like ‘I’m just glad you had somebody who loved you and cared for you during those nightmare years.’”
Guggenheim agreed: “We were very anxious [that] in the same episode we reveal that Sara had had this lesbian relationship, she’s also sleeping with Oliver again, and we really wanted to approach it and not be salacious, and be sensitive and be realistic.
"We actually specifically avoided using the term ‘bisexual,’ we didn’t want to label her at all. Let her be her own person - if the audience wants to label, fine, but we wanted to make it not that specific, because it is a specific relationship to Sara and Nyssa. And maybe Sara’s had other female relationships in her past, but we’ll get to that in due course, when it’s right, if it’s right.”
Finding Felicity: This episode finally gave us a long-awaited hint about Felicity’s backstory, and thankfully, her cryptic comments to Oliver before Moira’s mayoral debut will be explored in an upcoming episode. “There are two massive things that are gonna happen towards the end of the season that you heard in that speech that we’ll pay off,” Kreisberg teased.
Likewise, Guggenheim said episode 14 will explore “what is Felicity’s reaction to Sara, the new member of Team Arrow, now that Sara’s back in town? What does it mean for Team Arrow; what does it mean for Felicity; what does it mean for Oliver and Felicity? All these interesting things. It’s a very Felicity-centric episode.”
Can you Digg it? Diggle has been relegated to something of a supporting role in recent episodes, but he’ll also find himself front and center in an upcoming installment.
“Episode 16 is called Suicide Squad. And it’s about the Suicide Squad,” Kreisberg laughed, referencing the antihero team of comics villains who perform off-book missions for the government in exchange for commuted sentences. “Digg was our way into Amanda Waller and this episode, Amanda comes to Digg and Lyla and basically recruits Digg for a mission and tells him he’s going to need a team, and she saddles him with the Suicide Squad, including Floyd Lawton [AKA Deadshot, the man who killed Diggle’s brother].”
The episode will also feature flashbacks from Diggle’s POV during his time in Afghanistan, when he was tasked with protecting a drug and child-trafficking warlord. Ben Browder will return as Diggle’s commanding officer, Ted Gaynor, who took a villainous turn in last season’s Trust But Verify.
“Ben is bringing this nice, subtle difference to the flashback, especially in his relationship with Diggle,” Guggenheim teased. “It’s commanding officer and subordinate, but they’re still friends and you see that closeness that was just talked about in episode 11 last year."
Roy’s Rage: We didn’t see Roy in this episode -- although the producers revealed that the newest member of Team Arrow shared an awesome fight scene with Nyssa and her crony in the hospital that had to be cut for time – “but the next five episodes really chart Oliver’s attempts to keep Roy on the straight and narrow…” Kreisberg said, adding:
“There’s a lot of fun stuff. The cave’s getting full and we don’t shy away from that fact … we hopefully use it to our advantage because it used to be a place where Oliver said ‘jump’ and everyone else said ‘how high’? And what you’re gonna start to see is that other people have differing opinions. It’s one of the interesting things about Roy; you’re never quite sure what’s going on in his head – is it himself, is it the mirakuru talking? And then with Sara who in a way is Oliver, she went through everything Oliver did … she’s the female him and sometimes the two of them have conflict because it’s like he’s talking to himself.”
“I think 14, 17 and 18 deal a lot with all the different ramifications of not just Roy but Team Arrow, from different vantage points,” Guggenheim agreed.
Villains united: Episodes 14 through 18 are also the chapter that Kreisberg has affectionately termed “Villains a-go-go,” meaning a run of “great big villains one after the other. You’re gonna see a couple of returning favorites and a couple of brand new ones.” Incidentally, Summer Glau’s Isabel Rochev will also reappear in episode 18.
Mama Drama: While Oliver will undoubtedly be dealing with external threats during the upcoming onslaught of villainy, he certainly has to deal with a foe much closer to home – his mother, Moira.
Now that Oliver has discovered the truth about Thea’s paternity, Kreisberg described Moira’s arc this season as a journey towards redemption:
“She should’ve gone to jail but Malcolm rigged things and she still hasn’t really paid for what she did. In this episode, she’s paying off doctors and she’s threatening Felicity – she still really hasn’t had her ‘come to Jesus’ moment despite what you’d think would be rock bottom, and that’s coming … This is a fracture to her relationship with Oliver that’s not going to be mended in an episode, he’s really mad. This lie, because of how it came out in episodes 7 and 8, is going to have far-reaching implications for the characters of the show.”
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- El equipo de "Arrow" habla sobre Sara y Nyssa, Sara y Oliver, "Birds of Prey" y más (CBR):
El equipo de "Arrow" habla sobre Sara y Nyssa, Sara y Oliver, "Birds of Prey" y más
Por Albert Ching 06 Feb, 2014
When a show won't have a new episode for a few weeks, that last fresh installment tends to be fairly loaded -- which certainly was the case for this week's "Arrow," "Heir to the Demon."
With no new episode on The CW until Feb. 26's "Time of Death," "Heir to the Demon" was headlined by the debut of Ra's al Ghul's daughter, Nyssa al Ghul (Katrina Law). She arrived at Starling City not just to bring Sara Lance (Caity Lotz) back to the League of Assassins, but more importantly back to her, with the revelation that they once were in a romantic relationship. Sara and Oliver (Stephen Amell) are ultimately able to quell the League's threat, with the ordeal also revealing to the entire Lance family that Sara is indeed alive -- which is news that Laurel (Katie Cassidy doesn't take well.
The family drama spills over to the Queens, when Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) finds out that Malcolm Merlyn (John Barrowman) is Thea's (Willa Holland) biological father, and subsequently tells Oliver -- who lets Moira (Susanna Thompson) know that he knows, and the fact that his mother kept that secret from him means that, beyond public appearances, they're no longer on speaking terms.
And it looks like Sara and Oliver are back together.
With clearly a lot to talk about, "Arrow" executive producers Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim discussed the episode -- and future developments, like the debuts of the show's takes on long-running DC Comics teams "Birds of Prey" and "Suicide Squad" -- with reporters during a press event at The CW's Burbank headquarters.
On Nyssa and Sara's prior romantic relationship:
Andrew Kreisberg: It was really more about Sara than anything else. We didn't do it to be salacious; it's a pretty chaste relationship from what you see on screen. For us, it touched on a couple of interesting things -- the idea that Sara found herself in this terrible world, and found this one person who treated her with love and kindness. Even the way it bounced back for [Det.] Lance -- this hardened, tough cop, who's probably not the most progressive guy, even he was like, "I'm just glad you had somebody who loved you and took care of you during those nightmare years." Those little moments felt like they would be special, and play for us.
Marc Guggenheim: We actually specifically avoid using the term "bisexual." We didn't want to label [Sara] at all. Let her be her own person, and if the audience wants to label, fine, but we wanted to not make it that specific -- because it is a very specific relationship to Sara and Nyssa. Maybe Sara's had other female relationships in her past, but we'll get to that in due course, when it's right, if it's right. But we wanted to not just do something to shock.
On Sara's ability to stick around Starling City, now that the the threat of the League of Assassins has seemingly passed -- for now:
Kreisberg: This was not Katrina's only appearance of the season. Part of the reason we did this episode was to free Sara, at least for the time being, from the threat of the League of Assassins, and allow her to fully be the Black Canary, and come home, and all the delicious implications that brought. Part of the reason we did this story from the beginning was having this dead woman come back, and the effect it was going to have on everyone's lives. I think you got a glimpse of how some people are happy, and some people are very upset. In the next bunch of episodes, you're really going to see how Sara's return affects everybody. I think people will be surprised by the reaction.
On what's next for Moira after Oliver declares their relationship to be over, except for public purposes:
Kreisberg: If you've watched the series up until this point, you know that everything Moira has ever done, she has done to protect her family. It has sometimes been horrifying, and terrible, and borderline evil, but it's always been to protect her son and her daughter. For her arc this season, it's really about redemption. She went to jail, and kind of got away with it. She still hasn't really paid for what she did. I think if you see in this episode, she's paying off doctors, and she's threatening Felicity. She still really hasn't had her come-to-Jesus moment despite what you'd think would be rock bottom. And that's coming. This is a fractured relationship with Oliver that is not going to be mended in an episode. He's really mad, and this lie, as you could probably imagine from how it came out in episodes 7 and 8, it's going to have far-reaching implications for the characters of the show.
On how significant the disintegration of his relationship with his mother is to Oliver:
Kreisberg: It's huge. Oliver's one big, giant flaw is that he sees the best in people. Greg Berlanti's always said that Oliver has the exterior of a pessimist, but at heart he's an optimist. At heart, he really does see the good in people, and wants to see the good in people. I think that's why he's tried so hard with Helena, and why he's tried so hard with Sara, and why he's tried to reason with Slade. I think with his mother, despite all the terrible things that she's done, he can still logic his way through it. He can't see the evil in Sebastian, because he sees the good in him. But this time, he can't hide anymore. He can't pretend. He just can't pretend anymore that she's not a monster, and not a villain.
Will Thea find out the long-kept secret that Malcolm Merlyn is her real father?
Kreisberg: The cold war between Oliver and Moira is not going to go unnoticed by anyone.
Guggenheim: There's a great scene between Oliver and Thea about this territory in episode 17. There's so much in the Queen family that is impacted by the amount of lies. And not just Moira's lies. There's just lies all over the place in this whole family. Almost every episode post-this one really deals with the ramifications of all those lies. Can you have a family based on lies?
Kreisberg: And the irony of that scene is Oliver is saying, "All you are is your lies." All Oliver does is lie. I think that's part of one of the things he's going to realize -- as much as he despises his mother, he's actually a lot more like her than he wants to admit.
On whether or not, as Moira warned would happen, Oliver will resent Felicity for telling him the secret of Thea's parentage:
Kreisberg: It's actually going to be strengthened. She's the rock.
Guggenheim: I don't even think Moira necessarily believed what she was saying to Felicity. Moira was trying to manipulate Felicity into staying silent. It would never even occur to Oliver to be angry at Felicity. All Felicity is is the messenger here. I think his anger was properly directed at Moira.
On the long-awaited revelation of details from Felicity's backstory:
Kreisberg: There are two massive things that are going to happen towards the end of the season that you heard in that speech that will pay off.
On the "Heir to the Demon" scene that got cut:
Kreisberg: There was an amazing sequence in here that unfortunately we just had to cut for time, because this episode was so jam-packed. We actually had Oliver tell Roy (Colton Haynes), "I want you to go down to the hospital and keep an eye on Laurel." When Nyssa and her goon kidnapped Mrs. Lance, Roy confronts them, and Nyssa shoots him with a dart with snake venom, and she says, "A normal person would be dead by now, you're stronger than you look," and he says, "I get that a lot." Then they have a fight, but the venom starts to affect him and she takes him out. It was a great sequence, and they're great in it, but it wasn't propelling the story forward -- it was just a really neat moment. But the next five episodes really chart Oliver's attempts to keep Roy on the straight and narrow.
On the status of Sara and Oliver's relationship by the episode -- are they together, or, as a reporter at the press event put it, "vigilantes with benefits"?
Kreisberg: That's actually part of the journey of these next five episodes. Oliver has not had many successful relationships. He and Sara moving forward -- is this something that can work? "My last relationship was with an international assassin," and Oliver's last relationships were with the Huntress, and McKenna, who got shot.
Guggenheim: By the Huntress.
Kreisberg: And Laurel. That didn't work out so well.
On the "Arrow" team's growing comfort with episodes that put the focus on characters other than Oliver:
Kreisberg: I think that's been the benefit of getting to a season two -- you can start to move away a little bit. We announced that we're doing a "Birds of Prey" episode with the return of Helena Bertinelli (Jessica De Gouw). When we sit down, our first thing is always, "What's the Oliver of this episode? What is Oliver going through?" When we sat down and were talking about it, we realized very quickly, we realized, "You know what, this is a Laurel/Sara episode, and that's OK." We had that with [Diggle] (David Ramsey) in episode six -- it was really a Dig episode, it wasn't an Oliver episode. Success has allowed us to start looking at the other characters, and making their emotional journey the centerpoint of the episode.
More on that upcoming "Birds of Prey" episode:
Kreisberg: It's more the "Arrow" version of "Birds of Prey" than it is a direct adaptation.
Guggenheim: We gave ourselves room to grow and evolve that. The whole show is about evolutions -- it's about the evolution of the Arrow to the Green Arrow; we've talked about in terms of Black Canary and Deathstroke. The whole show is in terms of evolution. Birds of Prey is very much the same thing. You're not going to end up with the holy trinity of Oracle, Black Canary and Huntress right out of the gate. But the hope is, again, we're doing a multiyear, multiseason epic. We'll get there.
Kreisberg: Helena's gone. All that's left is the Huntress -- she's become consumed by this vengeance that she has for her father. It's the big final confrontation between she and her father, and Laurel gets caught in the crossfire. The Canary has to go into the rescue. It's a fun episode in that you get a lot of Laurel with the Canary, not realizing that it's Sara. The Canary is all too eager to kill the Huntress if it means protecting Laurel. It's really an episode about Sara realizing where she's at in her evolution as a hero.
On the next stretch of episodes, which Kreisberg jokingly referred to as "villains-a-go-go":
Kreisberg: Episodes 14-18 are just villain, villain, villain. Great big villains, one after the other. You're going to see a couple of returning favorites, and a couple of amazing, brand-new ones.
Including, as teased earlier in the season, the "Arrow" debut of the Suicide Squad:
Kreisberg: A: Episode 16 is called "Suicide Squad." And it's about the Suicide Squad. [Laughs] Dig was our way into Amanda Waller, and in this episode, Amanda comes to Dig and Lyla, and she basically recruits Dig for a mission, and basically tells him he's going to need a team -- and she saddles him with the Suicide Squad. Including Floyd Lawton [DC Comics' Deadshot, played on "Arrow" by Michael Rowe].
And, oh yeah, does the appearance of Nyssa increase the odds of seeing Ra's al Ghul?
Guggenheim: We really can't comment on when or if you'll see Ra's -- and how he'll pronounce his name.
Kreisberg: We've thought of the show as this multiyear, epic arc. Things get introduced, and get paid off later. This is one of those epic things that is being introduced now.
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Por Albert Ching 06 Feb, 2014
When a show won't have a new episode for a few weeks, that last fresh installment tends to be fairly loaded -- which certainly was the case for this week's "Arrow," "Heir to the Demon."
With no new episode on The CW until Feb. 26's "Time of Death," "Heir to the Demon" was headlined by the debut of Ra's al Ghul's daughter, Nyssa al Ghul (Katrina Law). She arrived at Starling City not just to bring Sara Lance (Caity Lotz) back to the League of Assassins, but more importantly back to her, with the revelation that they once were in a romantic relationship. Sara and Oliver (Stephen Amell) are ultimately able to quell the League's threat, with the ordeal also revealing to the entire Lance family that Sara is indeed alive -- which is news that Laurel (Katie Cassidy doesn't take well.
The family drama spills over to the Queens, when Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) finds out that Malcolm Merlyn (John Barrowman) is Thea's (Willa Holland) biological father, and subsequently tells Oliver -- who lets Moira (Susanna Thompson) know that he knows, and the fact that his mother kept that secret from him means that, beyond public appearances, they're no longer on speaking terms.
And it looks like Sara and Oliver are back together.
With clearly a lot to talk about, "Arrow" executive producers Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim discussed the episode -- and future developments, like the debuts of the show's takes on long-running DC Comics teams "Birds of Prey" and "Suicide Squad" -- with reporters during a press event at The CW's Burbank headquarters.
On Nyssa and Sara's prior romantic relationship:
Andrew Kreisberg: It was really more about Sara than anything else. We didn't do it to be salacious; it's a pretty chaste relationship from what you see on screen. For us, it touched on a couple of interesting things -- the idea that Sara found herself in this terrible world, and found this one person who treated her with love and kindness. Even the way it bounced back for [Det.] Lance -- this hardened, tough cop, who's probably not the most progressive guy, even he was like, "I'm just glad you had somebody who loved you and took care of you during those nightmare years." Those little moments felt like they would be special, and play for us.
Marc Guggenheim: We actually specifically avoid using the term "bisexual." We didn't want to label [Sara] at all. Let her be her own person, and if the audience wants to label, fine, but we wanted to not make it that specific -- because it is a very specific relationship to Sara and Nyssa. Maybe Sara's had other female relationships in her past, but we'll get to that in due course, when it's right, if it's right. But we wanted to not just do something to shock.
On Sara's ability to stick around Starling City, now that the the threat of the League of Assassins has seemingly passed -- for now:
Kreisberg: This was not Katrina's only appearance of the season. Part of the reason we did this episode was to free Sara, at least for the time being, from the threat of the League of Assassins, and allow her to fully be the Black Canary, and come home, and all the delicious implications that brought. Part of the reason we did this story from the beginning was having this dead woman come back, and the effect it was going to have on everyone's lives. I think you got a glimpse of how some people are happy, and some people are very upset. In the next bunch of episodes, you're really going to see how Sara's return affects everybody. I think people will be surprised by the reaction.
On what's next for Moira after Oliver declares their relationship to be over, except for public purposes:
Kreisberg: If you've watched the series up until this point, you know that everything Moira has ever done, she has done to protect her family. It has sometimes been horrifying, and terrible, and borderline evil, but it's always been to protect her son and her daughter. For her arc this season, it's really about redemption. She went to jail, and kind of got away with it. She still hasn't really paid for what she did. I think if you see in this episode, she's paying off doctors, and she's threatening Felicity. She still really hasn't had her come-to-Jesus moment despite what you'd think would be rock bottom. And that's coming. This is a fractured relationship with Oliver that is not going to be mended in an episode. He's really mad, and this lie, as you could probably imagine from how it came out in episodes 7 and 8, it's going to have far-reaching implications for the characters of the show.
On how significant the disintegration of his relationship with his mother is to Oliver:
Kreisberg: It's huge. Oliver's one big, giant flaw is that he sees the best in people. Greg Berlanti's always said that Oliver has the exterior of a pessimist, but at heart he's an optimist. At heart, he really does see the good in people, and wants to see the good in people. I think that's why he's tried so hard with Helena, and why he's tried so hard with Sara, and why he's tried to reason with Slade. I think with his mother, despite all the terrible things that she's done, he can still logic his way through it. He can't see the evil in Sebastian, because he sees the good in him. But this time, he can't hide anymore. He can't pretend. He just can't pretend anymore that she's not a monster, and not a villain.
Will Thea find out the long-kept secret that Malcolm Merlyn is her real father?
Kreisberg: The cold war between Oliver and Moira is not going to go unnoticed by anyone.
Guggenheim: There's a great scene between Oliver and Thea about this territory in episode 17. There's so much in the Queen family that is impacted by the amount of lies. And not just Moira's lies. There's just lies all over the place in this whole family. Almost every episode post-this one really deals with the ramifications of all those lies. Can you have a family based on lies?
Kreisberg: And the irony of that scene is Oliver is saying, "All you are is your lies." All Oliver does is lie. I think that's part of one of the things he's going to realize -- as much as he despises his mother, he's actually a lot more like her than he wants to admit.
On whether or not, as Moira warned would happen, Oliver will resent Felicity for telling him the secret of Thea's parentage:
Kreisberg: It's actually going to be strengthened. She's the rock.
Guggenheim: I don't even think Moira necessarily believed what she was saying to Felicity. Moira was trying to manipulate Felicity into staying silent. It would never even occur to Oliver to be angry at Felicity. All Felicity is is the messenger here. I think his anger was properly directed at Moira.
On the long-awaited revelation of details from Felicity's backstory:
Kreisberg: There are two massive things that are going to happen towards the end of the season that you heard in that speech that will pay off.
On the "Heir to the Demon" scene that got cut:
Kreisberg: There was an amazing sequence in here that unfortunately we just had to cut for time, because this episode was so jam-packed. We actually had Oliver tell Roy (Colton Haynes), "I want you to go down to the hospital and keep an eye on Laurel." When Nyssa and her goon kidnapped Mrs. Lance, Roy confronts them, and Nyssa shoots him with a dart with snake venom, and she says, "A normal person would be dead by now, you're stronger than you look," and he says, "I get that a lot." Then they have a fight, but the venom starts to affect him and she takes him out. It was a great sequence, and they're great in it, but it wasn't propelling the story forward -- it was just a really neat moment. But the next five episodes really chart Oliver's attempts to keep Roy on the straight and narrow.
On the status of Sara and Oliver's relationship by the episode -- are they together, or, as a reporter at the press event put it, "vigilantes with benefits"?
Kreisberg: That's actually part of the journey of these next five episodes. Oliver has not had many successful relationships. He and Sara moving forward -- is this something that can work? "My last relationship was with an international assassin," and Oliver's last relationships were with the Huntress, and McKenna, who got shot.
Guggenheim: By the Huntress.
Kreisberg: And Laurel. That didn't work out so well.
On the "Arrow" team's growing comfort with episodes that put the focus on characters other than Oliver:
Kreisberg: I think that's been the benefit of getting to a season two -- you can start to move away a little bit. We announced that we're doing a "Birds of Prey" episode with the return of Helena Bertinelli (Jessica De Gouw). When we sit down, our first thing is always, "What's the Oliver of this episode? What is Oliver going through?" When we sat down and were talking about it, we realized very quickly, we realized, "You know what, this is a Laurel/Sara episode, and that's OK." We had that with [Diggle] (David Ramsey) in episode six -- it was really a Dig episode, it wasn't an Oliver episode. Success has allowed us to start looking at the other characters, and making their emotional journey the centerpoint of the episode.
More on that upcoming "Birds of Prey" episode:
Kreisberg: It's more the "Arrow" version of "Birds of Prey" than it is a direct adaptation.
Guggenheim: We gave ourselves room to grow and evolve that. The whole show is about evolutions -- it's about the evolution of the Arrow to the Green Arrow; we've talked about in terms of Black Canary and Deathstroke. The whole show is in terms of evolution. Birds of Prey is very much the same thing. You're not going to end up with the holy trinity of Oracle, Black Canary and Huntress right out of the gate. But the hope is, again, we're doing a multiyear, multiseason epic. We'll get there.
Kreisberg: Helena's gone. All that's left is the Huntress -- she's become consumed by this vengeance that she has for her father. It's the big final confrontation between she and her father, and Laurel gets caught in the crossfire. The Canary has to go into the rescue. It's a fun episode in that you get a lot of Laurel with the Canary, not realizing that it's Sara. The Canary is all too eager to kill the Huntress if it means protecting Laurel. It's really an episode about Sara realizing where she's at in her evolution as a hero.
On the next stretch of episodes, which Kreisberg jokingly referred to as "villains-a-go-go":
Kreisberg: Episodes 14-18 are just villain, villain, villain. Great big villains, one after the other. You're going to see a couple of returning favorites, and a couple of amazing, brand-new ones.
Including, as teased earlier in the season, the "Arrow" debut of the Suicide Squad:
Kreisberg: A: Episode 16 is called "Suicide Squad." And it's about the Suicide Squad. [Laughs] Dig was our way into Amanda Waller, and in this episode, Amanda comes to Dig and Lyla, and she basically recruits Dig for a mission, and basically tells him he's going to need a team -- and she saddles him with the Suicide Squad. Including Floyd Lawton [DC Comics' Deadshot, played on "Arrow" by Michael Rowe].
And, oh yeah, does the appearance of Nyssa increase the odds of seeing Ra's al Ghul?
Guggenheim: We really can't comment on when or if you'll see Ra's -- and how he'll pronounce his name.
Kreisberg: We've thought of the show as this multiyear, epic arc. Things get introduced, and get paid off later. This is one of those epic things that is being introduced now.
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- Arrow 2.14 "Time of Death" Promo (HD):
- Arrow 2.14 "Time of Death" Extended Promo (HD):
- Nyssa Costume designs (diseños del vestuario de Nyssa):
- Título y créditos del episodio 2.16:
Añadidos los enlaces y rátings del 2.13 "Heir to the Demon". Podéis encontrarlos AQUÍ
- Arrow 2.14 "Time of Death" Extended Promo (HD):
- Nyssa Costume designs (diseños del vestuario de Nyssa):
- Título y créditos del episodio 2.16:
Una vez más, el productor Marc Guggenheim nos ofrece el título y créditos del episodio 2.16:
El episodio 2.16 llevará por título "Suicide Squad". Está escrito por Keto Shimizu & Brian Q. Miller y dirigido por Lerry Teng.
Añadidos los enlaces y rátings del 2.13 "Heir to the Demon". Podéis encontrarlos AQUÍ
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Re: "ARROW" Nueva serie de la CW para TV basada en Green Arr
- Arrow 2.14 "Time of Death", "New Target" Promo (HD):
- Nuevas imágenes BTS del rodaje de Arrow en Vancouver (04-02-14):
(Thanks to @VancityFilming)
- Nuevas imágenes BTS del rodaje de Arrow en Vancouver (04-02-14):
(Thanks to @VancityFilming)
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Re: "ARROW" Nueva serie de la CW para TV basada en Green Arr
- Descripción oficial del 2.14 “Time of Death”:
2.14 “Time of Death”: ROBERT KNEPPER Y ALEX KINGSTON ESTRELLAS INVITADAS — Oliver (Stephen Amell) trae a Sara (Caity Lotz) al equipo de Arrow. Viendo a Oliver y Diggle (David Ramsey) entrenar con Sara y hablar de viejas cicatrices, Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) empieza a sentirse fuera de lugar. El equipo está investigando a un villano llamado William Tockman, a.k.a. The Clock King (la estrella invitada Robert Knepper), quien es un brillante ladrón armado con tecnología que puede abrir cualquier cajafuerte en Starling City. Después de que The Clock King se infiltre en los sistemas de ordenadores de la guarida, Felicity siente la presión de probar su valía. Cuando consigue una pista del paradero de Tockman, se dirige allí sin el equipo, poniéndose a sí misma en peligro. Mientras tanto, Oliver le hace a Sara una fiesta de bienvenida, pero Laurel (Katie Cassidy) se niega a asistir. Después de que Lance (Paul Blackthrone) plantee el hacer una cena familiar, Laurel accede, pero cuando Oliver aparece con Sara, ella pierde la calma con los dos. Nick Copus dirige el episodio escrito por Wendy Mericle & Beth Schwartz (#214).
http://www.greenarrowtv.com/arrow-spoil ... eath/16375
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Re: "ARROW" Nueva serie de la CW para TV basada en Green Arr
- Stephen Amell abre su propio canal de Youtube:
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Re: "ARROW" Nueva serie de la CW para TV basada en Green Arr
- Imágenes BTS del rodaje de Arrow en Belkin House como los juzgados de Starling City para el episodio 2x17 (07-02-14):
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- Nueva imagen BTS del rodaje (11-02-14):
(thanks to @colronhaynes)
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- Nueva imagen BTS del rodaje (11-02-14):
(thanks to @colronhaynes)
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Re: "ARROW" Nueva serie de la CW para TV basada en Green Arr
- Stephen Amell nos revela más detalles sobre la segunda mitad de la temporada y dice que el final será 'grande en tamaño y alcance':
Durante la "Dallas Comic Con - Sci-Fi Expo 2014", Stephen Amell nos ha revelado más detalles de lo que aún nos queda por descubrir en lo que queda de temporada:
- Los 5 años en la isla de Oliver serán explorados a lo largo de 5 temporadas:
“Oliver tiene una historia de fondo... y tenemos planeado el contar esa historia a lo largo de 5 temporadas. Ése es el plan pero todo en lo que habéis pensado alguna vez está rodándose en el episodio 18 ahora mismo. Éses es nuestro episodio 41... y todo en lo que hemos pensado es en que necesitamos hacer nuestro episodio 41 mejor que nuestro episodio 40.”
- El final de temporada será GRANDE en tamaño y alcance:
Amell revela que no estará terminado de rodar hasta el 17 de Abril.“Algunas personas no han oído hablar sobre el tamaño y alcance de nuestro episodio final. Estamos actualmente ahorrando dinero en los episodios que estamos rodando ahora mismo para que podamos invertirlo en el episodio final. Y no tengo ni idea de cómo van a darle la vuelta a tiempo.”
- Diggle va a conseguir su momento de gloria:
El episodio del “Suicide Squad” será todo sobre Diggle, tabto que Amell estará rodando sólo 4 de los 9 días (normalmente rueda más de 7 días) para ese episodio.
- Stephen Amell quiere que Ra’s al Ghul esté en la serie:
“Quiero a Ra’s al Ghul en la serie. Dejadme clarificar algo sobre la pronunciación de Ra’s al Ghul. Porque Nyssa en el episodio más reciente dice Raysh, pero está siendo establecido anteriormente por la gente de Starling city que se dice Razz. Así es que necesitaba hacer lo mismo a pesar de algunas leves protestas por mi parte. Sería fantástico el ver a ese personaje en la serie. Ciertamente lo nombramos... mucho."
(Stephen anteriormente dijo que quería desesperadamente a Bruce Wayne en la serie, así es que el repentino cambio de opinión podría ser una pista).
- El episodio 15 se llama "The Promise" y va todo sobre la Laurel de Katie Cassidy y Ollie:
"Antes de venir aquí vi los episodios 14 y 15. Hay una escena entre Katie Cassidy y yo en el episodio 14 de la que estoy increíblemente orgulloso en conjunto... el episodio 15 se llama "The Promise"... y en conjunto me quedé alucinado por ese episodio. De hecho compré conexión wi-fi en el avión ayer para que pudiera mandarles un email a los productores y al director tan sólo para decirles que me siento muy orgulloso por ser parte de esto. Nuestro episodio 15 es de lejos nuestro mejor episodio de la serie."
6. El papel de Roy en el equipo y su relación con Ollie:
“Hay una incómoda alianza, porque Oliver trajo a Roy al Team Arrow por necesidad, no por deseo. Él necesitaba eso en ese momento en particular. Está preocupado. Porque, como estamos a punto de explorar sobre lo que pasó en la isla, las cosas fueron realmente mal con Slade, real realmente mal. Está decidido a no dejar que eso pase con Roy... pero Roy tiene que demostrar muchas cosas antes de que Oliver confíe plenamente en él.”
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/ ... X0Ozf2A.01
“Oliver tiene una historia de fondo... y tenemos planeado el contar esa historia a lo largo de 5 temporadas. Ése es el plan pero todo en lo que habéis pensado alguna vez está rodándose en el episodio 18 ahora mismo. Éses es nuestro episodio 41... y todo en lo que hemos pensado es en que necesitamos hacer nuestro episodio 41 mejor que nuestro episodio 40.”
- El final de temporada será GRANDE en tamaño y alcance:
Amell revela que no estará terminado de rodar hasta el 17 de Abril.“Algunas personas no han oído hablar sobre el tamaño y alcance de nuestro episodio final. Estamos actualmente ahorrando dinero en los episodios que estamos rodando ahora mismo para que podamos invertirlo en el episodio final. Y no tengo ni idea de cómo van a darle la vuelta a tiempo.”
- Diggle va a conseguir su momento de gloria:
El episodio del “Suicide Squad” será todo sobre Diggle, tabto que Amell estará rodando sólo 4 de los 9 días (normalmente rueda más de 7 días) para ese episodio.
- Stephen Amell quiere que Ra’s al Ghul esté en la serie:
“Quiero a Ra’s al Ghul en la serie. Dejadme clarificar algo sobre la pronunciación de Ra’s al Ghul. Porque Nyssa en el episodio más reciente dice Raysh, pero está siendo establecido anteriormente por la gente de Starling city que se dice Razz. Así es que necesitaba hacer lo mismo a pesar de algunas leves protestas por mi parte. Sería fantástico el ver a ese personaje en la serie. Ciertamente lo nombramos... mucho."
(Stephen anteriormente dijo que quería desesperadamente a Bruce Wayne en la serie, así es que el repentino cambio de opinión podría ser una pista).
- El episodio 15 se llama "The Promise" y va todo sobre la Laurel de Katie Cassidy y Ollie:
"Antes de venir aquí vi los episodios 14 y 15. Hay una escena entre Katie Cassidy y yo en el episodio 14 de la que estoy increíblemente orgulloso en conjunto... el episodio 15 se llama "The Promise"... y en conjunto me quedé alucinado por ese episodio. De hecho compré conexión wi-fi en el avión ayer para que pudiera mandarles un email a los productores y al director tan sólo para decirles que me siento muy orgulloso por ser parte de esto. Nuestro episodio 15 es de lejos nuestro mejor episodio de la serie."
6. El papel de Roy en el equipo y su relación con Ollie:
“Hay una incómoda alianza, porque Oliver trajo a Roy al Team Arrow por necesidad, no por deseo. Él necesitaba eso en ese momento en particular. Está preocupado. Porque, como estamos a punto de explorar sobre lo que pasó en la isla, las cosas fueron realmente mal con Slade, real realmente mal. Está decidido a no dejar que eso pase con Roy... pero Roy tiene que demostrar muchas cosas antes de que Oliver confíe plenamente en él.”
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/ ... X0Ozf2A.01
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Re: "ARROW" Nueva serie de la CW para TV basada en Green Arr
- Títulos y créditos del episodio 2.18:
Como de costumbre, el productor Marc Guggenheim nos ofrece el título y créditos del episodio 2.18:
El episodio 2.16 llevará por título "Deathstroke". Está escrito por Marc Guggenheim & Drew Z. GreenBerg y dirigido por Guy Bee.
El episodio 2.16 llevará por título "Deathstroke". Está escrito por Marc Guggenheim & Drew Z. GreenBerg y dirigido por Guy Bee.
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Re: "ARROW" Nueva serie de la CW para TV basada en Green Arr
- Marc Guggenheim y Andrew Kreisberg adelantan las Birds of Prey, Suicide Squad y qué es lo que viene para el Team Arrow (zap-2-it):
- Colton Haynes Reveals Secrets from the Set (people.com):
http://www.people.com/people/videos/0,,20786018,00.html
- Colton Haynes, Facebook Q/A:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=26 ... eam_ref=10
Marc Guggenheim y Andrew Kreisberg adelantan las Birds of Prey, Suicide Squad y qué es lo que viene para el Team Arrow
Por Sydney Bucksbaum 12 de Febrero, 2014 8:30 AM ET
While there is still another two weeks to go before we get a new episode of "Arrow," that doesn't mean we can't make the wait less painful with juicy scoop straight from the "Arrow" bosses themselves.
Now that Oliver (Stephen Amell) and Sara (Caity Lotz) are hooking up again, Oliver severed ties with his mother Moira (Susanna Thompson) over the truth about Thea's (Willa Holland) real father, and Slade (Manu Bennett) ominously vowed to "take care" of Moira, our favorite residents of Starling City have enough on their plates already without adding more vigilantes to the mix. Too bad, because Oliver's about to have his hands full of vigilantes.
"We've announced that we're doing a 'Birds of Prey' episode with the return of Helena Bertinelli [Jessica De Gouw]," executive producer Andrew Kreisberg tells a small group of reporters after a screening of "Arrow's" most recent episode. "It's more the 'Arrow' version of Birds of Prey than it is a direct adaptation."
Kreisberg's fellow executive producer Marc Guggenheim agrees. "We gave ourselves room to grow and evolve that. The whole show is about evolutions," Guggenheim says. "It's about the evolution of the Arrow to the Green Arrow, we talked about it in terms of Black Canary, Death Stroke, and Birds of Prey is very much the same thing. You're not going to end up with the holy trinity of Oracle, Black Canary and Huntress right out of the gate. But the hope is we're doing a multi-year, multi-season epic, and we'll get there."
So what can fans expect to see from the Birds of Prey episode, airing March 26?
"Helena comes back to town and Helena is gone. All that's left is the Huntress," Kreisberg reveals. "She's become consumed by this vengeance she has for her father and when we see her she's in a very haggard and worn out state. It's this big final confrontation with her father and Laurel gets caught in the crossfire, and the Canary has to go in to the rescue. It's this fun episode because you get a lot of Laurel with the Canary, not realizing that it's Sara. You get a great sister episode in that sense. The Canary is all too eager to kill the Huntress to protect Laurel."
While we didn't see Roy (Colton Haynes) in the most recent episode, Kreisberg teases that his journey to control his mirakuru-enhanced anger is not over yet. "He's still struggling," Kreisberg says. "The next five episodes, in addition to everything else that's going on, it charts Oliver's attempts to keep Roy on the straight and narrow."
And now that Roy is on "Team Arrow," Kreisberg promises we'll see more of Roy's dynamic with Diggle (David Ramsey) and Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards). "The cave's getting full," Kreisberg says. "It used to be a place where Oliver said, 'Jump,' and everyone else said, 'How high?' And what you're going to start to see is that other people have differing opinions."
Guggenheim teases that the addition of Roy isn't the only thing shaking up "Team Arrow," since Sara is now back in Starling City for good having been released from the League of Assassins. "[Episodes] 14, 17 and 18 deal a lot with different ramifications of not just Roy but Team Arrow," Guggenheim says. "14 really deals with what is Felicity's reaction to Sara, the new member of Team Arrow now that Sara's back in town. What does that mean for Team Arrow and what does that mean for Felicity? What does it mean for Oliver and Felicity? It's a very Felicity-centric episode."
In addition to the return of Helena and Sara, Guggenheim warns that Oliver's co-CEO and past-fling Isobel Rochev (Summer Glau) will be back also. "Isobel will return in episode 18 and we'll find out what she's been up to," Guggenheim teases.
One of the coolest things that "Arrow" does as a series is drop easter egg hints to huge DC comics lore, like when Amanda Waller approached the Bronze Tiger in prison to tell him she's forming a "squad," and Kreisberg reveals that wasn't just a throwaway line.
"Episode 16 is called 'Suicide Squad.' And it's about the Suicide Squad," Kreisberg says. "Dig was our way into Amanda Waller and in this episode Amanda comes to Dig and Lyla and she basically recruits Dig for a mission and tells him he's going to need a team. She saddles him with the Suicide Squad including Floyd Lawton."
The episode is going to be Diggle-centric, right down to the flashbacks. "In episode 16, the flashbacks will be told from Diggle's perspective in Afghanistan," says Guggenheim, adding that we will see him save the life of a warlord named Golam Kadir, the story he referenced last season. "I was completely bowled over by how excited people were [by the Suicide Squad mention]."
And as for Oliver's home life, things took a turn for the downright icy when Oliver told his mother that besides keeping up appearances for Thea's sake, he no longer had a mother. "The cold war between Oliver and Moira is not going to go unnoticed by anyone," Kreisberg says.
Does that mean Thea will come to know the truth -- i.e. that her father is actually Malcolm Merlyn? "There is a great scene between Oliver and Thea about this in episode 17," says Guggenheim. "There is so much in the Queen family that is affected by the amount of lies. There is just lies all over the place in this whole family. Almost every episode post this one deals with the ramifications of all those lies. How do you have a family, even, when it's based on lies?"
At least Oliver's love life is stress-free, right? Wrong. "That's actually part of the journey of these next five episodes," Kreisberg says of Oliver and Sara's rekindled relationship. "Oliver has not had many successful relationships and part of he and Sara moving forward is, is this something that can work given that my last relationship was with an international assassin and Oliver's last relationships were with the Huntress and McKenna who got shot by the Huntress and Laurel, and that didn't work out so well."
"Arrow" returns with new episodes on Wednesday, February 26 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on The CW.
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Por Sydney Bucksbaum 12 de Febrero, 2014 8:30 AM ET
While there is still another two weeks to go before we get a new episode of "Arrow," that doesn't mean we can't make the wait less painful with juicy scoop straight from the "Arrow" bosses themselves.
Now that Oliver (Stephen Amell) and Sara (Caity Lotz) are hooking up again, Oliver severed ties with his mother Moira (Susanna Thompson) over the truth about Thea's (Willa Holland) real father, and Slade (Manu Bennett) ominously vowed to "take care" of Moira, our favorite residents of Starling City have enough on their plates already without adding more vigilantes to the mix. Too bad, because Oliver's about to have his hands full of vigilantes.
"We've announced that we're doing a 'Birds of Prey' episode with the return of Helena Bertinelli [Jessica De Gouw]," executive producer Andrew Kreisberg tells a small group of reporters after a screening of "Arrow's" most recent episode. "It's more the 'Arrow' version of Birds of Prey than it is a direct adaptation."
Kreisberg's fellow executive producer Marc Guggenheim agrees. "We gave ourselves room to grow and evolve that. The whole show is about evolutions," Guggenheim says. "It's about the evolution of the Arrow to the Green Arrow, we talked about it in terms of Black Canary, Death Stroke, and Birds of Prey is very much the same thing. You're not going to end up with the holy trinity of Oracle, Black Canary and Huntress right out of the gate. But the hope is we're doing a multi-year, multi-season epic, and we'll get there."
So what can fans expect to see from the Birds of Prey episode, airing March 26?
"Helena comes back to town and Helena is gone. All that's left is the Huntress," Kreisberg reveals. "She's become consumed by this vengeance she has for her father and when we see her she's in a very haggard and worn out state. It's this big final confrontation with her father and Laurel gets caught in the crossfire, and the Canary has to go in to the rescue. It's this fun episode because you get a lot of Laurel with the Canary, not realizing that it's Sara. You get a great sister episode in that sense. The Canary is all too eager to kill the Huntress to protect Laurel."
While we didn't see Roy (Colton Haynes) in the most recent episode, Kreisberg teases that his journey to control his mirakuru-enhanced anger is not over yet. "He's still struggling," Kreisberg says. "The next five episodes, in addition to everything else that's going on, it charts Oliver's attempts to keep Roy on the straight and narrow."
And now that Roy is on "Team Arrow," Kreisberg promises we'll see more of Roy's dynamic with Diggle (David Ramsey) and Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards). "The cave's getting full," Kreisberg says. "It used to be a place where Oliver said, 'Jump,' and everyone else said, 'How high?' And what you're going to start to see is that other people have differing opinions."
Guggenheim teases that the addition of Roy isn't the only thing shaking up "Team Arrow," since Sara is now back in Starling City for good having been released from the League of Assassins. "[Episodes] 14, 17 and 18 deal a lot with different ramifications of not just Roy but Team Arrow," Guggenheim says. "14 really deals with what is Felicity's reaction to Sara, the new member of Team Arrow now that Sara's back in town. What does that mean for Team Arrow and what does that mean for Felicity? What does it mean for Oliver and Felicity? It's a very Felicity-centric episode."
In addition to the return of Helena and Sara, Guggenheim warns that Oliver's co-CEO and past-fling Isobel Rochev (Summer Glau) will be back also. "Isobel will return in episode 18 and we'll find out what she's been up to," Guggenheim teases.
One of the coolest things that "Arrow" does as a series is drop easter egg hints to huge DC comics lore, like when Amanda Waller approached the Bronze Tiger in prison to tell him she's forming a "squad," and Kreisberg reveals that wasn't just a throwaway line.
"Episode 16 is called 'Suicide Squad.' And it's about the Suicide Squad," Kreisberg says. "Dig was our way into Amanda Waller and in this episode Amanda comes to Dig and Lyla and she basically recruits Dig for a mission and tells him he's going to need a team. She saddles him with the Suicide Squad including Floyd Lawton."
The episode is going to be Diggle-centric, right down to the flashbacks. "In episode 16, the flashbacks will be told from Diggle's perspective in Afghanistan," says Guggenheim, adding that we will see him save the life of a warlord named Golam Kadir, the story he referenced last season. "I was completely bowled over by how excited people were [by the Suicide Squad mention]."
And as for Oliver's home life, things took a turn for the downright icy when Oliver told his mother that besides keeping up appearances for Thea's sake, he no longer had a mother. "The cold war between Oliver and Moira is not going to go unnoticed by anyone," Kreisberg says.
Does that mean Thea will come to know the truth -- i.e. that her father is actually Malcolm Merlyn? "There is a great scene between Oliver and Thea about this in episode 17," says Guggenheim. "There is so much in the Queen family that is affected by the amount of lies. There is just lies all over the place in this whole family. Almost every episode post this one deals with the ramifications of all those lies. How do you have a family, even, when it's based on lies?"
At least Oliver's love life is stress-free, right? Wrong. "That's actually part of the journey of these next five episodes," Kreisberg says of Oliver and Sara's rekindled relationship. "Oliver has not had many successful relationships and part of he and Sara moving forward is, is this something that can work given that my last relationship was with an international assassin and Oliver's last relationships were with the Huntress and McKenna who got shot by the Huntress and Laurel, and that didn't work out so well."
"Arrow" returns with new episodes on Wednesday, February 26 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on The CW.
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