"ARROW" Nueva serie de la CW para TV basada en Green Arrow

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- Nuevas imágenes BTS del elenco en el set rodando el episodio final 2.23 "Unthinkable" (08-04-14):




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- Andrew Kreisberg Habla sobre el regreso de Malcolm:

John Barrowman regresa a Arrow este miércoles, 7 de Mayo, cuando Thea se encuentra con Malcolm por primera vez desde que descubrió que es en realidad su padre.

“El infierno se va a desatar en la ciudad y Thea se encontrará a sí misma en un precario aprieto, y será salvada por su padre. Y Malcolm va a ofrecerle lo que ya no tiene más. Esa era parte de nuestra ecuación al matar a Moira [Susanna Thompson]. Si íbamos a mandar a Thea en esa dirección, necesitaba el no tener nada que la hiciera regersar ahí. Ahora ella tiene un hermano [Stephen Amell] que le mintió y ha hecho algo imperdonable y no tiene madre. Por otro lado, tiene a Malcolm Merlyn diciéndole, 'Nunca te mentiré, Thea.'" dice el productor ejecutivo Andrew Kreisberg en una reciente sesión de preguntas con la prensa.

“Los secretos son algo duro, y una de las cosas más interesantes sobre el escribir esta serie es cuándo los secretos son buenos y cuándo son malosSecrets ” dice Kreisberg. “Incluso para Oliver, él no le había dicho a Laurel que él es Arrow — y eso es porque tenía esa idea en su cabeza de que ella no podía saberlo. Y pienso que todos veréis que estaba equivocado en no contárselo porque ella puede manejarlo — pero aún así, no había una razón por la que Thea no pudiera saver nunca que Malcolm fuera su padre. Es algio complicado y nos encanta que tengamos un show de superhéroes en donde los héroes se equivocan mucho y toman malas decisiones, incluso con las mejores intenciones.”

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- Arrow 2.22 "Streets of Fire" Clip:

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- Katie Cassidy Habla sobre el papel de Laurel en el Team Arrow, el legado de Black Canary y el 'Torbellino' del Final (TVLine):

Katie Cassidy Habla sobre el papel de Laurel en el Team Arrow, el legado de Black Canary y el 'Torbellino' del Final
Por Matt Mitovich 06 Mayo, 2014 12:48 PM PDT

The CW’s Arrow let loose with a long-awaited reveal when Laurel not only became privy to Oliver’s secret identity, but then found herself in the Arrowcave, encouraging her emotionally defeated ex to keep fighting the good fight. As the hit comic-book drama serves up Season 2′s penultimate hour (airing Wednesday at 8/7c), TVLine invited Katie Cassidy to assess enlightened Laurel’s new role, ponder one day picking up the Canary baton and tease the bejesus out of the May 14 finale.

TVLINE | Did you know ahead of time that Laurel would be finding out Oliver’s secret, or is that something you read for the first time in the script?
It’s something that I read in the script; I definitely had no idea. And I was absolutely excited when I found out, though it was like, “Great, now that I’ve found out who the Arrow is, something drastic is going to happen to my character! And I have no idea what it’s going to be — something bad, or something good.” But it ended up being something good.

TVLINE | Plus, now you get to “play with the cool, masked crime-fighting kids.” I imagine the past season-and-a-half has been a bit of an exercise in patience in that regard.
I still don’t know what’s going to happen [as far as Laurel's role on Team Arrow], but yes, I definitely have been looking forward to getting more involved in the action. But you never know. We’ll see what happens!

TVLINE | What has learningStreets of Fire the truth done for Laurel’s impression of Oliver? Do you think it was 100-percent surprising for her?
It was definitely a shock for her, but it makes the way she looks at him… She loves him that much more. Like Tommy says [to Oliver] in Season 1, “You’re supposed to be with Laurel because you are who she thinks you are.” She loves him so much for [being Arrow], because he is doing good, and she’s a good-doer.

TVLINE | How would you describe the current state of the Laurel/Sara relationship? Are you glad they steered away from the catty aspect of it?
Yes, I am, because I give 100 percent of myself when I work. [Laughs] I love that this season they wrote some really great scenes and great episodes for me and my character; I was really fortunate enough to have been able to do that. But I’m also glad that I’m not crying on set every single day now! Laurel loves her sister, and I think Sara feels the same way. Laurel’s smitten by her. She thinks she’s pretty incredible.

TVLINE | I understand the two of them have a very important scene coming up….
We’ll see…. There’s a lot of good stuff happening, that’s for sure.

TVLINE | All told, what is Laurel’s role with Team Arrow moving forward, in these last two episodes?
You’ve seen Laurel grow throughout this season; this definitely was her season of evolving. And so you get to see her get stronger. You get to see her and the Arrow interact with one another, even more so now that she knows [who he is]. There’s just a lot of big, changing things that happen for her. You get to see her stand up to disaster, or tragedy, or trauma, instead of hiding. Instead of being the “damsel in distress,” you get to see her fight back a bit and be a survivor and help protect other people. It’s a really nice layer for her.

TVLINE | And in one of the photos that’s out there, we’ll even get to see her hold Arrow’s bow.
Yeah! She has the bow. Whether she knows how to shoot it or not…. You’ll find out. [Laughs]

TVLINE | I was recently remarking to Caity Lotz how well she has been received by the viewers, which as we know is no easy feat with comic book enthusiasts. Birds of PreyDoes that make it all the more intimidating for you to take the baton as Black Canary, at some point down the road?
It’s definitely intimidating, because I want to make the fans happy. And because of the way that I am and the way that I study my craft, I will do a ton of research. I’ll read as many of the comics as I can, bone up on Black Canary…. Everybody has asked me if I have done that already, but I’m not Black Canary at this point, so no, I don’t want to get ahead of myself. I need to be true to the moment and what my character’s state of the mind is. So as soon as, and if, and when that happens, yes, I definitely will try to portray her in the best way possible.

TVLINE | Without revealing what it is, have the producers confided in you the longterm plan for Laurel? And is it something that has you excited?
Yes, yes, yes — they have. And no, I’m not telling!

TVLINE | Lastly, chose any series of adjectives to tease the Season 2 finale.
Action-packed… jaw-dropping… shocking… fantastic… beyond entertaining. I mean, “entertaining” isn’t even the word to describe it. It’s a whirlwind of events that are huge plot points, and pivotal twists in our story. It’s really good.

TVLINE | Will the very final scene serve up one last little stinger before we go into summer?
I think the fans will be very happy!


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- Katie Cassidy sobre una Laurel proactiva, el reavivar el romance con Oliver y la amenzas de muerte (THR.com):

Katie Cassidy sobre una Laurel proactiva, el reavivar el romance con Oliver y la amenzas de muerte
Por Philiana Ng 7:00 AM PDT 07/05/2014

It's been nearly two seasons on Arrow but Oliver's former flame became the latest addition in the elite circle of people privy to his secret Green Arrow life. Armed with this knowledge, Laurel -- clear-headed and no longer pill-popping -- has inched her way in as an honorary Team Arrow member. "Being a part of the action and being a part of the A story has been great," Katie Cassidy tells The Hollywood Reporter. "I can't wait to be a part of it even more."

In Wednesday's penultimate episode, "Streets of Fire," Oliver and his team attempt to put an end to Slade Wilson and his powerful Mirakuru-powered army. "It's like a gigantic movie -- action-packed, jaw-dropping. Things happen that are very unexpected and everybody's in danger. Nobody's safe," Cassidy says of the final episodes. "It was overwhelming to shoot, but it's going to be fantastic. Our audience is going to be very, very excited especially after seeing the finale. I was super excited after reading [it]."

In a chat with THR, Cassidy on Laurel's deepening love for Oliver, the likelihood of officially joining Team Arrow and how Laurel would react to news of Oliver's fatherhood.

How freeing has it been for you to have Laurel be in on the Arrow secret?

It's amazing. I'm so excited, so thrilled. When I read the script where Slade comes and tells Laurel that Oliver is the Arrow, I was definitely excited but at the same time it was like uh oh because when you find out who the Arrow is, sometimes you get killed off.

There's a sense that every time a new person finds out about Oliver's other identity, the likelihood that they'll find themselves in peril increases exponentially. How much more danger is Laurel in now that she's in the know?

There have been people where that has happened to and then there's been people where they find out and they're driven by that. For Laurel, in our last few episodes, she's more involved in the sense that she knows what the Arrow is doing and she kind of wants in on it. She's intrigued. Her reaction, her strength and where she's been this season takes and her journey takes it to a whole other level. She definitely hit rock bottom and she is at a place where she's gotten stronger and has a clear head. She's -- I don't want to say she's at her peak -- but she's on her way up.

Because she's been equipped with this Arrow knowledge, will she be a bigger part of Team Arrow moving forward?

I don't know, you'll have to tune in. (Laughs.) There's definitely a part of her where she's gotten to a place where she can play a role in quote-unquote Team Arrow. But I can't tell you much more than that.

How has Laurel's dynamic with Oliver changed?

It just reiterates for her that he is the person she thought he was. She loves him even more for that and she encourages it. She's very much on board with who he is and what he's doing because he's doing good and he's doing right and that's what she is. Their goals and what they believe in are parallel. She's a support system.

Slade made a point to say that there's one more person who has to die for this to be all over, which Oliver understood to be him. But how likely is it that that person could be someone else?

At this point, anything can happen. When he said someone else must die, I think at the end of the season you'll have an understanding of who that is.

What's Laurel's relationship like with Sara when she comes back into town?

At the end of the day she's her sister. I have two sisters, I know what that's like. As angry as she was at her, if anybody can forgive, it's Laurel. She has a big heart and she's compassionate. I think they're at a good place definitely.

What are the chances of Laurel and Oliver rekindling their romance?

I think she's open to it. At the end of the day, he's the love of her life and anything can happen. You never know.

A few episodes ago, we found out that Oliver had fathered a child pre-Queens Gambit. How do you think Laurel would react if she discovered that piece of news?

I don't know. Honestly she's been through so much that if anyone can forgive, it's her. She's gone through what she's gone through with her sister and Ollie showing back up and them being back together, it's almost a bit expected with Oliver. Of course something like this would happen. I think it would be hard for her but I do think, again, if anyone could forgive, it would be Laurel.

As we look ahead to season three, are there characters you'd like Laurel to interact with more regularly?

I would love to be in the lair more and working with Felicity and Diggle. I don't get to work with Emily [Bett Rickards] and David [Ramsey], and being more a part of the A story and the action. Obviously I love working with Stephen [Amell]. I love John Barrowman so if I got an opportunity to work with him would be great, and Laurel's father, Paul Blackthorne is great.


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- Katie Cassidy sobre el luchar, Laurel y Oliver como 'almas gemelas;' además, un juego de 'Arrow o Canary' (insidetv):

Katie Cassidy sobre el luchar, Laurel y Oliver como 'almas gemelas;' además, un juego de 'Arrow o Canary'
Por Samantha Highfill 07 de Mayo, 2014 at 12:15PM

With Slade’s Mirakuru army invading the entire city, everyone is forced to suit up — even Laurel, who can be seen holding a bow and arrow in tonight’s episode. “She does have it in her hands, but whether she knows how to use it or not, we’ll find out,” Katie Cassidy says with a laugh.

All jokes aside, it’s time for Team Arrow (and all the help they can get) to fight back. “Everyone at this point is in danger. It’s just a matter of coming together as a group, and figuring out what to do, and handling it from there,” says Cassidy. And for Laurel, in particular, that means fighting alongside the guy she once loved — the guy she recently realized was saving her city.

“When I read that Slade tells [Laurel] that Oliver is the Arrow, I definitely felt as though that made her embrace the situation even more and made her fall more in love with him. Because at the end of the day, he is the person that she thought he was,” she says. “For me, reading what they had written and going forward, I think embracing the situation and being supportive of him and what he’s doing and encouraging it was the right way to go. It also makes her not necessarily 100 percent a part of Team Arrow, but another support system, encouraging him and just being on board with everything. That, to me, comes across stronger than someone who was to retaliate.”

With Slade’s Mirakuru army invading the entire city, everyone is forced to suit up — even Laurel, who can be seen holding a bow and arrow in tonight’s episode. “She does have it in her hands, but whether she knows how to use it or not, we’ll find out,” Katie Cassidy says with a laugh.

All jokes aside, it’s time for Team Arrow (and all the help they can get) to fight back. “Everyone at this point is in danger. It’s just a matter of coming together as a group, and figuring out what to do, and handling it from there,” says Cassidy. And for Laurel, in particular, that means fighting alongside the guy she once loved — the guy she recently realized was saving her city.

“When I read that Slade tells [Laurel] that Oliver is the Arrow, I definitely felt as though that made her embrace the situation even more and made her fall more in love with him. Because at the end of the day, he is the person that she thought he was,” she says. “For me, reading what they had written and going forward, I think embracing the situation and being supportive of him and what he’s doing and encouraging it was the right way to go. It also makes her not necessarily 100 percent a part of Team Arrow, but another support system, encouraging him and just being on board with everything. That, to me, comes across stronger than someone who was to retaliate.”

So if Laurel is more in love with Ollie than ever before, will those two find a way back to each other? Cassidy certainly thinks so. “At the end of the day, to me, Laurel and Oliver are soul mates. I’ve always felt that way. I’ve always approached the material that was written as ‘He is the love of my life, but there’s a lot obviously that’s gone on,’” she says. “I think that she’s a very open person. I think she’s a very forgiving person. I think she’s a very strong person, and forgiveness is, to me, the strongest quality to have…I feel like if anyone can, it would be her.”

And forgiveness might come into play in Arrow‘s next two episodes, which Cassidy described as “action-packed,” “huge,” and “suspenseful.” “For me, when I was reading the script, I was just waiting to turn the next page. I was on the edge of my seat because they’re so gigantic, and there’s so much going on. There’s pivotal plot points and things happen that aren’t necessarily expected. It definitely keeps you on your toes,” she teases.

So while we wait for the final two episodes of the season, we thought we’d keep Cassidy on her toes with a game we like to call “Arrow or Canary?” Check out her answers below:

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Who would win in a chess match? Arrow or Canary?
KATIE CASSIDY: Canary.

What about an arm wrestling match?
Uh, the Arrow. [Laughs] Although I don’t know, it could be neck and neck!

There’s been a bad breakup. Who would get Laurel’s spare room for the night?
Neither. [Laughs] I know that she was supportive for a minute, but she’s still secretly kind of like, “He’s with me.” I don’t think she wants to be involved.

Laurel needs someone to beat up a bad boyfriend. Does she call Arrow or Canary?
Arrow, without a doubt. I don’t want to put my sister in danger.

Laurel has a life-threatening secret. Which one does she tell first?
Arrow.

Is that just a trust thing?
I say that because with me and my relationship with my sisters, they’re my hardest judge. They’re tough on me, which is a great thing because it keeps me grounded. But there are things where I’ll go to my best friend instead of my sister because I’m like, “I don’t want to get sh– from my sister.” In this case, Oliver is her soul mate. I think going to Oliver or the Arrow would be her number one choice.

Laurel is out of town and needs someone to dog sit. (She doesn’t have a dog on the show, but go with it.)
She calls Diggle! She’s not calling either of them. She’ll call Diggle, the bodyguard.

Who would win in a salmon ladder race?
It depends.

On what?
When is this race happening?

A year from now.
It would be a tie.

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- Katie Cassidy sobre algunos momentos ‘cruciales’, la final ‘cargada de acción’ y ‘que dejará las bocas abiertas’, y más (givememyremote):

Katie Cassidy sobre algunos momentos ‘cruciales’, la final ‘cargada de acción’ y ‘que dejará las bocas abiertas’, y más
Por Marisa Roffman 07 Mayo, 2014

As ARROW’s Oliver Queen has had his world fall apart (thanks to Slade’s increasingly devious moves), his off-on love, Laurel, has rebounded nicely after hitting her own rock bottom — and now that Laurel has revealed to Oliver that she knows he’s also the Arrow, she has positioned herself to help him take down Slade, too.

To get a tease about what’s to come, I spoke with Katie Cassidy (Laurel) about the huge episodes coming up, getting to do a bit of action work, Laurel’s love for Oliver, and more…

What was your reaction when you found out that Laurel was going to learn that Oliver was the Arrow?
Katie Cassidy: I was excited about it. Her finding out Ollie is the Arrow just makes her love him all the more. As Tommy said in season 1 — once he found out about Oliver being the Arrow — he said [to Oliver], “You should be with Laurel…I can’t be there because she’s in love with the Arrow and you.” So I do think she embraces him and loves him that much more for being such a good doer.

Did you know that she’d only wait a few episodes to clue Oliver in that she knew his secret? Or did you think there was a possibility the writers would have Laurel keep that secret for the foreseeable future?
KC: Honestly, it all depends. I did not know what the plan was after her knowing — whether she was going to tell Oliver she knew or not. We don’t really find out until we get the scripts, unless our creators Andrew Kreisberg or Marc Guggenheim are actually in Vancouver, feeding us juicy plot points, I never really know what’s going to happen.

You mentioned Laurel loving Oliver, but given his recent relationship with her sister, Sara, is Laurel actually looking at Oliver as a possible love interest in the near future? Or does she need some space/time?
KC: I don’t think she really knows. I think she loves him, and he will always have her heart. They’re soul mates. I think he’s the love of her life. I don’t think she knows what the future has in store for them, but I definitely think she’s open to many things.

There was a delicious tease in the trailer for tonight’s episode about Laurel getting to use a bow and arrow. What leads Laurel to that, and how was that for you to film?
KC: Oh, it was awesome. I got to work with Patricia [Gonsalves], she does our archery training.

Whether Laurel knows how to use the arrow or not will be something that’s interesting for the fans. [Laughs] And the situation of why she had to use it, it’s a jaw-dropping scene. Don’t get me wrong, I totally geek out when I get to be a part of the action scenes and [do] action stuff.

If Laurel ends up doing more action, will that change how you approach this character going forward?
KC: Moving forward, I will do the proper research: if she’s going to be involved, I’ll do the proper training, I’ll get as much information as I can, and work as hard as I can to make the fans happy.

As Slade is causing damage all over the city, is Laurel in danger in these final episodes?
KC: I think everybody is in a massive amount of danger. Yes, Laurel does end up being put in a situation that is really unfortunate, but I think everybody…because he’s an awful villain, nobody’s safe. Not even the Arrow, at times.

In the coming episodes, there’s a lot that happens. There’s a lot of crazy explosions and action and everybody having their life at risk, and it’s just really huge. And I can’t believe we shoot this show every week, because it’s like a gigantic movie every week. [Laughs] And we shoot it in nine days! It’s crazy.

I know she’s mixing it up with Team Arrow in the next few episodes, but does Laurel get any meaningful time with her father, too?
KC: There are scenes with her father. There may or may not be things that she reveals. Her father is definitely a great part of her interactions.

You and the writers have been vocal from the start that if Laurel is going to end up as the Black Canary, the process will likely be slow and natural. Given what she goes through in the final episodes of season 2, do you feel like it’s setting her on the path to actually becoming the Black Canary?
KC: I don’t know, you’re going to have to watch!

If you had your choice, would you like to see her stumble a little bit before she got there? Or would you like to have it happen sooner?
KC: Honestly, I think Laurel has [already] hit rock bottom at this point. She’s becoming stronger, she’s finding out information, she’s on board with the Arrow. I think what happens in these next few episodes are absolutely pivotal moments for our show, and definitely major plot points. But, you should watch. [Laughs] And I think the fans will be very happy, without me giving too much away.

What can you say about the finale, specifically?
KC: I think the finale is a gigantic episode. It’s action-packed, it’s jaw-dropping, it’s exciting, it’s moving. You get to see Laurel be stronger and take care of people, and look out for others. I definitely think the fans are going to walk away being very happy for the season finale, and very excited.

As you look towards the future, is there any costar you’d like to work with more?
KC: John Barrowman (Malcolm Merlyn) is fantastic, and I love working with him. I love working with Paul Blackthorne (Quentin Lance), because we work the same way — our craft is very similar. I would probably say them. I [also] love working with Caity Lotz (Sara Lance), because I have sisters of my own, so I can tap into that sister bond.


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- John Barrowman Sobre el Regreso de "Malcolm Merlyn" (accesshollywood):

John Barrowman Sobre el Regreso de "Malcolm Merlyn"
Por Jolie Lash 7 de Mayo, 2014 12:11 PM EDT

With the Deathstroke/Slade Wilson Mirakuru army on the loose in Starling City, and his daughter, Thea Queen, having shunned her allies and once again in danger, Malcolm Merlyn is returning to “Arrow.”

John Barrowman again straps on the quiver and belts up his cloak as the Dark Archer/Malcolm Merlyn for Wednesday’s episode of The CW drama, where he will come face to face with Thea (Willa Holland), and for the first time, she’ll look at him with a daughter’s eyes.

Malcolm’s presence on the show has always added to the complexity and intensity, and with so many dangerous factions in Starling City, Wednesday’s episode, titled “Streets of Fire,” is looking like it will be another thriller. On Tuesday, John spoke with AccessHollywood.com about returning as Malcolm and the dangers he faces in Starling City, as well as his character’s plans for Thea.

AccessHollywood.com: Last time we checked in with your character, he had learned the League of Assassins had been told he was still alive. So is it even safe for him to return to Starling City at this point?
John Barrowman: Well, it might not be… Malcolm is not afraid of anything. Although he might be wary of what might happen, he’s not gonna stop it from letting him do what he thinks is the right thing to do, which ironically, probably is the wrong thing, but it’s not gonna hinder him. And, believe me… he will protect himself or manipulate the situation in order to make it work for him.

Access: Nice. … So, how does Malcolm he feel about Moira’s death?
John: Malcolm is… I always say that, for me as the actor, to be able to do what I’m supposed to do in these next episodes, I believe that Malcolm lurked in the background and Malcolm was always watching what was going on and seeing what was going on and Malcolm, I think, always had a very, very big soft spot for Moira. Even though they would challenge each other that was kind of a thing that Malcolm liked, when she would turn around to him and basically say, ‘F*** you. I’m gonna do this to you now.’ And he’s like, ‘Yeah! Come on, bring it on baby ‘cause you’re hot when you’re mean.’ And that’s the underlying tone for me with Malcolm with Moira. But I think he’s devastated that she’s dead, and it would be interesting to see what that would do to him because having lost his wife, but also having lost the mother of his daughter and someone that he really, really enjoyed conversing with and being a friend to.

Access: And they could have been a great evil power couple too, if he’d turned her to the dark side.
John: He tried to lure her over, he tried to do it, but Moira was strong and just wouldn’t – she wouldn’t bend. Her kids were her…

Access: Foundation?
John: Yeah. Yeah. In a way, the kids were the downfall, but she will be missed.

Access: Thea is reeling from all of these revelations and everyone lying to her. Malcolm wanted her to know he is her dad. And now, she does. How is that going affect him? Is he going to be a little off center with this new young woman in his life?
John: Well Malcolm has always known so it’s not new to him.

Access: But new as father-daughter relatioship.
John: I get what you mean. I think it’s going to be a father-daughter relationship like you’ve never seen before. It’s going to be all that you know about a father-daughter relationship times 100, taken to the extreme. And Malcolm is going to, again, if you look at the genre of these shows and the history of characters in other shows like this and films like this, the best time for somebody to come in and to take somebody over and manipulate them to get them on your side is when they are their lowest, when they are their most vulnerable and that’s exactly where she is at the moment.

Access: ‘Arrow’ Executive Producer Andrew Kreisberg said Malcom was going to save Thea. How much danger is she in then?
John: She’s in a lot of danger. She’s in a massive amount of danger, but how he saves her is going to be very interesting.

Access: Does he have any interest in training her in the dark arts?
John: Listen, it’s (laughs), if Malcolm had his way, he would be training her, and I think that’s why he’s going to save her, that’s why he wants to save her is because he has this idea — this is not written, this is just my theory — he has this idea that he could bring her to his side, to train her to be powerful, to be manipulative, to be controlling, to also, as Malcolm sees it, be honest, because everybody else around her has lied to her, except him. He’s come out with the truth.

Access: There’s another issue to deal with, which is Slade’s Mirakuru army.
John: Those Mirakuru boys need to be kicked in the butt.

Access: I know! And obviously your character is trained very well. How does he stack up to them?
John: You are just going to have to watch. That’s all I’ll say, is you’ll have to watch how I… I say, ‘I’ like I’m Malcolm Merlyn. I’m sitting here twiddling a pencil as I’m sitting here talking to you in central London and looking out over the city (laughs).

Access Are you twiddling it into an arrow? Refining it down into a sharp point?
John: Actually, I did throw it across the room a few seconds ago like an arrow. I did. That’s really funny that I’m sitting doing this. But I am, I’m sitting looking out the window of my hotel room, over central London, talking like Malcolm Merlyn here, but you’ll have to see how he deals with the Mirakuru [army]. They are very powerful, but, never underestimate the power or the manipulation possibilities of Malcolm Merlyn.

Access: Or a determined father.
John: A determined father. Exactly.

Access: I’ve got to ask you your thoughts on Malcolm’s perspective. Does he actually think he is a good guy?
John: Yes. He does. I’m speaking as, this is how it gets bizarre — being an actor, I, as Malcolm, I’m a good man. I am doing everything I think possible to save the city, to save the situation, to fix the situation, but other people see that I’m going about it in the wrong way and I can’t help that, I can’t control that, but I’m gonna continue to do what I think is right and if you get in the way, so be it.

Access: How much do you love this part?
John: I – you know – I was gonna be really rude there, but I won’t. I absolutely love it. I absolutely love it because it’s totally opposite of anything I’ve ever played before.

Access: I wonder what Captain Jack would think of him.
John: Captain Jack would, in a way respect him, for that honesty and that upfront kind of way he deals with things, but he would hate him. He would absolutely despise him.


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- John Barrowman Adelanta el Regreso de Malcolm esta noche en Arrow (greenarrowtv):

John Barrowman Adelanta el Regreso de Malcolm esta noche en Arrow
Por Craig Byrne 07 de Mayo, 2014

One of Arrow's biggest early guest star "gets" was John Barrowman as recurring Season 1 nemesis Malcolm Merlyn. Barrowman, widely known for his many roles in TV and stage with the most prominent possibly being Captain Jack Harkness on Doctor Who and spin-off Torchwood in which he was the series lead, brought with him a huge fan base, and the character of Malcolm served as a frequent foil for Oliver Queen as he planned his "Undertaking" to destroy the Glades part of Central City.

Trust but VerifyAnd then Malcolm died. Or, at least, the audience was led to believe that, until Malcolm showed up in the seventh episode of Arrow Season 2, not only alive, but dropping the bomb that he was the father of Willa Holland's character - Oliver Queen's sister, Thea. At the time of his return, it seemed that only Moira was aware that he was back. Now Moira is dead, and Thea has lost all of her parents... or has she? Tonight's episode of Arrow, airing at 8PM on The CW, might [re-]unite father and daughter for the first time.

We spoke with John Barrowman about his return to the series, for some hints about what we can expect, including what might happen for Malcolm as the series goes into Season 3. Enjoy:

What brings Malcolm back to Starling City?

JOHN BARROWMAN: Bluntly, in a nutshell, to save Thea; to protect her.

Are you allowed to tell us anything about what kind of situation she may have found herself in?

No, but what I can tell you is it's a situation between a father and a daughter that's going to be heightened by a thousand, and things are going to be done that are going to be quite unbelievable… but awesome, and typical of Malcolm and Thea.

Is Malcolm aware that Slade Wilson has killed Moira?

You're going into something now that is not yet written yet, or may not be written. I don't know. So I can only talk from the aspect of John who plays the character, and all I can say to this is Malcolm is not the type of person to not have his eyes open and watching what is going on, no matter where he is. So I think that Malcolm has been watching, keeping tabs on what's been going on, knowing exactly what Slade has been doing, knowing exactly who he's killed… all that kind of stuff… and that's why he knows when he comes back into this situation, he's got all that ammo behind him to protect himself, because you don't jump into a situation like this without having anything to back you up, and knowing what's been going on.

He's gutted by Moira's death, because that is the mother of his child, and that is the thing -- why when Moira would say things like "I'm going to get you, you bastard, all that kind of stuff" -- Malcolm thrilled on it, because he knew the past that they had had. He also cared for her, and it was also, like, yeah. "Come on. You and me, we're gonna be a power couple." He's devastated that she's gone, but you do not get a taste of that emotion yet.

Does he know that Thea knows he's her father, by this point?

I would have no doubt. Of course he knows. Like I said, he's been watching. He knows.

Will we find out anything more about how Malcolm might have survived death, in these return episodes?

No. [Hesitates] I'm just going to say no, because this is about Thea and Malcolm. When Tommy died, Malcolm didn't realize that what he was going to do was going to kill Tommy, because he didn't think that Tommy had the balls enough to become a hero, and step up to the plate, but Tommy did, and what Malcolm has realized, is Malcolm can control cities, he can control people with money, with power manipulation, but he cannot control their emotions. So what you'll find here, is he's come in to "rescue" Thea who is at her lowest. She's down; she's emotionally distraught, so therefore, he can try to manipulate her emotionally.

Is Malcolm just in "Streets of Fire" (tonight's episode), or is he in the finale as well?

He is in the finale also.

Who else are you allowed to tell us that Malcolm might interact with in these episode?

All I'll say is there's an awesome fight sequence. That's all I'm gonna say.

When you were asked to come back for Season 2, was it always pitched to you that Malcolm would be back at the end of the season?

I have to be honest with you; I knew about this even during the first season. Andrew [Kreisberg] and I sat down at lunch way back in the beginning and discussed things about the future, because I was always told that Malcolm would pop in and out Series 1 and Series 2. I didn't know that he was going to be in the finale, but I knew he was going to pop in and out.

When we discussed it over lunch, my husband Scott was with us, and it was Scott's actual idea. When we were talking about the future, Scott just blurted out "Make Thea his daughter!" Andrew looked at me and was like "you guys really do like these kind of shows!" I'm like "Yeah! We talk about it all the time at home, everything!" It wasn't set in stone at that point, but it was something they went away with. There were other things they were thinking about, but it put that in their mind.

If Malcolm had any way to bring Tommy back to life, do you think he would go for it?

Oooh. Knowing that he stepped up to the plate like he did, I think if he could, Malcolm probably might give it a try.

Did Malcolm admire what Oliver had been able to do in the first season, as far as having the nerve to step up to the plate and do what he did?

Yes. And this is kind of subtext -- I'm speaking as Malcolm here, and I say this as I'm looking out of my hotel room window, over the city of London, in a big chair like Malcolm Merlyn! [laughs] It's art creating life, life creating art!

If you go back to the [Season 1] episode where Malcolm walks in to Tommy's birthday party to give Tommy a birthday present, go all the way back there and watch the way I interact. I walk in, my son is standing there with his best friend. My son rejects me. I'm desperate for my son to step up to the plate, but I turn, I wink and look at his best friend, and toss him the present, because that best friend is everything that I want my son to be. I've known these two boys since they were young, playing in the garden, playing in the house, coming in for lunch, and Ollie's always been the one who's been more forthright; more forward with stuff. So in the episode where I pulled back the hood, to see that guy who was up against me was Oliver; the child, the young man that I admired, that I wanted, really, as my son to be like - there was a huge tear of emotion there, and I hope it came across in my face. It was like "What am I going to do now?"

So, Malcolm has a great respect for Oliver. It doesn't mean he likes him. It's a very, very funny way to play things, because he cares for him, but as Arrow, do not stand in my way.

Is there any chance we could be seeing Malcolm in Season 3?

I have no idea. Everything at the end of Season 2, it's like they've taken all the characters, they've taken all of us in our situations, and they've dropped us from a three or four story building onto a trampoline, and we have bounced back up in the air where we're all over the place. We do not know what's going to happen.

Do you prefer it that way?

Of course I do! I like it that way, because you know what? That's what makes a TV show great, because the actors, then, don't really know what's going on, and when you do find out what's going on, it helps you play it even better, but also the fact that it wouldn't be a drama if they didn't do that. It would be the most boring television program - you'd know what was going to happen! So the fact that at the end of this season, this year, everyone watching the television, they're going to be like on the edge of their seats and going "NOOOOOOO!!!! BRING IT BACK! I NEED TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN!" That's exactly what's going to happen. Can you tell I get excited about this?

What projects do you have coming up for the summer?

I have quite a lot. I've just produced a TV show for Channel 4 in the United Kingdom, about a veterinary college, that I am in also. I host it, and it's taking them through the great things that vets do for dogs, cats, and horses here in the U.K.; I also have got Sing Your Face Off, which is airing on ABC on the 31st of this month, which is a singing competition show for celebrities who we transform into other huge worldwide, well-known artists, and they have to portray them, sing like them, act like them… for instance, we turn women into men, men into women… it's just amazing.

I've got another TV show that I'm on, on the BBC, called Pressure Pad, which I've just finished for them yesterday, and my album is being released worldwide in June. It's called "You Raise Me Up," and that's just a couple of things. (You can find John Barrowman's album here - http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/johnbarrowman - if you haven't heard his music before, you're missing out!)


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- John Barrowman sobre la misión de Merlyn de salvar a Thea (buddytv):

John Barrowman sobre la misión de Merlyn de salvar a Thea
Por Carla Day 07 Mayo, 2014

Malcolm Merlyn is back in Sterling City and on a quest to save Thea's life on Arrow. In "Streets on Fire," Malcolm re-emerges after his presumed death when his daughter needs him most. Slade's mirakuru army is terrorizing the city and Thea gets caught in the melee.

I spoke to John Barrowman about his return to Arrow, his reaction to finding out Moira was being killed, what brings Malcolm back to town, the epic fight scenes, and more. Read on for the full interview

Were you excited to get the call back to Arrow?

Oh yes. I have to be honest with you. I kinda knew before everybody else. I'm always excited. I really enjoy playing Malcolm Merlyn and when they decided which episodes it was going to be in, I was thrilled. Absolutely thrilled.

Were you surprised to find out that Moira was being killed?

Absolutely, we were all quite surprised and shocked. I actually had a conversation -- well it was an email I sent to Susanna [Thompson], when I knew I was coming back and I was very excited because I said, "You know, look we're going to-- hopefully we'll be able to get into some meat of some scenes and we'll get to do some stuff and da da da dah..."

And her email back to me was, "I'd love to, but unfortunately I'm dying. The character: She's going to be killed." So we were all like, "Oh my God." We were gutted. But that's what makes serial television -- episodic television -- really good. You don't know what's around the corner and if every show were to maintain the same the characters all the time it wouldn't wouldn't be a drama. It would be boring, so things have to change. I experienced that on Doctor Who and Torchwood. Things have to be switched up a bit. It was sad, but she knew, we all knew that's the way it goes. That's this business.

It gives Malcolm some really juicy stuff to come with Thea. What brings Malcolm back to town?

Malcolm comes back to town because Thea's in great danger. Thea's in trouble and someone has to come and rescue this girl. And being his daughter, that he's known for all of her life, he is desperate to get back there to sort out a situation. And that's all I can really tell you, but the way in which he returns and it's sorted out is interesting.

Will we get any insight into what Malcolm's been up to this past year?

Honestly, nothing is going to be said, but what I can tell you as the actor that plays him and when I come back to do these things, I think, that he has to have been watching. He has to have known what's been going on. You can't come into a situation in the middle of it without any shall I say ammunition of a prior stuff that has happened. I would think he's been watching. Who knows what's going to happen after this, but I would love to delve into that aspect of it and find out where he has been and what's been going on.

Malcolm was basically responsible for Tommy's death, will that affect how he approaches his relationship with Thea?

It might. Tommy's death was something that-- again it's the ruthlessness of a powerful person that he's devastated and gutted by what's happened to his son, but part of him thinks shit happens, you know, he didn't think Tommy was going to be the hero and that's why he didn't think what he was doing would be an issue or problem. He had no idea Tommy was going to sacrifice himself for the love of Laurel. It was a difficult thing when it happened, but I think Malcolm's a very good person to get up and move on.

Of course, it's going to affect him in a way when he's being protective of Thea.That will make him more protective because he understands a little more now that even though he's a control freak, he cannot control the emotions of other people. So he's going to try desperately -- little tip here -- to control the emotions of his daughter.

How is Malcolm handling the death of Moira?

Malcolm seems to lose everybody in his life, so losing Moira is-- he lost his wife who's the mother to his son. He's now lost a confidant, a good friend even though it was a volatile relationship that they had. I think Malcolm liked it when Moira used to turn around to him and say, not in these words, but like "I'm going to fucking kill you. I'm going to get you." That thrilled him cause it's like, "Yeah, come on baby, you're coming with me." in this aspect. He's gutted that she's gone. He's lost another strong female in his life that he really cared about. And he's hurt over it, but you don't see it yet.

When he comes back, is he after Slade?

I can't tell you who he's after. He has come back to rescue and shall I say intervene with Thea. In doing that, a lot of things happen and never underestimate the power and the power of Malcolm Merlyn's manipulation when he is put into a situation.

What's it like to do the fight scenes?

Our stunt team, Bam Bam, is our stunt coordinator. That's his nickname. We have probably one of the best stunt teams on television and I appreciate it as someone who dances, who's done musical theatre for many years, it's choreography. It's choreographed so beautifully to where these men just don't get hurt. Some of the moves they do...

In one of the sequences that's coming up, we have a confrontation, but something happens, he didn't just jump up in the air, he flipped himself backwards in a backflip. Afterward, I was like, "Dude, did you just do a reverse backflip or something?" And he was like, "Yeah, no biggie." They're phenomenal. ... How they shoot it to edit it together so that it's seamless and flawless, it's just brilliant. It's one of the best action shows on television.

Will Malcolm interact with anyone from the League of Assassins?

This is mainly a focus with Thea. We don't know what's going to happen in the future. There's no interaction on screen. Malcolm's a bit worried about what's going on, but he's never going to let it deter him from doing what he wants or getting what he wants. If anyone is going to stand in his way or if anyone else from the League of Assassins is going to do anything against Malcolm he's going to put up a good fight.

On the final two hours

These last two episodes are gonna just toss everything up in the air, where you're gonna be finished, left with hangers going, "What? No!?! Bring it back!" That's going to be at the end of that last episode of the season.


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- John Barrowman habla sobre ARROW, cuánto sabía sobre el futuro de su personaje, el ver a Willa Holland en THE O.C., Season 3, y más (collider.com):

John Barrowman habla sobre ARROW, cuánto sabía sobre el futuro de su personaje, el ver a Willa Holland en THE O.C., Season 3, y más
Por Christina Radish 07 de Mayo, 2014

The penultimate episode of The CW series Arrow, entitled “Streets of Fire,” will see Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) rallying his team as Slade Wilson’s (Manu Bennett) soldiers attack the city, and Thea (Willa Holland) comes face-to-face with her father, Malcolm Merlyn (John Barrowman). Meanwhile, Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) gets a call from S.T.A.R. Labs with game-changing news that will hopefully help Roy Harper (Colton Haynes). And if you survive the roller coaster ride, there is still the Season 2 finale on May 14th.

During this recent exclusive phone interview with Collider, actor John Barrowman talked about how he played a part in Malcolm Merlyn turning out to be Thea Queen’s father, that he knew his character would continue to be a villain throughout Season 1 and 2, just how calculated his return is, why Malcolm is desperate for family, what he’s enjoyed about working with Willa Holland, in this capacity, how he used to watch her on The O.C., that he thinks Malcolm is too selfish to sacrifice himself for someone else, and how he’s unsure about whether he’ll be back for Season 3. Check out what he had to say after the jump, and be aware that there are some spoilers.

Collider: At what point did you learn that Malcolm Merlyn is Thea Queen’s father, and what was your reaction to that bit of news?

JOHN BARROWMAN: Well, I’ve gotta be honest with you, it was partially my doing. Andrew Kreisberg and I had a lunch one afternoon, and my husband, Scott, was sitting with us. They were discussing the future, way back in the first season, of Malcolm, what he was going to be doing and what would happen. They were discussing different aspects, and my husband said, “Why don’t you make him Thea’s father?” And I just lit up. Andrew looked at us and said, “You guys do like this genre, don’t you?,” and I said, “Yeah, of course!” I’m a total comic book fiend. DC and Marvel, you name it, I’m into it. With the sci-fi background I have, all of these twists and turns are great. It’s like a saga. So, that’s how it started. And then, Andrew went back with the writers. There was talk of doing something else, but then they went back to it. And Andrew always says, “I credit Scott, your husband.” So, I knew about it. I would never normally interfere with what the writers are doing because they’re there to do that job, and I’m there to do what’s on screen and bring it to life. I never, ever will question what they’ve written because it’s just not my job to do that, unless I’m one of the writers myself. But when you’re asked something, you obviously speak up. Also, it made sense because it meant that I would be coming back then. I was procuring myself a job.

How many times have you thought that Malcolm was actually dead and wouldn’t be returning to the show, or did you always know that he would continue to find a life somehow?

BARROWMAN: During Season 1, Andrew had said to me, “Malcolm Merlyn will be one of the stable villains.” So for me, that meant that I would be popping up. For Season 1 and Season 2, I knew that I would be coming in and out. With things that happened in Season 1 or Season 2, if he got shot or killed, I knew something was going to be up. For Season 3, it’s up in the air. Who knows what’s gonna happen?

How can you tease the return of Malcolm Merlyn and the part he’s going to play in the story that’s left, this season?

BARROWMAN: I don’t want to give anything away because I don’t want to spoil it for anybody. If you look at it like a card game, he’s a man who’s got a poker face, and he’s got an eye on the card game and he knows exactly what hand to play. And he will play his best hand, right when you least expect it.

Would you say that his return is pretty calculated? Was he lurking in the shadows, until he knew he’d have an in with Thea?

BARROWMAN: I’ve gotta tell you honestly that we don’t know that backstory yet. That’s something that was never discussed and hasn’t been discussed. But personally, as John Barrowman, as the fan, and as the guy who’s on screen with the character, I have to create something and yes, of course, I see him lurking in the background and waiting for the right moment. Anybody who is going to manipulate a situation and take advantage of it is not going to just pop up and go, “Oh, what’s happening?” You know exactly what’s happening. Malcolm might have lost control for a little bit, with everything up in the air and going nuts with starling City, but he still would have had his eye on the piece of the puzzle that he wants. He’s not a dumb-dumb. He knows what’s going on. He knows who’s in there, up against Oli.

Do you think he really wants what’s best for Thea, or is he interested in her because it suits him and works to his advantage?

BARROWMAN: I think he’s desperate to have the family around him that he’s lost. He’s a control freak, so he’s desperate to be in control with that stuff. If you go way back to Season 1, there were little ways that I would play things, like when Tommy was still alive and I went to his birthday party to hand him a present and he wouldn’t take it. The first person that I toss the present to is Oli, with a wink and a smirk. In my eyes, as Malcolm, Oli is the son that he always wanted. For Malcolm, that revelation, when he pulled the hood off and Oli was the Arrow, was a massive shake-up for Malcolm. Here’s this kid that he really felt compassion for, but all of a sudden, now he has to do something to him. It’s those things that he has to deal with. He’s desperately seeking that control, that calm, and that all-over power. Also, Malcolm thinks he’s actually doing right. That’s the way I see it. The best anti-heroes are the guys who think they’re the heroes themselves. He’s a character who’s searching. He’s soul searching. He knows who he is, but he’s searching for the people around him and what he needs.

Your characters really only passed by each other before, but now there’s a definite shift in the dynamic between Malcolm and Thea. What’s it been like to work with Willa Holland, in this capacity?

BARROWMAN: I used to watch Willa on The O.C., as an avid fan, when my niece was growing up. That was our show that we would connect with and watch together. Ironically, we were both watching it for the same reason – for the hot guys in it. But, Willa is this amazing presence. She’s a wonderful young actress. It’s funny ‘cause she’s also got a really out there sense of humor, just like me. When she and I are on set together, we’ve actually said to each other, “We’re gonna have to rein this in and keep it under control.” The camera stops and we’re just nuts. I love to have a good time, but I love getting the work done, and she’s the same way. We’re known to have a bit of fun. The fact that our characters had never crossed is what made it even more surprising, when it was revealed that I was her father. It’s like, “Oh, my god!,” because you just never thought.

In Episode 21, there was a line in the show that said, “The essence of heroism is to die so others can live.” Is there someone that you think Malcolm Merlyn would die and be a hero for? Do you think he could have that love for Thea?

BARROWMAN: I don’t know. That’s a really good question, and I don’t have the answer because I haven’t thought that far into it. But, Malcolm is selfish. I don’t think Malcolm would give his life for that. That’s John Barrowman’s personal view. I don’t think he would. I think he would be selfish. But, that would be his fall. That would be the thing that would tip him over the edge.

The good news about him not being willing to sacrifice himself is that at least he’d be around for Season 3!

BARROWMAN: From your mouth to whoever’s ears!


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- Nuevo set de imágenes BTS del elencodurante el rodaje del episodio final 2.23 "Unthinkable" (11-04-14):




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- Arrow 2.23 "Unthinkable" Promo:

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- Arrow 2.23 "Unthinkable" Extended Promo:

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- Nuevos pósters promocionales del final de la S2:



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- Arrow 2.23 "Unthinkable" Clip #1:

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- Arrow 2.23 "Unthinkable" Clip #2:

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- Arrow 2.23 "Unthinkable" Promo con teaser de "The Flash" al final:

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- Michael Rowe Adelanta el Regreso de Deadshot y Avisa de un 'Catastrófico' Final (THR):

Michael Rowe Adelanta el Regreso de Deadshot y Avisa de un 'Catastrófico' Final
Por Philiana Ng 7:00 AM PDT 13/05/2014

Arrow’s season-two finale features the return of familiar faces (see: Nyssa) as Oliver Queen’s battle against Slade Wilson comes to a head. But how does Deadshot, last seen locked up with the rest of Starling City’s villains in the March episode, “Suicide Squad,” come into play?

Last week’s episode ended with ARGUS barricading Starling City as the threat of Slade and his Mirakuru army reached Code Red. With Team Arrow focused on the the serious threat of Slade’s next move – and promise that he has one more person left to kill – Diggle seeks his old friend/nemesis out.

“Diggle takes this on and he needs some help, so guess what? He calls his buddy Deadshot,” Michael Rowe tells The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s the most unlikely duo having each other’s backs and neither one trusting each other a lot but certainly makes for good storytelling.”

Surprisingly, Waller is a bigger threat than Deadshot when it comes to confrontations. “If there’s anybody out there who has an itchier trigger finger than Deadshot, it’s Amanda Waller,” he says.

From Deadshot’s perspective, getting out of jail – even temporarily – is better than staying locked up.

“Ultimately, Deadshot enjoys what he does. He enjoys a challenge in taking out a target,” Rowe says. “He dedicated his life to fighting and this is an opportunity to do what he does best, but also if it’s going to give him temporary freedom, he’s down. He’s down for whatever. He wants to get the hell out of that facility. For him, it’s summer vacation.”

As for Wednesday's final hour, appropriately titled "Unthinkable," the actor promises it will be "a wild ride," using descriptors like "frantic" and "crazy," and hints that after a "big, catastrophic event, all the shrapnel... that spin off of that, you're not even going to understand the things to come."

“It’s worth the wait. Everything is addressed in this final episode. It’s epic – they went so huge with it,” Rowe says of Wednesday’s final hour. “But in the midst of tying up these loose ends, it’s setting up season three. People are not going to be disappointed.”

It's "the big cymbal crash at the end of the drum roll," he later elaborates. "It will make you lose your breath and experience every emotion all at once."

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- Jefes de Arrow sobre la cuota de muerte de la Final, un lacrimógeno momento 'Olicity' y el nuevo capítulo de la Season 3 (TVLine):

Jefes de Arrow sobre la cuota de muerte de la Final, un lacrimógeno momento 'Olicity' y el nuevo capítulo de la Season 3
Por Vlada Gelman 13 Mayo, 2014 07:00 AM PDT

After one huge episode after another, Arrow is going all out for its Season 2 finale this Wednesday (The CW, 8/7c) with a potential death, a Felicity/Oliver moment that will surprise, anger and make fans weep, and one majorly complicated moral dilemma for the masked vigilante.

With Slade going after the ones Oliver loves, our hero will be severely tested — and possibly forced to make a difficult decision between the two women in his heart, previews executive producer Marc Guggenheim.

The EP also reveals that the season closer is the end of a chapter that sets up a different Season 3 (with one familiar face MIA).

TVLINE | You’ve had a string of episodes that could have easily served as the season finale. How will the actual finale top them?
We’re always trying to top ourselves. We always have said we’re never going to take our foot off the gas, we’re never going to hold back stuff at the beginning of the year just to save it for the end and we’re not going to hold back stuff for a [later] season when we could do it this season. We’re always about pushing as much story as we can, as fast as we can. Worrying about timing and worrying about topping ourselves, that’s what we call a “future us” problem. Our best episodes always find a new gear for the show, and I do think the finale finds a new gear. It’s exciting because we’re trying some very emotionally complex stuff along with some stunts and sequences that are the biggest we’ve ever done on the show.

TVLINE | Slade has been going after Oliver in a very personal way, but now it’s of a bigger scope. What will the emotional toll be like for Oliver in the finale?
For Oliver, it all comes down to [the fact that] he made this vow for himself at the beginning of the season that he would not kill anymore. That vow is going to be sorely tested. It was always part of our design of the season that we would basically place Oliver in a situation where he has every reason, tactically and vengeance-wise and necessity-wise, to kill again. At least one character during the finale will make this argument that if Oliver had not been so reluctant to kill, perhaps everything that’s been happening for the last couple episodes would not have happened. That only further complicates his moral dilemma.

TVLINE | In the promo pics, Slade has Felicity and Laurel. Does that give Oliver a moment where he has an emotional epiphany about either of one of those characters?
As Oliver learned, Slade is determined to kill the person he loves the most. Obviously, those images suggest that it could be Laurel or it could be Felicity. And I would be very foolish if I were to share the answer with you.

TVLINE | You’ve done a nice job of layering in these little Oliver/Felicity moments and hints. Is that something we can expect more of in the finale and going into next season?
Those moments are one of the core elements of the show. We saw that even when Felicity was flirting with Barry, there was still this connection with Oliver. There will be a couple moments between Oliver and Felicity that I think will surprise people, anger others, make people weep. If you’re a fan of those moments, you’re definitely going to want to see the finale, and you’re going to want to stick around all the way to the end.

TVLINE | Speaking of the women in Oliver’s life, Sara is back in town. How are they working side-by-side now?
We’re going to learn where Sara went after she left Starling City in Episode 20. We’re going to learn a little bit more of what was behind her comments to Laurel that she made in that alleyway during Episode 22. And we’re going to learn what her future trajectory is. It’s quite a bit to take in for Oliver. We’re throwing a lot of different things at Oliver. This season finale has Oliver, literally, fighting wars on several fronts.

TVLINE | One of the big cliffhangers from last week was that Amanda Waller and her men are invading Starling City. How will the tension between Amanda Waller and Oliver and Diggle factor into the finale?
It will actually factor in in a couple ways. You’ll get a really good sense as to where Diggle is and the role that Diggle and Layla play in the finale. And also, there’s a big piece of information to be learned about Oliver’s history with Amanda.

TVLINE | Looking ahead at Season 3, how will the landscape be altered?
The way we’ve been approaching Season 3 is [with the] recognition that the season finale of Season 2 doesn’t feel like just a conclusion of Season 2, but rather a conclusion of Seasons 1 and 2 – that we were telling one, big 46-episode story. The season finale really gives you a strong sense of closure and that a chapter really, truly is finished. My hope is that it’ll do so in a way that will make people go, “Wow, this story may be over, but I’m really interested in seeing what the next story they tell with these characters is.”

TVLINE | There’s a lot of destruction going on in Starling City, and we’ve lost a lot of residents. But are we going to lose any of our main players?
The thing about Arrow is, we’ve shown a willingness to lose characters when a lot of other shows might keep them around. Let me put it this way… There’s one character who you will not be seeing at the start of Season 3.

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- Productor de Arrow Producer adelanta Enormes momentos Olicity, y nuevos cambios en la Season 3 (tvfanatic):

Productor de Arrow Producer adelanta Enormes momentos Olicity, y nuevos cambios en la Season 3
Por Jim Halterman 13 Mayo, 2014 10:45 am.

Is this the end of Starling City?

Or will Oliver Queen and his crew be able to stop Slade and his Murikuru-induced army on tomorrow night's Arrow Season 2 finale?

Moreover, Slade said he had one more person to kill in his revenge plan against Oliver. Will we find out on Arrow Season 2 Episode 23 if that person is none other than Felicity Smoak?

And, finally, Executive Producer Andrew Kreisberg told us a few weeks ago that Season 3 will look very different from the first two seasons of the series. Will we what he means in the finale or will we have to wait until the fall?

Kreisberg jumped on the phone with me this week for an exclusive preview and one thing's for certain: the finale is set to change pretty much everything we know and love...

TV Fanatic: There’s so much going on heading into this finale but has it been a challenge to keep everything on track?

Andrew Kreisberg: Yeah. We’ve thrown a lot of plates into the air and it’s always been a challenge to catch them all. That being said, it’s not like we finished episode 22 and set out to write episode 23 and said, ‘Oh great. How are we going to do all this?’ We’ve had a long term plan, which I hope shows because we really pride ourselves on playing the long game and thinking long term.

The addition of the League of Assassins this season and the addition of the Suicide Squad, these were things we knew we were going to revisit later in the season so they weren’t done as one-off, quickie shout-outs to the comic book fans. We really wanted them to be a part of our on-going Universe.

TVF: I feel like Moira’s death was a big marker that changed so much leading into these last episodes. Is that how you and your writers see it?

AK: Yeah, the death of any of the main characters is always a turning point. It certainly was with the death of Tommy. It really changed the trajectory of the show and in the same way Oliver’s mother died and as we’ve seen in the past his greatest fear was that he wouldn’t get to go home and see his family and how much family meant to him and how much protecting his family meant to him and now his worst nightmare has come true.

This season Oliver’s journey has very simply been ‘am I a killer or am I a hero? Can I leave the island behind? Can I erase these five years and become something better?’ It really all comes to a head in this episode as he’s facing what seems to be an insurmountable enemy and his only allies are the League of the Assassins and, as Nyssa says in the finale, ‘The League does not take prisoners.’ It’s really up to Oliver to figure out how he’s going to stop Slade [and] if he can stop Slade while still maintaining his no-kill rule. I think the way it transpires will be both exciting and surprising for everyone to watch.

TVF: Is conquering Slade the true end game or is there maybe something behind that that we’re not aware of yet?

AK: Well, [Oliver’s] up against Slade’s army tearing up the city, Slade has promised to kill the person Oliver loves the most and Amanda Waller wants to launch a drone strike against the city so he has a lot to contend with. First and foremost, if he can defeat the army and stop Slade, he hopes Amanda will call off the drone strike. He’s got a busy day ahead of him.

TVF: The fact that it seems Felicity is in danger and last week Isabel said she was specifically looking for Felicity Smoak, my question is are we going to see some things rise to the surface between Felicity and Oliver that we have only hinted at in the past?

AK: I think there are the most Ollicity moments that there have ever been in the series up until now. I think it will surprise people. I think Emily and Stephen have some of the best scenes they’ve ever had together and…I’ll leave it with that.

TVF: Laurel is in the mix a lot differently lately than we’ve seen in the past. I mean, she shot an arrow last week and did a pretty good job. Is that a foreshadowing to where we’ll see her in the third season?

AK: I think for all the characters including Laurel…everyone is presented with a choice in the episode to decide who they want to be. Everyone makes that choice in this episode. Some people will be making the wrong choice and I’ll leave that to the audience if they appreciate the choices everyone has made.

We really wanted this finale to really feel like the completion of season 2 but also the launching pad for season 3. We didn’t want it to feel like ‘I’ve been watching this show all year and I’m not going to get any answers until next year.’ Just as viewers, I tend to find those are the most annoying season finales. There’s definitely a sense of closure to season 2 and everyone in the show takes a giant step forward in their journeys as characters, whether that’s emotionally or towards a comic book destiny or away from a comic book destiny, so that I think you’re left with a great sense of where season 3 is heading.

TVF: Katrina Law is back in the finale. Is there any more touching on the Nyssa/Sara relationship? Is there time for any of that in this episode?

AK: It’s not really touched upon that much. Sara, obviously, went to go get Nyssa – that was the friend she talked about in episode 20. Nyssa has come at her behest but it’s really much more about Nyssa and Oliver in a way because Nyssa represents how Oliver used to do things. Kill or be killed and, like I said, she says in this episode to Oliver, ‘The League does not take prisoners.”

For somebody who’s struggling with whether being a hero also means being a killer he is really presented with an ally who is not necessarily fighting by the rules that he is setting for himself. I think that’s where the majority of the tension comes from with her.

TVF: You said a few weeks ago that Season 3 would look different and how those changes were a big part of changes we saw in Buffy The Vampire Slayer and series like that. Will we see shades of what Season 3 will look like in this finale?

AK: I think that there is a scene in the finale that is going to shake the show to its core at least in terms of what we’ve been doing up until now. I think you’re going to get a real glimpse of just how different season 3 is going to be while at the same still being Arrow and still continuing the storylines that people have come to appreciate up until now.

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- EP Andrew Kreisberg Adelanta la “Unthinkable” Season Finale de Arrow (grenarrowtv):

EP Andrew Kreisberg Adelanta la “Unthinkable” Season Finale de Arrow
Por Craig Byrne 13 Mayo, 2014

The second season of Arrow ends this Wednesday night (May 14) with a big battle, as it’s Team Arrow and their many allies up against Slade Wilson and his army of Deathstrokes. The episode is called “Unthinkable,” and we’re expecting action even bigger than last week’s episode (and that’s saying something) and stakes even higher than last year’s finale (and that’s also saying something).

To promote the episode, we spoke with Arrow Executive Producer Andrew Kreisberg and asked some questions that [hopefully] we all wanted answered. Enjoy:

GREENARROWTV’s CRAIG BYRNE: You mentioned on Twitter that the theme of the season finale is “embracing your destiny.” Can you talk about that, and does that phrase refer to more than just Oliver?

ANDREW KREISBERG: It refers to just about everybody in the show. Everyone is really faced with a choice about who they’re going to be, and for Oliver, all season long, it’s been a question of “am I a hero or am I a killer?” For Thea, she’s certainly presented with two paths before her. “Am I Oliver’s sister, or am I Malcolm’s daughter?” Sara, “Am I the Black Canary, or am I one of Ra’s al Ghul’s minions?” Everyone is faced with this choice in this giant, epic battle, and while the show is probably as big as anything we’ve ever done in terms of scale, in terms of action, and in terms of visual effects, it also has these small little moments that are just pure emotion of the people that hopefully the audience have come to really care about over the course of these past two seasons, as they make these fateful decisions about which way their lives are going to go.

What’s happening for Felicity in the finale, and can you also say what’s happening with Laurel?

Felicity is front and center in the battle to take down Slade. I think she really proves in this episode why the audience loves her so much. She does one of the most brave things she’s ever done in the course of the series, and certainly one of the bravest things we’ve ever seen anybody do in the course of the series. There are a couple of “big Olicity moments” that I think fans are really going to appreciate.

At the same time, Laurel has an emotional scene in here that I think – for the people who are fans of Laurel – they’re going to get their money’s worth in this finale. It really is a finale of people embracing their destiny, and really making big and conscious choices of who they want to be, and what they’re willing to do for Oliver, and what they’re willing to do to save the city. It’s really exciting to have gotten to this point in the series, because so many of the things we’re doing in this last episode are things that we talked about doing back when we had the pilot. Greg, Marc, and I, and Geoff Johns, had conversations about “hey, wouldn’t it be great if one day we did this?” And we’re finally at “one day,” and this stuff is finally happening.

It’s not to say that we haven’t had an amazing time along the way; it’s just success has really allowed us to get to these totally fun places with these characters, and we’re just so thrilled that the audience has responded.

Will the finale explain why the Mirakuru didn’t heal Slade Wilson’s eye?

No. That was actually something that got cut from an earlier episode, where we explained that was why Ivo was interested in people’s eyes, because it was the one part of the body that didn’t regenerate. But, unfortunately that ended up on the cutting room floor.

There’s been a lot of effort to cure Roy, even though he has done some horrible things while on Mirakuru. If Slade were to be cured, could be he redeemable himself or is he too far gone?

I think that’s one of the interesting things that the finale explores. Slade actually has a line in the finale where he says “you think I hate you because of the Mirakuru?” Yes, the Mirakuru obviously unhinged him, and yes, it allowed him to so subsume his moral center, that he was willing to essentially destroy the city just to make Oliver suffer. But at the end of the day, I think there are some very human emotions, and I think when people lose someone that they love, they’re looking for somebody to blame, and unfortunately, all of his rage and anger went right on to Oliver.

We always try to base everything in emotion, and we never wanted it to be the situation where if Slade could just get the cure, he would suddenly go “Oh! You know what? I realize you were presented with a terrible situation, and it wasn’t really your fault, and let’s go get a drink.” I think that’s one of the sad realizations for Oliver in the finale, that he’s lamented all these years, “if I had just cured him, none of this would have happened,” but the truth of the matter is, that rage that was inside Slade was not entirely sci-fi evil juice-generated.

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- Showrunner adelanta que tendremos un sorprendente resultado para el final de la S2 (IGN):

Showrunner adelanta que tendremos un sorprendente resultado para el final de la S2
Por Joshua Yehl 13 Mayo 2014

IGN TV: The stage is set for what looks like a huge battle between Slade and his super soldiers, and Arrow and his allies. How did you approach building such a large-scale, citywide war?

Andrew Kreisberg: Well, we wanted to do something that outdid the season finale last year, which we knew was going to be difficult, given the scale that we approached last season. In the last season's final episode, we had an extra day of filming, and we had a lot more money that we'd saved throughout the year. This year, we didn't have an extra day, didn't have the extra money -- despite what some people may think. So actually, even though it's bigger in scope, in scale, it actually was more affordable, surprisingly enough. But this season, for us, we've always approached it as if it were a movie sequel. We always said, "What's the sequel?" We never stopped thinking of it that way. So in the sequel, it's got to be bigger and bolder, with even more emotion and even more excitement. So the finale is really the final icing on the cake.

IGN: Slade is obviously a villain, but would you describe him as a 100-percent, fully fledged supervillain now? There seems to be no reasoning with him, and now he's enacted this very supervillain-esque plan to destroy the city, all just to get back at Ollie.

Kreisberg: Yeah -- although "supervillain" is a very heightened word that evokes Saturday morning cartoons, for sure. It's interesting, he actually said it to Oliver in the finale, "You think I hate you because of Mirakuru," and it's sort of this interesting thing where obviously the Mirakuru has messed with his mind and messed with his judgement, and he's having hallucinations of this evil version of Shadow, but at it's heart, he really did love this girl before he got injected, and he was always jealous of her and Oliver. He blames Oliver for her death, and I think, while it's not necessarily the -- unbridled anger is something everybody can appreciate. I think the death of somebody you love and the need to blame somebody for it is a very universal theme.

IGN: Here's another Saturday morning cartoon term I'm going to throw at you, but from one of the promos we saw Roy wearing what appears to be a mask for the first time. If that is indeed what we are seeing, would you say that you've now fully embraced the idea of superheroes on your show. Have you earned that with the high stakes that you've set?

Kreisberg: Again, we don't like to say the word "superhero." I definitely think Roy has taken another large step towards his ultimate destiny. I think for fans of Roy Harper and fans of Arsenal, he's really -- and we've always said that if you're going to become your comic book counterpart, you have to go to the island. We don't necessarily mean literally the island, but you have to go through what Oliver did for anyone to believe that you are capable of putting on a mask or taking up arms and fighting for the city. So Roy, with everything he went through with the Mirakuru this season, has definitely gone to his version of the island and has come out the other side ready to embrace his destiny.

IGN: I don't suppose we're going to see his arm get blown off and come back with the robot arm, like in the comics?

Kreisberg: Mmm... No. [Laughs] No, no, no -- although The Dark Knight Returns is one of all of our favorite comics, so we had talked about the idea of his arm being severely dislocated, as a joke, but ultimately sanity prevailed.

IGN: [Laughs] I would have liked to have seen that. So here's a thing: a lot of fans are very nervous, because even though we've had some notable deaths leading up to the finale, we're still expecting more. A lot of fans are actually scared for Sarah specifically. Is there anything you'd like say to them?

Kreisberg: I think that given the kind of show we have -- and I think that is one of the things that keeps it from being "comic book-y" -- the stakes are very real, and not everyone comes out of these things alive. That being said, we don't want anyone to accuse us of being kill-happy. Whenever someone loses their life in battle, it takes a deep, emotional toll. It's not done lightly. I think that coming into the finale, especially given the number of deaths that there have been this season, I think people are going to be quite surprised at the outcome.

IGN: Obviously we want to avoid spoilers for the finale, but I want to look ahead to Season 3 of Arrow. In broad strokes, could you say what would be the theme of Season 3?

Kreisberg: One of the things we're talking about now is that every one of the characters is really asking themselves, "Who am I?" From Oliver to Laurel, everyone is faced with a decision about what their destiny is going to be. Each and every one of them over the course of next season will be making that journey. For some people it's a dark journey. For other people it's a lighter journey. For some people it's becoming their comic book characters. In other cases, it's actually definitively not. We talk a lot about identity being the theme of the season, and everyone's asking themselves, "Who am I?" That's that.

IGN: Are we going to see any more setup for The Flash in the finale?

Kreisberg: No. I'm not sure what I can say. No, I don't think so. Obviously there have been Flash references throughout. Star Labs itself does play a small role in this year's finale. Look, The Flash is its own show, and we really wanted the season to be Arrow, which we are so unbelievably proud of, to really go out on a high Arrow note.

IGN: Of course, understood. Last question, Laurel knows the big secret. Going into the finale, what can you say about her character now that she knows Ollie's secretly and is essentially a part of his group now?

Kreisberg: Yeah, I mean, it totally changes everyone's dynamic, having Laurel in on the secret. She has become so much more. Look, I don't think it's any big surprise that we're struggled in places with Laurel as a character -- through no fault of Katie Cassidy, who plays her wonderfully and does everything we ask of her -- but ever since she found out, it's just changed the dynamic, and it's made the show a lot more fun and enjoyable to write. So her storyline in the finale is much closer tied to her father and Sarah. But especially going into Season 3, there's a much more different dynamic in the group. It's really fun to see.

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- Marc Guggenheim adelanta el final de la S2 y qué otras muertes nos esperan (thetvaddict):

Marc Guggenheim adelanta el final de la S2 y qué otras muertes nos esperan
Por Tiffany Vogt 14 de Mayo, 2014

In last week’s episode “Streets of Fire,” Starling City was literally under siege by Slade Wilson’s (Manu Bennett) Mirakuru Army. The chaos and disorder was just the beginning. Anyone and everyone was a target. It did not matter who it was. The Mirakuru infected were no longer men with the ability to reason. They just murdered everyone who happened to be in their path. Starling City’s newest mayor Sebastian Blood (Kevin Alejandro) was not even safe as he took a sword to the chest by Ravager aka Isabel Rochev (Summer Glau) — as if we could even call her human anymore. The District Attorney was added to the body of the fallen before anyone could blink. Slade’s humanity is highly in doubt as he merely laughed with maniacal glee at the death and destruction his army was raining down upon the city that Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) held so dear.

As also seen, everyone of Oliver’s team and those who align with him are targets. Having already taken the life of Moira Queen (Susanna Thompson), Slade has vowed to take at least one more life — the second person Oliver holds most dear. Given that Slade had dispatched one of his nameless/faceless men to hunt down Thea Queen (Willa Holland) and another to the police precinct where Laurel (Katie Cassidy) and her father Detective Lance (Paul Blackthorne) were holed up, that only leaves two possible candidates of who is the person Oliver holds most dear: Sara Lance (Caity Lotz) and Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards). Just who will be the lucky lady? That is what everyone is holding their breaths over for this week’s momentous Season 2 finale.

In a recent exclusive interview, executive producer Marc Guggenheim talked about what tense alliances lie ahead in the finale and whether Malcolm Merlyn (John Barrowman) will rise from the dead one last time to take a stand to protect his daughter, Thea.

This week’s episode is called “Unthinkable.” What was the thought process behind naming this episode with that ominous title?
MARC: We’d actually kicked around a bunch of different titles. Originally, a couple of titles were cool, but they didn’t really speak to the theme of the episode. Last year we called the finale “Sacrifice” because the theme of the episode was sacrifice. And just in working out the beats of the finale in the writers’ room, the word that kept coming up repeatedly was “unthinkable” — the things that were happening were unthinkable; the things that Oliver would be forced to do would be unthinkable; and the more that word came up the more obvious it became to us that it should be the title of the episode because it really encapsulates a lot of different things that are going on. I think the best titles work on several different levels.

It sends chills down our spines, which is probably what you hoped would happen.
MARC: (Laughs) That may be just a happy coincidence.

So is this going to be a cliffhanger ending, or will fans feel like they can breath a little bit at the end?
MARC: It’s a different kind of ending than the Season 1 finale, where the Season 1 finale ended and there were no codas. There were no epilogues. In this episode, we do have a nice group of codas that sort of tie a ribbon around the entire season. We didn’t want to just repeat ourselves. We wanted to a different kind of season finale than we did last year. That said, there are a few cliffhangers. There is one genuine cliffhanger and then there is a variety of other moments that hopefully will make you want to come back for Season 3.

Last year the show killed off a primary character in the finale. It scares everybody to death that the show is willing to go there. Should fans be worried this year about that kind of thing happening again?
MARC: It’s funny. On the one hand, you’d think, “Well, they’ve already killed off one of their characters earlier this year. They’d never go there in the finale.” And one of the things we pride ourselves on is that we like to do all sorts of things that people would have never expected us to do. I obviously don’t want to spoil one way or the other. The one thing I can say is my hope is that a finale such as ours doesn’t rise or fall simply on whether or not a given character is going to die. For example, my hope is that the Season 1 finale was already great for the first 40 minutes ’til you got to the last 2 minutes where Tommy (Colin Donnell) died. But I certainly wouldn’t want to disabuse anyone of the tension that not everyone could be walking out of Season 2.

After killing of Moira not too long ago, ARROW is a bit unpredictable that way.
MARC: Good. I’m glad. We want it to be unpredictable. We want people to be surprised at the places we are willing to go. We want people to be surprised about the plot twists that we are willing to do. And people to be surprised by how quickly we are willing to blow up certain things.

With the preview promotional photos out there — it’s a big spoiler showing the Dark Archer, Oliver, Roy (Colton Haynes), Sara, and Nyssa (Katrina Law) — is that an alliance? Some of these people have a hard time trusting each other.
MARC: It’s funny, that image was something we were building up the entire year. It was something that we had planned out at the very beginning of the season. It was almost literally a year ago where we started talking about the Season 2 finale in broad strokes and we knew we wanted to end with these disparate groups sort of all joining up together. There definitely are huge consequences to this alliance, or at least one huge consequence to this alliance. I don’t want to spoil, but there is no such thing as a free lunch and Oliver & Co. are going to discover that there is a cost to this alliance that they are making.

It is an incredible surprise to see Malcolm Merlyn as the Dark Archer included. I would have thought nobody wants to work with that man. But he’s right there. So it makes you wonder, “What’s the motive there?” You probably can’t tell us, but it is still very interesting.
MARC: I will say this, in that image there are quite a few Dark Archers in that shot. I’ll leave you with just that observation.

Assuming Malcolm is coming back and didn’t die with two bullets in his chest in last week’s episode, is he genuinely trying to turn over a new leaf for Thea to be her father, or does he have some other plan going on?
MARC: What’s cool about Malcolm, assuming of course that he’s not dead, is that the thing about Merlyn that we have been really consistent about is that he does terrible things for what he considers to be very noble reasons. For us, that’s what makes Malcolm such a complex character. He is not a guy who just does evil or just does good or turns over a new leaf. He has a very complicated moral system. In the event he does survive, that is not likely to change anytime soon.

So he will show his true colors eventually then?
MARC: Yeah, he’s tricky like that.

Where is Thea in all this? Everyone else is obviously banding together for the big fight, but where is Thea going to be during all the action?
MARC: Thea is really struggling with everything that’s happened this year — the loss of Moira, the sudden reappearance of her father, the loss of Roy — and in the finale, Thea will make a pretty big decision that stems from this sort of season long series of difficulties that she’s had. Actually, the way she ends in the finale is exactly what we had planned a year ago. We had specifically pitched what happens with her to the studio and the network, and we’ve actually been building up to it the entire season for this one moment.

To find out if Malcolm does indeed rise from the dead one more time and what the big moment is for Thea at the end of the Season 2 finale, be sure to tune in for an all new episode of ARROW on Wednesday, May 14th at 8:00 p.m. on the CW. This war will have an ending, but not without some dire casualties. Pray for our heroes, that may be the only thing that is left to help them.

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- Marc Guggenheim Sobre la Batalla final de Oliver en la Season Finale (accesshollywood):

Marc Guggenheim Sobre la Batalla final de Oliver en la Season Finale
Por Jolie Lash 14 Mayo, 2014 10:01 AM EDT

“Arrow” wraps up what has been an incredible Season 2 run on Wednesday night with a big battle for Starling City – and for survival.

With Slade Wilson’s Mirakuru-powered army causing chaos and creating carnage, Oliver Queen and his heroic friends will fight to stop them – and stop them in time to prevent Amanda Waller’s group from leveling his hometown. After a season full of big, drama-changing twists (like supercharging Roy, and bringing back Malcolm Merlyn) and deaths (R.I.P Moira Queen, villain The Count) the Season 2 finale seems poised to top it all.

An image (posted on Stephen Amell’s facebook page) from Wednesday’s final episode of the season showed Oliver leading Sara Lance/Canary (Caity Lotz), Roy Harper (Colton Haynes), Nyssa (Katrina Law), and a few other archers into battle. Executive Producer Marc Guggenheim spoke with AccessHollywood.com about the show’s extraordinary season and what fans can expect in the Season 2 finale, airing Wednesday night at 8/7c on The CW.

AccessHollywood.com: After last week’s episode, I realized the only thing wrong with the show is the amount of time I have to wait for it to come back from a commercial. How do you feel now that we’re at the end of the season about how strong Season 2 was?
Marc Guggenheim: Thank you. I always say, quite sincerely, that my opinion and our internal opinion of the season is not nearly as important as the audience’s opinion. You know, it’s funny, at the beginning of the season, which was almost a year ago, because we start pretty early, I was really, really anxious. I said to the writers, I was very anxious about topping Season 1, or at the very least not making it worse and… I think we left everything on the field at the end of Season 1 and I was really anxious about us topping ourselves. And then, as Season 2 began to roll out and we read stuff online, eventually I did notice a unanimity of opinion that Season 2 was not only better than Season 1, but pretty darn good… but it, of course, put a lot of pressure on us to end the season in a satisfying way. We didn’t want to have a strong season and then a weak season finale. And, as we start work on Season 3… I’m already going, like, ‘OK, well, how do we top ourselves?’ In a perfect world the show just continues to grow and grow and improve and improve. I really want each season to be better than the one that came before it.

Access: In terms of that season finale there’s that great photo that is out there showing everybody together (Roy, Canary, Oliver and Nyssa). But, is Malcolm with them as well or is that someone from Nyssa’s side of things?
Marc: That’s a great question! I’d watch the show (laughs).

Access: It could be Malcolm in his Dark Archer garb or folks from Nyssa’s world.
Marc: Indeed. … That’s the thing — one of the things that excites the geek in me is the fact that, you know, last year ended with Oliver fighting the Dark Archer and this year ends with Oliver fighting alongside a couple dark archers and that’s a fun little development as far as I’m concerned.

Access: They always say heroes are the people running toward the danger while others are running away… and you have quite a collection of them running toward danger in the trailer. Tell me about how you guys felt in the writer’s room actually putting that scene together.
Marc: That was an image that we had in our heads since the beginning of the season. We knew we wanted to get to this place where it was basically Oliver’s army against Slade’s army. We always knew that Season 2 would end with, among other things, this clash of armies and that Oliver’s army was going to be more than just the core group of Oliver, Diggle and Felicity. Ideally, it would include Roy, and we had a couple of other ideas for who else it might include, but it was very satisfying to get to that moment when we were breaking in the writers room and go, you know what? We had fulfilled a promise that we had made to ourselves, way back in the beginning of the season.

Access: What can you hint at about what we will see from this supergroup?
Marc: I will say, the sequence that that shot is pulled from probably is one of the best sequences we’ve done on the show. I’m immensely excited about it. It’s got scope, it’s got even a couple of nice little character moments in it. It’s got incredible action. It was everything and more than I could have hoped for.

Access: When you watched it, did you get goosebumps? What went through your head?
Marc: I was up there for the shooting of the sequence and when I got to the tunnel that night and saw all the sort of extras and vehicles and everything else and camera equipment that we had arrayed in service of shooting this, I knew it was going to be pretty spectacular. And then, when I saw the rough cut of that sequence cut together, which is not all that different from what you guys will see on Wednesday, it just feels like a movie. That was my reaction. It was, ‘This feels like a movie, this feels like a motion picture.’

Access: You didn’t start crying?
Marc: Honestly, the stuff that gets me emotional are really the emotional scenes. Truth be told, if there’s an emotion attached to seeing that sequence, it’s pride. I’m so proud of our incredibly talented, camera, production and stunt teams. The production group is so amazing. They are constantly blowing me away and I’m just immensely proud of them.

Access: How big is the cliffhanger you’re going to leave us with this season?
Marc: It’s funny… one of the things that we didn’t do last season, which we wanted to do this season, was we didn’t really have a chance to sort of wrap the season up. Tommy died at the end of Season 1 and boom, you were out. [This season] we wanted to give ourselves time to sort of bring the whole season in for a landing in a way that we denied ourselves at the end of Season 1, that’s not to say there won’t be cliffhangers. There’s one, what I would call ‘traditional’ cliffhanger, and then there’s a series of other moments that while not a traditional cliffhanger are definitely designed to make you go, ‘Oh wow! I really want to see what happens in Season 3.’ But the structure of the season finale, by design, is very different from the structure of the first season finale.

Access: In the trailer, Oliver says he has to kill Slade. Should we be worried about Slade’s survival, if you’re a bad guy fan?
Marc: This dilemma of Oliver’s — that he’s facing a villain that can only be defeated by killing him in a time when Oliver has basically sworn an oath not to kill again — that is a dilemma that we set for him back at the beginning of the year. We knew that we were going to get to this moment and I think what’s interesting about the finale is that Oliver faces that moment more than once in the course of the finale and, hopefully, we’ve come up with a way of resolving that question that will surprise you.

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- Stephen Amell Promete La 'Mayor Batalla' de todas, y un momento 'Impactante' en la Finale (THR):

Stephen Amell Promete La 'Mayor Batalla' de todas, y un momento 'Impactante' en la Finale
por Philiana Ng 7:00 AM PDT 14/05/2014

Arrow wraps up its second season with a finale that pits a former protege against his ex-mentor. Titled "Unthinkable," Wednesday's closer has Oliver (and a few of his friends) facing off against Slade and his Mirakuru army. Slade has vowed to shatter Oliver's world, a declaration borne mainly out of spite after Oliver "caused" Shado's death all those years ago on the island. Following Moira's death, Slade has his eye on one more victim in Oliver's orbit.

In a preview chat with The Hollywood Reporter, Stephen Amell touts "the biggest fight in the history of the show," a not-so-deadly finale and hints at season three.

The entire season has come down to an anticipated showdown between Slade and Oliver. How would you describe this final battle?

There are two of them and that’s the coolest thing about the finale. In the middle of the episode, we have logistically the biggest fight in the history of the show. At the end of the episode, we have the climactic moments between Oliver and Slade both in the past and in the present. They intercut with one another. You can have all these big fights and big chases, but at the end of the day, what people are waiting for is Oliver and Slade to fight. Period. Just the two of them. That’s what we get in the finale. It’s awesome.

Oliver is getting some all-star help. How many superhero characters does it take to take down Slade?

It takes an army. We’re fighting an army and we need an army, so an army is what we bring, which is an actual line from the episode. The whole idea is that this is such a formidable challenge that Slade is presenting that we literally need an army. The cool thing for Oliver is relying on other people for help is not his strongest but he is absolutely, positively forced to accept anybody’s help if they’re offering. That’s a new thing for him.

In the past, he’s gotten help from Canary and sometimes Roy, but here, he has to incorporate at least half a dozen others. Does Oliver play well with others?

This is the first time he’s embraced everyone else’s help. Obviously Felicity and Diggle are part of the team, but he needs to rely on Nyssa, he needs to rely on Roy.

With Sebastian Blood biting the dust last week, I imagine we’re not done with death. How deadly does the finale get?

Actually, not too deadly -- except for one moment that is shocking, only because it's so simple. It happens early in the episode. Oliver's M.O. all year has been not killing, whether or not he can hold back against Slade is the ultimate moment that we come to this season. It's not a particularly deadly finale.

Oliver has managed to stay on course this season with his vow not to kill. How close does he get to breaking that?

That's where we find ourselves in the finale. Can he follow through? How many things have to be sacrificed for him to stay on this course? That's what we examine in the finale and it takes Oliver to a place that's not necessarily to killing, but it's a place that he's never gone to before. It's measures that he'd never consider taking before.

With his mother's death and Thea potentially teaming with Malcolm, how has that affected Oliver? Has he even had time to think about that part of his life?

We don't really know yet. This will be our third episode since Moira's death and episodes 21 through 23 take place over the course of one night. Oliver doesn't even know that Malcolm's alive. He thinks Thea left Starling City. That's this gigantic elephant in the room. As far as Oliver moving forward without a family, ostensibly as an orphan, he hasn't had a chance to consider that yet because there's such a clear and present danger right in front of him.

Now that Laurel is in the know of his Arrow identity, has their relationship changed? Do you think it will?

They'll have their moment of trying to reconcile all of this new information. But it hasn't happened yet because it's been five hours since Oliver found out Laurel knew. They'll have their moment but it won't happen this season.

Katie Cassidy said recently that Laurel believes she and Oliver are "soulmates." Does Oliver share those same feelings?

Oliver's always going to love Laurel. He's always going to love her, period. But things change. Oliver never wanted Laurel to know for a reason because knowledge equals danger. The people that find out his identity always find themselves in the crosshairs of trouble. I think that her knowing, even though it's revealing Oliver to be the guy she always hoped he would be, at the same time, it may make it more difficult for them to have a relationship in the future beyond friendship.

Where do Felicity and Oliver stand in the finale? Will fans be happy?

Oh boy, I can't tell you that! (Laughs.)

What can you say?

If every Arrow fan sat down and tried to figure out where the finale would leave us, meaning city, place and time, nobody would get it.

Looking ahead to season three, it was revealed that Oliver had a child pre-island and pre-Queen's Gambit. How do you think he'd take the news if and when he finds out the woman didn't give up the baby?

I hope that's something we get to examine. I think we do a good job of resolving this season and leaving enough open threads that people will be excited to come back.

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- El Finale de Arrow Tiene 2 Cosas que no han sido hechas antes en TV, promete Stephen Amell (E!Online):

El Finale de Arrow Tiene 2 Cosas que no han sido hechas antes en TV, promete Stephen Amell
Por Tierney Bricker 14 de Mayo 10:00 AM PDT

Concerned that Arrow won't have enough time to wrap up all of its insanely awesome storylines by the end of tonight's finale?

You aren't alone! "My biggest fear going into the finale that we wouldn't have enough time to tell the story," star Stephen Amell told E! News. However, Amell quickly assured us that yes, the CW hit's season two finale is everything fans are expecting it to be: epic.

"Some of the stuff that we pull off in the finale...I think there are two things in the finale, from an action standpoint, that just haven't been on TV before."

Aside from action, the finale is also packed with emotion, Amell teased. Here's what he told us fans can expect from "Unthinkable."

Who Do You Love?: We've all seen the pictures of Slade (Manu Bennett), Oliver's foe, holding both Laurel (Katie Cassidy) and Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards), echoing the Island flashback of Oliver having to choose between Sara and Shado five years ago. (And we all know how well that ended.)

"Oliver has to make the brutal decision that he's ever made. He has to go to lengths that he's never gone to before," Amell previewed. "Oliver has always been so focused on protecting the people around him and the people that he cares about, and in order to finally, hopefully, get a leg up on Slade, he has to do things that Slade would never even consider him capable of."

And Olicity fans can expect some major "payoff" for all the tension that's been brewing between the pair this season, as Amell assured us, "We don't tease anything unless we're going to ultimately explore it. So all of the angst and the build-up between Oliver and Felicity throughout the course of the season, we find a resolution in the finale."

The Grim Reaper Comes to Starling City: Of course, big deaths happen all the time on Arrow: The season one finale saw the death of Tommy (Colin Donnell), Oliver's best friend, and Slade recently killed Oliver's mother, Moira (Susanna Thompson). So can we expect a major death tonight? Take what you will from this tease from Amell:

"The scene between Tommy and Oliver at the end of the [season one] finale was the whole point of this season, the journey that it took him on, and in the end, my last scene in the finale between Slade and I is the culmination of that journey."

Also telling? The pair's past will play heavily into that final scene. "We have something that we've never attempted on the show, which is a direct splicing go the past and the present throughout act five, and it is a roller coaster ride."

City of Heroes, Indeed!: Anyone else get chills during the promo when all the Heroes are heading off into battle together, an iconic image if there ever was one on the show? Well, it almost didn't happen, Amell spilled.

"A line of dialogue was there that would've made the formation different. So they were setting up the formation andI stopped everything and said, 'Guys, if I may, this has to be in the middle with Roy on my right and Sara on my left. There's not other way that can happen,'" he explained. "And everyone looked at it and was like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah! You're right, let's drop that line of dialogue.' And then it just ended up being this iconic formation."

And while it wasn't Amell's "favorite scene" of the finale, he gushed that it made him "proud of the show" and "was the crowning moment of the season" for him.

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- El Co-Creator de Arrow Marc Guggenheim sobre la Finale de la on Season 2 de esta noche (time.com):

El Co-Creator de Arrow Marc Guggenheim sobre la Finale de la on Season 2 de esta noche
Por Eric Dodds 14 de mayo, 2014 1:55 PM ET

The popular CW superhero drama concludes its second season tonight. TIME talks to one of the men in charge about what to expect in the finale, where the show goes from here and how Arrow fits in the DC Comics universe

This month’s upfronts season has ushered in the rise of the superhero era on television. From Gotham to The Flash to Agent Carter, broadcast networks are nearly as keen to bring masked heroes to TV as studios have been to bring them to the big screen. For now, however, the king of the genre is CW’s Arrow, which wraps up its second season tonight with a two-hour finale. Once again, Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) must save Starling City while facing a seemingly unconquerable foe, this time in the form of friend-turned-nemesis Slade Wilson (Manu Bennett).


TIME: Were there different sorts of things you wanted to accomplish with Season 2 compared with Season 1?

Marc Guggenheim: Yeah, great question. Well, our goal, you know, sort of on a meta-level was our goal is to top ourselves from season 1. I think that’s probably fairly obvious, or that’s an obvious call that I think any second season show should have. We went in, we knew we wanted to tell a very concrete story with respect to Oliver making a journey from vigilante to hero. And we knew we wanted to center the evolution around this idea of him giving up killing as a means of accomplishing his ends. So we knew we had that sort of core dynamic to play with. The other thing we sort of wanted to accomplish was we wanted to focus the storytelling a little bit. You know, in 1, we were still figuring out a lot of things with the show, and we sort of felt that there were times where certain characters would get siloed off in their own stories, and those stories wouldn’t feel connected to the main narrative. You know, we have a big ensemble. We have a large group of characters and to a certain extent you’re always going to have to have some of these sort of adjunct stories, just to move plot forward. But one of the things we decided to do in season 2, and I’m reasonably happy with the way it worked out, was even when you have those adjunct stories, they either spin off from or eventually connect to the main plot of the episode. So the adjunct stories don’t feel as siloed off as they did back in season 1. And that was very important to us going in.

TIME: At the end of last season, obviously the two big deaths — or so it appeared — were Tommy and Malcolm. Was it hard letting those characters go, and did you know at the time that you were going to be bringing Malcolm back?

Guggenheim: Well, it was easier to let John Barrowman go only insofar as we didn’t have him under contract, and he’s a busy guy. So our attitude with John has always been, you know, we love having him on the show for as much as we can have him on the show. It was very difficult with respect to Colin [Donnell] because Colin was a series regular on the show, you know, had sort of signed on for the long haul as it were, and is just an incredibly nice guy to boot. So it was a difficult and painful decision for us. We didn’t know at the outset that we were going to kill Tommy off. That was something that really we only came to realize around Episode 18 of Season 1, you know, very late in the season. As we started to sort of plot out our end game in greater detail for Season 1, we came to realize that if we were going to sort of honor these themes of sacrifice that we had set up with the pilot and then we had threaded throughout season on, someone needed to make a sacrifice, and we thought about which character’s death would actually impact the most number of the remaining characters. And when we sort of did the math on it, we realized that Tommy, his death really touches everybody. And that would not have been the case if we had picked a different character. So that was sort of an unfortunate realization on our part. It’s just a weird thing creatively to be a show-runner and decide to write a character out because you basically feel like you’re firing someone because there is an actor and they are getting paid to do this job and then they’re not going to be paid anymore. And you feel like you’re firing someone even though you’re not firing them for doing a bad job. You’re ending the position because you feel like it’s of the greatest creative benefit to the show.

TIME: Was that a similar sort of process for Susanna Thompson’s character or was that something you knew was going to happen early on?

Guggenheim: No, actually with Susanna’s character it was very, very similar to the point where we didn’t know originally where Moira’s story was going to take her. You know, that was sort of premised on, A, partially realizing the importance her death would have to Oliver’s season-long arc; and also the reluctance on our part to give Moira another secret. You know, we sort of felt like we had — Moira functions best or functioned best when the audience loves and hates her. And part of her appeal is when she’s got a secret to keep. And in Season 1, she was part of this grand, overarcing conspiracy, and that was cool and mysterious. And then in Season 2, we had given her the secret of knowing Thea’s true parentage. And we didn’t want to come into Season 3 and be like, “Oh, now she’s got this secret!” It just starts to strain credulity a little bit, and we felt we owed Moira better than that.

TIME: Obviously Tommy’s death had a big impact on Oliver heading into this season. Can we expect Moira’s death to have an impact of similar magnitude?

Guggenheim: No, I think one of the things that I think the show does well is it honors the dead very well. You know, in Season 1 when everyone thought Sara was dead, you know, we kept Sara alive. She was present in a lot of scenes, even though the character was someone everyone thought was dead. You know, certainly Tommy resonated throughout Season 2. I fully expect Moira to resonate throughout Season 3. You know, she’ll resonate in a different way than Tommy or Sara did. That’s very much the point. But the idea is that these characters are gone, but they’re never forgotten.

TIME: Right. And is there any sense or is there any chance that we could see Tommy or Moira return in the way that Sara and Malcolm have? Or have you pretty much closed the book on the two of them?

Guggenheim: I would say — you know, you learn never to say never. But I think if they were to return in the way Sara and Malcolm have, it would — they’re very different kinds of characters. You know, Malcolm and Sara sort of traffic in a more heightened world than Tommy and Moira did, and I think their spontaneous resurrection would feel wrong. I think in part also because of the way in which — the other distinction is Malcolm, but certainly Sara, died in a way that left open the possibility of her not being dead, whereas, you know, not by design, but both Tommy and Moira died with sharp objects through their torsos. It’s very hard to sort of buy that back.

TIME: Was bringing Sara back something that you always knew you were going to do ?

Guggenheim: That was part of the design of the series from day one. It’s actually in the original series document that we had sent to the studio network right after we finished the pilot. And it was something that we always thought if we get to Season 2, this is a story we’ll tell. And we were very fortunate to get to Season 2.

TIME: At this point, basically all of the major characters except for Detective Lance and Thea know Oliver’s secret identity. Do you ever worry that too many people know, and how do you go about maintaining that balance of those who do and don’t know?

Guggenheim: Right. Sometimes it seems like all of Starling City knows. And it’s funny. We’re aware of the internet, and we’re aware of Twitter and we’re aware of people having an opinion that, “Oh, too many people know” and even sort of wrote a nod to that in Episode 2.12, you know, where Roy asks “How many people know your secret?” and Oliver just says, “Too many.” You know, that said, that was sort of me not quite speaking my mind because the truth of the matter is that we tend — we always gravitate towards what gives us more story, not less, and what is more interesting, not less. And at the end of the day, a character finding out Oliver’s secret and going forward knowing his secret tends to be more interesting than them not knowing. And if you actually look at like the Chris Nolan Batman movies, a whole host of people knew that Bruce Wayne was Batman: Alfred did, Lucius Fox did, Rachel did. You know, it is sort of part and parcel of the world. But that will be something that will remain fluid of the duration of the series as people come in and out of Oliver’s life and discover or don’t discover his alter ego.

TIME: Is there anyone that you feel like it’s crucial that they not know his identity?

Guggenheim: You know, that’s a great question. It’s funny. Even when I think that there is like a sacred cow topic, that opinion gets changed. One of the things that I think we’ve learned as we go through writing and producing the show is that the show can go in a lot of — the show is constantly surprising us in terms of the directions it can go in. And as a result it’s very hard to say, “Well, this will never happen” because we’re not the first audience, but we’re the first people who need to be surprised. And sometimes the unthinkable is the most interesting story.

TIME: Shifting gears a bit, there were a lot of reports out there that indicated that the Barry Allen character was going to get its own backdoor pilot in one of the later episodes this season, and obviously that’s not quite how things ended up working out. Was it problematic at all for you all to have to change gears on the fly?

Guggenheim: It’s a great question. The only, quote/unquote, problem that it caused for us was we didn’t have a director slotted for the episode because David Nutter who was directing The Flash pilot and who did direct The Flash pilot, he was supposed to be the director of Episode 20, the backdoor pilot. The great thing about that is, you know, what could have been a real disaster, because, you know, coming very — that decision came pretty late in the season, and we didn’t have a director for an episode. But as luck would have it, we ended up getting a guy named Doug Aaroniokoski to direct Episode 20. And he did a phenomenal job. I mean, he quickly became one of our favorite directors by just doing such terrific, terrific work on that episode. So sometimes even the unexpected can lead to something that really helps improve the overall series.

TIME: How far out do you have the show mapped at the moment? Is it mostly a season-by-season thing?

Guggenheim: We tend to do it season by season. We’re right now in the middle of sort of a four-week boot camp where we figure out the entire season in broad strokes. But we also can help ourselves. We have ideas that we go, “Okay, we can’t do this now because the pieces aren’t in place, but in Season 4 we can do X, Y or Z, and Season 5 we do X, Y or Z. For example, the ending of the Season 2 finale is something that we had in mind ever since the pilot. So I would say it’s kind of like looking down a long road. We have am great clarity of vision with respect to the season that’s right in front of us, but we can also glimpse ahead and sort of see what Seasons 4 and 5 and beyond look like.

TIME: Have you been given any sort of sense of what sort of role the Arrow might play in the larger sort of DC comic universe, whether films or other television shows. Is that something that people have spoken with you about?

Guggenheim: No. [Laughs] No. The one thing I can say with certainty is I will be among the last to know.

TIME: Obviously The Flash story sort of originated within your series. Is there any potential for crossover?

Guggenheim: I think there’s absolute potential for it. I’m a huge fan of The Six Million Dollar Man and I love the episodes where they would cross over with The Bionic Woman. So again, I would never say never. We’ve been so sort of deep into the planning process of Season 3 in terms of the story that we’re telling vis-a-vis Arrow that we haven’t yet gotten to the question of, “Okay are we going to cross over with Flash? How are we going to do it?” et cetera, et cetera. I imagine that time will come because it would be a lot of fun, but we haven’t done it yet.

TIME: There are rumors that another DC Series, Gotham,might only have 13 episodes a season. Is it tough to fill a full 23-episode order every year or is that an amount that you prefer?

Guggenheim: 23 is hard. I’m not going to lie to you. It’s brutal. And yes, every time I hear about a shortened order for a show I get very jealous. It’s funny. I will say, apart from jealousy, my thought process doesn’t extend beyond that because at the end of the day, the network orders the number of episodes they want. And truth be told, I would be very happy to at this point settle for 22 episodes versus 23. At least that way I could get a little bit of a vacation. But again, that decision also gets made way above my head. There are so many — I will say like day in, day out when you’re running a show like this, there are so many decisions that have to get made, you’re actually quite grateful for the decisions you’re not responsible for. So there are plenty of things that are out of my hands, and the number of episodes is certainly one of them.

TIME: And are there any other shows out there that you really enjoy or take some sort of inspiration from?

Guggenheim: Oh, yeah, definitely. Let’s see, we reference Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel quite a bit in the writers room, the way those seasons are constructed has been a strong point of inspiration for us. The X-Files. Andrew Kreisberg who runs the show with me is a huge Dr. Who fan and is constantly talking about that show in the room. Let’s see, what else? In terms of current shows, we talk a lot about like Breaking Bad and Walking Dead in the way they sort of construct their story arcs. I’m a huge fan of the TV show, Wiseguy and I’m very fond of the way that show portrayed its villains in a way that made you occasionally sympathetic to their cause, in addition to — you know, that was really in my mind the first show that actually had multi-episode arcs and bringing things to a satisfying conclusion, as well as a morally conflicted protagonist. But it’s like we always begin the day talking about what shows people have watched the night before. We’re huge fans of Game of Thrones for example, Orphan Black. And even though those shows don’t necessarily correlate directly with Arrow, I’m a very big believer that writers are the product of their inspirations. You do think a lot about what shows you’re gravitating towards. I would also probably be remiss If I didn’t list Lost just as a great example of a show with a nonlinear structure and mythology and great character moments. You know, that’s an influence on Arrow, as well.

TIME: Tonight’s finale looks like it will once again require Oliver to save Starling City, albeit from a very different kind of threat than the one he faced last year. Are there any particular differences that you focused on while constructing the episode?

Guggenheim: You know, it’s interesting because on the one hand, you think, okay, well in both finales Oliver’s punching a guy, and in both finales, the city is in flames. And yet at the same time I would say that the Season 1 finale and the Season 2 finales are so remarkably different on a lot of different levels. And you’re correct to point out that one of them is that Malcolm is a very different character than Slade, that for one thing with Slade it’s personal. These are two guys who have years of history together, and it completely changes the dramatic nature of those fights. One thing, just to quickly digress, one thing we discovered very early on in the show is it didn’t matter how amazing the stunt sequences were and how incredible the action was: If we didn’t care about what was going on it didn’t matter. And again, like in both finales, Oliver’s punching a guy. But the guy’s he’s punching or the guy who is punching him, those two men could not be more different. And it’s in that difference that the — you know, we’re telling two completely different stories. So part of it’s just the personal connection he has with Slade. But part of it also is that in Season 1 he was able to defeat Malcolm by essentially killing him, even though we subsequently learn that that death didn’t take, Oliver stabbed Malcolm with the intention of ending his life. And in Season 2, the big dilemma for Oliver is, you know, is he willing to break his vow against killing in order to stop Slade’s reign of terror. So there’s a moral dilemma at the center of the second season finale that wasn’t present in the first season finale.

TIME: On a slightly more micro scale, should we expect more of the Anatoli and Bratva backstory to come back into play in the future?

Guggenheim: Well, I will say this: We know that Oliver has to get the Bratva tattoo in some way because he has that on his chest. And David Nykl, who plays Anatoli, is such a phenomenal actor. We will definitely see him again. I can’t say whether or not that will be in the flashback or the present day, but we do have a tendency to write for the actors who we love. And David is really, really terrific as Anatoli. So you haven’t seen the last of him.

TIME: Do you have a personal favorite character to write for or personal favorite episode of the show?

Guggenheim: Hm. Oh, good question. You know, it’s hard to pick a personal favorite because they’re sort of like children and you tend to love the youngest. So right now I’m really enjoying the second season finale, but that just sounds really self-serving. I will say I’m particularly proud of Episode 20, which was when Moira was killed. And it’s funny. I would say that Felicity is probably the easiest to write because she’s fast-talking and witting and probably closest to my personal voice. At the same time, I’ve really — in a way I never expected to because both these men are so — both these characters are so taciturn and not talky. But I’ve really come to enjoy writing the Oliver-Diggle relationship. When we first started working on the show, Andrew, Greg and I, we all write these sort of very witty, verbose characters, like sort of all of our characters are like Felicity. And we had to change our writing style to write the pilot of Arrow, you know, particularly Oliver. We had to change sort of how we wrote as writers because Oliver Queen is not a quippy guy. And we always say like he’s not even a very self-aware guy. And it’s been an interesting journey as a writer for me to work on a show where literally the protagonist is — his voice exists outside of my wheelhouse as a writer and yet I really — I’ve come to enjoy writing him a great deal.

TIME: What sort of influence do Stephen [Amell] or David [Ramsey] or Paul [Blackthorne] have in the development of their characters or what their characters say?

Guggenheim: You know, I will say like with each individual episode, and the actors all have different ways of communicating with me and Andrew, the actors will sort of make their feelings known about, “I don’t think I’d say this,” or “Can I say that instead?” And, you know, sometimes it’s a phone call, sometimes email, sometimes a text, you know. Like I said, everyone’s got their own sort of process. And then with respect to sort of all the cast members, the way it’s evolved is we’ll — sometimes we’ll get on the phone because we shoot in Vancouver and the writers are in Los Angeles, but I would say that the stuff that I really cherish is when we’re up on the set and during lighting breaks we’re just talking with David, Stephen, all the cast, about their characters. And sometimes it’s us just telling them, “Oh, this is what’s coming up for you.” Other times they’re saying, “Oh, you know, it would be a lot of fun if we — if this, this, or this happened.” And I personally find that I get a lot of ideas just from having those discussions. So their input is just very organic. It’s not like, “Hey, I really want to do this.” I will say this: We have the most selfless cast in television. No one’s saying, “You know what I really want to do? I really want to —” Like Diggle, Dave Ramsey didn’t say, “You know what? I want to have a whole episode centered around me,” you know? And we did that twice this year. We did this in 2-06 and 2-16. And that’s an actor who sometimes he only has to say like “Think about this, Oliver.” And he always does it with a smile on his face. That’s the thing. We have such a big ensemble. Everyone is so selfless. They know that they are sometimes going to be at center stage and other times they’re going to be very deep in the background because that’s the only way you can tell a story with such a large ensemble. And everyone does it without a complaint. They do it happily. They do it with pride in the show. Like Colton Haynes — God bless him — he showed up to the table read for Episode 2-20 even though — and Roy’s obviously all over that episode. But he shows up for the table read even though he didn’t have a single line of dialogue. So everyone on the cast — and Stephen sets the tone — everyone on the cast is just incredibly selfless. They’re all team plays and they’re all — you know, no one’s going “Me, me, me.” They’re all going, you know, “What can I do to help the team win?”

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- Marc Guggenheim Habla Sobre la Season 2 Finale de Arrow, sus planes para la Season3, los cruces con THE FLASH, el Universo compartido y más (collider):

Marc Guggenheim Habla Sobre la Season 2 Finale de Arrow, sus planes para la Season3, los cruces con THE FLASH, el Universo compartido y más
Por Christina Radish 14 de Mayo, 2014


The Season 2 finale of The CW drama series Arrow is sure to be surprising, gasp-inducing and action-packed. Finally bringing things to a head between Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) and Slade Wilson (Manu Bennett), the events in the episode, entitled “Unthinkable,” will push Oliver to the edge and force him to decide, once and for all, if he’s a killer or a hero.

During this recent exclusive interview with Collider, executive producer Marc Guggenheim talked about wanting to surpass the bar they set with the Season 1 finale, collectively deciding that this is the last time that they can destroy the city, that the Season 2 finale will have a moment that definitely answers where Laurel (Katie Cassidy) will fit in next season, and whether they ever considered the possibility of Slade Wilson finding redemption. He also talked about how the consequences of the finale will be felt in the third season premiere, that they already have a full plan for Season 3, along with the themes and character journeys, they know what their Season 3 finale will be, what they feel worked best in Season 2 and what they’ll improve on in Season 3, his hope for cross-overs between Arrow and The Flash, and that there are pros and cons of not working in a shared DC Universe, between the films and TV shows. Check out what he had to say after the jump, and be aware that there are some spoilers.

Collider: The last two episodes have really felt more like the first and second acts of an epic three-part finale, rather than just stand-alone episodes. Was there ever a conversation, at all, about airing a special event for the finale, either as a 2-hour block or even as two 2-hour blocks?

MARC GUGGENHEIM: No. I wish that there had been. Those decisions get made by the network. I will say that Episodes 21, 22 and 23 were always designed to be of a piece. It’s actually very nice to hear that you feel the same way that they were designed, which is to be a big three-part finale. You go into these things with a certain intention, and it’s always nice when that intention seems to be successful with the people seeing the episode.

What can you say to tease the final hour, this season, and what fans can expect form the finale?

GUGGENHEIM: The bar we set for ourselves with the finale was that we wanted to basically surpass last year’s season finale, which had a lot of emotional depth, but also had a lot of scope and production value, and the stakes were really high. We have a lot of plates spinning, coming into Episode 23, this year. Our other goal was to catch all of those plates. For us, we go into each season with a plan, and we also give ourselves permission to deviate from the plan. But I’ll say that there’s at least four different things that happen in the finale that were part of our original pitch to the studio and network, a year ago.

When you burn down an entire city to end a season, it must make it really difficult to outdo, in future seasons. What plans do you have to escalate threats without running out of real estate?

GUGGENHEIM: It’s a great question. We’re hard at work, right now, on Season 3 already, and that’s something we’ve been talking about. I certainly don’t want to spoil, a year out, what our Season 3 finale will be, but we’ve all collectively said, “This is the last time we can destroy the city.” The consequences of the finale will be felt, just as they were last year, in the third season premiere. What’s it like to live in a city that is constantly under some kind of attack, and had a major crime problem, to begin with? The consequences of that are something that we’ll be exploring, as soon as the season premiere for Season 3.

How far ahead have you thought about Season 3, at this point? Do you already have an overall theme for the season?

GUGGENHEIM: We’ve actually been back at work for almost about a month now. By this point, we actually have a full plan for the season, and we do know what the themes are and what the character journeys are. We also know how the season will end. We actually have a very clear plan. I dare say that we have a clearer plan for Season 3 than we did going into Season 2, and I thought our plan for Season 2 was pretty clear.

You guys really pay attention to what works and what doesn’t on this show, and you build on that for the next season that you’re doing. What do you think worked the best in Season 2, and what are you look at, that you feel needs to be improved upon for Season 3?

GUGGENHEIM: Great question. I would say that one of the goals that we set for ourselves in Season 2 was to prevent characters from being siloed off into their own storylines, much like they were during Season 1. We wanted the B and C stories to be more connected to the A stories, and I feel like we definitely succeed in that. The episodes were all tighter, with a rising sense of escalation and stakes, in each individual episode. We were very, very happy with that. I would say that the thing we could have done better is that we committed the common second season mistake of introducing more characters than we really had time to service. In that regard, I’m specifically thinking of Isabel Rochev. The end of her story happens in the finale, but I would have liked to have spent a few more episodes with her, throughout the second season. Overall, we really leave it to the audience to determine what was successful about a given season of our show.

With pretty much everyone connected to Oliver Queen being threatened, in some way, how much will that weigh on him in the finale? Will he feel like he’s spread too thin to save everybody?

GUGGENHEIM: That is definitely one of the things that Oliver is dealing with. Probably the paramount thing he’s dealing with is that he made this vow, at the beginning of the season, not to kill, and here he is facing an opponent who, for all intents and purposes, it looks like the only way to beat him might be to kill. In fact, at least one character, during the finale, tells Oliver that what’s happening right now is because of his reticence to take a life, and that if he’s going to stop it, he’s going to have to break his oath. When we started out the season, and we knew that the season would be about Oliver going from vigilante to hero, we knew we would dramatize that, in the form of creating a situation where he would have to debate whether or not to commit murder. I don’t want to spoil how that gets resolved, but where Oliver finds himself in the finale has always been part of the emotional trajectory that we set for him, since the beginning of the year.

Do you feel like you’ve planted the seeds now, for Laurel to take on a more active role in Season 3, as far as the action and Team Arrow go?

GUGGENHEIM: I will say that the finale contains a moment that very definitively answers that question.

Had you ever considered Slade Wilson having a change of heart or finding redemption, at any point, or was this always the story arc that you wanted to follow, with him being a straight-up villain?

GUGGENHEIM: It’s a good question. We consider pretty much everything in the writers’ room. Everything is fair game. With Slade, he doesn’t consider himself a villain. Slade considers himself someone who has embarked on this path of vengeance that he feels is very justified. It would be hard to redeem that kind of character without him having a total 180. It would probably zap all of the dramatic tension out of things. But at the same time, it’s hard because Slade has his own code of honor. You don’t want to just reduce him to a two-dimensional villain. He definitely goes through a change, during the finale, that will definitely give viewers a new understanding of Slade’s vendetta, by virtue of the change he goes through.

Do you personally like the fact that at least right now the DC Universe of the movies and the TV shows are separate and don’t cross-over with each other? Does it make it easier, as a writer, to be able to invent all of this separately?

GUGGENHEIM: Honestly, as with most things, I see it as having pros and cons. We’ve enjoyed crafting the story that we’re crafting. We’ve enjoyed laying the foundation for The Flash series. In Season 3, I hope that we’ll get a chance to enjoy crossing the two shows over, every now and again. Because of working on the show, I’m very intimately familiar with the pros and cons of both working in a shared universe and not working in a shared universe. Beyond that, because it’s not my decision to make, I don’t actually have a strong opinion on it. What good would my opinion be, if I didn’t have any say in the results of it? So, our whole approach has always been, “This is the current state of affairs. If that changes, great, we’ll change, accordingly. But in the meantime, we’ll keep doing what we’re doing.” We’re actually very grateful for the collaboration that we have with DC. They’ve been incredibly supportive of the show, and they’ve been very giving, with respect to giving us access to various different characters and corners of the DC Universe. I don’t expect that to change, quite frankly. It’s been working out really well, for all concerned.

Well, thanks so much for making a great season of Arrow, and for talking to us a few times throughout the season. We’re really looking forward to seeing The Flash. And thank you for taking over the world, one superhero at a time.

GUGGENHEIM: I really appreciate it. Thanks so much.

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- Productor de ‘Arrow’ Adelanta una épica Season Finale que es ‘Más que tan sólo explosiones’ (MTV):

Productor de ‘Arrow’ Adelanta una épica Season Finale que es ‘Más que tan sólo explosiones’
Por Alex Zalben 14/05/14

“Arrow” has had an all around epic second season, and tonight it comes down to the biggest battle in the show’s history. Who will come out on top: the heroes, led by Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell); or an army of super-powered villains, led by Slade Wilson (Manu Bennett)?

By the time the credits roll at 9 p.m. we’ll know, one way or another. To find out what to expect from the season finale in advance, though, we talked to Andrew Kreisberg, the Executive Producer and writer of “Unthinkable.”

MTV News: We’re very excited about the season finale. From all of the promos, it seems like a small, intimate affair, not a lot of characters involved or anything like that.

Andrew Kreisberg: Exactly, exactly. All kidding aside, despite the large cast, and the biggest fight we’ve ever done, the biggest visual effects we’ve done, there really are a lot of small character moments, which I think differentiates “Arrow” from other action adventure TV shows. It does a lot of strong character work, or we hope it does a lot of strong character work.

It’s more than just explosions, it’s really about these people we’ve come to care about.

MTV: Given the footage we have seen, it seems like you’ve got this epic fight between Oliver’s team, and Slade’s army; but in the end it comes down to a moment between Oliver, Felicity and Slade. Are we headed towards something smaller, and gut-wrenching?

Kreisberg: It’s got a little bit of everything. It’s obviously got this big, giant fight… But I don’t think anybody is going to be too surprised to find out that at the end of the day it’s going to come down to The Arrow versus Slade, with the fate of the city and a few people’s lives in the balance.

We actually open the episode with this epic montage, which could be titled “The Sad Ballad of Oliver Queen and Slade Wilson,” to remind people this started early in season one. This episode is not just the culmination of this season, but also last season.

It really is, at the end of the day about these two men and the woman they both loved, and the anger that was unleashed from her death.

MTV: So what’s it been like, taking a character like Slade who started as an ally and then making him an arch-villain who’s almost destroyed an entire city?

Kreisberg: It’s been fun, for the most part. It’s always exciting to take a character people think they know and turn him on his head, and have people experience him in a whole new way. The best villains tend to have a personal connection to the hero. The fact that this was Oliver’s friend, that Oliver is only alive right now because of Slade Wilson, because of the stuff Slade taught him on the island, how to survive the island, and the number of times he saved his life on the island.

In an odd way, Oliver owes Slade his life. And to have that be the person who is taking everything from you, and decimating your life bit by bit, life by life, it’s that much more painful, because Oliver feels some measure of culpability in what’s happening because he feels like he let Slade down.

The person it was most challenging for was Manu, because he throws himself with such gusto into everything he does. Manu and Selena, who plays Shado, and Stephen really had a fun Three Musketeers vibe on the island. And now, all of sudden they were having to kill each other, and scream and yell at each other. I think it was probably hardest on Manu, who was suddenly thrust into the role of villain.

MTV: The big season arc has been about whether Oliver is going to kill again, to become a murderer like he was in season one. I imagine we’ll get an answer to that tonight, but whether he does, or doesn’t… Is there a wrong choice?

Kreisberg: This season really was about Oliver deciding, “Can I be a hero if I’m also a killer?” That was the task he set out for himself at the beginning of the season, and that all comes to a head in this episode.

The choices that Oliver makes in the episode… That’s partially where the title comes from. He’s making some “Unthinkable” choices in this episode, that some people I’m sure will question, and debate about their merits.

Despite the explosions, and the fights, and the stunts, and the visual effects, watching Oliver wrestle with the decision to be a hero or a killer is the emotional core of the episode. That’s what makes it so exciting.

MTV: I imagine it helped getting an early pick-up for season three, but when you’re approaching a season finale like this how much is tying up what went on over the past twenty or so episodes, versus table-setting for next year?

Kreisberg: It’s both. That’s one of the aspects of the show that we’re most proud of. It does feel like, to us that this is a satisfying conclusion to season two, while at the same time setting up season three.

In a way, they are sort of the same thing in this case, because this episode is about people making a choice, and really embracing a destiny for themselves. With Oliver, it’s debating, “Am I a hero, or am I a killer?” For Thea, “Am I the daughter of Moira, or the daughter of Malcolm.” For Sara, it’s, “Am I the Black Canary, or am I a member of the League of Assassins?” For Roy, “Am I Thea’s boyfriend, or am I part of Team Arrow?”

Everyone has a choice to make in this episode… And they make it. I imagine some people will be surprised at who chooses what, but in making those choices they are completing their arcs for season two, while letting the audience know, “Oh, now I know where this person will be heading for season three.”

It wasn’t a question so much of having to modulate between the two choices, between finishing season two, or starting season three, because they really in a lot of places were the same thing.

MTV: You mentioned Sara’s decision… I know you guys have always said that being Black Canary was Laurel’s destiny, but Sara certainly seemed to embrace the role this season — and I imagine you guys have gotten somewhat attached to Caity Lotz. We had that flash of Laurel picking up a bow and arrow last episode, so is it possible that things have changed? Will Laurel not end up being Black Canary, with Sara taking the title?

Kreisberg: The answer to that question will be apparent 43 minutes after you start watching the finale. [Laughs]

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- Marc Guggenheim habla sobre una final revolucionaria, un nuevo capítulo para la serie y más ():

Marc Guggenheim habla sobre una final revolucionaria, un nuevo capítulo para la serie y más
Por Sabienna Bowman 14 Mayo, 2014

Arrow season two is coming to a conclusion tonight, Wednesday, May 14th at 8/9c on The CW with an explosive episode that will change the course of the series. Recently, executive producer Marc Guggenheim talked with TV Equals about what fans can expect in the finale, how it sets up season three and much more (including a small Oliver/Felicity teaser). Read on to get all of the scoop before tuning into the finale.

TV Equals: Last week’s episode was so huge, was there any budget left for the finale?

Marc Guggenheim: I was actually really worried about that. We definitely went really big in the penultimate episode. We did save some money left over to throw towards the finale and honestly, I think it is bigger than last year’s and it is bigger than episode 22 for sure. One of the things people have come to expect from our finales is that we really blow the doors off of the show and we always try to reach a new level of production value and I definitely think we succeeded on that score with the season finale.

TV Equals: With the battle between Slade and Oliver coming to a head, can you talk about what we can expect from them as we head into the finale?

Marc Guggenheim: We are really ending the season as we planned. The goal with the finale was to bring all of the various storylines to a close and these are storylines that we have literally been seeding since the season premiere of season two. The choices we have made throughout the season were all leading up to this final episode.

I will say we had some surprises along the way, but for the most part the season finale is the season finale we pitched to the studio and network almost a year ago.

TV Equals: If Oliver decides to kill Slade rather than cure him, what kind of impact will that decision have on season three?

Marc Guggenheim: Let me say this, the season finale definitely provides a definitive end to the story of the season and it is a definitive end to the Slade/Oliver story. Which is not to say there are not threads we won’t decide to pick up in season three, but I really think that the season finale is not just a conclusion to season two, but it really feels like the conclusion to seasons one and two.

The landscape we start out season three in feels very different. Obviously, it’s still the same show, but it feels like we are now starting a new chapter or a new book in our series of books than it did necessarily when we were at the beginning of season two.

TV Equals: There was a cliffhanger last week with the fate of John Barrowman’s Malcolm left in question after Thea shot him. Are you really going to kill Barrowman off for good?

Marc Guggenheim: Malcolm just can’t seem to die can he? I saw online someone saying “you only showed us Thea pulling the trigger, you didn’t show us Malcolm getting shot.” The one thing I will say very definitively is she did shoot him, and she shot him not just once, but twice.

We love John— I would watch the finale.

TV Equals: I asked the Twittersphere what question they wanted answered the most and they all wanted Felicity/Oliver teasers. Can you tell us anything?

Marc Guggenheim: The finale definitely contains the biggest Oliver/Felicity moments we have ever had on the show.

TV Equals: Laurel has been a divisive character amongst the fan base, but she seems to be coming into her own now that she knows about Oliver and Sara’s identities. Do you have an idea for what is in store for her next year?

Marc Guggenheim: We have a very clear idea, and I think the finale shows our hand in terms of what our plans for Laurel are. The people who are fans of Laurel, I think they should check out the finale because just as we have a lot of big Felicity moments there are a lot of big Laurel moments– one key one in particular that I think they will be interested in.

TV Equals: With The Flash officially picked up, are you hoping to crossover the two series next season?

Marc Guggenheim: We haven’t started really having intense conversations about it, but that would be the hope and part of the fun of having another show set in the same universe. The how and the when is something we still have to figure out.

TV Equals: Which DC characters are on your dream list to show up in Starling City?

Marc Guggenheim: I don’t want to get in trouble by listing them, but we have already started our work on season three and we have already started our conversation with DC about the characters we would like to see on the show. I’m really excited. I think there are some characters that we are talking about for season three who have been on my list for quite some time.

TV Equals: Stephen Amell recently said online he would like to see his cousin Robbie Amell play Batman. How do you feel about that?

Marc Guggenheim: It’s funny, I love Robbie. He is a terrific actor and ever since The Tomorrow People was cancelled, I’ve been like how do we get Robbie on the show? The decision about any Batman characters gets made way above my head. My suspicion is with Gotham and Batman vs. Superman you are not going to see Bruce Wayne show up on Arrow anytime soon.

I do think Robbie is a tremendous talent, and we would love to see him on the show in some capacity.

TV Equals: In your own words, why is the Arrow season finale must see TV?

Marc Guggenheim: If you are someone who has never seen an episode of Arrow, I think you could still come in and enjoy the episode immensely. It really is like one, little mini-movie. If you haven’t seen the previous 45 episodes, that will not impact your enjoyment of it.

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- La Felicity de Arrow en su complicada evolución y el por qué 'ella es una heroína' (blastr.com):

La Felicity de Arrow en su complicada evolución y el por qué 'ella es una heroína'
Por Kathie Huddleston 14 de Mayo, 2014 - 5:06pm

Dark days have been visited on gang of the CW's Arrow and their town of Starling City, and right in the thick of it is Oliver Queen's plucky secretary/secret Arrow Scoobie gang member, Felicity Smoak, as the show premieres its season two finale tonight.

“She is a hero,” said Canadian actress Emily Bett Rickards, who plays Felicity, during an exclusive interview with Blastr. “She's not the muscle. She's the brain. I think she feels left out and that's her sense. But she's also learning to accept and embrace her brain power, when before she always felt isolated by it. I think weighing it in as an equal part is something that she'll always struggle with. But that's not to say she's not starting to become more open and wants to be more open to the physical aspect of it, too. She wants to be able to self-defend if she doesn't have a keyboard,” said Rickards.

Season 2 of Arrow has been a big one for Felicity, who has come into her own in a way. She's been the moral center of the Arrow's Scoobie gang and is one of the reasons the Arrow stopped killing his enemies.

“I think voicing those things is something that she might not have had the confidence to do before. Voicing those things and being like, 'Well, I'm only going to stay on until we find Walter,' and then, 'Well, I'm part of the team now, so this isn't right. You can't just go around killing everyone. They're people, too. This person's a brother and this person's a husband and this person's a sister,' and that sort of thing,” she said.

The bespectacled, plucky computer genius had an almost romance with Barry Allen (Grant Gustin), even though he got struck by lightning and will be turning into The Flash this fall on the CW. And she's started to overcome her insecurities as the non-physical member of the team.

“She is stronger than she believes. She's just relatable in the sense that those are things that we fight with, too. 'Am I as strong as I think I am?' Not just physically, but, 'Are my morals as strong as what I'd like to believe?' That's what it comes down to when you're put into those hard decisions. I think that she's proven herself to be a good role model. I'd like to see her make some bad decisions that she learns from,” said Rickards.

One of those bad decisions may be her desire to get into the field. This season, she even got shot saving Sara Lance's life and ended up with her first battle scar.

“I'm proud of her. I find the way she's dealt with her personal problems, and I'm not talking about how she has to save Starling City, I mean her ability to socially have a life and stick by her morals, even being in this high-stakes, life-threatening situation. I'm proud of how she worked through that. I think her anxiety has gone down. Her friend count has gone from zero to four. She's changed so much more in the past year than she ever has in her lifetime. That's my verdict for season two is that she has let herself change. There's been a liberation and she's learning to accept herself as this new person, growing from where she came from. I'm just very proud of her. She's got a really special place in my heart.”

The actress admits that her brainy character has had an impact in her real life too.

“Felicity is definitely seeping into my life as much as I'm seeping into hers. I've definitely become more awkward, I think. It's interesting. She's been exposed to all these new activities and situations environmentally and socially that she wouldn't have been in before last year. By playing her, and with the show becoming more well-known, I'm also thrown into activities and environments and situations, getting to talk to people that I wouldn't have had the opportunity to talk to or meet before. We've both been going through a big life change.”

Luckily for Arrow fans, the successful CW series has been picked up for a third season, which will premiere this fall. That means, assuming Felicity survives tonight's bloodbath on Sterling City by Slade Wilson and his the Mirakuru-enhanced warriors, we'll have plenty of time to learn more about her. That includes her crush on Oliver.

“I think Felicity half-knows she's in love with him, but also very much feels inadequacy in that. I think he has the reverse of it. I think he chooses to ignore what might be there, and I think she does too. I think they're both half ignoring what those feelings might be, because the acknowledgment of them is when things will change. Whether those acknowledgments come out [next season], and when they do, there's a whole bunch that's going to change. The dynamic of the team. There will be probably a few episodes that revolve around 'Where are we now?' sort of things. Then it comes down to what's more important? Friendship or your feelings?”

Considering Felicity's short romance with Barry, romance with someone else is a possibility.

“Felicity needs a love interest that doesn't get struck by lightning,” joked Rickards, regarding the fate of Barry, who got his origin story on Arrow this season.

But mostly Rickards would like to learn more about Felicity as the series goes forth.

“I'd like to know if she's willing to let go of this adoration she has for Oliver that might be hindering some decisions she makes,” said Rickards. “I'd like to know more about her family...I'd like to see her have a love interest. Or a friend, a friend that she goes and has coffee with. Just a friend. A friend would be nice.”

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- Es el ejército de Slade contra el de Oliver en una "Épica" Season Finale de Arrow (cbr):

Es el ejército de Slade contra el de Oliver en una "Épica" Season Finale de Arrow
Por Albert Ching 14 de Mayo, 2014

Season two of "Arrow" utilized its DC Comics source material further expand the world of Starling City, incorporating elements like "the Canary" (the show's take on Black Canary, played by Caity Lotz), Sebastian Blood, the League of Assassins, Amanda Waller and the Suicide Squad.

Yet, it's a conflict with its earliest roots in season one that has driven the main action of the season (and also taken some characters off the board to balance out all of the new additions): Main character Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell), the titular Arrow, and Slade Wilson (Manu Bennett). While the two started as allies during Oliver's time on "hellish island" Lian Yu, this season both revealed the circumstances behind Slade's quest for vengeance, and showed him fully embracing his Deathstroke persona in the present day. As the season finale, "Unthinkable," starts, Starling is under siege due to Slade's army of Mirakuru-fueled criminals, prompting Amanda Waller to send A.R.G.U.S. drones to wipe out the city to keep the threat contained.

CBR News spoke with "Arrow" executive producer Andrew Kreisberg -- who co-wrote the episode with fellow EP Marc Guggenheim, with a story by Greg Berlanti -- about topping the show's initial season finale, balancing Oliver and Slade's personal grudge with the large-scale action, the impending arrival of Nyssa al Ghul (Katrina Law) and the League of Assassins and how he views the show's evolution over the past season.

CBR News: Andrew, inherently, a season finale comes with a lot of expectations from fans for things to be suitably epic. There have already been quite a few big episodes this season of "Arrow" -- is there much internal pressure involved? Is it a priority to top what you've done before?

Andrew Kreisberg: It's definitely something we set out to do. We approached season two as a sequel to season one, in the same way as a movie sequel -- the introduction of some new characters, the sets are a little bit bigger, and the stakes are a little bit bigger. Especially in that first episode of the season, "City of Heroes," there were so many things that were done in a "sequel" way. Coming into the finale, we did feel an obligation to go big or go home, and I think that's why, in essence, the finale kind of started in episode 21, and all of episode 22 encompasses it. Whereas 22 was more of a run-and-gun episode and there wasn't as much time to stop and chat, [and] while 23 has some of our biggest, epic action scenes of all time, it also has a lot more time for reflection, and looking back on the course of the season, and Oliver's journey, and hopefully some of the more emotional scenes we've had on the show.

It seems that the "Arrow crew" are definitely long-term planners. Is this pretty much exactly where you knew you'd end up with season two, or has there been room for improvisation along the way?

There's always room for improvisation with us. We very firmly believe in having a plan, and so many of the things that we're doing at the end of this season are not only a result of the plan that we had at the beginning of season two, but also stuff that Greg, Marc and I had discussed on the pilot. Even Sara being alive was something that we had discussed on the pilot. That was why there were so many references to Sara, and we did that storyline about Alex Kingston, playing Dinah, believing that Sara was still alive -- only to bury it, because we knew we were going to bring her back.

But the best part about having a plan is that you can change the plan. There are definitely some things in the finale that was stuff that we had thought of along the way, but so much of the structure was built from the very beginning. Especially nowadays, when people binge-watch shows, and they'll watch 10 in a row, I think there's even more of a responsibility on the writers and producers' part to not make it look like they're making it up as they go -- or if they are making it up as they go, make it not look like that. [Laughs]

As things have been ramping up leading to the finale, there's a lot going on, down to drones potentially nuking Starling City entirely, and multiple characters on the board all having a stake -- but it all stems from the very personal issue between Oliver and Slade that's been explored throughout the entire season. With so much happening, what's it like from the writing perspective to balance all of that, and do justice to the personal issue at the heart of the matter, while having this bombastic action going on at the same time?

We actually open the episode with this epic montage that recounts the sad ballad of Oliver Queen and Slade Wilson, starting with their very first meeting, up until the present, to open the show, to really remind people that everything that's happening -- whether it's the League of Assassins, or the Mirakuru army, Amanda Waller, A.R.G.U.S., the drones, the police department -- at the root is the conflict between these two men. The unquenchable anger that Slade has against Oliver, and the overriding guilt Oliver has for his culpability in Shado's death, all throughout -- especially much more than last week -- [are] these opportunities for meditations on how much of this is Oliver's fault, how much does Oliver have to keep paying, and how much will everyone else have to pay for Oliver's actions? And ultimately, can Oliver become the hero that he wants to be?

It's going to be a lot easier to talk about the finale once everyone's seen it. [Laughs] But it was definitely hard managing everything anyway. We'll leave it to the audience to decide if we got our sums right. We set up a lot of threads over the course of the season, whether it was the Suicide Squad, or Amanda, or the League of Assassins. I think sometimes those things might have seemed like left turns, but we had always planned in having this sort of epic finale where all the pieces came together. Hopefully we pulled it off.

You mentioned the League of Assassins, and one of the things confirmed happening in this episode is the return of Nyssa al Ghul. But she's not by herself, right? We're going to see the League en masse?

Yes. You will discover early on that is where Sara went during her brief sojourn, when she said, "I'm going to see a friend." She was talking about Nyssa. As somebody says in the finale, when you're facing an army, you need an army to fight back -- and now Oliver has it.

Another pivotal character over the last few episodes is Laurel, who has definitely become more involved in the central action than she had been, especially now that she knows Oliver's secret. I've heard you speak before about how much that opens things up, but now that the character has passed that threshold, how much in your opinion has that expanded her potential even further going forward?

For us, it's huge. We've found that the minute anyone knows about Oliver's secret, they become far more fun and easier to write. We've had varying degrees of success moving Laurel's character through season one and season two -- I know not everyone has always been on board with the journey that she's taking, but we felt that whatever choices we made, it was all in service of leading up to this finale. I think people are going to be happy to see where she's going.

With the season wrapping, and building the world of "Arrow" much bigger than it was, what are some of the things that stick out to you as the proudest elements of what the show has been able to achieve this time around?

I think the show has gotten a lot more emotional. Full credit to our amazing production team, and our producers J.P. Finn and Todd Pittson, our stunt coordinators, our directors and our DPs, for making the show look bigger and bolder. I know a lot of people said throughout the season, "Oh, wow -- they have so much more money, and it shows." And the truth is, we didn't have more money -- we actually had less money. That, I don't take any credit for.

But those quiet moments, like when Sara first showed up, and her father saw her alive -- there are so many things that we saw this season that even as a producer, even though I had seen them a bunch of times, I would still get misty and still got emotional. There's one thing in particular in the finale that I get misty-eyed every time I watch it. We always had high hopes for the show. We always looked at season two en masse as a sequel to season one, and like any good sequel, it goes deeper emotionally, and really gets underneath the characters. That's the thing that I really take away from this season. Everything went up a notch.

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- ¡Andrew Kreisberg Adelanta la 'revolucionaria' final de la Season Finale! (JustJaredJr):

¡Andrew Kreisberg Adelanta la 'revolucionaria' final de la Season Finale!
By JustJaredJr 14 Mayo 2014 at 11:15 am

After last week’s breakneck penultimate episode of Arrow, we can’t imagine how epic tonight’s (May 14) season two finale will be!

JJJ caught up with Executive Producer Andrew Kreisberg who gave us the scoop on the brewing Starling City battle, including a possible death and yes – a major Olicity moment!

In tonight’s episode, titled “Unthinkable,” Slade (Manu Bennett) moves forward with his plan to kill one more person in Oliver’s (Stephen Amell) life.

While Oliver has fought all year to be more than the killer he once was, when Slade kidnaps someone close to Oliver’s heart, Oliver is pushed to the edge and realizes sometimes it takes doing the unthinkable to stop the monster.

The season two finale of Arrow airs TONIGHT, May 14 @ 8PM on The CW!

JustJaredJr: Let’s talk those shots at the end first. Whether Malcolm lives or dies, Thea has already been in a dark place lately. How will this interaction with her father affect her going forward?

Andrew Kreisberg: I think Thea has a choice to make. She needs to decide who she wants to be and what she wants to be. And whether she still wants to be Thea Queen because in a way, Malcolm is saying, “You can be Thea Merlyn.” I think the choice Thea makes is going to surprise the hell out of people.

JJJ: We saw Roy get the cure, but what kind of lasting effects will his actions this past season have on him heading into next season?

AK: With Roy, we always say that if someone is going to take a step toward becoming their comic book self, they have to go to the island. And we don’t mean that literally, but we do mean that they have to go through their sort of Crucible and come out the other side. For Roy, this season really has been his Crucible. You’re going to see Roy take his first steps toward the destiny I think the audience wants for him. And that he wants for himself.

JJJ: We’re leading up to this big battle in the finale, where we see all of our characters sort of come together for one cause. What can you tease about that?

AK: Someone says in the finale, “When you’re facing an army, you need an army to fight them. And Slade has his 50 super-powered Mirakuru soliders who are wreaking havoc. It’s going to take more than Oliver, Felicity, and Dig to take them on. We discover early on, that’s where Sara went when she said “I need to go see a friend.” She went to go see Nyssa to get her to help fight back. So Nyssa has a coterie of League of Assassins members and the question is – is Oliver going to be willing to work with killers – especially because his agenda for the year has been to stop killing. Whether Oliver is able to pull that off is the central question of the finale.

JJJ: I really loved the scene last week when Laurel picked up that bow. And I think we saw a major sense of pride when she saw Sara rescue the kid from the building. Any chance we’ll see Laurel go into training and maybe join Team Arrow sometime in the future?

AK: Not specifically in those terms. From the very beginning, Laurel has been on a journey. From our perspective, a very clean and clear one. I know not everyone has always been supportive of the choices we’ve made, and we’ll leave the audience to debate whether they were the right or wrong choices, but we really feel like Laurel is getting to a place that most people in the audience will be happy with. How about if I leave it at that?

JJJ: Sounds good! I love that the show doesn’t really take Oliver’s secret past the point of unrealistic, which was even more evident when we found out Moira knew all along. How and when do you decide that a character should know he’s the Arrow?

AK: It’s always been our experience that whenever someone finds out, they become much more interesting, both the actor and in the writing. And that was certainly the case with Tommy. Once Tommy found out, writing him, it just made all the scenes between him and Oliver so much more super charged. This season, we sort of felt the same thing with Laurel. The least interesting aspect of the show is to write someone saying, “Oliver, Oliver. You just missed the Green Arrow. He just left here. Where were you?” So much of that feels very – and no disrespect because it was my favorite show (laughs) – but it just felt very 60s Batman to us. Once anyone, a civilian, finds out, it brings them into the action and you have much deeper and richer conversation amongst the characters. Again, in season one it was Felicity and Tommy. And in season two, it’s been Roy and Laurel. Not everybody knows now, and some people will find out in season three, and some people won’t. But in a show like this, it’s one of the most exciting changes you can make to the inherent structure. So whenever it is made, it’s sort of like a shot of adrenaline that the writers and actors really appreciate.

JJJ: Do you think more people knowing helps or hinders him?

AK: That’s an interesting question. I never really thought about it. I think it does help. One of the things Oliver’s learned over the course of this season is that secrets are not his best friend and the more secrets you keep from people, that harder it is to have a real relationship with them. When people find out and he’s able to rely on them in a much more true manner. It just makes his relationships with those people stronger. So moving forward, Oliver having his allies in his quest, he doesn’t have to feel so alone and isolated. I think being alone and isolated in the beginning allowed him to sort of lack a true moral compass. He thought he was doing good, but essentially he was just killing people on this list. With the addition of Dig, and the addition of Nyssa and Sara and Roy, and now Laurel, all of these people are allowing him to not be so isolated, and allowing him to vent his frustrations and his fears and his anger to be a much better hero.

JJJ: And we have to ask about Felicity and Oliver’s relationship, of course. That scene last week between them…wow, Emily killed it. We know she gets taken in the finale. Not that it’s lost on him, but does that serve to remind Oliver how important she is to him?

AK: I think there’s probably the most Olicitiest Olicity moment in the finale. Fans of Emily Bett Rickards, which includes Marc [Guggenheim] and myself, are not going to be disappointed in the events of the finale.

JJJ: Any chance we’ll get more of her backstory next season?

AK: Yes. We’ve always talked about getting to meet Felicity’s family. It was something we discussed and we tried to do at the end of this season. But we just felt that we couldn’t ever find the right place for it. Once Slade came into the picture, it was very hard for us to have – what we would call – a sort of “lighter” B-Story. Because at any given moment, any one of them could have been killed. So from episode 15 on, you probably noticed that there weren’t too many side stories that were lighthearted. But hopefully, in the beginning of season three when things are quite so turbo-charged emotionally, danger-wise, we can do something like that. Because we’re all champions of it.

JJJ: Anything else you can tease about the finale? We hear someone dies. Can you confirm anything about that?

AK: I can confirm that Oliver does not die (laughs). No, I’ll just say that the finale is a fitting conclusion to season two, while at the same time, there’s a great deal of set-up for season three. There’s certainly a game-changing moment at the end that I don’t think people will see coming. No one dies lightly on our show. I think that’s one of the reasons the show is so emotional resonant, given that there are people with masks running around shooting bows and arrows at one another. The stakes are very real. The occasional deaths on the show serve to remind us and the audience that they’re playing for keeps, and anyone on the show is in danger of losing their lives.

http://www.justjaredjr.com/2014/05/14/a ... interview/

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- The Flash First Look: "Don't Blink" Promo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnXsnR-2AvU

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Añadidos los enlaces y rátings del 2.23 "Unthinkable". Podéis encontrarlos AQUÍ


- Nueva imagen y video BTS del 2.23 "Unthinkable":



http://instagram.com/p/oBwcP1OGUN/#

(Thanks to @misskatrinalaw & @caitylotz)





- Primera descripción oficial para la S3:

- Descripción oficial S3:

"Tras un violento After a violent naufragio, el billonario playboy Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) desapareció y fue dado por muerto durante cinco años antes de que fuera descubierto vivo en una remota isla del Pacífico. Regreso a casa a Starling City, decidido a arreglar los errores de su familia y luchar contra la injusticia. Para hacer esto, crea la persona de Arrow y se alía con un antiguo militar John Diggle (David Ramsey), una experta científica-ordenadores Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards), el matón de la calle Roy Harper (Colton Haynes) y la asesina internacional Sara Lance (Caity Lotz), mientras que sigue manteniendo su secreto de aquellos que están más cercanos a él inlcuída su hermana Thea (Willa Holland), quien se ha aliado con su enemigo más mortal. Rivalidades y alianzas cambiarán cuando Oliver se enfrenta a su más difícil desafío. Basado en los personajes que aparecen en los cómics y novelas gráficas publicadas por DC Entertainment, ARROW es de Bonanza Productions Inc. en asociación con Berlanti Productions y la Warner Bros. Television, con los productores ejecutivos Greg Berlanti (“Green Lantern,” “Brothers & Sisters”), Marc Guggenheim (“Eli Stone,” “Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters”), Andrew Kreisberg (“Warehouse 13,” “The Vampire Diaries”) y Sarah Schechter."

http://www.greenarrowtv.com/arrow-remai ... tion/17807

- The 2014 CW First Look:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXQGZDC-ctQ

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- El piloto de "The flash" tendrá un crossover con "Arrow":

Tras haber oficialmente ordenado la CQ a "The Flash" como serie, hemos sabido que el primer crossover entre The Flash-Arrow ocurrirá en la premiere (como así parecíamos intuir con el teaser que emitió la CW ayer tras el final de la S2 de Arrow).

Stephen Amell, quien interpreta al arquerop esmeralda Oliver Queen, aparecerña en el piloto de "the Flash".


"En el piloto de The Flash, Barry viene a mí," comenta Amell. "[Es un] pequeño fragmento en el piloto de Flash en sonde él y yo compartimos ena escena juntos, está en el piloto, pero [el rodarlo] se sientió como si fuera nuestra serie porque él es el que viene a City. Eso, para mí, fue uno de los momentos más gratificantes que he hecho como actor porque era esencialmente el mismo equipo que usamos para nuestro piloto, y fue hace dos años y era el mismo director. Fue como volver atrás en el tiempo. [El director de Flash y Arrow] David Nutter me pidió que fuera parte del piloto y nunca diré que no a David Nutter."

Esto puede que abra la puerta a muchos más posibles y potenciales cross-overs, ya que los productores/escritores de ambas series son los mismos.

"Estaríamos locos si no hiciéramos crossovers," añade Amell. "No sé, tienen que ser un evento o grandes momentos, pero las series comparten un universo, y no usar ese hecho sería de locos. Estoy seguro de que lo haremos en algún momento."

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Flash-Arrow ... 81785.aspx

- John Barrowman, regular de la serie para la S3:

Así lo ha anunciado semi-oficialmente Stephen Amell en twitter durante la celebración de los CW Upfronts en N.Y. en la que publicó una foto junto a Barrowman, añadiendo:

#Arrow has a new series regular. @Team_Barrowman -- What could go wrong?!?! (Arrow tiene un nuevo regular de la serie. ¿Qué podría ir mal?)

https://twitter.com/amellywood/statuses ... 5660816385


John Barrowman comentó en la alfombra roja del evento esta mañana: “No puedes mantener sujeto a un buen chico malo”.

El actor también dijo que en la S3 está “emocionado por explorar lo que está aún por venir entre Malcolm y su hija Thea y también lo que está por venir entre Oliver y Malcolm, y todo el resto de ellos.”

http://tvline.com/2014/05/15/arrow-seas ... s-regular/

- Emily Rickards evalúa la escena final: "Me decía, 'Oh No, los fans van a llorar' (TVLine):

Emily Rickards evalúa la escena final: "Me decía, 'Oh No, los fans van a llorar'
Por Matt Webb Mitovich 15 Mayo, 2014 10:31 AM PDT

Arrow Oliver Felicity I Love YouAs The CW’s Arrow barreled towards the conclusion of its action-packed Season 2 finale on Wednesday, a small and quiet yet significant moment of time was carved out for Oliver to take Felicity to the Queen mansion for safekeeping.

Felicity of course balked at the idea, preferring instead to stay in the fight — prompting Oliver to state that when Slade grabbed Laurel, “the woman I love,” he in fact took the wrong gal.

“I love you,” he then told Ms. Smoak.

The moment, misleading as it turned out to be, caught many viewers off guard, but Emily Bett Rickards had an idea the ruse was coming.

“I had sort of heard things,” she told TVLine on the red carpet at The CW’s annual Upfront even on Thursday morning.

That said, as the actress saw the actual moment play out once the actual script was in front of her, she couldn’t help but proactively feel for the fans.

“It was like your heart is sinking, because we knew it was all a set-up, but it was sort of like, ‘Oh my God, oh no…. Ohhh, the fans… Everyone’s going to cry.’”

Was Rickards surprised — or maybe glad? — to see that even in the fleeting moment where Felicity thought Oliver was actually making an admission, her alter ego didn’t come right back with an ILY of her own?

“I was glad, actually, because for one, it’s truthful, because it’s so shocking” to hear Oliver go “there” in the heat of a crisis. “After all this time – 46 episodes, two years – she’s not expecting it,” the actress explains. “I don’t think anyone was. Like, ‘Why are we in the middle of this house when the apocalypse is happening outside? We should be getting machetes! Where’s my ninja sword?’ I think [Felicity's reaction] was a very honest [unspoken] response like, ‘Oh, no, wait… I love you too, but….”

Later, as the finale came to a quiet close on the island of Lian Yu, Felicity and Oliver were afforded “a second” to revisit their proivative exchange, where they acknowledged how one another really sold it, with Slade listening in as hoped. But what went unsaid – and the look in Felicity’s eyes, for certain – suggested that it wasn’t 100-percent theater. Says Rickards with an eye on Season 3, “I think that there’ll be something explored there.”

http://tvline.com/2014/05/15/arrow-seas ... -love-you/

-El elenco de Arrow habla sobre el final, y revelan qué personaje querían originalmente los escritores que fuera el hijo de Merlyn (EW):

El elenco de Arrow habla sobre el final, y revelan qué personaje querían originalmente los escritores que fuera el hijo de Merlyn
Por Samantha Highfill 15 Mayo, 2014 at 3:20PM

After last night’s heart-stopping, shocking, action-packed Arrow finale, we caught up with some of the show’s stars on the red carpet at the CW Upfront to talk about what just happened, what comes next, and all things Canary.

Stephen Amell on Olicity: “Think back to what Oliver said in the sixth episode, which is, ‘Because of what we do, I can’t be with someone I could really care about,’ and I think that that remains true. So I don’t necessarily think that it was a total bait-and-switch.”

Amell on how Oliver will react to losing Thea: “Based on the fact that Oliver has lost both his mother and his father, Thea’s going to be incredibly important to him, so if she’s not what he expects, that’s going to be really difficult for him to deal with.”

Colton Haynes on Roy’s journey: “Roy’s like an emotional wreck. I think that in the future, Roy is just going to go down, now he’s a hero so it’s almost a heroic path, but I think he’s going to go down a path of lies.”

Haynes on Thea going to the dark side: “It’s looking a little like that’s going to happen, but in true Arrow fashion, you have no idea. You can go from killing someone to crying and being very warm-hearted.”

Haynes on if Roy could ever fight Thea: “Here’s the thing: I beat up like three girls this season and no one said anything about it. Everyone’s like, ‘You’re awesome, you’re a badass.’ Not one comment has been, ‘You do not hit women.’ [Laughs] I think I’d let her win.”

Haynes on whether Roy has achieved sidekick status: “He’s still working towards it, but you are going to see something in the premiere of season three that’s going to up his status a little bit.”

Haynes on if Roy will hit the salmon ladder: “Maybe. I haven’t done it yet, but I’m sure they’re going to have side-by-side salmon ladders.”

John Barrowman — now a series regular? — on what he believes Malcolm wants for Thea: “Malcolm in the past has always been able to manipulate people and control them physically and with money and everything else, and when he lost Tommy, he couldn’t control Tommy because Tommy used his emotion. Tommy became a hero because he was emotionally connected to something. What I’m doing at the moment is trying to get in with Thea while she’s emotionally down, so I can control her, manipulate her. Malcolm has to learn how to control people emotionally and physically if he’s going to not lose the people around him, but also if he’s going to build the world around him that he needs in order to succeed.”

Barrowman talks the fatherly twist: “We had lunch with Andrew Kreisberg. It was season 1, we were talking about the future of Malcolm Merlyn, it was myself and my partner who said, ‘Why don’t you make Thea my daughter?’ They wanted Oliver to be my son, and I said, ‘No, it’s too Star Wars.’ It’s, ‘Oliver, I’m your father.’ But if you do Thea then it creates a whole new can of worms because Oliver will have a very difficult time killing Malcolm because he knows what it’s like to lose a father and won’t want to kill his sister’s father. And also it meant I was guaranteed a job for a long time. Yay!”

Paul Blackthorne on Quentin’s fate: “It’s touch-and-go, 50-50. We’ll see what happens.”

Blackthorne on how Quentin would react to Laurel becoming the Canary: “With Sara he always knew that Sara was a bit of a tear-away, but [if] Laurel, Miss book-reading Laurel, is going to start running around on rooftops, it’s going to be a little bit hard for him to handle.”

Blackthorne on if Arrow could date his daughter: “I think he would consider that actually. It would be a little unconventional but if a daughter came home with a superhero, why not? Seems like a good guy. I’m on his side. Would be a strange wedding, wouldn’t it?”

Katie Cassidy on what she’s most looking forward to in the Canary storyline: “Obviously, getting involved in Team Arrow and taking her through this alter ego, if she does. I mean the jacket fits, but I’m not the writers. But I think I’m excited for her to fight, kick some ass.”

Cassidy on how losing Quentin would affect Laurel: “It would be devastating, because they’re very close, he’s the closest thing to her. I definitely think it would be a difficult thing for her, but come on, Laurel’s gone through so much. If anybody could deal with it, it’d be her.”

Cassidy on how being the Canary would affect Laurel’s chances with Ollie: “I think that she really embraced the fact that he’s the Arrow, and it made her love him so much more and it made sense going with the comics that she becomes this Canary, because Canary and Arrow are together. We’ll see though. You never know what the writers are going to write.”

http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/05/15/arrow ... thinkable/

- Emily Bett Rickards y John Barrowman prometen más Olicity y Malcolm en la S3 (zap2it):

Emily Bett Rickards y John Barrowman prometen más Olicity y Malcolm en la S3
Por Jean Bentley 15 Mayo, 2014

After "Arrow's" epic Season 2 finale -- as if we'd expect anything less -- Season 3 is already shaping up to be even more intense than ever. Star Emily Bett Rickards and new series regular John Barrowman spilled some thoughts on the finale and what it means for the future when Zap2it stopped them on the red carpet at The CW's upfront presentation in New York City on Thursday (May 15). Here's what they had to say:

First things first -- that "I love you" moment in the "Arrow" finale? It's going to remain confusing for a bit longer. "I think everyone was surprised with how real it felt because it felt real, but do we ever really know? This just in: I'm never going to figure out love," Rickards says of the Olicity fakeout.

Frankly, nobody's going to figure it out any time soon. "I remember being a toddler and asking my dad why all songs were about love, and he said that's the only thing we don't understand," Rickards says.

Season 3 will obviously feature some more Olicity moments, Rickards promises, but it'll also expand the "Arrow" world even further by going deeper into the storylines of some of the more peripheral characters. "There's a bigger ensemble, more storylines and different characters are going to be explored. I think that's really important, Rickards says.

"This season I'm hoping will be a little bit more emotional, maybe a little bit more family members or different storylines. Maybe Roy Harper's storyline, maybe Thea's storyline -- Moira is not there. I miss her."

Speaking of Thea, she went off with her biological father, the evil Malcolm Merlyn, in the finale. Barrowman, a newly minted series regular, says he has high hopes for his new family unit in Season 3.

"My theory behind it, as the guy who plays Malcolm, is that Malcolm has always been able to manipulate people physically and with money, but he lost his son, Tommy, through emotion," Barrowman says. "Tommy decided to become a hero because he loved somebody. Malcolm is getting right in there with Thea at her emotional low to try to control and manipulate her and do his best to make her the toughest cookie that she can be and also to have some control over her."

http://www.zap2it.com/blogs/arrow_seaso ... lm-2014-05

- Arrow Season 3: El próximo Gran Villano, una nueva Canary y más (TVLine):

Arrow Season 3: El próximo Gran Villano, una nueva Canary y más
Matt Mitovich 20 Mayo, 2014 01:06 PM PDT

A different sort of Big Bad, a Shamelessly Bad Dad and a possibly new Canary are among the twists The CW’s Arrow has on tap for Season 3.

Just hours after the comic-book series unleashed its “Unthinkable” sophomore finale, TVLine invited cast members to field some burning questions. Here is (some of) what they shared.

WHO WILL FOLLOW IN SLADE WILSON’S BOOTSTEPS? | Arrow lead Stephen Amell knows — but declined to identify – who the Big Bad for Season 3 will be, though he did allow this much about Oliver’s next adversary: Whereas Slade was “omnipresent,” “I don’t think that will necessarily be the case in Season 3,” he offered. “It’s going to be a little bit different than in Season 2.”

WHAT IS MALCOLM’S PLAN FOR THEA? | Already miffed with her brother Oliver and freshly betrayed by boyfriend Roy’s crimefighting secrets, Thea was last seen fleeing town in her newly discovered dad’s limo. John Barrowman — who has been promoted to a series regular for Season 3 — suspects that Malcolm Merlyn will “groom” his little girl for a greater and assuredly nefarious purpose, so that she may do right (meaning wrong) by those who dissed her. “He’s got to train her to be a powerhouse, to be a tough bitch,” Barrowman theorizes. “She’s tough now, but she’s got to be tougher.” (The actor’s other big wish for Season 3: less claustrophobic Dark Archer duds. “I’ve already said to [exec producer] Andrew Kreisberg, ‘I want an ouftit like Stephen [Amell]‘s, but in black.’”)

IS LAUREL OFFICIALLY ON TRACK TO TAKE OVER AS CANARY? | Especially with little sis Sara rejoining Nyssa and the League of Assassins, and after that significant gifting of a leather jacket? “What do you think?” Katie Cassidy responds with a big smile, adding: “I do think the torch has been passed. I get that feeling, and I think everybody else gets that feeling.” Perhaps just to be prepared, the actress affirms that she already is amping up her workout regimen. Brandishing an impressive bare bicep for us, she boasted, “Check this out! Hel-lo!”

http://tvline.com/2014/05/20/arrow-seas ... ck-canary/

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-CW UPFRONTS 2014, The London Hotel, N.Y. (15-05-14) [Fotos y Videos]-

-Fotos-

After Party:

-Videos-

- CW Upfronts 2014: Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, Emily Bett Rickards - Arrow (CelebrityMagnet0105):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArXu7glhUwg

- CW Upfronts 2014: Colton Haynes who plays Roy Harper - Arrow (CelebrityMagnet0105):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orkPG5GacPg

- ‘Arrow’ Cast Breaks Down Every Shocking Moment From The Season Finale (MYV):
http://www.mtv.com/videos/news/1043944/ ... wist.jhtml
http://www.mtv.com/videos/news/1043957/ ... love.jhtml
http://www.mtv.com/videos/news/1043946/ ... city.jhtml
http://www.mtv.com/videos/news/1043958/ ... rrow.jhtml
http://www.mtv.com/videos/news/1043947/ ... nale.jhtml

- Stephen Amell Gushes Over Arrow Finale (tvfanatic):
http://www.tvfanatic.com/videos/stephen ... ow-finale/

- Stephen Amell on Season 2's Finale and Season 3 (IGN):
http://www.ign.com/videos/2014/05/16/ar ... d-season-3

- CW Upfronts Recap! (CelebTV):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7X_WNM1WPo

- Suicide Squad's New Mission + Arrow's Stephen Amell & Cast (DCAA 218):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwlS8JHg9R4

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-CTV UPFRONTS 2014, Sony Centre for the Performing Arts Toronto, Canadá (05-06-14):

-Fotos-




Portraits Studio:




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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kOEzuLfZ28 (Etalk)

Highlights of the 2014 CTV Upfront (BellMedia)