The comics are entirely different and now retconning themselves to be like the show which is far more popular than they ever were. Seriously there was no island, no diggle, no felicity. But now they've all been added.
Diggle is shit. 'You've gotta do what's right, man.' 'Nah man, that's not you.' 'She likes you, man. You can't do wrong by her.' 'Hey, we're all in this together. I've got your back, man. Let's do this.' 'Why not, man? I'm ready. Come on Oliver.' and repeat
If he does have some extended absence and then comes back there's no way people won't start twigging that the gaps where Oliver Queen and the Arrow go awol happen to be at exactly the same time
Its got a pretty sterotypical nice guy gets slighted one two many times/jealously etc etc turns evil storyline feel to it
Yeah, when looking up what a Lazarus Pit was, I came across information that suggested that someone actually takes over from Barry as The Flash at one point in the comics.. which made me think that the show is called Arrow, not Oliver Queen, and they may be able to leave him dead with someone else taking over the hood.. at least for a little while.
Atom takes over. Roy tries for a bit but Felicity ends up bringing the atom into it whom she continues a romance with. Meanwhile asian dude finds oliver and chucks him in super tech 'pit' to recover. Atom and malcolm clash, and subsequently so do thea and roy. After some fighting roy turns soft and thea catches him one episode and brings him in front of malcolm.. until she finds out what her father is truly like. Oliver returns and has no place, wants felicity back. Atom has bigger ideas, felicity feels betrayed he wont stop to save roy, oliver saves roy. Atom feels homesick and goes home.
Read a theory about the red streak around Norah Allen being Barry going back in time to try and save her. Would be sick if so.
I think Black Canary will be the larger focus in the next Arrow episodes, with Atom being established.
Atom wouldn't be Arrow though; Atom would be Atom. I think there Starling City will still think the Arrow is around in some form.
Well he's trying to but he doesn't really have the authority to change the name of a city tbh. He's just calling it that.
Do we buy Malcolm's mind control story? Yes the Hong Kong backstory lends it credence but is Thea innocent or corrupted?
I think the whole point of Laurel telling Thea about Sara and her reaction was to make us buy the mind control story when it came up. Could just be to sell the bluff better, but I doubt it.
Yeah but where does that take the story arc overall? Why was Thea near her grave at all? Its wifom. I'm calling shenanigans.
Hate this if so. I know Laurel was the Canary in the comics but in this universe she's stick thin and barely done any training. Yeah this. Like Palmer a lot, so more of him would be good.
Maybe Roy will be 'arrow' but still be sidekick to Atom when felicity brings him down to meet the group.