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The Hollywood Reporter: ‘Arrow’ Bosses Reveal Season 3 Secrets

AKA: Stick a fork in me – I’m done.

“Olicity” fans had something to celebrate when it was revealed Oliver and Felicity would be going on a date in the season-three premiere — or at least attempting to. “Oliver might be catching up to how some of the audience feels in that maybe there’s a life with her,” Kreisberg says with a laugh. It’s in line with the new arc the former Starling City billionaire Oliver faces this season. “This season, particularly the premiere episode, is Oliver questioning whether there’s a life beyond the hood,” he explains. “Can he be Oliver Queen and the Arrow at the same time? One of the things about being Oliver would be what kind of romantic life he could have?”

For once, Oliver won’t be a smooth operator when he and Felicity do go on that date. “Let’s just say, Oliver is the one who has trouble completing sentences,” Kreisberg hints. As he tells it, the timing was right to further evolve the Oliver and Felicity dynamic. “The way the show has shaken out and the experiences the two have had, it feels like it’s time to explore that,” he says.

There is other stuff mentioned in the article but… well, that stuff above was really the absolute pinnacle!

Filed in Episode News, General Show News, Oliver & Felicity

TV Guide’s Mega Buzz has some Arrow scoop on Felicity!

Let me fix that. The producers are planning a series of Felicity-centric flashbacks that they call “the secret origin of Felicity Smoak.” “We are absolutely going to get to know her,” executive producer Marc Guggenheim tells me. “We know that she went to MIT, we know that her mom was a cocktail waitress in Vegas and we’re going to meet that mom. And we also know that her dad is not in the picture.” Any theories on the identity of Dear Old Dad?

I hear the shows’ overall narrative arcs will be somewhat related this season, enough so that the crossover will make sense. “Something will happen at the end of Episode 7 of

team to Central City and they will discover it was a wider plot, which will drive them all back to Starling City,” executive producer Andrew Kreisberg tells me.

Filed in Episode News, General Show News, Spoilers

Marc Guggenheim tweets about Olicity moment planned for episode 3.03?

@overdianna @AJKreisberg @ARROWwriters “One.” Callback to coffee coming in 303.

Comic Book Resources interviews Andrew Kreisberg

Oh this is a gem. I really really hope that’s Olicity he’s referring to!

Let’s start with “Arrow.” What do you want to say about where the season is going to start?

When Season Three starts, everything’s sort of coming up Oliver. He defeated Slade, the police have stopped hunting the vigilante, and crime is down. He’s feeling pretty good about himself, and so much of the season is about him wrestling with what sort of a life he can have beyond the hood. That’s writ large in the premiere, but it’s sort of the theme of the season.

Oliver’s love life has always been interesting. Where are his romantic relationships going this season?

I think they’re going to get deeper and richer this season. We’re not known for treading water on our show, so things will escalate, probably faster than people expect, as always. With whom is always the question. But we feel really good about what’s happening this year. When it’s the right time to do something, we do it, and we feel like, not just with Oliver, but with all the characters, we’re really starting them off in the right place.

We’re not known for treading water on our show, so things will escalate, probably faster than people expect, as always.

Things will escalate? Uhhhh… I hope that means what it sounds like! *crosses fingers*

Filed in General Show News, Oliver & Felicity

Zap2it: ‘Arrow’ Season 3 spoilers: Caity Lotz, a new villain and the Olicity date

Okay, I was trying to restrain myself from posting these first – save the best ’til last, y’know? – so the next few posts are the real Olicity-related articles/interviews that have been floating around.

One thing I have to say… I HEART THIS ‘SHIP.

In many ways the season begins in a completely opposite place from where Season 2 began. In Season 2, Oliver was sort of in self-imposed exile, he was mourning the loss of Tommy, things were awkward with Laurel. He wasn’t even in Starling City. Season 2 sort of started out with a “Blah, everything sucks” note.

Season 3 is the exact opposite. We come in and everything’s coming up Arrow! The team is clicking like you wouldn’t believe. Things are great. [...] And in the city, crime is down. The city is finally not falling apart.

Can everything be so good after the attacks of the Season 2 finale?

At the same time, we really do acknowledge the logical and natural consequences of our last two season finales. There have been two terrorist attacks in two years! So we’re dealing in a very grounded and realistic way the natural consequences of the last two years of our show. At the same time, the Arrow’s popularity couldn’t be higher and everything’s absolutely fantastic. But it’s “Arrow,” so of course it’s not going to stay that way.

I think that’s part of the fun for me as a writer, to go, “Oh, it’s all going to fall apart!” And I think you’ll see quickly how that happens.

What is going on with Oliver’s personal life, considering where you left things at the end of Season 2?

We honor that. Oliver, we even say, “Last year, you told Felicity you loved her.” We’re dealing with the repercussions of the season finale in a very honest way — leading up to Oliver asking her on an actual date. To which Felicity responds, “You mean a date? A date-date? Like an actual date?” As she must, because if I were Felicity, I would want some clarity. And this is an actual date, with actual dating going on. It’s an actual person and there’s no cameras and there’s no Slade Wilson and there’s no super-villain — and no one is trying to kill anyone.

His arc this year is: Season 1 it was the vigilante, Season 2 it was hero, in Season 3 it’s “Who is Oliver Queen?” Just like if you look at the second season premiere, it was a bit of a microcosm of his arc for the entire year. That was when he decided, “I’m going to be a hero, and I’m not going to kill.” And that sort of kicked off the whole season arc for Oliver. We took the same approach in the Season 3 premiere: It’s also a microcosm of Oliver’s over-arching season-long arc.

Felicity: “You mean a date? A date-date? Like an actual date?”

Torn between giggling stupidly or crying happy tears and hugging everyone.

Damian Holbrook from TV Guide will be moderating the Arrow panel on Saturday. Send him your questions! Email:

Remember: send your #SDCC2014 questions for @the100 @cwtvd @CW_Arrow @TheFollowingFOX & @TheStrainFX to sdccquestions@gmail.com!

— Damian Holbrook (@TVGMDamian) July 22, 2014

More cross-over talk about Arrow and The Flash

It’s being mentioned everywhere (obviously :)) but here are a few other quotes about the upcoming two-part cross-over between Arrow and The Flash.

” to be standoffish with each other this coming season.

Not only will Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards) of “

” appear on the fourth episode of the first season of “

,” but the eighth episodes of both CW shows will make up a “mega-crossover event,” in the words of executive producer Greg Berlanti.

Berlanti and fellow executive producer Andrew Kreisberg, both of whom work on both shows, actually have three different classifications of “

” interactions: “We have the cameo crossover, the big crossover and then the epic crossover,” Kreisberg said. As “

” revs up its engines, there will be “a few mini ones along the way,” and then Felicity will be a major presence in Episode 4.

You’re already crossing over both shows, with the introduction of some of

pilot, and the announcement of Felicity in Episode 4. Will you do a two-part cross-over episode, where you have to watch both

, it will be Wentworth Miller’s first episode as Captain Cold. And then, both Episode 8 of

will be a two-part cross-over. Not to toot our own horns, but I think we’ve designed it in a way that, if you’re not watching

people show up for an episode, and vice versa. We don’t want to be brazen and assume that everybody is watching both shows. Hopefully, they will be. I think it’s one of those things where, if you’re not watching both shows, whichever show you’re watching, it will all make sense to you. But at the same time, if you are watching both shows, you’re really gonna get a fun, cool two-night event.

And from an interview Grant Gustin did with TV Fanatic (including comment on Olicity!)…

TVF: I know Felicity will be in episode four. Can you say anything to how she’ll be involved? Are we going to touch on the romantic side of it?

GG: It will touch on the romantic side but just like Oliver can’t really be available right now to her, I can’t really either and for other reasons. Unlike Oliver, I am in love with somebody else.

Filed in Episode News, General Show News, Oliver & Felicity, Spoilers

EW: ‘Arrow’ producer reveals details of season 3′s Big Bad and ‘Flash’ crossover episode

Again, this isn’t the whole article, just parts of it relating to Oliver in season 3. The parts I’ve quoted below deal specifically with the season 3 Big Bad and how that ties in with the Arrow, plus the 

SPOILER WARNING: Um, spoiler-ish? Mostly stuff we’ve already heard in one form or another.

Perhaps most pressing is the question of which villainous threat Oliver Queen will face this coming season, which picks up six or seven months after the season-two finale. Crime is down and the police aren’t hunting Ollie—but peace never lasts that long in Starling City. Despite last season’s startlingly sinister Slade, this year’s villain will have to up the ante even more.

“What’s interesting about the villain in season three is that he doesn’t necessarily disagree with [Oliver]. He doesn’t have any personal animus towards the Arrow, and he actually in some ways has a very similar worldview. [But] the Arrow is thinking too small.”

Kreisberg continued: “In some ways, as Oliver is struggling with whether or not he can be the Arrow and Oliver at the same time, the villain of season 3 is saying, ‘Being Oliver Queen is what’s holding you back from fulfilling your true destiny.’ So it’s a very interesting dynamic, but it is tied in the same way that Oliver last year was wrestling with, ‘Am I a hero or a killer?’ The theme of identity is tied up very much in how the villain is presented to Oliver.”

Fans have been buzzing about the announced

crossover episode, which will happen in the eighth episode of both shows (think November). So why is this Barry Allen-Oliver Queen mash-up more special than other crossovers?

“It’s really going to be an adventure with the Arrow and Flash on both episodes. Watching the two teams come together and fight alongside each other, it’s one of the most fun parts,” says Kreisberg.

operates on the hope that none of the episodes feel like duds. That’s why Kreiger and company have “spectacular and amazing midseason finales planned for both shows that are both game-changers … and what better way to lead into it than by having this amazing team-up?”

This isn’t the whole interview. I’ve just focused mostly on the stuff relating to Oliver and/or Felicity in season 3.

SPOILER WARNING: I would say there are vague-ish spoilers below. Stuff we’ve already heard – just depends if you’re staunchly avoiding any and all spoilers…

IGN: Where is Oliver at when we begin this season, in the wake of defeating Slade?

Kreisberg: Well, the show picks up six or seven months later, and he’s actually in a really good place. Marc Guggenheim likes to joke, “Everything’s coming up Oliver.” He defeated Slade, crime is down in the city, the police have disbanded the anti-vigilante task force. You know, he’s starting to get the feeling that there might be life beyond the hood, and that’s really the theme of this season, for Oliver: “Can I be Oliver Queen and be Arrow?” One of the things that the beginning of the season, especially the premiere, shows that, for right now, it’s easier to be Arrow than it is to be Oliver Queen. Getting his company back and having a life are going to prove to be a lot harder than he suspected.

(Talking about Ray Palmer and injecting more humour into the show)

What’s funny about Oliver and Felicity is that he’s the straight man. She sort of gets all the funny lines.

IGN: Before I let you go, since you mentioned her, I’ll ask about Katana and opening up the flashbacks to an off-island scenario to introduce her.

Kreisberg: This is actually something we’ve been planning for a really long time. We had a couple of big ideas early on. One was that Sara was alive, and one was that, at the end of year two, Oliver wakes up and he’s not on the island. So it’s actually pretty amazing to be here, starting Season 3, and having so many of these big ideas come to fruition. You know, we’re so excited by it, because for one thing, as fun as the island was, it did start to become very limiting. There was a limited number of characters, and sometimes we had to tread water to avoid hitting some big sign posts too fast. Sometimes we treaded water better than other times. One of the things that we really learned was that the audience now is able to follow along, and if we do an -out-of-sequence flashback, like seeing Dig’s flashbacks last year or Sara’s flashbacks, this year we’re able to do more of that. Hopefully the flashback story feels more streamlined. Just being in Hong Kong and seeing — you know, I think people assumed it was five years on the island, but there’ve been these hints all along, whether it was stuff Oliver said or his relationship with Amanda, where in the present there were hints that Oliver had a much richer life than five years on the island, and getting to explore that and seeing the kinds of things he did and the missions he went on and what kind of choices he was force to make. There’s still some hope in humanity in Oliver, and I think the guy who comes back in the pilot is a pretty dark, tortured character. This is really the year where, as terrible as things have been up until this point with flashbacks, this is really where we’re taking a big step into the darkness.

IGN: What can you say about Katana as far as her personality or how we meet her?

Kreisberg: You know, Oliver has many, many skills, some of which we’ve seen and some we haven’t — and Katana is going to be another surprisingly large influence on his growth as both a hero and a fighting machine.

Filed in General Show News, Oliver & Felicity, Spoilers

Tidbits on season 3 from interviews with Colton Haynes

Colton Haynes held a few interviews at the TCAs this week. He reveals/teases some season 3 tidbits – see below.

“There’s a really fun storyline with Roy and Felicity this season, that they think that each other is smarter than the other person, and they like to give each other sh!t. They like to tell each other why they think that they’re right,” he says.

Could this mean an attraction between Roy and Felicity, who already has two possible suitors in Oliver and Roy Harper?

“Maybe. Possibly. Not yet, but maybe. Who knows,” he teases.

Colton promises good things for all viewers as Arrow goes into Season 3. “I think we’re really going to delve into a lot of the backstories of the main characters this year, and it’s going to be a lot more of an emotional season. Just like how it was when we lost Moira, it’s going to be emotional. Not just bad-ass, but it’s going to be a season that the guys are gonna stay for the action, the girls are gonna stay for the emotion,” he promises.

I can tease an Olicity date. I think Roy and Diggle are aware of the chemistry. They’re finally aware of it in the first episode. They’re like, ‘Huh?’

Season 3 | Episode 3.01 title is "The Calm"

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