Will there be a time jump when the show returns?
Andrew Kreisberg: We're going to jump the same amount of time that we did last year. It'll be real time. It'll be seven or eight months later. For Oliver, things are good. As we like to say, everything is coming up Arrow. Crime is down. At the end of last year, there was victory. A lot of this season is about what happens when you win and how winning isn't always as easy as it looks.
What does it mean for Oliver now that the city actually accepts him?
Kreisberg: In the premiere, Lance (Paul Blackthorne) actually disbands the anti-vigilante task force in his new role as Captain. The Arrow is free to do his thing and it's different for Oliver. He spent the first two years being hunted and distrusted. Now, he's starting to feel like he has this under control. And then, of course, as Joss Whedon taught us all, you let your characters have a moment of happiness and then you take it all away from them.
You seemed to be setting the stage for Ra's al Ghul to be the villain in Season 3. Is he actually the villain? Can you say anything about the new villain?
Kreisberg: It's big. I can say that he's big and he's bad. We're still figuring that stuff out. As far as the Big Bad, there will be a Big Bad. Even last year, everybody was a subset of Slade's (Manu Bennett). Slade was the Big Bad. We will meet other villains along the way, as always. We'll have recurring villains and new villains we're starting with this year and people who are coming back from the previous two seasons.
Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) and Oliver are going on a date in the season premiere. How do you avoid the TV trope that a hero can't be with the woman he loves just because of his duty?
Kreisberg: When you see the premiere and you see how things shake out, you'll come to a very sympathetic understanding of both of their positions. The premiere last year was a microcosm of what was happening for the whole year. In the same way that the premiere of last season was really about Oliver struggling with whether or not he should be the Arrow, in this season premiere it's, "Can I have everything I want?" That quest is going to take up his entire year, and hers.
Andrew Kreisberg: We're going to jump the same amount of time that we did last year. It'll be real time. It'll be seven or eight months later. For Oliver, things are good. As we like to say, everything is coming up Arrow. Crime is down. At the end of last year, there was victory. A lot of this season is about what happens when you win and how winning isn't always as easy as it looks.
What does it mean for Oliver now that the city actually accepts him?
Kreisberg: In the premiere, Lance (Paul Blackthorne) actually disbands the anti-vigilante task force in his new role as Captain. The Arrow is free to do his thing and it's different for Oliver. He spent the first two years being hunted and distrusted. Now, he's starting to feel like he has this under control. And then, of course, as Joss Whedon taught us all, you let your characters have a moment of happiness and then you take it all away from them.
You seemed to be setting the stage for Ra's al Ghul to be the villain in Season 3. Is he actually the villain? Can you say anything about the new villain?
Kreisberg: It's big. I can say that he's big and he's bad. We're still figuring that stuff out. As far as the Big Bad, there will be a Big Bad. Even last year, everybody was a subset of Slade's (Manu Bennett). Slade was the Big Bad. We will meet other villains along the way, as always. We'll have recurring villains and new villains we're starting with this year and people who are coming back from the previous two seasons.
Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) and Oliver are going on a date in the season premiere. How do you avoid the TV trope that a hero can't be with the woman he loves just because of his duty?
Kreisberg: When you see the premiere and you see how things shake out, you'll come to a very sympathetic understanding of both of their positions. The premiere last year was a microcosm of what was happening for the whole year. In the same way that the premiere of last season was really about Oliver struggling with whether or not he should be the Arrow, in this season premiere it's, "Can I have everything I want?" That quest is going to take up his entire year, and hers.
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Wait...Oliver and Felicity go on a date? How come I didn't hear about this before?
ReplyDeleteIt was posted here some days ago. It was in the season synopsis.
ReplyDeleteI'm so excited Tommy is showing up in 3x02 (before anyone freaks out it's a flashback). Tommy was my favorite in S1.
ReplyDeleteLove the spoilers about Diggle/Lyla and Thea.
I'm usually on top of this stuff, I don't know how I missed that.
ReplyDeleteso is episode 3x02 not called Sara, or is this flashback about Sara also featuring Tommy?
ReplyDeleteSounds great! Very excited about Tommy coming back. I love him. I'm very scared for Thea :( it's going to be a tough season for her. I wish she had found out that Oliver's the Arrow!
ReplyDeleteI hope they do some Felicity flashbacks! I'm dying to see some. With all the emotional turmoil they're setting up for her, hopefully she will!
Yay, Sara is not being killed off.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.spoilertv.com/2014/07/arrow-season-3-synopsis.html
ReplyDeleteit finally nice that Oliver will no longer be chased by the police and instead working with them.....nice that Lance shut down the task force and I wonder what his new role will be
ReplyDeleteThis is the first interview and spoiler for season 3 that made me really excited. Can't wait for SDCC.
ReplyDeleteIt seems this season will be great for all our favourite characters. Specially excited for felicity, Sara, Dig flashback. Ray sounds like a fun character. Thea's island. Sara not being dead *woo hoo*. Dig being a dad. Not sure how that will work? I am not a huge fan of baby stories. But it is Dig I love him.
I am cautiously optimistic about Laurel. I still don't think writers have made up a mind whether to make her BC or not. I have a feeling they will slowly add her to team arrow missions and will look for audience reactions. Whatever they do I hope they do it better than season 2.
At least now we know Sara is not gonna die in the second episode, Roy will deal with what he did and we get to see Tommy again (yaay), finally non relationships news.
ReplyDeleteOMFG!!!!! I'm fangirling with this ENTIRE interview!!! IS IT OCTOBER YET???? F*ck summer!! I want my show back!!! I need to see that clip!!! Hurry up Coming con!!
ReplyDeleteI Sooo wanna see Oliver and Roy kick ass together!!! I can't wait for that!!! It'll be really good to see Tommy.
ReplyDeleteI am Sooo excited for the first half or your paragraph! I can't wait for all of it.
ReplyDeleteI already did seem like it not posted yet
ReplyDeleteI think Roy will be patrolling the street with Oliver by season 3....it going 7/8 months later so I think he should be ready...... see my link below for more Roy Harper info
ReplyDeleteIf Thea is going to her version of The Island, as Roy did last season, I can only cross my fingers and hope her character isn't written as gratingly as Roy was.
ReplyDeleteI have no doubt that he won't be. I've been waiting for that forever.
ReplyDeleteThey really stuffed up Roy's evolution didn't they with him sleeping almost all of last block of the show and miraculously being proficient in archery once he got the mask. Atleast in Thea's case we can be happy she is not trained by Oliver. Malcolm somehow sounds like a better teacher on paper. I imagine him to be an equivalent of drill sergeant.
ReplyDeleteI think Roy have some archery training off screen and beside he was not shooting arrows at all more like stabbing the cure on the soldiers
ReplyDeleteRoy was shooting arrows in the tunnel scene with Oliver's group vs. the Mirakuru soldiers. Logic would dictate that Oliver wouldn't let Roy bring a weapon into the field that he didn't know how to use proficiently. So, if Roy was training off-screen as you suggested then the show should have alluded to that. Since they didn't, Roy's sudden competence with a bow and arrow came out of nowhere.
ReplyDeleteThe one good thing to come out of Malcolm training Thea is that she'll come back with a somewhat different skill set than Roy and Oliver. Three people with the same basic training would be overkill. I'm glad for the variety.
ReplyDeleteI know right. So many great things to look forward to. Also Oliver's feelings for Felicity. If done right it will be satisfying to watch that too. Atleast this season it feels like they have a solid plan for each character for the whole season unlike season 2.
ReplyDeleteI still have doubts for their Laurel plans. The fact that they are not committing to her destiny as BC makes me feel they are still whinging it when it comes to her. I sincerely hope I am wrong.
You know they had a plan last season to make Sara the Ravager. But she became so popular. So they scrapped that idea. Then they didn't know what to do with Isabel Rochev and gave her the Ravager persona. Poor Summer Glau. She never really had a chance did she?
I get that. What I am trying to say is they failed to translate his growth into a masked hero on screen. They actually did a huntress episode which was unnecessary in the last important half of the season imho. They could have used the bulk of that episode to show Roy atleast hitting some targets. People need to be shown these things instead of telling them it happened off screen.
ReplyDeleteI am excited about the potential of Thea. With Malcolm as a teacher, if she gets some of his ruthlessness then she might even kick Roy's ass.
ReplyDeletesound to me the writer did not plan well for Roy Harper character .....I know they do a better job of him in season 3.....
ReplyDeleteso Roy vs Thea.......sidekick version of Dark Archer vs The Arrow
ReplyDeleteI'm pleased that the upcoming season will allow for Thea's character to become more deeply involved in the series. I'm also glad that Thea's role will become more physically active. That's where it ends though.
ReplyDeleteI was less than pleased with how Arrow chose to portray Thea in the latter half of season two and am just as displeased with the character potentially drinking Malcolm Merlyn's Kool-Aid. Thea left Starling City at the end of last season vowing to become stronger and yet they immediately hand her over to Malcolm Merlyn to be sucked into his bullsh*t. That whole scenario gets one big eye-roll from me.
I was afraid they were going to make Roy angry at Oliver and blame him for Thea's leaving because he refused to let him tell her the truth and made him lie to het constantly but it's nice to see that's not the case and that he still thinks of Oliver as his mentor.
ReplyDeletewait until he learns he killed a cop.....and that oliver and the team choose not tell him about it
ReplyDeleteThey're doing a seven months time jump, you think they didn't tell him all that time? Wow that will be very tense.
ReplyDeleteYou know what I was one of the few people who was not happy to see Malcolm ressurected. I still think it was unnecessary and once dead people should remain dead.
ReplyDeleteAtleast like this Thea and Willa who is a good actress will get something worthwhile to portray. I don't mind her going with Malcolm. Its her motivation to do so that irks. Everyone lied to me so I am going away with the biggest manipulator and psycho on earth.
Season 2 over all was bad for every regular character with regards to character development except for Oliver and detective Lance. With Laurel they tried but didn't work out. Everyone else was just meh.
Exactly. both has almost same experience. Where Roy has street experience Thea already is proficient in archery and has Malcolm as mentor. It will be a good match to watch.
ReplyDeleteTo be fair he was shooting guys ten to three feet away in a incredibly crowded and tight space, it's not like he was doing what Oliver can do.
ReplyDeleteWell, I did say proficient. I didn't imply he was an expert or had to be one.
ReplyDeleteIt also means competent which is Roy's skill level.
ReplyDeleteTrue, but as far as things go him being able to shoot that bow isn't that much of a big deal.
ReplyDeleteI hate the fact that they instantly make her go to Malcolm too, and then the whole hints only pointing to them making her evil, probably making her a bitch in the process, and I'm starting to doubt more and more that they'll keep to the Speedy arc too much, so that chances are, they're going to make her kill people, which will instantly ruin her in general if you ask me...
ReplyDeleteI do want her to get a much more physical role, and get more into the main storyline, but then on Team Arrow's side, and for those of you that think Malcolm's going to be a good trainer, I suggest you think again >.< The only thing he's going to teach her is to be selfish, insane, and to probably go up against her brother, that just loves her, but that the show of course just wants to use as some shock value battle...
I just hope they do realize that even though John Barrowman is an awesome actor, it's not the same as Malcolm, that they already made him too crazy, too evil, to turn him around, so that they don't do the same with Thea, but that she'll ralise soon enough that she can't trust him, that this will only lead her down an even worse road... Because honestly, she acts like everyone betrayed her ultimately in the most horrible ways, but people were just trying to protect her, oooh, so bad, bad enough to turn on all of them and go with a mass murderer >.<
Uhm... No? Not really? Because are we seriously already categorizing Thea as freaking Malcolm's,Dark Archers sidekick? O:O
ReplyDeleteI actually hope Malcolm makes the mistake of killing Roy, pretty soon, so that Thea realizes what he really is, and so she can actually really become Speedy, because let's be honest, with all the archery trophies, the only things Malcolm can really teach her, is being evil, and do we really want evil, bitchy Thea, especially the entire season, or even show?
I wish they had made her find out that Oliver didn't know about the Malcolm being her father thing, shortly before Slade had to tell her, and then the show just goes with it as if Oliver has known forever or something >.< Every single thing that Thea is pissed about, feels so betrayed about, are just little things, SO badly blown out of proportion by the writers, all so that they could bring Malcolm back...
ReplyDeleteI think a tough season is an understatement, because if Thea were to kill people, and if her personality would have drastically changed ot that of a cold bitch, would there really be a way back? And would any of us really want Thea constantly around that way as Malcolm's little pet?
I think it all depends on when or whether Malcolm decides to share with Thea the secret that Oliver is Arrow. If he already shared it with her, which I doubt and she turns bitter then there is no turning back from that. But if he keeps that a secret and manipulates her to go against Arrow then she is still redeemable as she will never forgive Malcolm for that.
ReplyDeleteShe is definitely going to be a thorn against Team Arrow's side in the beginning. I wonder if Malcolm will make Thea a part of business world too. I hope he does that then they can show her running QC with the help of Walter season 4 onwards which will leave Oliver to concentrate on Crime fighting. Oliver clearly cannot be CEO and Arrow together.
Of course not. I certainly do not want Thea to be mini Malcolm. But she won't come to the good side until Oliver realises she is the new mask (this believing Thea will fight Oliver in disguise) and reveals to her he is the Arrow. Which I believe will not happen until atleast 6 or 7 episodes in or maybe by mid-season finale. If they drag it out further I will not like it. Until that happens I am excited to see some confrontation between Roy and Thea as archers.
ReplyDeleteWell I guess everything piled up in the end. That's the way I see it at least. The daughter of two serial killers rang pretty true. Talk about an identity crisis! And I suppose finding out Oliver's secret identity would be the make it or break it point: does she see him as the vigilante or the Arrow?
ReplyDeleteI'm happy to take Thea in any way! I love her and Willa. As for being a way back, assuming she goes down that path (though I guess she did when she pulled that trigger), I think she can. Redemption is a major theme in the show. That's what Oliver and Sara have been trying to do all along.
It didn't sound really true to me... Maybe it could have been that way, but there's a really big gap of difference with how much of a serial killer Malcolm is, and how much either Moira or Robert were... Both of them made the mistake of listening TO Malcolm, but even Robert tried to prevent Malcolm from succeeding eventually, at his own risk... So I'm sorry to say this, but am I really the only one that realizes Thea is being unreasonable towards the two parents that actually gave an actual crap and raised her and loved her?
ReplyDeleteThat's the thing! She hates them so much for being just that, but Malcolm she shoots twice in a moment of impulse, walks away in shock, gets stopped by his stupid manipulation, even bringing Tommy into the conversation in the most disrespectful way a father could ever do, and then... She just forgives him for all of that? And Oliver, Robert and Moira are such bad people? But Malcolm is one piece of goodness? It just doesn't make sense!
Haha true. But we wouldn't really have a storyline if people didn't do stupid things. I guess we'll have to see Thea's point of view when Season 3 starts. But yeah I agree, her logic is flawed.
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