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Guggenheim promised an Oliver who is "trying to be an optimistic" and "trying to be bright" -- though of course "circumstances just keep trying to pull him back into the darkness."
"There's a very Olicity-heavy scene in [episode] 5. They're adults. At the same time, it feels a little like Season 1," Guggenheim said. "I honestly don't know how many shows have done this where you've gotten two characters engage, broke them up, but still kept them together on the show as partners."
Just because Diggle headed off to the army doesn't mean he's going to be out of the show. "With Diggle, he'll be in the army. We'll have storylines with him. Just because he's gone doesn't mean [Team Arrow] don't want him back, or that they're not trying," teased Mericle. "There's definitely contact, and he's going to have his own story in the army where he realizes maybe this isn't the place. Maybe he's going to have to still keep looking for these answers about how to get his sense of mortality back."
"There's a very Olicity-heavy scene in [episode] 5. They're adults. At the same time, it feels a little like Season 1," Guggenheim said. "I honestly don't know how many shows have done this where you've gotten two characters engage, broke them up, but still kept them together on the show as partners."
Just because Diggle headed off to the army doesn't mean he's going to be out of the show. "With Diggle, he'll be in the army. We'll have storylines with him. Just because he's gone doesn't mean [Team Arrow] don't want him back, or that they're not trying," teased Mericle. "There's definitely contact, and he's going to have his own story in the army where he realizes maybe this isn't the place. Maybe he's going to have to still keep looking for these answers about how to get his sense of mortality back."
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