Although I'm not an Olicity shipper I too don't want Oliver and Sara to get together permanently. As much as I think the changing for the love of a good woman trope is overused, I'm rooting for it with Sara/Nyssa. As you said, Nyssa can become grey and she and Sara can work together or not at being grey. Yeah, Oliver is a huge hypocrite about Moira keeping Thea's father a secret, but that's our Ollie. I think they will either reconcile or Moira will become a darker, more antagonistic character. I'm good with either one.
I am okay with Nyssa/Sara or Nyssa/someone else; I just want to see her again. And I'm sure we will -- Sara's not the only one with a plotline tying in to Ras al'Gul.
Sara/Oliver is a terrible decision. A great decision for the show, I mean, but a terrible decision for the character. I see them more as seeking comfort with each other than being in love with each other. They do clearly love each other, but that's distinct from being in love.
I wonder if Thea will discover the truth about the Arrow this season, as well as the truth about her parentage. Having to deal with being lied to by her mother, brother, and boyfriend puts her in a good dramatic position.
Hell, she could join Laurel in the "People are lying to me about things I really ought to know" club.
In the real world, I would tell a friend to run away from their violent ex. But somehow this violence falls into the superhero story heightened reality category for me
Yeah, Stockholm syndrome, etc. -- it should be creepy from RL allusions, but it didn't ping me, because that particular relationship has basically entered the realm of an opera. I mean, being dispatched by your supervillain father to assassinate your beloved but being unable to do because she tried to kill herself rather than come back with you? I mean, I'm hearing epic arias and duets in my head at this point. Except if this was opera, both of them would be dead at the end.
she can get recruited by Amanda Waller and be the morally grey ex with whom Sara has periodically consummated sexual tension.
That would be the awesomest thing ever. I have little doubt that we'll see Nyssa again but am less sanguine about the prospect of her surviving her second episode, to be honest.
Well, okay, I'm worried that Diggle is forgotten.As you said, they are giving out some big
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I share both your feelings about her re-appearance. My biggest hope is that the writers seem to pay a lot of attention to fan response, and fan response seems to be pretty positive. Then again, I haven't look outside my tiny circle.
They do need to feature him in a more interesting capacity in the other episodes though.
Yes. I'm happy we get Diggle-centric episodes, but it shouldn't be either we get a Diggle-centric episode or he has nothing to do. We can have both Diggle episodes and Diggle playing an active role in other episodes!
I think I can count the amount of lines he had in the past three episodes without using up all my fingers.
I'm not sure if this has been all planned (I think there has to be quite a bit of flying-by-the-seat-of-their-pants) but for all the grandiose and ridiculous plots, the writers are doing some very intelligent and thoughtful character works on this show. I think that they probably didn't plan all of it out, but they are really good at looking at what works and
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Sara/Oliver is a terrible decision. A great decision for the show, I mean, but a terrible decision for the character. I see them more as seeking comfort with each other than being in love with each other. They do clearly love each other, but that's distinct from being in love.
I wonder if Thea will discover the truth about the Arrow this season, as well as the truth about her parentage. Having to deal with being lied to by her mother, brother, and boyfriend puts her in a good dramatic position.
Hell, she could join Laurel in the "People are lying to me about things I really ought to know" club.
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Someone noted that the Queen family motto should be "There's something I'm not telling you that you probably should know"
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Yeah, Stockholm syndrome, etc. -- it should be creepy from RL allusions, but it didn't ping me, because that particular relationship has basically entered the realm of an opera. I mean, being dispatched by your supervillain father to assassinate your beloved but being unable to do because she tried to kill herself rather than come back with you? I mean, I'm hearing epic arias and duets in my head at this point. Except if this was opera, both of them would be dead at the end.
she can get recruited by Amanda Waller and be the morally grey ex with whom Sara has periodically consummated sexual tension.
That would be the awesomest thing ever. I have little doubt that we'll see Nyssa again but am less sanguine about the prospect of her surviving her second episode, to be honest.
Well, okay, I'm worried that Diggle is forgotten.As you said, they are giving out some big ( ... )
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I share both your feelings about her re-appearance. My biggest hope is that the writers seem to pay a lot of attention to fan response, and fan response seems to be pretty positive. Then again, I haven't look outside my tiny circle.
They do need to feature him in a more interesting capacity in the other episodes though.
Yes. I'm happy we get Diggle-centric episodes, but it shouldn't be either we get a Diggle-centric episode or he has nothing to do. We can have both Diggle episodes and Diggle playing an active role in other episodes!
I think I can count the amount of lines he had in the past three episodes without using up all my fingers.
I'm not sure if this has been all planned (I think there has to be quite a bit of flying-by-the-seat-of-their-pants) but for all the grandiose and ridiculous plots, the writers are doing some very intelligent and thoughtful character works on this show. I think that they probably didn't plan all of it out, but they are really good at looking at what works and ( ... )
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