Arrow Season 4 is fast approaching, and many are wondering if it’ll rebound from a slightly lower quality previous season that many fans thought we got last time. It’s been said that this season will be a bit more bright and cheerful, though that doesn’t mean that certain things from last season are being washed away. For example, last season, Oliver Queen took John Diggle’s wife hostage in order to help sell a ruse to Ra’s Al Ghul, but he didn’t tell the others that, especially Diggle. Though it was “understood” why he did that, according to Wendy Mericle in an interview with Collider, all is not forgiven quite yet:
“Dig has a huge bone to pick with Oliver when they see each other again, at the top of Season 4. We’re gonna work that out. It’s not gonna be easy. With what happened to Dig’s family, it’s really tough to buy that back, and Oliver is not gonna to be able to. Obviously, they can’t be mad at each other forever, or what are we doing? But also, in the intervening months while Oliver has been gone, Dig has, more or less, been leading the team. It’s a little bit more democratic, Speedy and Black Canary are both super bad-ass and kicking butt. He’s not happy, when he and Oliver meet again. It’s not an open-armed, ‘Hey, buddy, all is forgiven,’ reunion.”
Also, Dig will apparently have a full-on costume and a code name for Season 4. According to Mericle, “By necessity, he can’t be Diggle out in the field. I can’t tell you what the code name is, but he’s gonna have a fun, cool code name. He’ll start to embrace a little bit more of that dual identity conundrum that Oliver has been grappling with for three years now.”
Arrow Season 4 arrives Oct. 7th on The CW.
