There Are “Two Lines” Arrow EP Won’t Cross
If you’ve been watching Arrow for a while, you’ll know that the show is very dark, and very personal. As the flagship of the DC Comics/CWVerse, Arrow set the standard in many ways for what a live-action superhero show should be, and because of Arrow, we now have Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl, and a possible 5th entrant in Black Lightning. That’s of course not even mentioning Gotham, Vixen, or Constantine.
However, given all they have done, and what they’ll likely do before the season ends and next season arrives, you have to wonder if there is anything the team won’t do. Well, Executive Producer Marc Guggenheim told Entertainment Weekly that there are two things they’ll never do.
“There’s two lines in the sand that I’ve drawn for “Arrow” for myself,” he explained. “I can’t speak for Greg [Berlanti] or for Wendy [Mericle], but for as long as I’m involved with the show, the two things I never want to do is kill off Thea [Willa Holland] and put Felicity in a mask and a costume. Those, to me, are two lines that I just think are a bridge too far. Thea, because we’ve taken so many family members away from Oliver, and Felicity because when you put a character like that in a costume, I think it diminishes who that character is and it makes the idea of superheroics seem silly.”
Funnily enough, Felicity was in an outfit like that in Legends of Tomorrow, but, it was in an “elseworld” scenario. As for Thea, she’s been off the show for a bit, but hopefully she’ll return soon.