User blog:Taw2541/My Hopes for Season 6

This is the first blog that I posted on the Arrow Verse and I hope that it gets a lot comments. This article is my speculation for the sixth season of Arrow, however, unlike other articles that detail an entire season's plot I will be focusing on certain individual characters and their character development in this season. Note: I will not be discussing every major character as I cannot speculate every character for some reason.

In Season 6, Oliver will be focus on being a father to his now orphaned son, William. It is pretty much a guarantee that William's mother, Samantha, died in the explosion on Lian Yu. I can just imagine that their will be a lot of father-son drama between the two this season, as Oliver has never really been apart of his son's life aside from some moments in season 4. Oliver trying to connect and help his son through his grief will be a major obstacle for him this season but also balancing his life as the Green Arrow, the Mayor, and a father. Imagine that William will not be training in martial arts or archery despite what some people think, Oliver has always been against other people pursuing vigilantism Roy, Laurel, Thea, the Recruits, etc; while it is perfectly plausible that William would receive basic self defense training I do not think he will be interested in vigilantism or anything related to it for the time being. Additionally Oliver also strive and prove to William that he is a good person and that Oliver must prove this to William especially since it seems like William is perceiving his father as a bad man.

I also believe that Oliver's role as Mayor will come into some major conflict this season. For the one thing, Oliver has a long lost son that he will be raising potential scandals for Oliver; think the Arnold Schwarzenegger's illegitimate son with his nanny that is how bad this could go. Additionally he is going to be dealing with an FBI agent, Samandra Watson, who will be investigating his connection with the Green Arrow. Should this FBI agent uncover Oliver's identity this could cause even further issues to him. Personally, I believe that this will be the end of Oliver as Star City's mayor as with all of Oliver's choices to focus on being Green Arrow and Adrian's attack on his administration from last season might cause Oliver to resign as Mayor. I think this might work well if Oliver show some political maneuvering to maintain all his work that he has accomplished for his city. Something similar to also happen in the comics when Oliver chose to resign rather than fight but manage to keep all his work in the end.

It has been said by the producers that John will be a broken man by the events of Lian Yu, I believe that John may lose an arm or leg from the explosion on Lian Yu. Either way this would difficult for him to be able to active in the field as Spartan forcing him to retire from the field. I can see John struggling with being stuck on the side lines unable to help Oliver or the rest of the team. Additionally it is said that Oliver would have be there for John in the way that John has been there for him in the past as their roles would be reverse. I can also John's marriage to Lyla being affected by this as he is a soldier at heart and being surrounded by men and women who risk their lives would gradually annoy him. I can see John story this season being about trying to find purpose outside of being a soldier.

For all intense and purposes I believe that Felicity is definitely going to survive Lian Yu, if and should she be damaged is unclear to me. For starters it has been teased that Felicity will be starting her own company, I can imagine it would be a small company at first and eventually it could allow to merge with Palmer Technologies allowing her to get her other company back from the board members who forced her out. Felicity's role in Helix from last season will definitely come into play this season. Like Oliver dealing with consequences of his actions with Adrian Chase, she would have to deal with her actions from Helix's apparent leader Cayden James (played by Michael Emerson i guess). My guess is that James and Helix will do something truly horrific and Felicity will start blaming herself for the actions she committed last year. As for her relationship Oliver I feel I should just say this first hand, I am not a fan of Olicity. Her relationship with Oliver was interesting for a while but it has taken over too much of Arrow's storyline especially in season 3 and season 4. The relationship is toxic and I genuinely believe that one of the reasons why season 5 was so good was because they did not focus on their relationship. I am hoping that by this season they will end it once and for all, as while I believe that Oliver is not a completely good person he is in many better than Felicity deserves and has outgrown her. Additionally, focusing on raising his son should be Oliver's priority this season rather than getting into a relationship especially a clearly unstable one.

Dinah Drake the new Black Canary is also one of the confirmed survivors on Lian Yu. Dinah is confirmed to have a love interest this season and additionally her opinions are supposedly going to cause trouble for the team this season. One of the main issues, that I have with Dinah is that she was a replacement for Laurel and while do not hate her and do not necessary like her either. One of the opinions I believe to be true is that Dinah is Laurel and Sara's grandmother. I believe that it is kinda of like a version of Kyle Reese who was chronologically born after his son John Conner. I think that Dinah being Laurel's time displaced grandmother would be interesting as it would fit with the Black Canary's legacy role that Laurel established and Sara's role as a time traveler. I could see Dinah's role somehow getting stuck in like the 1960s or 70s, getting pregnant with Dinah Lance so that she can meet Quentin and eventually give birth to Laurel and Sara. I kinda want this to happen but if he doesn't and Dinah is the permanent Black Canary, I hope she really proves herself this season as I would rather her Oliver be together than him and Felicity. PS. I think her new costume is pretty awesome.

Quentin Lance is without question the one character I can't help but also pity, losing a child once would kill almost anyone but he has gone through it three time now. That being said I feel like it is perhaps time for the producers of Arrow to probably retire Quentin's character. I feel for the most part would be he would probably survive the explosion on Lian Yu and his focus would be trying to get through Black Siren along with Oliver but he could probably die later in the season. I feel if Quentin would die, it would be end to character whose gone through so much pain and could be a rather bittersweet release. If Quentin where to die I would hope that he would have a heart to heart with Oliver, as as much as they try to hide and deny it they do possess a father-son relationship.



Black Siren is also one of the confirmed survivors of Lian Yu and the character whose development I am most interested in seeing this season. It is said by Wendy Mericle that Black Siren's redemption would be definite possibility but for all intense and purposes he she appears to still be a villain at the start of the season. However, with her backstory going to be revealed it might make more sympathetic to all the other characters besides Oliver who are trying to reach her. I feel like she could be like Malcolm to team Arrow for awhile before they start letting her in yet alone trusting her. But either way I look forward to seeing Katie Cassidy back, she never should have left.

Finally I want bring up a topic just for the fun of it as a potentially great storyline for Arrow's seventh season: The Return of Laurel Lance. Here me out say that in the season six finale overcome with so much guilt and remorse for her actions, Black Siren decides to sacrifice her life to bring Laurel Lance of Earth-1 back to life transferring her life force to Laurel's corpse restoring her to life at the cost of her own. Now I am not going to get into the details of Green Arrow x Black Canary romance, as this is not what I want to discuss. If Laurel can somehow return to life she will have been gone for two years, I find that so much has changed since her death. Her friends and family, their lives have changed so much since then Oliver in particular is now raising his son who he conceived while he and Laurel were would be difficult for her at first. Additionally, Laurel would now have to deal with all of Star City now knowing her identity as the Black Canary and the legacy she left behind as a hero for Star City. Additionally if Laurel came back to life and her father was dead, it would aid a whole another level adjustment for her. Bring Laurel back after two years of being dead would just have so many options to explore throughout an entire season and it would also be interesting to explore the possibility of the afterlife considering Arrow's claim that death has also been apart of the show exploring life after death in way that Flash explored time travel and the multiverse would not be to large of a leap.