There are going to be all sorts of consequences moving forward in Arrow Season 4 after the second half of this year’s crossover with The Flash (which also set up DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, premiering in January on the CW). But, they have to be careful not to go back to this well too many times.
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The “Legends” crossover between The Flash and Arrow was arguably a massive success, telling a big story with a boatload of characters – not to mention the fact they literally killed everybody and blew up Central City. They both exist to add complications to the plot. For Felicity, Cisco and Caitlin, it’s manufacturing gauntlets that will allow Barry to hold the Staff of Horus.
As some have speculated, however, this mother-son tandem are not comic book characters Sandra and Connor Hawke. Malcolm arranges a meeting between Vandal, Green Arrow and The Flash that doesn’t go as planned. No one knows anything about Vandal, Malcolm admits, which is why he’s so afraid of him.
NBC opened with its annual special “Christmas in Rockefeller Center” (1.5/5 in 18-49, 8.0 million viewers overall), which gave the net its best non-“The Voice” result in Wednesday’s opening hour since last year’s “Rockefeller” (1.9 in 18-49, 9.52 million). As has been established on The Flash, time traveling has consequences. Carter sees this query as a good example of why he’s the one who typically makes the plans in their past lives. Felicity is nearly always an annoyance to those viewers who have come to hate the idea of Olicity, and she was even more of one this week than usual. She’s not going to let this lie. That leads them to believe that the Staff could be how to kill him. If William were to somehow be killed, likely by Season 4’s principal baddie Damien Darhk (Neal McDonough), it would force Oliver to re-evaluate his decision to be a vigilante.
Indeed, Oliver Queen has one major daddy issue: he is one! There’s no reason for Samantha forbidding Oliver to tell Felicity or anyone else about William. As the outlet previously reported, if the unknown casualty of the season is Clayton, it would force Oliver and his girlfriend Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) to take over caring for the boy. She cares that he lied to her. He argues that his whole world just exploded, so isn’t he entitled to a minute to process it by himself?
The hits just keep on coming after that. “We’re obviously very excited and gratified by that”.
The alternative, although grim, would be for William to end up dead.
Will Oliver ask Barry to travel through time to save the person in the grave? Not saying they’re there yet – but something to look out for. Oliver points out things already didn’t end well.
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Thanks to a bit of time travel from Barry, “Legends of Yesterday” showed what happened when Felicity confronted Oliver after seeing the paternity test herself – she told him she couldn’t be with someone who clearly didn’t trust her – and what happened when she hadn’t, so that the ball was in his court. But hey, at least she’s got superpowers. First of all, we don’t even know if we could, legally.
