Arrow Season 2

[6souls]

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2193021/
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_%28TV_series%29
http://www.cwtv.com/shows/arrow

Synopsis:

Revolves around the hooded superhero, a wealthy playboy by day who secretly saves the city by night using his enhanced arrows.

Notes:
- Green Lantern or Star Sapphire may appear late in the season (source)

Episodes:

EP024 - "City of Heroes"

Spoiler: show

Following the destruction of the Glades and Tommy's death, Oliver goes back to the island alone as penance for failing the city and Tommy. Felicity and Diggle arrive and convince Oliver to return, informing him that Queen Consolidated is in threat of takeover and dissolution by Isabel Rochev. Oliver learns a group of vigilantes, dressed like the Hood, are killing others to take back the Glades. They target Oliver twice before kidnapping Thea. Oliver saves her without killing anyone and leaves the vigilantes for Quentin Lance, who was demoted to patrol officer. Roy is also trying to protect the Glades, and is rescued by an unknown blonde female vigilante. Oliver enlists the help of Walter to save the company. As well, Oliver decides to honor Tommy's memory by becoming a hero of Starling City, and elects to find a new name for his alter-ego. In a flashback, Oliver, Shado, and Slade realize they are not alone on the island following Fyers' demise.

EP025 - "Identity"

Spoiler: show

Roy fails to stop a truck robbery by China White. When Oliver attempts to convince Roy to stop being a vigilante, he learns that the hospital in the Glades is having its medicine stolen. Oliver sets a trap and finds China White stealing the medicine delivery trucks; the police arrive during the battle and he retreats, allowing China White to get away. Oliver decides to work with Sebastian Blood, an alderman for the Glades, to bring awareness and help for the people in need, but is forced to abandon his appearance at a charity event to instead stop China White. Blood lambasts him in the press. The vigilante convinces Roy to stop fighting in his name, but instead be his "eyes and ears" in the Glades. Afterward, Laurel sets a trap for the vigilante, who is seemingly surrounded by the police. In a flashback, Oliver, Slade, and Shado discover a cave containing the remains of several cranially disfigured World War II Japanese soldiers.

EP026 - "Broken Dolls"

Spoiler: show

Oliver is saved from the police by a female vigilante, who quickly vanishes into the night. He sets Roy to track her down, which he manages through the vigilante's connection to a girl named Sin. Officer Lance discovers that the serial killer Barton Mathis, whom he arrested years earlier, escaped from prison during the earthquake and is on the killing spree again. Lance looks to Oliver's alter-ego vigilante for help when he is forced to stay away from the investigation. The pair break into a lab running tests on the evidence found at Mathis's crime scene and are able to discover the link between all of his victims. Oliver learns that Mathis abducted Quentin and Laurel and plans to kill them both. Oliver saves Laurel and Quentin; the female vigilante shows up and kills Mathis after Oliver captures him. During the pre-trial motions for Moira Queen, the district attorney announces his plan to seek the death penalty for Moira's actions in the death of the citizens of the Glades. Later, the female vigilante is tracked down by an agent of Ra's al Ghul; she kills him to avoid having to return to his organization. In flashbacks to the island, Oliver and Slade rush to the aid of Shado who is being attacked. Oliver gets imprisoned by unknown assailants on the boat, Amazo.

EP027 - "Crucible"

Spoiler: show

Felicity realizes from Oliver's past encounters with the female vigilante that she has been following Laurel. With this information, Oliver manages to ambush her and discovers that she is Sara, Laurel's sister who was believed to have drowned. Meanwhile, weapons shipments are being intercepted by a gang leader calling himself "The Mayor", who assaults a gun rally hosted by Oliver and Blood. This allows Felicity to identify the Mayor, and subsequently track him down. Oliver recruits Sara to assist him in capturing the Mayor. Afterward, a corrupt police officer brings "The Mayor" to an unknown location, where Blood injects him with a green substance that ultimately kills him. Meanwhile, Laurel develops a drinking problem, and refuses help from her father and Oliver. In response, Oliver asks Sara to reveal herself to her family, knowing it will cost him Laurel's friendship. In flashbacks, Oliver is questioned about the bodies of the Japanese soldiers, but when he refuses to answer questions he is taken to an interrogation room where he first learns that Sara is alive.

EP028 - "League of Assassins"

Spoiler: show

Sara and Oliver are attacked at Queen Mansion by a man dressed like Malcolm Merlyn. Sara reveals that the man, Al-Owal is a member of the League of Assassins and is targeting her for leaving the League. Felicity manages to trace Al-Owal to an abandoned manufacturing plant from the dirt he left behind. Oliver and Sara fight with Al-Owal and two other League members to a stalemate. They manage to escape and Al-Owal threatens to kill Sara's family. Oliver manages to protect Laurel, but Quentin refuses to heed Felicity's warning. To protect her father, Sara reveals she is alive to him and brings him to her location in the clock tower. Together with Oliver, they manage to stop the League's second attack, with Sara killing Al-Owal. Afterwards, Sara decides to leave Starling City to keep her family safe, entrusting her secret to Quentin. Elsewhere, Moira, with the encouragement of her children, decides to fight the death penalty charge even after being offered a plea agreement for life in prison. In flashbacks, after being left adrift from the Queen's Gambit wreckage, Sara is rescued and brought aboard the Amazo, where she meets Dr. Anthony Ivo, who asks her to help him with his experiments.

EP029 - "Keep Your Enemies Closer"

Spoiler: show

After A.R.G.U.S agent Lyla Michaels goes missing, Oliver charters a trip to Russia to help Diggle find her when they learn that she was following a lead on Deadshot's whereabouts. Isabel Rochev learns that Oliver is going to Russia and tags along, believing that he is trying to meet with the international division of Queen Consolidated behind her back. Once there, Oliver and Diggle learn that Lyla is being held in a gulag. Based on their plan, Diggle is arrested and sent to the gulag to rescue Lyla. Once inside, Diggle finds Deadshot is an isolation freezer. The pair is forced to team up to save Lyla and escape. Afterward, Diggle lets Deadshot go for helping him save Lyla; in return, Deadshot reveals that he was contracted to kill Diggle's brother by H.I.V.E.. In flashbacks, Dr. Ivo reveals to Oliver that the Japanese soldiers were transporting a secret serum that would give soldiers superhuman strength and regenerative capabilities. Later, Sara tricks Oliver into revealing that Shado and Slade are still alive. Oliver is nearly executed, but Sara convinces Ivo to spare him.

EP030 - "State v. Queen"

Spoiler: show

It is revealed that the Count escaped from prison during the earthquake in the Glades. Afterward, the Count begins poisoning Starling City with the Vertigo drug; Diggle and the assistant district attorney are among the infected. When the assistant district attorney collapses in court, the Count kidnaps him en route to the hospital and reveals to the city that the cure to their sickness is to take Vertigo. In court, Laurel uses an affair between Moira and Malcolm to cast doubts on Moira's defense. Ultimately, Moira is found "not guilty" by the jury; Moira finds out later that Malcolm is still alive and rigged the trial. Malcolm also reveals that Thea is his biological daughter. Felicity is able to locate the Count, and Oliver manages to save the assistant district attorney, but at the expense of allowing the Count to escape. Later, Felicity is captured by the Count when she discovers how he has been infecting the city. In order to protect Felicity from being injected with Vertigo, Oliver is forced to break his promise and kill the Count. In a flashback to the island, Shado and Slade rescue Oliver and Sara when Dr. Ivo and his men come to the island to find a stone arrowhead left by the Japanese soldiers.

EP031 - "The Scientist"
EP032 - "Three Ghosts"
EP033 - "Blast Radius"
EP034 - "Blind Spot"
EP035 -
EP036 - "Heir to the Demon"
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[Delirium]

If lanterns can be in this, laurel better fucking become Black Canary and whoop ass.

[Nama]

On the GL rumor- I thought they were deliberately staying away from super powers? I don't mind if this is no longer the case as its the only way to get a decent version of Black Canary.

[Uzor]

Iunno, perhaps they'll find a logical "technical" reason for their abilities.

The first Black Canary is mainly a good fighter, no? It's only the second one that has special powers. Considering they have a machine that creates a man-made earthquake in this one, Green Lantern might have some gimmicks that somewhat mimics their abilities. Personally, I'd rather they stay away from super powers, I quite like this version of Arrow where there's no super powers.

[Delirium]

Right now they are trying to keep it grounded, yes. However, at the point of creation DC wanted their heroes seperate. Once Avengers became huge was their was talk about a shared universe. As such, it is fully possible to add metas to Arrow. He could fit in the world that they are starting to build with Man of Steel.
Also, they already introduced Laurels mom, who was the first Black Canary in the comics. Dinah Drake Lance had a Canary cry, but it was from some nuclear accident or something. Her daughter, Dinah Laurel Lance, has the canary cry from her meta gene.

[Iono]

Wouldn't Green Lantern be like the worst possible super hero to fit in a world of no super powers? They'd have to bring in the background for the whole green lantern corp along with aliens and other stuff?

[Tajin]

I still need to catchup with S1

[niwaar]

Right now they are trying to keep it grounded, yes. However, at the point of creation DC wanted their heroes seperate. Once Avengers became huge was their was talk about a shared universe. As such, it is fully possible to add metas to Arrow. He could fit in the world that they are starting to build with Man of Steel.
Also, they already introduced Laurels mom, who was the first Black Canary in the comics. Dinah Drake Lance had a Canary cry, but it was from some nuclear accident or something. Her daughter, Dinah Laurel Lance, has the canary cry from her meta gene.

We already have a tech enhanced Deadshot in the Arrow-verse. This would allow for some of what you are saying. However, we have met Dinah Drake already... A lot of people including myself were hoping to see her as the original Canary when she popped up. I would guess we wont see any meta or otherwise "super-ness" at least until season 3. It is after all wasnt until s3 til Smallville went completely off the rails.

[Uzor]

Either way; it's quite clear that his sister's boyfriend will be Speedy, since his name is even the same as the Speedy from the comics.

[D44kpunk]

all the actors in this are so bad, i wish they had recast it with a better cast i like season 1 but felt like it could have been executed better

[Qalbert]

its not amazing but it's highly watchable, if that makes sense. also fucking Crixus.

[Akiyama]

I've enjoyed it a ton honestly even with the bad CW acting

[Dryr]

It started strong, but it's really been dying for most of the season. All of the main characters have their defined faults and they just take turns expressing them over and over while the hood takes out another criminal of the week that never really stood out.

[Akiyama]

Not this past week, but the week before.. the agent that was an assassin played by the guy who played Charles Gunn in Angel was *really* good IMO. The first villain that was actually dangerous IMO.

As for a 'villain of the week' thing.. I think they're angling for Tommy to be the next big bad.

[Qalbert]

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Arrow-Se...s-1065883.aspx

Arrow's second season will be stepping up the action by featuring not just one overarching villain, but two!

Although the first season featured several smaller villains — The Count (Seth Gabel) and Edward Fyers (Sebastian Dunn), among them — Arrow's season-long big bad was Malcolm Merlyn (John Barrowman), who apparently died at the hands of Oliver (Stephen Amell) in the season finale.

"We made no secret of the fact that we subscribe to the Whedonesque model of having a big bad, and in Season 2, we'll actually have two big bads," executive producer Marc Guggenheim tells TVGuide.com. "They'll both be very recognizable names to fans of the comic book. We're really excited about both of them."

Interestingly enough, Malcolm Merlyn has inspired the direction of the second season. "With Malcolm and the Dark Archer, we sort of had two big bads in one person," he says. "In Season 2, we're going to split them up essentially, and there will be a Malcolm-esque big bad and a Dark Archer-esque big bad."

Naturally, fans of the Green Arrow comics may guess that Deathstroke will be the Dark Archer-esque villain of Season 2, with Slade Wilson (Manu Bennett) destined to put on that infamous mask. Running the theory past Guggenheim, he responds, "If the question of Season 1 is, 'What happened to Oliver on that island?' The question of Season 2 is, 'What happened to Slade Wilson on that island?'"

Regardless of who the two villains are, Guggenheim vows that the second season will be even more action-packed and exciting than the first. "We're definitely trying to take the show to the next level in Season 2," he says. "Obviously we're feeling a lot of pressure, but also a huge desire to return with a few big bold statements that the show is not quieting down. If anything, it's ramping up. It's going to be cool. I'm really excited about both villains. We've set the bar pretty high for ourselves in terms of ending with a bang, and we're looking to exceed that in Season 2.

Who do you think will be the two new big bads next season? Hit the comments with your thoughts!

Arrow returns this fall on The CW.

[Dantrag]

I look forward to season 2.

[Takiwaki]

Glau joins the cast.. its over =/

[Akiyama]

RIP Arrow.

[Tajin]

[AzazaelFenrir]

Glau joins the cast.. its over =/

On any other network I would agree. It takes a lot to kill a CW show.