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**Tribal Warfare** · 09:37 PM

The series, which will air on Wednesdays at 8:00-9:00 p.m., stars Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen, Colin Donnell as Tommy, Katie Cassidy as Laurel Lance, David Ramsey as John Diggle, Willa Holland as Thea Queen, with Susanna Thompson as Moira Queen and Paul Blackthorne as Detective Quentin Lance.

kcxiv · 04-19-2015, 01:08 AM

cant nail it everytime. sometimes people just have to be written out for a while. We seen that shit on Persons of Interest chick got pregnant and asked to be written out, they basically did the same thing showed that she might be dead, but she's not, she's going to be a mom! lol

**Ragged Robin** · 04-30-2015, 07:13 PM

ridiculously awful episode

they end on everyone crying in sort-of slow motion at the end because... uhh Ollie didn't acknowledge them?

OMG HE'S SO CHANGED /everyone cries by themselves

**007** · 04-30-2015, 11:10 PM

Yeah, I didn't care much for this ep at all. Sorry but there is no way someone can be changed that quickly. Granted it may all be an act but thats a tall order.

**Ragged Robin** · 05-06-2015, 09:46 PM

Diggle should be the next Wildcat.. they make such a huge deal about wearing masks and stuff and he runs around in normal clothes fully exposed

**Ragged Robin** · 05-06-2015, 10:11 PM

how pathetic is that this Katana outfit looks better than the Suicide Squad movie's...

they made such a huge deal about Oliver refraining from killing people after season 1 and then in this episode we see Diggle mow people down down with an assault rifle and pistol, Katana slaying people, Merliyn dropping bodies... even Atom kills the pilot in the jet and no one even flinches about it

kcxiv · 05-07-2015, 01:32 AM

Its the league of assasins, what the **** did you think was going to happen? People were going to die! Some thing, yes i agree there can be bitching a little to lovey dovey, but i get why they have it, women love ****ing Oliver/Felicity and That Arsenal dude, but sometimes you just bitch to bitch.

**007** · 05-07-2015, 01:53 AM

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Originally Posted by kcxiv

Its the league of assasins, what the **** did you think was going to happen? People were going to die! Some thing, yes i agree there can be bitching a little to lovey dovey, but i get why they have it, women love ****ing Oliver/Felicity and That Arsenal dude, but sometimes you just bitch to bitch.

I find it funny as hell that Laurel can beat any one of those guys in the League. Hell, even Diggle shouldn't be able to beat them in hand to hand combat.

thabear04 · 05-13-2015, 11:08 AM

**Ragged Robin** · 05-13-2015, 06:42 PM

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Originally Posted by kcxiv

Its the league of assasins, what the **** did you think was going to happen? People were going to die! Some thing, yes i agree there can be bitching a little to lovey dovey, but i get why they have it, women love ****ing Oliver/Felicity and That Arsenal dude, but sometimes you just bitch to bitch.

guilty

keg in kc · 05-14-2015, 11:00 AM

Really surprised by the end. Never expected a happy ending from this show. They could've ended the series there. Will be interesting to see where it goes.

Also interested in seeing the Rip Hunter and Hawkgirl intros on Flash next week, setting up Legends of Tomorrow.

thabear04 · 05-14-2015, 01:35 PM

http://comicbook.com/2015/05/14/davi...will-he-wear-/

At The CW’s annual upfronts presentation in New York Thursday, the network that birthed the DC TV Universe first held a red carpet reception for press to meet and greet the stars of their biggest shows, including Arrow, The Flash, upcoming spin-off Legends of Tomorrow… and those other non-comic book shows they have on the air too, we’re told.

David Ramsey’s John Diggle had a big season 3 of Arrow, with some major heroics, new team-ups, a marriage, a family, kidnappings, betrayals, and an overwhelming sense that something more was on the way for the character. Ramsey stopped for an extended chat with ComicBook.com about what his character has been through, and answered two very important questions about just who John Diggle is, and whether we can expect him bathed in green light – or at least in a mask – any time soon.

So David, Diggle was put through the ringer with great triumphs and great tragedies this season. He’s really gone back and forth quite a bit. What’s it like getting to play that entire range of emotions and events for you?

David Ramsey: He has. It’s exciting as an actor, right? Anytime you get some stuff to do that’s really meaty, you always like that. It’s an action show, too, so anytime you get to kick butt that’s always fun! (laughs) This show doesn’t lack for stories. So they’ll go to a character, go away from a character, go back to a character – the last part of the season has been kind of Diggle’s time, and it’s exciting every time the arrow points back to me, so to speak.

Excellent pun. (laughs) The Suicide Squad stuff is obviously very exciting, but it’s also been interesting to see how much emotion and character development comes out of that stuff for you when you interact with them. What’s it like for you when you have those kind of side stories?

DR: It’s great. What’s funny about that is it’s almost – the Suicide Squad stories or Task Force X if you will, ARGUS stories with Diggle, they’re almost another show. They take on this tone where it could always be a spin-off, you know what I mean? It has its own little energy.

So it’s always exciting anytime you get to do something, where the B story becomes the strong story, almost another A story. That’s exciting, and most of the time like you said, you get to find out something new about Diggle. Now unfortunately Deadshot is gone, and he was a major player in Diggle’s life. But we’ll see what happens next for next season.

Diggle’s reaction to the Flash…

DR: I know, it was bananas.

It was so funny!

DR: Anytime I get to make Diggle be more like David, and just be funny. It was so funny, on the set, Andrew Kreisberg was there with me, and he was like, “Just go big when you see The Flash move at superspeed.” I did it one time, and he said, “No, even bigger, just go bananas.” I was like, “really? Okay!” and did what you saw. It was great to just take the reins off of Diggle.

So that’s how David would react if he saw someone move at superspeed?

DR: Yeah, oh yeah, no doubt. How I would react though, I would do exactly that, then piss myself. (laughs) Did I say that? Yeah, seeing someone run that fast?

We have been teased over and over and it seems like everyone else on the show now has a secret identity…

DR: Right, right.

Is it something that you even want for Diggle, and is it something that Diggle wants for himself?

DR: That’s a great, great question.

Everyone wants to talk about John Stewart. Is it “John Stewart Diggle” or “John Diggle Stewart” or whatever, and will he be Green Lantern? There’s gonna be – obviously, [EP] Marc Guggenheim has said publicly that it’s not the way to go right now. But people are still talking about it.

You know, I think – and Greg Berlanti has said this publicly too, I think that they’ve gone to great lengths to build up the mythos and persona of John Diggle. He’s become a character in the comic books! Hopefully, he stays alive in the comic books and he’s around for 20 years, and someone else will play him on TV or in a movie! That’s a great honor. I think they’ve taken great strides to making John Diggle part of the lexicon, and that’s an important thing. I don’t think you want to abandon that.

I think that’s part of the appeal. He’s just a regular guy from the Glades, from the hood, who joined the military, became special forces, and now he’s a super hero! I think there’s something very normal about him that’s part of the appeal.

I think if you put a mask on him as part of the Green Lantern Corps, and that’s wonderful by the way – John Stewart is a wonderful character – but you lose some of that. You lose part of the “everyguy” character.

What about a mask for someone like Vigilante, or…

DR: Yeah, people have mentioned that, people have mentioned The Guardian, a few others.

Yeah, right!

DR: I do think you need some kind of concealment. I agree with that. And to that end, they are working on something. You will see something for Diggle next year, season 4. You will.

All right, that’s huge! Wrapping up, what was the most surprising thing for you from season 3?

DR: From this season? That’s a good question. The most surprising thing for me was how they managed to make Ra’s work. I didn’t know what they were going to do with Ra’s al Ghul. The actor who played him, Matt Nable, did such a great job with it, and the League of Assassins I thought was so formidable. I was surprised and I’m happy about how they handled Ra’s and the League because that was important.

**Ragged Robin** · 05-14-2015, 07:51 PM

He won't be Jon Stewart, I'm pretty sure DC already has plans for that character in the movie universe and they don't like to double dip those properties.

Guardian would be doable since he's obscure. IMO the easiest is to just let him be Wildcat since Ted Grant is long retired on this show and never wore the proper Wildcat outfit. They already have rights to that IP anyway. The one thing about taking up the mask is that he'll also have to give up guns I guess which has been his thing since Season 1..

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Originally Posted by keg in kc

Really surprised by the end. Never expected a happy ending from this show. They could've ended the series there. Will be interesting to see where it goes.

Also interested in seeing the Rip Hunter and Hawkgirl intros on Flash next week, setting up Legends of Tomorrow.

It was a welcome surprise. Way too much tight-assery/constipation on this show and to finally end on a happy note was a sigh of relief. I hope they come back next season with something like "6 months later.. Canary & friends have done well without Ollie but now face something too big for them, then Ollie comes back rejuvinated and (hopefully) with a new outfit and finally refers to himself as Green Arrow and doesn't take himself too seriously anymore.."

The Flash was A LOT cooler in this episode than he has ever been even in his own series... where the hell did that come from?? We need more of that Flash than the one we've been getting.

"YOU GUYS HAVE A HOT TUB??? Nice."

lcarus · 05-16-2015, 03:42 PM

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The CW? I'll pass.

I was wrong. I gave the show a shot after hearing good things from my brother. It's quite enjoyable. I wouldn't say it's "great" like Breaking Bad, but it's a good show.

kcxiv · 05-16-2015, 06:04 PM

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I find it funny as hell that Laurel can beat any one of those guys in the League. Hell, even Diggle shouldn't be able to beat them in hand to hand combat.

yeah, never been a fan of laurel to begin with. Her and Iris from Flash piss me off. lol Diggle is trained military and other shit, him i could see, but not Laurel. Wish Caity Lotz would have stayed and not this chick.

keg in kc · 07-10-2015, 02:08 PM

Neal McDonough has signed on to play Damien Darhk. Should be pretty awesome.

Link.

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thabear04 MTFU Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: The Valley Heat Casino cash: $5710450	http://comicbook.com/2015/05/14/davi...will-he-wear-/ At The CW’s annual upfronts presentation in New York Thursday, the network that birthed the DC TV Universe first held a red carpet reception for press to meet and greet the stars of their biggest shows, including Arrow, The Flash, upcoming spin-off Legends of Tomorrow… and those other non-comic book shows they have on the air too, we’re told. David Ramsey’s John Diggle had a big season 3 of Arrow, with some major heroics, new team-ups, a marriage, a family, kidnappings, betrayals, and an overwhelming sense that something more was on the way for the character. Ramsey stopped for an extended chat with ComicBook.com about what his character has been through, and answered two very important questions about just who John Diggle is, and whether we can expect him bathed in green light – or at least in a mask – any time soon. So David, Diggle was put through the ringer with great triumphs and great tragedies this season. He’s really gone back and forth quite a bit. What’s it like getting to play that entire range of emotions and events for you? David Ramsey: He has. It’s exciting as an actor, right? Anytime you get some stuff to do that’s really meaty, you always like that. It’s an action show, too, so anytime you get to kick butt that’s always fun! (laughs) This show doesn’t lack for stories. So they’ll go to a character, go away from a character, go back to a character – the last part of the season has been kind of Diggle’s time, and it’s exciting every time the arrow points back to me, so to speak. Excellent pun. (laughs) The Suicide Squad stuff is obviously very exciting, but it’s also been interesting to see how much emotion and character development comes out of that stuff for you when you interact with them. What’s it like for you when you have those kind of side stories? DR: It’s great. What’s funny about that is it’s almost – the Suicide Squad stories or Task Force X if you will, ARGUS stories with Diggle, they’re almost another show. They take on this tone where it could always be a spin-off, you know what I mean? It has its own little energy. So it’s always exciting anytime you get to do something, where the B story becomes the strong story, almost another A story. That’s exciting, and most of the time like you said, you get to find out something new about Diggle. Now unfortunately Deadshot is gone, and he was a major player in Diggle’s life. But we’ll see what happens next for next season. Diggle’s reaction to the Flash… DR: I know, it was bananas. It was so funny! DR: Anytime I get to make Diggle be more like David, and just be funny. It was so funny, on the set, Andrew Kreisberg was there with me, and he was like, “Just go big when you see The Flash move at superspeed.” I did it one time, and he said, “No, even bigger, just go bananas.” I was like, “really? Okay!” and did what you saw. It was great to just take the reins off of Diggle. So that’s how David would react if he saw someone move at superspeed? DR: Yeah, oh yeah, no doubt. How I would react though, I would do exactly that, then piss myself. (laughs) Did I say that? Yeah, seeing someone run that fast? We have been teased over and over and it seems like everyone else on the show now has a secret identity… DR: Right, right. Is it something that you even want for Diggle, and is it something that Diggle wants for himself? DR: That’s a great, great question. Everyone wants to talk about John Stewart. Is it “John Stewart Diggle” or “John Diggle Stewart” or whatever, and will he be Green Lantern? There’s gonna be – obviously, [EP] Marc Guggenheim has said publicly that it’s not the way to go right now. But people are still talking about it. You know, I think – and Greg Berlanti has said this publicly too, I think that they’ve gone to great lengths to build up the mythos and persona of John Diggle. He’s become a character in the comic books! Hopefully, he stays alive in the comic books and he’s around for 20 years, and someone else will play him on TV or in a movie! That’s a great honor. I think they’ve taken great strides to making John Diggle part of the lexicon, and that’s an important thing. I don’t think you want to abandon that. I think that’s part of the appeal. He’s just a regular guy from the Glades, from the hood, who joined the military, became special forces, and now he’s a super hero! I think there’s something very normal about him that’s part of the appeal. I think if you put a mask on him as part of the Green Lantern Corps, and that’s wonderful by the way – John Stewart is a wonderful character – but you lose some of that. You lose part of the “everyguy” character. What about a mask for someone like Vigilante, or… DR: Yeah, people have mentioned that, people have mentioned The Guardian, a few others. Yeah, right! DR: I do think you need some kind of concealment. I agree with that. And to that end, they are working on something. You will see something for Diggle next year, season 4. You will. All right, that’s huge! Wrapping up, what was the most surprising thing for you from season 3? DR: From this season? That’s a good question. The most surprising thing for me was how they managed to make Ra’s work. I didn’t know what they were going to do with Ra’s al Ghul. The actor who played him, Matt Nable, did such a great job with it, and the League of Assassins I thought was so formidable. I was surprised and I’m happy about how they handled Ra’s and the League because that was important.
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