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Arrow (S4E18) -- "Eleven-Fifty-Nine" -- 4/6/16

Old 04-06-16, 04:07 PM
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Arrow (S4E18) -- "Eleven-Fifty-Nine" -- 4/6/16




WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6

ARROW

"Eleven-Fifty-Nine" - (8:00-9:00 p.m. ET) (Content Rating TBD) (HDTV)

MALCOLM MAKES HIS MOVE - Oliver (Stephen Amell) and Diggle (David Ramsey) learn that Merlyn (John Barrowman) is going to try to break Darhk (guest star Neal McDonough) out of prison. Meanwhile, Laurel (Katie Cassidy) gets a surprising offer and Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) has a heart-to-heart talk with Curtis (guest star Echo Kellum). Rob Hardy directed the episode written by Marc Guggenheim & Keto Shimizu (#418). Original airdate 4/6/2016.

Tonight is the big reveal on the season-long mystery

Be warned there are spoilers out there. If you aware of the spoiler, please don't post it here.

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Re: Arrow (S4E18) -- "Eleven-Fifty-Nine" -- 4/6/16

Not who I thought it would be, but he/she would have been my second guess.
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Re: Arrow (S4E18) -- "Eleven-Fifty-Nine" -- 4/6/16

Am I the only one who thinks Oliver did something to slow her pulse and making it seem that he/she died?
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Re: Arrow (S4E18) -- "Eleven-Fifty-Nine" -- 4/6/16

To the Lazarus Pit Green Batman!
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Re: Arrow (S4E18) -- "Eleven-Fifty-Nine" -- 4/6/16

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Am I the only one who thinks Oliver did something to slow her pulse and making it seem that he/she died?
I don't know. It was either a dodgy bit of editing in that scene or Oliver had something to hide.

Spoilers for this episode only:

Spoiler:

I was surprised they offed Laurel if that is what happened and also not surprised. Killing off Laurel saves a lot of money since you can also axe Capt. Lance from the cast as well next season, his character has much less to do without her around.

I hadn't been paying attention to the spoilers before it aired, so I was completely unaware that someone was supposed to die in this episode. They did try to give Laurel more direct face time with Oliver the past few episodes, which may have been a signal she was destined to die. I actually had been thinking that was a new direction the show was taking with Laurel and that maybe she was going to start dating Oliver again.

I did find her deathbed confession to always loving Oliver very cheesy. I guess that was a nod to Black Canary's comic book fans.

While Laurel was pretty useless the first two seasons of Arrow, I thought she had found a better fit on the show as a background supporting character becoming Black Canary. Though I don't think the show will particularly miss her, the character was mostly superfluous at this point.

I am now thinking that Thea is safe going forward since eliminating her would also remove much of Malcolm Merlyn's connection to the show.
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Re: Arrow (S4E18) -- "Eleven-Fifty-Nine" -- 4/6/16

At this point Laurel would not have been my first choice to leave...or my second...or my third. I was actually starting to like Laurel. Of course in this episode they might as well have hung a dead meat sign around her neck.

Episode was a lot more entertaining as a whole w/o all of the Oliver/Felicity bullshit that's been killing this show.
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Re: Arrow (S4E18) -- "Eleven-Fifty-Nine" -- 4/6/16


All I remember for so long, is people hoping Laurel was off the show, now people are surprised/bummed ... HA!
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Re: Arrow (S4E18) -- "Eleven-Fifty-Nine" -- 4/6/16

Nobody stays dead in Arrow for long anyways...
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Re: Arrow (S4E18) -- "Eleven-Fifty-Nine" -- 4/6/16

Well, it was already announced (Flash)

Spoiler:
that Earth 2 Laurel will be the Black Siren later this year
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Re: Arrow (S4E18) -- "Eleven-Fifty-Nine" -- 4/6/16

Damn. Going to miss Laurel. After her issues in season 2 and her poor transition to becoming the Black Canary, I think she became much more likable.

That was a pretty emotional final scene.

I wonder if word of Laurel's death is going to make way to Sara on Legends.
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Re: Arrow (S4E18) -- "Eleven-Fifty-Nine" -- 4/6/16

I'm just bummed this death won't stick for too long.
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Re: Arrow (S4E18) -- "Eleven-Fifty-Nine" -- 4/6/16

There's no way she's gone. Let's have a secret conversation that the audience is not privy to screams of something else going on. Also, could they telegraph her death any more during the episode? Her one last time out speech about the prison riot was pretty much telling the audience she was toast.
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Re: Arrow (S4E18) -- "Eleven-Fifty-Nine" -- 4/6/16

Originally Posted by Jackskeleton
I'm just bummed this death won't stick for too long.
Pretty much. It's just like a real comic book. Death doesn't mean a thing.
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Re: Arrow (S4E18) -- "Eleven-Fifty-Nine" -- 4/6/16

The only way Black Canary would stay dead is if the character is in a movie.
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Re: Arrow (S4E18) -- "Eleven-Fifty-Nine" -- 4/6/16

Originally Posted by Deftones
There's no way she's gone.
Sounds like this version of Laurel is definitely gone according to Marc Guggeinheim, the showrunner.

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/04/06...death-spoilers

So could Laurel come back to life?

“Not getting a chance to work with Katie day in and day out is tempered by the fact that we now live in a universe where there’s resurrection, parallel earths, time travel, flashbacks — we have all these different ways of keeping Katie in the Arrow-verse family,” Guggenheim says. “In fact, you will see her on an episode of Flash playing the Earth-2 version of Laurel Lance. Katie is reprising her role as Laurel of Earth-1 to be in Vixen season 2. Death does not mean goodbye on any of these shows, but we made a creative choice and we’re sticking to it. We’re recognizing that Black Canary and Laurel have an incredibly loyal fanbase, and Katie has an incredibly loyal fanbase, but the show has never been just about the comic book history, it’s never been just about one or two different particular fanbases. We make the creative choices we feel benefit the show as a whole and the story that we’re telling overall.”
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Re: Arrow (S4E18) -- "Eleven-Fifty-Nine" -- 4/6/16

In case you're wondering about Sara:


Will Sara Lance find out that Laurel is dead?

“Sara will find out in Legends [of Tomorrow] about what happened with Laurel,” Guggenheim says. “We give it its due. I feel like we give it its due. We’ve always said on Legends we were not going to shy away from this development as far as Sara’s character is concerned. Paul was very gracious to lend his time to Legends to really allow us to explore that.”
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Re: Arrow (S4E18) -- "Eleven-Fifty-Nine" -- 4/6/16

It's just that Laurel had been rehabilitated as a character over the past season and a half, which is why the death surprised me a little. If someone had told me at the beginning of season three she wouldn't survive season four, it wouldn't have been much of a shock.

The show made a mistake by giving Sara the Black Canary mantle in the first place, I don't think they ever imagined fans would like her so much more than Laurel. When they reneged and killed Sara off the first time, Laurel was never going to be anything but a background character. Her sole remaining purpose as the show's romantic lead for Oliver was removed when fans wanted Felicity with him.
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We know Ollie ends up with Black Canary, the question now is, who?
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Re: Arrow (S4E18) -- "Eleven-Fifty-Nine" -- 4/6/16

Originally Posted by Eric F
We know Ollie ends up with Black Canary, the question now is, who?
I'm thinking it will be the E-2 version coming to the series and she will use the name Dinah. Why not?
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Re: Arrow (S4E18) -- "Eleven-Fifty-Nine" -- 4/6/16

Upcoming Flash spoiler
Spoiler:
I do think it's likely that the Earth 2 Black Siren will end up a permanent replacement.
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Re: Arrow (S4E18) -- "Eleven-Fifty-Nine" -- 4/6/16

Originally Posted by Eric F
We know Ollie ends up with Black Canary, the question now is, who?
I've heard some horrible speculation that Felicity now becomes the Black Canary. It would be absurd and ridiculous, but this is also the show that turned a druggie club girl into a trained assassin over one summer break.
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Re: Arrow (S4E18) -- "Eleven-Fifty-Nine" -- 4/6/16

Diggle's helmet is 3 sizes too small.
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Re: Arrow (S4E18) -- "Eleven-Fifty-Nine" -- 4/6/16

If they stick to pre-Crisis DC lore, the Earth-1 Black Canary is actually the Earth-2 Canary (it's convoluted but basically, the Golden Age BC has her soul transferred into her own younger daughter and becomes the Earth-1 BC).

So this would be a cool throwback if Black Siren becomes the new Canary.

...aaaaaaaand I went full taffer again
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Originally Posted by TGM
Diggle's helmet is 3 sizes too small.
That's what she said.
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Re: Arrow (S4E18) -- "Eleven-Fifty-Nine" -- 4/6/16

Originally Posted by Eric F
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Thankfully AFAIK Nissa put an end to that ridiculousness

Originally Posted by PhantomStranger
I don't know. It was either a dodgy bit of editing in that scene or Oliver had something to hide.
Very much agreed. I think they should've let the scene play out to give it its full weight. The edit was jarring and makes me suspect they were trying really hard to make it look like Oliver intervened. If he actually did do something, it seems to me the edit probably could've been a bit subtler. Then again, I'm not a film editor so what do I know?

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