User blog comment:Jamie/Episode 9 - Arrow Season 2/@comment-166-20140604053228/@comment-1895174-20140604075226


 * Thea becomes her namesake. If you didn't catch it, Thea's middle name is Moira's maiden name, Dearden. Thea Dearden. Sounds familiar. I called the season ending with Malcolm Merlyn absconding with her and making her the son he always wanted from the first time he showed up this season.
 * Speaking of which, John Barrowman was promoted to series regular for Season 3. Maybe we'll be jumping around a lot between Starling City, Malcolm and Thea, and Sara and the League.
 * Find something to do with Diggle. He's losing his importance on Team Arrow (and the series as a whole) as the group rounds out with more legitimate superheroes.
 * An equally-portrayed gay relationship. Sara's romance with Nyssa being the weird, dangerous thing she did when she was lost and immediately running back to a man doesn't cut it...and is kind of offensive. We know you want to do more than that, Greg Berlanti.
 * Salmon Ladder promoted to series regular.
 * A greater presence from ARGUS. Hopefully there's a Suicide Squad episode that's actually a Suicide Squad episode and not an excuse to give an increasingly-sidelined Diggle something to do. And Robert Knepper's Clock King joins the team. And fatten up Cynthia Addai-Robinson while you're at it.
 * Ju-...j-...jus-...just kill Laurel.
 * That was definitely Moonday in the flashback parts of "Seeing Red". Introduce Connor. This won't be the Batman series everyone thinks Arrow wants to be until Oliver meets his bratty, multi-ethnic illegitimate son.