Arrow's Stephen Amell and Emily Bett Rickards took a break from Oliver and Felicity's love-tour to chat with E! News' Kristin Dos Santos at a LG G4 Suite at Comic-Con, where they didn't just tease the couple's "domestic bliss"...they acted it out. After improv-theater (sadly) ended, they did envision what the couple's first fight would be over, and we've got two words: Damp. Towels. Fortunately, it'll lead to some making up, as executive producer Marc Guggenheim did promise " a lot of sex" for the couple in season four.
The series takes a realistic look at the Green Arrow character, as well as other characters from the DC Comics universe. Although Oliver Queen/Green Arrow had been featured in the television series Smallvile from 2006 to 2011, the producers decided to start clean and find a new actor (Amell) to portray the character.
Arrow focuses on the humanity of Oliver Queen, and how he was changed by time spent shipwrecked on an island. Most episodes have flashback scenes to the five years in which Oliver was missing. Arrow has received generally positive reviews from critics, and was the CW's highest-rated new series in five years. The series averaged about 3.68 million viewers over the course of the first season, and has received three awards and multiple nominations.
To promote it, a preview comic book was released before the television series began, while webisodes featuring a product tie-in with Bose were developed for the second season. Arrow features two storylines: one in the present, and the other, shown in flashback, during Oliver's time on the island five years before his rescue.
These flashbacks are used to illustrate how Oliver transformed into the man that returns to Starling City. Filming for the island flashbacks takes place in Vancouver's Whytecliff Park area, near beachfront homes. Much planning is required to keep the buildings out of camera frame. The series develops relationship triangles: some love triangles, others designed to catch characters in "philosophical debates".
