‘Arrow’ season 4 spoilers: The common theme between Constantine, flashback stories
The fourth season of “Arrow” is going to be premiering on The CW Wednesday night, and there are many things to be joyous and/or surprises about. You have Oliver and Felicity together, a tone that is going to be somewhat lighter than anything we’ve seen as of late, and a Big Bad in Damien Darhk who seems to mean serious business.
But what about the flashbacks? It’s a subject that we have tackled before in rather ambiguous terms. Everyone is convinced (and rightfully so) that they are a major part of the story, but at the same time, there is a big twist coming to them that no one in the public has been let in on. Since the majority of “Arrow” fans don’t exactly get particularly enthused about the spin-off story, this is something that the show has been able to keep a secret better than they would something else. This is especially important this time given that at least thematically, there will be similarities between John Constantine’s arrival in the present and this story in the past.
Speaking on the subject of this story in a new interview with IGN, showrunner Wendy Mericle describes what lies ahead with the following:
“We’re going to be doing a similar geographic switch up, but really it’s a chance to explore magic and mysticism, which is part of Constantine coming onto the show and why we’re excited about it. It fits into this new element that we’re exploring. We started out with the show being very grounded. There was no magic, no metahumans, no superpowers. In Season 2, we had the Flash, so we had metas and in Season 3 we explored the League of Assassins and what kind of universe that is and now we get to go and skirt some bigger questions that are more about — not necessarily religious but morality questions and questions of faith. Faith and humanity, specifically.”
Does this mean that there are some characters involved in the world of magic that will be appearing in these flashbacks? We hope so, but if they are turning up, right now the series is doing a good job of keeping them under wraps. (Yes, we are writing this mostly as a longtime Zatanna fan.)
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