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So before I go any farther, let me just point out the obvious...there may be potential SPOILERS ahead!
Still with me? Good! Saturday night at PaleyFest, a trailer was shown that raise some interesting questions as to what direction the show is going to be taking in the episodes leading up to the season finale. The trailer hasn't been released to the public yet, but as soon as they do release it, I'll put a link over to it for you.
Andrew Kreisberg admitted during PaleyFest that one of the biggest problems that the writers had to deal with was having to come up with new and different excuses for Oliver Queen to sneak off every time something happened that required the Arrow's attention. Now that more and more people are aware of Oliver's secret, it's making their job a lot easier. Expect two more people to find out his true identity, and neither of them are very happy about it! So who are these two people? Detective Quentin Lance and Ray Palmer!
Detective Lance seems to be taking the news the hardest, as one of the scenes from the trailer show the police raiding the team's "Arrow-Cave" and one of Team Arrow in costume getting arrested (not Oliver Queen.) The trailer also shows the unmasking of a fake Arrow, which begs the question...is there a copycat Arrow gong around killing people? This might be the reason why Oliver decides to come clean with who the Arrow really is. And consider this...Oliver was keeping his identity a secret to protect the people that he loved and were closest to him. Now, nearly every one of them already know that he's the Arrow, so why keep the secret identity? Thea is in the know, and quite the badass now, so she can obviously take care of herself if she needs to. Laurel has taken over as Black Canary, and is still training with Ted Grant (a.k.a. Wildcat), and is slowly getting better at being able to hold her own in a fight. The only people who were at risk of his secret coming out are dead (i.e. Moria Queen, Tommy Merlyn, and even Sara Lance) so why keeping it up? This would also discourage any more copycats from trying to besmirch Arrow's good name.
Comicbook.com makes some good points in regards to superheroes and secret identities. Almost everyone in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is open about who they are. Tony Stark, Thor, Bruce Banner, and Captain America are all upfront about being who they are. On the DC side of things, Wonder Woman is Amazon royalty, and won't have a secret identity in the upcoming Batman V Superman film. Neither will Aquaman, who also is royalty from Atlantis. Superman has a secret identity, but look how fast Lois Lane figured out who he was, right? The only one that seems to be keeping his identity a secret is Batman. It seems that writers are slowly moving away from the whole "secret identity" aspect of superheroes. Even in the comics, Oliver Queen's secret identity had been revealed, up until the reboot their whole universe with The New 52.
So will Oliver's secret be revealed this season? We'll just have to keep watching to find out!
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