CW releases new information on Green Arrow and The Canaries spinoff
The CW has revealed new information on the potential Arrow spinoff Green Arrow & The Canaries. The backdoor pilot for the spinoff will air as Arrow’s ninth episode this season and a synopsis has finally been released.
Arrow may be leaving our screens soon, but the Arrowverse continues on. The latest addition may be the potential spinoff Green Arrow & the Canaries, which is set to follow Mia Smoak, Laurel Lance, and Dinah Drake.
The CW has now released new information on the backdoor pilot which will give us a better idea of what we can expect from the spinoff. The episode synopsis reads as follows:
"“It’s the year 2040 in Star City and Mia Queen (Katherine McNamara) has everything she could have ever wanted. However, when Laurel (Katie Cassidy) and Dinah (Juliana Harkavy) suddenly show up in her life again, things take a shocking turn and her perfect world is upended.Laurel and Dinah are tracking a kidnapping victim with direct ties to Mia and they need her help. Knowing it will change everything, Mia can’t help but be a hero and she, Laurel and Dinah suit up once again to save the city.”"
The synopsis tells us several things about what we can expect moving forward past Crisis and into the end of Arrow. The first thing it tells us is that unsurprisingly Mia, Laurel, and Dinah all make it out of crisis alive. This was a safe bet considering news of this spinoff has been floating around for a while now.
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Another interesting thing that the synopsis reveals is that Mia may be going by Mia Queen now rather than Mia Smoak, assuming that wasn’t just a typing error. We’ve already seen Team Arrow take steps to change the future of 2040 so perhaps Mia somehow got to live her life with Oliver in this post-Crisis reality. Or maybe the change was just to reflect her newly found relationship with her dad.
Not only that, the synopsis tells us that Mia has everything she could have ever wanted. So I guess Crisis worked out okay for Mia in the end. But of course nothing lasts forever.
Laurel and Dinah soon show up and Mia suits back up to help them and be a hero. It also makes it sound as if all three of them had gone their separate ways for a while before this happens and they all team up again.
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This also confirms earlier reports that the spinoff will indeed be taking place in 2040, which was previously stated by producer Marc Guggenheim.
What the synopsis doesn’t tell us however is how Laurel and Dinah show up in Mia’s life in 2040. Is it the younger versions of themselves that will be teaming up with Mia or will we see them at the actual age they should be in 2040? And if it is the younger versions of them, how did they get to 2040?
It seems more likely that the show would opt to keep the canaries as the younger versions of themselves, if only to avoid the constant need for aging makeup, but we’ll know more in a few weeks.
The backdoor pilot is set to air on the CW on January 21, 2020 and most of our questions will then finally be answered.
Are you excited for the Green Arrow & The Canaries spinoff? Will you be tuning in? Let us know!
Arrow returns Jan. 14, 2020 at 8 p.m. EST on the CW.