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Arrow Season 6: Expect a Lot of Stephen Amell in Episode 6×18

When Arrow began, oh so many years ago (2012), Stephen Amell was in the majority of scenes as he was the start of the show. Other than a moment with Laurel (Katie Cassidy) and Tommy (Colin Donnell), the show revolved around Oliver Queen and his return to Starling City. But as the years progressed and characters like Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards), Diggle (David Ramsey), Ray Palmer (Brandon Routh), Sara Lance (Caity Lotz), Roy Harper (Colton Haynes), Rory Reagan (Joe Dinicol), Curtis Holt (Echo Kellum), Rene Ramirez (Rick Gonzalez) and Dinah Drake (Juliana Harkavy), the amount of time that Oliver needed to be on the screen lessened.

Stephen Amell
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For some of the early episodes of this season, Oliver wasn't even the Green Arrow. Diggle had taken over leaving Oliver time to focus on being a father and mayor of Star City. When you have so many regulars and recurring characters, it would almost be impossible to have an episode with a single actor being in the majority of the scenes anymore.

Which makes Amell's video this morning very interesting. The actor took to Facebook to talk about how desperately he needs a haircut and how they just wrapped shooting 617 and were starting on 618. If you don't know they way television episode numbering works, it's simple. The first number is the season and the second is which episode in that season. 618, season six, episode eighteen. Since Arrow does 23 episodes, that means it's five before the season finale. In the video he mentions that the episode is 'old school' in that he's in a lot of the scenes. 52 of 55, he says.

55 scenes tells us it's going to be an action-heavy episode. 55 scenes in 44 minutes of air time is less than a minute a scene, so it's a lot of cutting, hence not a lot of character development. And to have Oliver in almost all of those scenes is kind of crazy. We don't have a title or synopsis for the episode yet. But we can speculate when we'll see it, likely March 29th unless the show takes any more breaks after returning March 1st. It sounds like it's going to be a very interesting episode, but we'll have to wait and see what else we can learn when the synopsis and title are announced.

Arrow returns March 1st at 9 p.m. ET on the CW.


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