It’s honestly kinda ridiculous? I’m very new to it, my friend’s been telling me about it for a while, I even started downloading Arrow last year, but in a time with a lot of canon f/f I was really enjoying partly because of its canonness, I couldn’t be bothered to get into something as convoluted as Arrow for its subtext (”This is a different Laurel?”
“They’re ALL Canaries??” “They BOTH have the name Dinah???”).
But when that backdoor pilot ep was airing, even before it finished, that clip of Laurel walking into the bar just so Dinah could finish singing “I’m in love with you” like directly at her was spreading around and my friend linked it to me all excited.
Like?? That was my FIRST clip of them. That is real, true subtext, in the sense that it’s what writers genuine intend to build up to something. I watched the whole ep that night and honestly, the mistake my friend made before was never actually making me watch something of theirs, lol.
I said before that it’s still fun to get into subtext but honestly, I really meant, subtext that’ll go somewhere. I still can’t really be sure that it will, none of the other scenes really matched that first one but all put together? I could really see it. Hopefully the spinoff gets picked up and we have a chance to find out.
