It looks like Oliver and Felicity won't be the only new couple getting a shot in Arrow season 3, as Austin Butler has been announced as joining the show as a love interest for Thea Queen.
Butler will be playing an as-yet-unnamed DJ who catches Thea's eye, and "their professional relationship will quickly blossom into romance". He's definitely got the right look for a charismatic club but how will this impact the rest of the show? At the end of season two, Thea was seen leaving the city with her biological father, Malcolm Merlyn, and this has been the source of endless speculation as to what will happen when she returns. With this news we now know a couple of the elements of her return, and this actually leads me to more possibilities, rather than less.
The club has passed through a few different hands so far - from Oliver and Tommy to Oliver alone, and then to Thea who ran the hot spot in season two. If Thea will be romantically entangled with a club DJ, does this mean that she will be returning to the business? If so, how is this going to affect her relationship with Oliver? One of the reasons that she left was that she felt betrayed by him, and to an extent, she probably blames him for what happened between her and Roy. So how will that pan out with her coming back to Verdant which is still kind of his? (I'm not sure where the legality lies on this one; he owned it, but then gave it up to her - we didn't see that happen legally, so does he still own the building, but not the business? How was that affected by his bankruptcy?) Will she be re-starting the club, or could it be possible that with her "new" father's money, she uses her experience to start a completely new club of her own?
Obviously, Thea's return to Starling City will have a huge impact on Roy. As far as he was aware at the end of season two, the couple was going to run away together, but he came home to an empty house after Thea discovered his arrows. Has he been looking for her for the past seven months, or has Oliver persuaded him to let her go? When she returns, there is bound to be some confrontation between them, and Roy has never been particularly good at controlling his temper. If Oliver hasn't hasn't trained him restraint, I could easily see him coming to blows with a new love interest of hers.
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