Arrow Season 4 Trailer

The heir to the demon that was season 3 dropped its trailer at Dragon Con yesterday, but did it spit dragon fire? It starts off with Oliver saying “The Arrow is dead,” as they waste a little time showing us the Oliver/Felicity fantasy life. They have a beautiful dream home, Ollie jogs through an idealistic neighborhood, and Felicity stirs dinner for him while reading the cookbook. I don’t know if this is a season opener or a Twilight Zone episode. In any case, it’s largely unnecessary as we know that Oliver is going back to his old life.

So let’s fast-forward. The mythology deepens a bit more here with a name change for Starling city, now renamed Star City (as it’s known in the comics) in honor of Ray Palmer, believed to be killed in a blast last season. If you know like I know, you won’t be pouring any out for Ray Ray just yet.

We quickly transition to masks on a motorcycle, Black Canary and Speedy racing towards gunfire, the latter shouting, “This is so cool!” Really, Thea? You just came back from the dead!

Diggle and that much maligned helmet make their live action appearance for season four. That thing doesn’t sit well with me OR his head. It’s ill fitting and the framing makes his eyes look off center. The consolation, however, is David Ramsey in this leather top.

Laurel confesses to Oliver that the remaining heroes need him, the threat they’ve been facing is highly organized and nothing that they face before so naturally just when Ollie thought he was out, they pull…