No matter the circumstance she has exhibited an innate quality that has others looking to her for leadership, despite the fact that she herself has doubted her self-worth and is uncomfortable with the word hero. A common thread runs deep in Sara, throughout all her trials she remains a fighter and a survivor and has ultimately made the journey to hero. His words describe Sara's journey perfectly - I don't think I've seen a more tortured, and at times tormented soul than Sara's and yet she continues to press on, driven by her own code of honor and has more than once sacrificed her happiness or future for the common good. "A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man." (Campbell, Joseph (1949). In 1949 Campbell wrote in his work The Hero with a Thousand Faces, about the basic narrative pattern and described it as: I can believe that when noted scholar Joseph Campbell first wrote of The Hero's Journey, he could scarcely imagine a character like Sara. I'm tired just watching, so I can only imagine how exhausted Caity Lotz who has portrayed Sara since Season 2 of Arrow, must be, after taking this incredible character on this amazing journey. I think we can honestly surmise that none of the other TACS subjects can lay claim to the fact that they have been presumed dead, died and resurrected a reported seven times during the course of their series. Since we first met Sara on Arrow she has been – a rebellious younger sister a shipwreck survivor a torture victim a cold-blooded assassin a back-from-the-presumed dead daughter, lover, friend a masked vigilante Black Canary fighting alongside Team Arrow a murder victim resurrected from death had her black soul restored became a legend became White Canary died again was resurrected again grown into team leadership and ultimately become team captain who literally held the fate of the world in her hands and unselfishly sacrificed her own happiness for the greater good. Moira, on the other hand, faced a different fate: In Season 2, in the midst of Slade Wilson’s reign of terror as Deathstroke (Manu Bennet), Slade killed Moira in front of Oliver and his sister Thea (Willa Holland) in one of the show’s most devastating moments.In just a few short seasons on not one, but two different shows, Sara Lance has been through more life changing events than many of us see in one lifetime. On the lifeboat, Robert shot a crew member and then himself to ensure Oliver could survive without their dead weight. Robert Queen killed himself shortly after the Queen’s Gambit went topside. In this new reality, Oliver’s parents Robert and Moira (Susanna Thompson) are still alive, as is Laurel, who is now engaged to Oliver. But the Arrow chapter of “Invasion!” will be more contained to Oliver’s personal history, where Oliver explores a life had he not been shipwrecked on Lian Yu.įor those entering “Invasion!” without familiarity to Arrow, here’s everything you need to remember or know about Oliver’s altered life: After being abducted by the Dominators on last night’s The Flash, Oliver will wake up in this week’s Arrow living the life he would’ve had, had he not gone with his father Robert Queen (Jamey Sheridan) and his lover Sara Lance (Caity Lotz) - the sister of his then actual girlfriend, Laurel (Katie Cassidy) - on the ill-fated yacht, The Queen’s Gambit. After five more years in the TV series Arrow, Oliver’s universe widened, and in this week’s four-series crossover with Supergirl, The Flash, and Legends of Tomorrow, Oliver will fight alongside aliens and time-traveling meta-humans to save the world from … well, more aliens. After five years away from home in Starling City, spoiled playboy Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) became a vengeful weapon of justice as the superhero Green Arrow.
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