Season 5.5 Edition – CW Seed’s Vixen (A CW Network Arrow Television Show Fan Podcast) ST167

On Wednesday night, last week, The CW aired the Vixen movie and the ratings were very poor. How poor? Less than 700,000 viewers tuned in.This was not the premiere of a new project. And this is a series that started up 2 years ago for free on the CWSeed website and then had a second season.

What was the overall themefor this movie? What was the link to the episodes name?
Introduction of Vixen
Introduction of Kuasa, her sister, who will be on Legends next season
Fight scenes and stunts - Main ones
Arrow and Flash chase
Mari uses cheetah and camouflage
Mari learns she can fly
Mari and Kuasa
Mari poisoned to release totem
Spirits in totem help Mari defeat sister
Mari knocks Kuasaout; poisons Kuasa with spider
Mari against smugglers
Mari has better control of animal spirits
Lots of punching and kicking
Cesar the Gorilla helps Mari
Big Detroit Fight
Mari loses against Eshu; goes to Zambesi and gets sister
Kuasagets water totem; fights Mari; Mari starts to lose fight; Black Canary and Atom come and subdu Kuasa and convince her to fight Eshu
Fire fights Water; Eshukills Kuasa
Team fights Eshu; Canary and Atom fall; Mari alone
Gets Eshuto river; underwater fight
Mari smashes totem
Other fights
Mari either faces Stormtrooper-trained henchmen or her animal spirits know how to dodge bullets on a consistent basis
Favorite totems: cheetah, snake, elephant, gorilla, hawk, rhino
Use totem, punch, kick, flip, repeat
Mari McCabe / Vixen (MegalynEchikunwoke)
Been away from Detroit for 4 years
Discovers necklace’s power when attacked outside jail (stabbed guy with pen)
Loved by foster family; curious about her origin
Runs from Arrow and Flash because she thinks they want to capture her and take her away
Hot temper; fights a lot
Worked at zoo to help her understand the spirits of animals
Never see her work on her fashion; the one dress we see is a basic purple strapless number any first-year fashion student can do (the woman in red behind her at party had a more interesting dress)
Being Vixen has helped her find purpose
Granddaughter of Amaya
Kuasa(Anika Noni Rose)
Mari’s sister
Believes the totem should be hers
Sees herself as the protector of Zambesi
Kidnaps Mari; spider venom
Weakened after fight
Keeps water totem for herself, but comes back and fights
Dies
Granddaughter of Amaya; will be Legends villain in S3
Voice actor will not portray Kuasain Legends: Tracy Ifeachor will
Professor Adam Macalester (Sean Patrick Thomas)
Knower of all things Zambesi
Tells Mari about totem
Betrays Mari to her sister for funding
Comes back a year later with the fire totem
Finds way to break fire totem in book
Chuck McCabe (Neil Flynn)
Bails Mari out of jail
Wants her to be careful
Supportive
Lena Vargas (Actor Unknown)
Works at zoo; helps Mari understand animals
Rescues animals; caught up in smuggling ring
Gets immunity; dates Chuck again
BenatuEshu (Hakeem Kae-Kazim)
Warlord who burned Zambesi and killed Mari’s family
Wields fire totem
Burns Detroit, tells citizens it will end when he gets Mari’s totem
Underwater fight; dies?
Felicity
Helps Mari steal water totem
Ray Palmer / The Atom
Helps in fight against Eshu
Black Canary / Laurel Lance
Helps in fight against Eshu
Barry Allen / The Flash
Goes to Detroit to “help” Mari understand her metahuman powers
Quippy and fun
Oliver Queen / Green Arrow
Reluctantly “lets” Mari be a superhero; she has no training
Great back-and-forth with Barry (were you and Felicity separated at birth?)
Cisco Ramon
Names Mari “Vixen” because she’s hot
Thinks she’s a metahuman
Calls her in for fight with Weather Wizard
Martin Stein / Firestorm
Fight with Weather Wizard
Jefferson Jackson / Firestorm
Fight with Weather Wizard

ARROW NEWS

Arrow Season 6 Features Two-Episode Arc Starring Deathstroke(Date: 06 Sept 2017)
Arrow executive producer and co-showrunner Marc Guggenheim revealed that the first half of season 6 will include a “Slade Wilson-centric” story, a two-part episode heavily featuring the high-profile DC Comics antagonist, complete with flashbacks told from Deathstroke’s “We’re doing a cool two-parter where the flashbacks will be from Slade’s perspective,” Guggenheim told Collider, revealing that the episodes will be the fifth and sixth installments of the upcoming season. “It’s very much a Slade-Oliver two-hander.”
http://www.cbr.com/arrow-season-6-features-two-episode-arc-starring-deathstroke/
Arrow casts Slade Wilson's son (Date: 07 Sept 2017)
EW can exclusively reveal that Camp and Lucifer alum Liam Hall has been tapped to play the son of Manu Bennett’s reformed villain, who will appear in the two-part Slade Wilson adventure. Joe Wilson has followed in his father’s footsteps by joining the secret Australian military agency, A.S.I.S. After years of brutal combat, Joe now finds himself in a remote Kasnianprison under the alias, Kane Wolfman, fighting for his life.
http://ew.com/tv/2017/09/07/arrow-slade-wilson-son-liam-hall/
Colton Haynes Teases 'Arrow' Season 6 Return (Date: 9 Sept 2017)
Colton Haynes, who portrayed Roy Harper/Arsenal in the hit The CW series, recently teased a return appearance on his Twitter. After one fan lamented about Roy's absence from the series, Colton confirmed that Roy is "coming back very soon".
http://comicbook.com/dc/2017/09/10/arrow-season-6-roy-harper-return-colton-haynes/
Spoiler Room: Scoop on Supergirl, Arrow, The Good Place and more (Date: 07 Sept 2017)
Each of the villains this season on Arrow is basically matched to someone on the team, like Anatoly with Oliver or Black Siren and Black Canary — and the same can be said of Vigilante. “I know who he is,” Stephen Amell “I’m not going to tell you who he is, but I will tell you Vigilante is a villain, if you want to call him that, for a member of the team as well.”
http://ew.com/tv/2017/09/07/spoiler-room-supergirl-arrow-good-place/?utm_campaign=entertainmentweekly&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&xid=socialflow_facebook_entertainmentweekly

GENERAL DC TV NEWS

Legends of Tomorrow adds Courtney Ford as Damien Darhk'sdaughter (Date 31 Aug 2017)
Dexter and Parenthood alum Courtney Ford has booked a recurring role on the CW super series as the daughter of Damien Darhk(Neal McDonough), EW has learned exclusively. The actress, who will first appear in episode 305, will play Eleanor, who is smart and cunning with a charming dose of otherworldly creepiness — think Wednesday Addams all grown up. Her innocent looks can be disarming, but it’s all an act. This woman is dangerous with an uncanny ability to manipulate others, and is able to tell people exactly what they want to hear. She’s highly intelligent and is always several moves ahead. Her unique dark talents all stem from the fact that she is Damien Darhk’s
http://ew.com/tv/2017/08/31/legends-tomorrow-courtney-ford-damian-darhk-daughter/?utm_campaign=entertainmentweekly&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&xid=entertainment-weekly_socialflow_twitter
Spoiler Room: Scoop on Supergirl, Arrow, The Good Place and more (Date: 07 Sept 2017)
Outside of the “Midvale” episode, are we going to see a bigger focus on the Danvers sisters this season on Supergirl? — EP Andrew Kreisbergdropped quite a tease. “Kara and Alex are at the center of it through all four hours [of the upcoming four-way crossover],” Kreisberg “One of the things we’ve been doing a lot this season is getting back to season 1 and really making it Danvers sisters-centric, so a lot of what’s going on this season is Kara and Alex doing things in tandem, and the crossover won’t be any different.”
http://ew.com/tv/2017/09/07/spoiler-room-supergirl-arrow-good-place/?utm_campaign=entertainmentweekly&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&xid=socialflow_facebook_entertainmentweekly
Spoiler Room: Scoop on Supergirl, Arrow, The Good Place and more (Date: 07 Sept 2017)
Will Barry and Iris definitely get married this season on The Flash? — Good news: Yes. Bad news: “They are finally going to get married this season and then it’s going to be: Can they stay married with everything that’s coming up against them?” EP Andrew Kreisberg
http://ew.com/tv/2017/09/07/spoiler-room-supergirl-arrow-good-place/?utm_campaign=entertainmentweekly&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&xid=socialflow_facebook_entertainmentweekly
SUPERGIRL Casts Izabela Vidovic& Olivia Nikkanen As Young Kara & Alex For An Upcoming Flashback Episode (Date: 05 Sept 2017)
The CW has announced that Supergirlhas recast the roles of young Alex & Kara for an upcoming flashback-heavy episode of the series. Izabela Vidovic & Olivia Nikkanen have been tapped for the roles. The episode will follow present-day Kara (Melissa Benoist) and Alex (Chyler Leigh) as they embark on a road trip back to their childhood home, where they revisit a high school murder mystery that helped shape the foundation of their relationship. Benoist teases the adventure to come, "You’ll get to see, through the way they interact, how their relationship started when Kara first came to Earth, how it grew, how it became so close and why they’re so close nowadays.”
https://www.comicbookmovie.com/tv/dc/supergirl/supergirl-casts-izabela-vidovic-olivia-nikkanen-as-young-kara-alex-for-an-upcoming-flashback-episode-a153646

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