The Starling Tribune: An Unofficial Arrow TV Show Fan Podcast: Season 5.5 Edition – CW Seed’s Vixen (A CW Network Arrow Television Show Fan Podcast) ST167 (2025)

On Wednesday night, last week, The CW aired the Vixen movie andthe ratings were very poor. How poor? Less than 700,000 viewerstunedin.Thiswas not the premiere of a new project. Andthis is a series that started up 2 years ago for free ontheCWSeedwebsite and then had a secondseason.

What wasthe overall themefor this movie? What was thelink to the episodes name?
Introduction of Vixen
Introduction ofKuasa, her sister, who will be on Legendsnext season
Fight scenes and stunts - Main ones
Arrow and Flash chase
Mari uses cheetah and camouflage
Mari learns she can fly
Mari andKuasa
Mari poisoned to release totem
Spirits in totem help Mari defeat sister
Mari knocksKuasaout; poisonsKuasawithspider
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 againstEshu; goes to Zambesi and getssister
Kuasagets water totem; fights Mari; Mari starts to lose fight;Black Canary and Atom come andsubduKuasaandconvince her to fightEshu
Fire fightsWater;EshukillsKuasa
Team fightsEshu; Canary and Atom fall; Mari alone
GetsEshuto river; underwater fight
Mari smashes totem
Other fights
Mari either faces Stormtrooper-trained henchmen or her animalspirits 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 (stabbedguy with pen)
Loved by foster family; curious about her origin
Runs from Arrow and Flash because she thinks they want tocapture her and take her away
Hot temper; fights a lot
Worked at zoo to help her understand the spirits ofanimals
Never see her work on her fashion; the one dress we see is abasic purple strapless number any first-year fashion student can do(the woman in red behind her at party had a more interestingdress)
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 portrayKuasain Legends:TracyIfeachorwill
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’stotem
Underwater fight; dies?
Felicity
Helps Mari steal water totem
Ray Palmer / The Atom
Helps in fight againstEshu
Black Canary / Laurel Lance
Helps in fight againstEshu
Barry Allen / The Flash
Goes to Detroit to “help” Mari understand her metahumanpowers
Quippy and fun
Oliver Queen / Green Arrow
Reluctantly “lets” Mari be a superhero; she has notraining
Great back-and-forth with Barry (were you and Felicityseparated 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 ArcStarringDeathstroke(Date: 06 Sept 2017)
Arrow executive producer and co-showrunner Marc Guggenheimrevealed that the first half of season 6 will include a “SladeWilson-centric” story, a two-part episode heavily featuring thehigh-profile DC Comics antagonist, complete with flashbacks toldfromDeathstroke’s “We’re doing a cool two-parter where theflashbacks will be from Slade’s perspective,” Guggenheim toldCollider, revealing that the episodes will be the fifth and sixthinstallments of the upcoming season. “It’s very much a Slade-Olivertwo-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 Hallhas been tapped to play the son of Manu Bennett’s reformed villain,who will appear in the two-part Slade Wilson adventure. Joe Wilsonhas followed in his father’s footsteps by joining the secretAustralian military agency, A.S.I.S. After years of brutal combat,Joe now finds himself in a remoteKasnianprison under thealias, 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 Sept2017)
Colton Haynes, who portrayed Roy Harper/Arsenal in the hit TheCW series, recently teased a return appearance on his Twitter.After one fan lamented about Roy's absence from the series, Coltonconfirmed 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 onSupergirl, Arrow, The Good Placeand more (Date: 07 Sept 2017)
Each of the villains this season on Arrow is basically matchedto someone on the team, like Anatoly with Oliver or Black Siren andBlack Canary — and the same can be said of Vigilante. “I know whohe is,” StephenAmell “I’m not going to tell you who he is,but I will tell you Vigilante is a villain, if you want to call himthat, 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 asDamienDarhk'sdaughter(Date 31 Aug2017)
Dexter and Parenthood alum Courtney Ford has booked a recurringrole on the CW super series as the daughter ofDamienDarhk(Neal McDonough), EW has learned exclusively. Theactress, who will first appear in episode 305, will play Eleanor,who is smart and cunning with a charming dose of otherworldlycreepiness — think Wednesday Addams all grown up. Her innocentlooks can be disarming, but it’s all an act. This woman isdangerous with an uncanny ability to manipulate others, and is ableto tell people exactly what they want to hear. She’s highlyintelligent and is always several moves ahead. Her unique darktalents all stem from the fact that she isDamienDarhk’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 onSupergirl, Arrow, The Good Placeand more(Date: 07 Sept 2017)
Outside of the “Midvale” episode, are we going to see a biggerfocus on the Danvers sisters this seasononSupergirl? — EPAndrewKreisbergdropped quite a tease. “Kara and Alex are atthe center of it through all four hours [of the upcoming four-waycrossover],”Kreisberg “One of the things we’ve been doing alot this season is getting back to season 1 and really making itDanvers sisters-centric, so a lot of what’s going on this season isKara and Alex doing things in tandem, and the crossover won’t beany 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 onSupergirl, Arrow, The Good Placeand more(Date: 07 Sept 2017)
Will Barry and Iris definitely get married this seasononThe Flash? — Good news: Yes. Bad news:“They are finally going to get married this season and then it’sgoing to be: Can they stay married with everything that’s coming upagainst them?” EP AndrewKreisberg
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 IzabelaVidovic&OliviaNikkanenAs Young Kara & Alex For An UpcomingFlashback Episode(Date: 05 Sept 2017)
The CW has announced thatSupergirlhas recast the roles ofyoung Alex & Kara for an upcoming flashback-heavy episode of theseries. IzabelaVidovic& OliviaNikkanenhavebeen tapped for the roles. The episode will followpresent-day Kara (Melissa Benoist) and Alex (ChylerLeigh) asthey embark on a road trip back to their childhood home, where theyrevisit a high school murder mystery that helped shape thefoundation of their relationship. Benoist teases the adventure tocome, "You’ll get to see, through the way they interact, how theirrelationship started when Kara first came to Earth, how it grew,how it became so close and why they’re so closenowadays.”
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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