The Arrow cave is getting awfully crowded... Should we be worried that a major cast member is leaving?
Arrow Season 6 is filling out its cast. Not long after announcing that Katie Cassidy would be returning to the show as a series regular (playing Black Siren) in Season 6, The CW announced that Rick Gonzalez (Rene) and Juliana Harkavy (Dinah) have been promoted to series regulars in the upcoming season of the superhero drama. Man, Team Arrow's lair is getting awfully crowded.
Obviously, the basement facility has the room, this is more a curiosity because it really does seem like Arrow is upping its payroll at a time when the ratings don't support the decision. Does this mean that one of the longtime series regulars might be bowing out for Seaso 6? I don't want to be an alarmist here, but I am starting to wonder if one of the members of Original Team Arrow might be killed off at the end of Season 5.
Past that, given that Thea (Willa Holland) has seem a marked decrease in Team Arrow involvement in Season 5 (she has all of those conferences), I wonder if there is a chance that Holland might not come back as a series regular in Season 6, either. Note: this is just speculation. Maybe the Arrow cast will just be ginormous in Season 6.
But I am taking away from the excitement for Rick Gonzalez and Juliana Harkavy, who have both done a great job this season in their respective roles. Rene has been a real source of snarky comic relief within Team Arrow, often acting as the audience surrogate when a long-running member of Team Arrow mentions someone coming back from the dead or a particularly strange metahuman.
And though Dinah has only been part of Team Arrow for a short while, she has already added a new, much needed outsider-as-insider element to Team Arrow. Though she obviuosly cares about the team, she isn't as tied up in the Team Arrow melodrama as other members of the team, giving her some much-needed perspective.
I'm excited to see how Rene and Dinah's roles grow in Season 6.