Did Arrow star Stephen Amell just confirm that the series’ writers plan to use Ra’s al Ghul by the end of the second season?That’s certainly one way to take comments made to Spoiler TV, in which the actor said that Arrow doesn’t name-drop DC characters or tease plot developments that they don’t have plans for.”We don’t say a character’s name unless that character is going to factor in. We don’t hint at something unless we’re going to pay it off. So I know that at the end of episode 14, we end in a spot where we get our first glimpse on where we are going to end after 23 episodes. That’s what I’m most excited about because I want people to see it.”As we’ve speculated before, too, it sounds from Amell’s comments as though the show might be building to a conflict between the League of Assassins, led by Ra’s al Ghul and boasting such members as Black Canary and Malcolm Merlyn, and Deathstroke’s forces, led in Starling City by Brother Blood.”What we are building towards in the second season is very much one giant group on one side and one giant group on the other side and just, ‘Toosh,’ like that, coming head‑to‑head. So we are populating our world in the second season for a very specific reason, and I can’t wait to see the results.”
