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A writer for Arrow tells of his work involving the showrunner.

00:00 - 00:05 You know, I've been a script writer for 12 years,

00:05 - 00:07 and it's always "Stick to the source! Sstay true to canon!"

00:07 - 00:10 But with Guggenheim?

00:11 - 00:16 He comes in and says: "Hey, ...

00:17 - 00:21 how about we give Green Arrow a gun?

00:21 - 00:24 That guy is totally demented.

00:29 - 00:31 Can you believe it?

00:31 - 00:34 A gun! For Green ARROW!

00:38 - 00:40 Then he goes on about shipping!

00:41 - 00:47 He insists we need a new character as a love interest.

00:47 - 00:50 We all are "Mr. Guggenheim, he is with Black Canary.

00:50 - 00:56 It's never been anyone else in the comics."

00:58 - 00:59 But he writes a shitty character anyway...

00:59 - 01:01 ...and forces her onto the entire team.

01:04 - 01:06 We have no choice!

01:06 - 01:08 I'm laughing now, but it's really sad.

01:13 - 01:14 He wanted a dog once!

01:14 - 01:16 As Oliver's sidekick!

01:16 - 01:20 I'm not shitting you!

01:21 - 01:27 A dog! With a little cape!

01:35 - 01:36 He had a scribble, it even had

01:36 - 01:39 a tiny bow, on its back.

01:41 - 01:44 It takes the whole team to talk him out of those things.

01:44 - 01:47 We couldn't talk him out of Felicity,

01:47 - 01:49 but if it was up to him,

01:50 - 01:53 she'd be Batwoman, too.

01:54 - 01:56 Batwoman!

01:56 - 01:58 Screw the comics, right?

01:58 - 02:02 Throw everyhing out the window!

02:05 - 02:07 The fans will love it...

02:10 - 02:11 And you know... you know...

02:11 - 02:13 he really thinks that!

02:15 - 02:17 You can't come up with this shit!

02:17 - 02:20 Unless you're Uncle Guggie of course.

02:21 - 02:28 It's like what... 70 years worth of comics?

02:29 - 02:30 All ruined.

02:30 - 02:32 Totally ruined.

02:36 - 02:39 I haven't even mentioned the island.

02:40 - 02:42 But that's for another day.

02:50 - 02:55 It's so hard to go back to work day by day.

02:56 - 02:58 He'll come in,

02:58 - 03:04 carrying his little notebook,

03:04 - 03:09 which is full of crap! Nothing but crap.

03:09 - 03:11 Oh boy.

03:16 - 03:20 Working title was "Arrow Guy"...

03:23 - 03:26 ...bright yellow costume!