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Posted in: DC Universe, Movies, TV | Tagged: arrow, cw, entertainment, star trek, stephen amell, television, Wendy Mericle
How The New Arrow Episode Ties To The Original Star Trek Series
Some of you may call this a stretch… others will think this is cool. A new Inside Arrow video has been released for Underneath. The episode finds Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) and Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards) trapped inside the bunker after Prometheus (Josh Segarra) sets off an EMP. Executive producer Wendy Mericle, who also co-wrote the episode, talks about the effects things will have on Oliver and Felicity and how the rest of the team is on the outside trying to get in. Oliver believes that Prometheus trapped them in side so he can do something without being interfered with.
How does this tie into Star Trek? In the video, Mericle refers to the term, 'bottle episode'. It's a TV phrase that means an episode that produced cheaply and restricted in scope using only a handful of regulars and existing sets from other episodes. They tend to be heavy on dialogue and require little to no special preparation to film. They're also used a lot when a script has fallen through for some reason and the episode has a short turn around time. I don't think that's the case here, but it would definitely have a smaller budget allowing other episodes… like the finale… to be bigger.
The term bottle episode is short hand for the original phrase, "ship-in-a-bottle episode", a phrase coined by the cast and crew of the original Star Trek series for episode that took place entirely on board the Starship Enterprise.
If you see an episode of The Flash that takes place almost all in S.T.A.R. Labs, Supergirl all in the DEO or Legends of Tomorrow all on board the Waverider… which all of them have done… you know that they're doing a bottle episode and saving a bit of money.
Arrow airs Wednesdays at 8 PM on the CW.
https://youtu.be/dlNUcKt8F50
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