Hello hello! I can’t believe we’re back for another update after only three weeks… and we have pictures! As expected, Willa was heavily featured in the 3rd episode of the 8th (and last) season of Arrow. There were many scenes of Thea with Oliver, and the screencaptures of the episode have been added to our photo gallery.

Reunited with his sister, Oliver (Stephen Amell) and Thea (guest star Willa Holland) find themselves searching through a familiar maze of catacombs. Meanwhile, John (David Ramsey) and Lyla (guest star Audrey Marie Anderson) partner on a special ops mission.

Willa fans, hello! With the news of Willa’s return to Arrow we all expected her to show up in the first episode of the season, titled Starling City. Unfortunately to us all, it appears Thea didn’t had quite the happy ending on Earth 2 (even if to me, she is pretty much alive and part of Laurel’s team). However, we have uploaded to our gallery screen captures from the episode that featured a photo of Thea thanks to our friend Ashley from colin-donnell.com! You will also find episodic stills from Willa’s first official appearance on the show “8.03 – Leap of Faith” in our gallery!

Reunited with his sister, Oliver (Stephen Amell) and Thea (guest star Willa Holland) find themselves searching through a familiar maze of catacombs. Meanwhile, John (David Ramsey) and Lyla (guest star Audrey Marie Anderson) partner on a special ops mission.

Fantastic news arrived just a couple of days ago – Willa Holland is coming back to our screens!! It was announced through TV Line that she is set to recur on Arrow‘s upcoming and last season. Truthfully it’s not that much of a surprise considering most of the initial cast is returning, but it is still good news to hear Willa will be back on the show as Thea Queen. Here’s to hoping she gets an exciting storyline! You can read all about it below.

Yass, Thea Queen!

The character that Arrow fans most hoped would put in an appearance during the final season — Oliver’s sister, played by former series regular Willa Holland — will indeed be seen again, TVLine has learned. But wait, there’s more: Holland is confirmed to not just guest-star but recur during the CW series’ 10-episode farewell run.

“We are thrilled to have Willa back in our final season,” says showrunner Beth Schwartz.

An original cast member, Holland began dialing back her Arrow appearance in Season 5 (to 14 of 23 episodes), before parting ways with the series in the 16th episode of Season 6. As that exit storyline went, Thea, with longtime love Roy Harper in tow, left Star City to trot the globe and shut down some recently unearthed Lazarus Pits.

Midway through Season 7, Roy (played by Colton Haynes) returned to present-day Star City sans Thea, due to a falling out they had had stemming from her decision to bring him back from the dead (and thus leave him with that pesky bloodlust) by utilizing a Lazarus Pit. In flash forwards to 2040, meanwhile, Roy is still alone, and bitter, without his love.

Holland last appeared on Arrow in the 12th episode of Season 7, as a talking head within a documentary that was being filmed about Oliver Queen’s rise from wealthy playboy to city-saving vigilante.

Arrow‘s eighth and final season premieres Tuesday, Oct. 15 at 9/8c.

Our gallery has (finally!) been updated with episode stills and screen captures from episode “6.16 – The Thanatos Guild” which marks Willa’s final episode on Arrow. When asked if she would return at some point, executive producer Marc Guggenheim mention that such decision would be up for Willa herself, but doors would always be open to her. While we will deeply miss Thea on Arrow, we absolutely cannot wait to see what Willa gets up to next.

Our gallery has finally been updated with production stills and screen captures from the last episodes of Arrow. Many things have happen and just this week, we got to see Thea suit up again as Speedy to save Roy Harper (yes, he’s back!!). Next week’s episode looks to be as interesting as this week’s, and we can’t wait to see what happens next with Thea.

Thea’s back (and we’re very happy)!! Willa’s making an appearance on this week’s episode of Arrow, titled Irreconcilable Differences, and we’ve added episodic stills to the gallery. You can also read the episode synopsis bellow.

BLACK SIREN KIDNAPS LANCE — Quentin Lance (Paul Blackthorne) is kidnaped by Black Siren (Katie Cassidy) and Cayden James (guest star Michael Emerson), who are looking to trade Lance’s life for a weapon of mass destruction. Oliver (Stephen Amell) and Team Green Arrow must figure out a way to save Lance while still keeping the city safe.

Hello Willa fans! We deeply apologize on the delay of these screen captures but here they are! In case you are not aware, Thea has (finally) woken up from her coma in last week’s episode of Arrow! How much have you guys missed seeing Willa on your screen? We know we have, and we sure hope to see more of Thea from now on as she surely deserves a good storyline after all the hell she went through. High definition screen captures have been added to our gallery!

Hello Willa fans! As you must know, a brand new season of Arrow premiered this Thursday and in the episode we got to learn about Thea’s fate post-explosion. As many of us might have expected, things didn’t end well for Thea. Our girl was found by Oliver after the explosion and is currently in a coma. We sure hope Thea wakes up any time this season because after everything she’s been through, she deserves a happy ending. High definition screen captures from the episode have been added to our gallery.

Hello Willa fans! With Arrow returning with a brand new season this Thursday, we’re all left wondering what is going to happen to Thea. In conversation with Comic Book, executive producer Marc Guggenheim spoke about the reason why Thea was absent during part of season 5 (which had already been previously justified) and what’s happening with during this new season. Is she going to survive the explosion? Only one way to find out!

Whether or not Thea Queen survives the explosion on Lian Yu, actress Willa Holland will be back on Arrow this season. Showrunner Marc Guggenheim, though, hints that some of her episodes could be in flashback.

Thea’s absence in the second half of Arrow‘s fifth season was noted by many fans, but Guggenheim told ComicBook.com that it was the by product of Holland’s own request to scale back her time on set. While the explosion at the end of season 5 might seem like the ideal way to get rid of an actor who doesn’t want to be onscreen all the time, Guggenheim has said in the past that he doesn’t imagine that Thea will die on his watch, since Oliver has already lost both parents.

“We love Willa, we love Thea the character and we particularly love Thea’s relationship with Oliver,” Guggenheim told ComicBook.com. “That said, Willa came to us at the end of season four and she, very honestly, expressed a desire to cut back how many episodes a season she was doing. She’s a member of our family, and we wanted to honor that request. That’s what happens when you have a show that goes over a hundred episodes, people start to say, ‘hey, I would like to pull back,’ some people don’t want to renew their contract. There’s a whole host of different things that start to come into play and you work that into the story telling.”

So what’s next for the character?

“All I’ll say really, and you can interpret this however you want, is Willa is back on the show and we are doing flashbacks from people’s perspective that does not always include Oliver’s,” Guggenheim said. “I’ll let you extrapolate from that what you will.”

Arrow returns to The CW on Thursday at 9 p.m. ET/PT following the season premiere of Supernatural.

ComicBook has just released an interview from Comic Con International featuring Willa! She explains Thea’s focus if she makes it out of the island, Malcolm Merlyn, Oliver’s relationship with his son and more! Sadly the interview cannot be embed, but you can watch it by clicking on the picture bellow.

Much of Team Arrow’s fate hangs in the balance after Arrow‘s earth-shattering season five cliffhanger. While fans are uncertain what to expect when the show returns this fall, one cast member has a pretty clear idea of what her character’s motivations could be going forward – if she survives the horrific blast on Lian Yu, that is.

Willa Holland, who brings to life Thea Queen/Speedy on the show, recently spoke to ComicBook.com during San Diego Comic-Con. While Holland was not able to reveal what state Thea will be in when Arrow returns in October, she shed some light on what Thea’s primary focus in season six could be. Check it out in the clip above!

“I think it can really go one of two ways for her,” Holland revealed, “especially depending on if she’s alive or not at the beginning of the season. I think that she’s just going to try to grapple with every piece of information that she’s been given over the last six months.”

According to Holland, those bombshells range quite a bit, and include the sacrifice Malcolm Merlyn (John Barrowman) made on Thea’s behalf in the season five finale.

“She’s gotten handed a lot of information about herself, and about her family.” Holland explained. “And then also, her father just stepped on a mine for her. So I think her main focus if she were to be alive and well in the beginning of the season, would be to kind of grapple with all of that.”

Fans will just have to wait to see how Thea processes all of that – and if she is alive and well to do so – when Arrow returns to The CW in October.