This is probably nitpicking, but I have one query concerning the subway/metro system in the Glades.
First of all, I didn't understand if there once existed a subway covering the whole city of Starling or if it only covered the Glades area. It seems kind of odd that they would restrict the subway to one specific area, considering that the whole idea of a metro is to connect various areas of a city. I would have thought that the residents of the Glades mainly used the subway to get out of their own slums to their places of work-which would presumably be somewhere else in the city.
Secondly, how do you hide a whole subway system and make it look as if it never existed? Our subway here in Stockholm is pretty conspicuous, with stations all over the streets of the inner city as well as in the suburbs-it would be quite a lot of work for to fill up these subway entries/holes in the ground! And yet the Glades subway seems to be hidden and all forgotten, since Oliver and Felicity didn't know anything about it. This is probably one of those questions that you're not supposed to ask, on a par with questions concerning Oliver's magical non-growing Island beard, but since the subway seems to play such an important part in the "Evil Conspiracy of Evil Rich People" (a.k.a. "The Undertaking") plotline, it would be interesting to know a little more....
First of all, I didn't understand if there once existed a subway covering the whole city of Starling or if it only covered the Glades area. It seems kind of odd that they would restrict the subway to one specific area, considering that the whole idea of a metro is to connect various areas of a city. I would have thought that the residents of the Glades mainly used the subway to get out of their own slums to their places of work-which would presumably be somewhere else in the city.
Secondly, how do you hide a whole subway system and make it look as if it never existed? Our subway here in Stockholm is pretty conspicuous, with stations all over the streets of the inner city as well as in the suburbs-it would be quite a lot of work for to fill up these subway entries/holes in the ground! And yet the Glades subway seems to be hidden and all forgotten, since Oliver and Felicity didn't know anything about it. This is probably one of those questions that you're not supposed to ask, on a par with questions concerning Oliver's magical non-growing Island beard, but since the subway seems to play such an important part in the "Evil Conspiracy of Evil Rich People" (a.k.a. "The Undertaking") plotline, it would be interesting to know a little more....
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