Roy Harper, fake and real continues to be my fav character. Red Arrow gave the light and the league the slip and now arsenal does the same to the reach. Glad this show features a younger, not quite batman level yet Nightwing because it seems dude is in waaaaay over his head. Speaking of, where the hell is Red Arrow anyway?
there was actually creative differences regarding roy harper/speedy at the beginning of YJ. one of the creatives wanted speedy on the team from jump, whereas the other/another felt that they needed another female on the team (only had ms martian at the time) and wanted to go with artemis instead. so they basically compromised where artemis would be on the team for season 1 while speedy as red arrow would still be a part of the show as a reoccuring character, just not on the actual team... and would get to be on the actual team for season 2 (Arsenal).
lookin back at it now, the way they did it was pretty cool. Artemis joins the team. Speedy thinks he's too cool for that shyt and changes his name to Red Arrow. Artemis retires from the team. Red Arrow finds out he's a clone, goes crazy, and looks for OG Speedy. He finds OG Speedy and returns him to civilization. OG Speedy is pissed/traumatized, changes name to Arsenal and now joins the team. Artemis meanwhile comes out of retirement only to go undercover as a villain and presumably go back to retirement come mission's end. Red Arrow, presumably, is now retired and dealing with raising a family.
End result is that both creators got their wish and got to have the "young minded"/youthful versions of their preferred characters on the team over the course of 2 seasons.