Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl have all been renewed for another season on The CW. This means Arrow, the show that started it all in 2012, will get a Season 6. But how will the series continue after Oliver Queen’s flashback arc come to a close?
Producers Wendy Mericle and Marc Guggenheim want to see flashbacks from different characters like Mr. Terrific, or possibly even a villain. Flash-forwards of Oliver and Diggle aren’t off the table either. But back in 2012, Executive Producer Andrew Kreisberg said the series will end in the same place it began, “Ideally by the last episode of the series, the very last flashback will be Oliver seeing the boat that rescued him in the pilot.”
“Spoiler alert. That’s going to end up being the Season 5 finale,” Guggenheim teased to TV Line in December.
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According to IGN, the producers did make a final decision back in August that this season will be the end of Oliver’s personal backstory, which has been an integral part of the storyline since Season 1. However, the flashbacks will move on, they’ll just be “non-island flashbacks” and won’t tell a “serialized story,” Guggenheim says.
“It was really just a hope at that point [in 2012] that the show would run five years,” Guggenheim said of the original plan, “and we always thought that we would intercut the final moment of the series with the first moment of the series, that it would form one big Moebius strip.”
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Arrow Season 5 revolves around the conclusion of the last sequence of flashbacks. This year’s villain, Prometheus, has ties all the way back to the Season 1 flashbacks. So far, they’ve all taken place in Russia, but we still have yet to find out how Ollie ends up on Lian Yu once again.
“Look, we have some incredibly clear plans for what we want to do in the Season 5 finale,” Guggenheim said. “At the same time, we always leave ourselves room to be like, ‘…and throw this cliffhanger in, throw that twist in.’”
Next year some episodes won’t include flashbacks at all, Guggenheim told IGN. “We've established over the first four seasons of proof of concept that we can do flashback stories that don't involve what I call the island narrative, even when he's not on the island. We like when those non-island flashbacks sort of illuminate what's going on in the present day.”
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