Last month, Stephen Amell, who plays Oliver Queen on Arrow, tweeted the following:
Arrow will return for a final run of 10 episodes this Fall.
Playing Oliver Queen has been the greatest professional experience of my life… but you can’t be a vigilante forever.
Arrow will return for a final run of 10 episodes this Fall.
There’s so much to say… for now I just want to say thank you.
— Stephen Amell (@StephenAmell) March 6, 2019
That will be the eighth season. I think it’s about time. Actually, I think it’s past time, since the show relies much too much on character trauma.
I came to the show late, with the DVD release of the first season. The second season was a high point, adding substantial female characters to the regular cast and introducing the Flash.
By the third season, although it brought us the Atom, I was tiring of the requisite flashbacks and the grim approach. The fourth season was only interesting to me for introducing Legends of Tomorrow, my favorite superhero show for having a sense of fun and humorous adventure.
The fifth season brought in a new team, but they were all too damaged (and underdeveloped as characters), and control was more important than working together. I didn’t even bother with the sixth season, or the current, seventh, with Oliver in prison.
We know that this upcoming eighth season will feature a crossover, titled “Crisis on infinite Earths” after the most famous ever DC mega-event. In comics, that’s what killed the original Supergirl and the Barry Allen Flash for years (but not forever), so connecting that with a final season could be dramatic.
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