Arrow: 10 Biggest Questions We Have For Season 8

Are we about to get a full season of the Crisis?

Arrow Season 7
The CW

Contains spoilers from Arrow Season 7.

Arrow's seventh season certainly took the show into uncharted territory. With Oliver Queen's late-night escapades as the Green Arrow public knowledge, vigilantes were officially outlawed in Star City as the Emerald Archer himself found himself behind the unforgiving bars of Slabside Super Maximum Security Prison.

Although, not even all of that was enough to stop Oliver from returning in a desperate bid to save the city that he loved and, in the game-changing season finale, he was successful in doing just that. However, this time he took it one step further and joined The Monitor on a quest to save not just Star City, not just the world or even the universe, but the entire multiverse.

As all of this went down, the show's flash-forwards built towards the culmination of its own story, only for Oliver's children to reveal that 2019 was indeed the year that their father "died".

With Oliver's new mission and his mysterious fate hanging over the show, Arrow has undoubtedly been left in an interesting place as it heads into its final season - one that has left fans with a ton of questions that simply must be answered.

10. Have We Seen The Last Of The Ninth Circle?

Arrow Season 7
The CW

After being teased in the sixth season finale, the Ninth Circle went on to play a major role in Season 7, as Oliver's long-lost sister, Emiko Adachi, led the terrorist organization into Star City with the sole intention of destroying her brother's beloved home. Unfortunately for her, it all ended very badly when Oliver overpowered her and, following a brief reconciliation of sorts, she was killed by a new character named Beatrice.

Of course, this has left us all wondering if the Ninth Circle actually died with Emiko or, if the arrival of Beatrice means that they're set to return in the future. It's an intriguing discussion because, while there's certainly scope for them to return, their existence was simply built around Emiko's personal vendetta, so what could they really offer without her?

Additionally, what could they hope to achieve in a 10-episode final season that is likely going to be centred on the Crisis and/or the flash-forwards and, perhaps most importantly, tying up the show once and for all? We probably will hear from them again at some point but, with so much already going on, do we really need to?

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