Arrow Season 7: 10 Reasons It Should Be The Last

When Arrow started out, it was a show about people, with well-developed characters all caught up in their own struggles. It also just happened to involve vigilantism. However, somewhere down the line, the showrunners decided that a lot of those characters could be expendable for the good of the storyline. As a result, some were killed off or written out in an attempt to create organic drama. The only problem was that the storyline did not benefit from these deaths, and the show ended up worse off without these characters.

Over the past six years, deep, conflicted and compelling characters like Tommy Merlyn, Moira Queen, Laurel Lance, Sara Lance, and even Malcolm Merlyn have all been sacrificed, while less interesting characters remain. Granted, in a show of this nature, few can stick around forever - but for some reason, it's always the intriguing ones that bite the dust. Due to this, we are left with a group of uninteresting or underdeveloped characters who struggle to be anything other than costumed superheroes.

With the recent departure of Thea Queen and death of Quentin Lance, Season 7 is now down two more original characters. While the return of Roy Harper will undoubtedly lessen the blow, it doesn't change the fact that, each year, Arrow is becoming less and less like the show that it once was. Perhaps the creative team should call it quits before the show becomes completely unrecognisable.