Arrow Season 7: 10 Reasons It Should Be The Last
4. The Finality Would Raise The Stakes Even More
An imprisoned Oliver Queen fighting to get out and save his wife and son from a sadistic madman? An unidentified outlaw running roughshod over the criminals of Star City? A formerly evil doppelganger masquerading as the city's law-abiding District Attorney? Sounds like it could be a great season, right? Sure. But it sounds like the makings of an even better final season.
Due to its reliance on the supernatural (and contrived storytelling), Arrow struggles to produce anything with real stakes anymore. For some reason, events don't register with characters with the gravity they should, and thus, they don't resonate with the audience. Even death feels cheapened because of the amount of times that the resurrection trope has been used. However, this season promises to be a little bit different.
With so much uncertainty surrounding the main character's future, the fate of the city and the vigilantes it houses, Arrow is quite literally heading into uncharted territory. More than that, it feels like it has outsmarted the status quo and as a result, could produce something that finally has some real stakes. By choosing this story as their final tale, the writers would really pull the rug out from under us and thus, we'd be affected just as much as all of these characters.
Season 7 is already full of uncertainty, and that makes it intriguing. But to throw the show's ending into the mix, well that would quite literally raise those stakes — making every single moment all the more important.