Arrow Series Finale: 10 Huge Questions Answered By The Show's Producers
Is it time to beware a new Green Lantern's power?
Oliver Queen made his final stand during the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover but there were still two more episodes of Arrow left before we could say our final goodbyes to Stephen Amell's Emerald Archer. One of those served as a backdoor pilot for spinoff series Green Arrow and the Canaries but the series finale aired last night and to call it an emotional rollercoaster would be an understatement.
Fan-favourite characters returned from the dead, the stage was set for a whole new wave of stories, and Ollie finally got the happy ending he deserved. Throw in the fact that one hero may even be about to take flight into outer space with a completely new persona and it's fair to say that this is a finale which has left fans with a long list of questions.
Well, thanks to showrunner Beth Schwartz and executive producer Marc Guggenheim during a Q&A which followed the Arrow series finale, those have all now been answered. From Oliver's final fate to that massive Green Lantern tease, we're diving deep into this episode to bring you everything you need to know about the end of the show which gave birth to the Arrowverse way back in 2012.
10. Are More Post-Crisis Resurrections Coming?
When Oliver/The Spectre sacrificed himself in Crisis on Infinite Earths, he created Earth-Prime, an amalgamation of worlds which boasts a few key differences to the Earth-1 we've spent so many years on in the Arrowverse.
With his final breath, the hero clearly decided to bring back some of his loved ones, including his mother Moira, best friend Tommy, and sister Emiko. However, others have remained dead and gone so is this now it for the surprise post-Crisis resurrections?
"We had large conversations, just on Arrow, about the characters who were dead and the ones that we were bringing back," Schwartz explains. "We spell it out in the finale that the people who were important to Oliver have come back — but that doesn’t mean we won’t surprise you if the [Green Arrow and the Canaries] spinoff goes [to series], or if there’s another character that might come back on other shows."
In other words, it definitely sounds like some old foes of Ollie's have slipped through the cracks and could take aim at his daughter twenty years from now...