Arrow Series Finale: 10 Huge Questions Answered By The Show's Producers
4. Was That A Green Arrow And The Canaries Plot Hole?
Green Arrow and the Canaries puts the spotlight on Oliver and Felicity's daughter twenty years from now and thanks to time-travel, she'll be joined by some familiar faces from the present. However, during that backdoor pilot, we learned that she missed her father's funeral.
So, wait, what led to her being there in last night's Arrow finale?
This is a pretty weak explanation but Guggenheim claims that an unfilmed scene featured "an exchange when Sara comes to pick up Mia [in 2040]. Sara said, 'I time-travelled here… to take you to your dad’s funeral,' and Mia says, 'But I wasn’t at my dad’s funeral,' and Sara says, 'That’s what I’m here to fix. Time travel, remember?'
Clearly, the very different production schedules of this episode and that backdoor pilot led to some changes being made but for fans who fret over apparent plot holes like this, at least there is now an official explanation from the people working on the show.