The past five seasons have all led to this episode. Let’s break this down one last time this season, shall we? Arrow - “Lian Yu” - Image AR523b_0521b.jpg - Pictured (L-R): Josh Segarra as Adrian Chase and Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen/The Green Arrow - Photo: Dean Buscher /The CW - é 2017 The CW Network, LLC. And I can’t wait to see what awaits Oliver in this next chapter. It’s time for a new and familiar beginning. No more going “back to basics.” No more trying to force out the established elements for newer, shinier ones.
There’s potential to right the ship by starting anew as Oliver begins another chapter. But another part of me feels excited, which is definitely not an emotion that I thought I’d have at season’s end. Now that we’ve reached the end of Arrow’s fifth season – and the end of another chapter in Oliver’s story – a large part of me feels relieved that we can put this mess of a season behind us. So I’m sure there will be some death, but nothing that we should really worry about. We know that Malcolm (possibly) is one of them. But surely there are some casualties along the way.
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While the “cliffhanger that’s not a cliffhanger” certainly teased a lot of death, we know that our series regulars will be alive and well. It’s one that I’m going to go back and watch and be able to process things a bit better, but it’s still going to manage to take me back on that journey. This was an episode meant to be experienced. And while that can most of the time fail miserably, it actually worked in Arrow’s favor in regards to the emotional implications. There was so much happening so quickly that it didn’t give you time to really think about what was happening. This was the kind of season finale where you can call it “epic” and actually mean it.
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It felt like a nice balance between incorporating old faces and old stories and providing some truly amazing character moments as things came full circle. Despite so much happening in such a short span of time, I didn’t feel that way at all. But I was afraid that certain elements would get drowned out as a result. Don’t get me wrong, I loved all of the familiar faces and big returns. “Lian Yu” was an episode that I had my concerns about.
Where the elements that defined Arrow as my favorite show had returned. That’s when I felt the connection between the characters and the story. Honestly, Arrow season 5 began with episode 17 and concluded with episode 23.
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It felt like Arrow knew exactly where it was going to end season 5, but it didn’t really know how to get there. In trying to close out Oliver’s story in year five, it lost itself early on this season as it struggled to get to the point where it ended. This season of Arrow, overall, has been a hot mess. Comic-Con should be interesting this year. This is the kind of cliffhanger that we’ll be forced to sit with for the months leading into Comic-Con, when we’ll finally get confirmation that we’ve known all along: Our faves are alive and well while Oliver is still suffering thinking they’re actually dead. It should leave you in agonizing pain for the next five months. There was real shock, real fear, and real tears. Oliver, not so much), in the moment of first watching that scene you felt like everything had blown up in your face. While it took seconds later to realize that all was well (well, as far as we’re concerned.
In the moment, you felt that agonizing pain and pure shock at what the hell just transpired on screen. It was a scenario that we didn’t really expect they’d actually do. Also, does this mark the first time where we won’t have a five-month time jump to start the new season? What a way to start Oliver Queen’s next chapter on Arrow.īut with that said, this cliffhanger did its job. We know how this ends, rather, begins next season. But it’s not actually a cliffhanger to us. Slade led them to the bunker – you know, that impenetrable fortress underneath the island – before the explosion. Our faves – Felicity, Diggle, Thea, Quentin, Curtis, Dinah, Rene, Nyssa, and probably Slade – didn’t die. Let’s get one thing out of the way first. So, you could say Arrowcertainly came to play in its season finale aptly titled “Lian Yu.”īut just like we know Mon-El and Barry will inevitably return, so will our characters stuck on Lian Yu. Arrow, leaves the fates of the entire core cast minus Oliver Queen up in the air after this season literally went out with a bang. Let’s take a look at this week’s DCTV season finale recap: Supergirl, breaks Kara’s heart (and ours) by sending Mon-El away.
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