DJariya

Will return for a 5th season this Fall.

cleaver

I think the showrunner needs to nuke this show and rebuild it in a bubble beneath the surface of the earth

Tom Banjo

Such ridiculousness. I don't even know where to begin, with the slow motion nukes or how the strength of Darhk and Oliver's magical powers would inexplicably vary from one scene to the next...

Deftones

Wow this show is bad. How do we petition to get this back to the quality of season 1 and 2?

DJariya

Well, I just watched the finale and have mixed feelings about it.

On the plus side, there was no major cliffhanger and it feels like the show is doing a complete reset next season. Oliver is now the Mayor, Team Arrow is dismantled, Captain Lance and Mama Smoak left the city.

And the downside, that was a terrible end to the Damien Dahrk arc. I mean really? It all ends in a big street brawl and Oliver stabs Dahrk with an Arrow. Felicity saves the day at the computer, nuclear apocalypse averted. That street brawl was just terrible and super corny. Same goes with Oliver's big speech that inspired everyone.

I think this arc was way too ambitious for the Arrow writers and they simply didn't know how to end it where it would have any kind of good payoff.

I'll still be back for season 5 since they're doing a reset, but this was probably the worst season of the 4. The show needs to go back to Oliver being a vigilante and stopping Star City's worst criminals. Less is more.

alfredog1976

"Arrow: The Dark Knight Rises"

PhantomStranger

I actually thought the first half of season four was a minor return to form for Arrow, but these final episodes were a complete wreck after Laurel's death. The writers clearly don't have concrete ideas for next season and left this finale in a place where several characters may not return anytime soon.

Some people now call this show Felicity and Friends. She's become a more important character than Oliver. I didn't sign up to see Felicity beat villains with her superhacking. That whole scene with her ex-boyfriend sitting in front of computers as Dahrk supposedly had a bullet in his heart or something was the dumbest moment of this entire series.

will travel

Every season of ARROW ends in street Brawl.

They need to find another bag tricks.

Koby

I wish Felicity would go away. Funny because last season I liked her, but this season I hated her.

They got rid of Laurel about the time I finally started to like her.

It's nice to see Speedy and Diggle leave, but I feel like they'll be back early next season.

Curtis should take over for Felicity, and let Ollie handle the normal villains like that of season 1. Show needs to forget about super powered and/or magic utilizing villains.

Xiroteus

Something felt off. A bit of a huge bomb that ended up as a firecracker. He did tap into the other idol however it does seem this entire storyline and villain was out of Green Arrows league unless they did something like they did. An entire season is also far too long for how it turned out. Half a season would have been more than long enough. I really prefer when shows break it up and have two main story lines per season.

anomynous

I think this sums up most people's thoughts

DWilson

Apparently Stephen Amell would like to go back to a more basic, non-"super-powers" "Arrow". "Curtis" will be a regular next season. I wish we'd actually gotten the wise, loving "Laurel" that everyone remembers (though we didn't spend enough time with her to see this aspect of the character). Much like LOT, "Arrow" would have been better in "arcs" with different villains than hanging everything on one. I don't know if that's budget or just something the producers believe works for them.

Jackskeleton

The season was so bad, even the regulars wanted to leave fast off this sinking ship of shit.

cleaver

They need to go back to what made this show great

Either as a good guy or a bad guy, they threw out a reminder he was still alive, if I can't get my dream scenario of a Flashpoint reset where he's the Green Arrow he at least needs to be a bad in season 5.

PhantomStranger

I think Berlanti has spread his staff of knowledgeable comic book people too thin now that he's producing four DC shows.

Arrow got stuck in a rut with the same plodding formula the past two seasons. Season-long villain's minion does something, Team Arrow has to visit some warehouse and duke it out as a team. The flashbacks have been complete nonsense since Deathstroke left the show. Go back and watch an episode from the past two seasons skipping over the flashbacks. It's how I've been doing it and the episodes are infinitely better.

They need to get Malcolm off the show and make Thea stand apart from him.

Koby

Yeah at this point the flashbacks of island time need to end. He was only there for 5 years and we've had 4 seasons of flashbacks there. So if they do continue them, it shouldn't continue past next season... either way it really feels like they've ran out of shit to do in the flashbacks and now just add them as filler to hit the timespan needed for a full episode because there wasn't enough 'now' to tell.

I agree Malcolm needs to die/vanish. He's overstayed his welcome.

I also agree that we either need shorter seasons, or we need shorter story arcs. This whole 23 episodes for one story arc just goes on way too long and they add way too much filler to make it last that it just becomes tedious and repetitive. How many times did Darhk overwhelm them this season, only to let them go to fight another day? The whole Darhk plot should have been over in the first half of the season; even with all those LOT buildup/promotion episodes there and the whole 15k nukes thing was just ridiculously way over the top. The governments should have stepped in more than just Argus. That's not really something that Team Arrow should be tackling in my opinion.

TGM

Speedy needs to go.
Malcolm needs to go.
Diggle needs a new fucking helmet.
Diggle's wife needs to go.
Flashbacks need to go.
Arrow needs a super-healing superpower, or super quickness, or super vision, or super fucking something.
Felicity needs to get back will Oliver or just fucking leave already beeotch.

Tom Banjo

The flashbacks aren't going away. It seems that next season's will have Oliver in Russia. We know he has a history with Russian mafia, so it'll likely deal with that.

CaptainMarvel

Except with these writers he'll be infatuated with Felicity, and it will turn into a love triangle between her, Slade, and Oliver.

Xiroteus

Even though I have no issue with those characters it likely would not hurt if they cut it back a bit.

Jackskeleton

I think they're contractually bound to end every season with some sort of mob bullshit to give local extras some chances for SAG cards.

hdnmickey

Yup, as I feared the flashbacks were pointless. The Flash finale was far better than this Arrow garbage. They really should let the time change on Flash reset this show back to S1. Even Merlin was tolerable when he would only show up a couple times as The Magician. Thea and Laurel were fun when they only appeared in a scene or two every few episodes.

Thrush

I agree with this except the superpowers bit. Team Arrow has never really worked. It should be stripped down to just Oliver and Diggle. At this point Felicity has become annoying. We need less of her, wayy less.

PhantomStranger

I'll still question making Thea a primary character. She was practically a token character the first couple of years and they decided to turn her into a superhero. That was a disastrous decision by the showrunners with far-reaching consequences for the entire Arrow formula. It was even more damaging than killing off Sara.

Eric F

I couldn't even make sense of what was going on this episode.

It's already known that Curtis will become a regular next season. Who knows if having him don spandex as Mr. Terrific will even help at this point...