Arrow’s penultimate season was a mixed bag, but in my opinion definitely swung more towards good in the end. It actually felt like it wrapped the whole show up neatly, leading very little for it to do in its shortened final season at the end of the year… so let’s take a look then, shall we?

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Arrow’s seventh season comes a wobbly end, but ultimately a good end. In fact the finale feels very much like an overall series finale, which given Season 8 is not only the last season, but only 10 episodes, it probably for all intents and purposes is the big ending. So let’s have a look at the build up to this grand finale, and see how much of it actually worked…

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Arrow’s seventh season starts off in familiar fashion to previous Arrowverse storylines, though unlike when Flash put their lead behind bars at the start of the year, this time it actually felt like it matters (and it was for more than two episodes…) It created a more unique atmosphere, when combined with an interesting flashforward rather than the usual flashback, it makes this season at least get off to a more interesting start than a lot of previous efforts…

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Arrow Season Six is an odd one. On the one hand it had better pacing thanks to changing the lead antagonist half-way through, but on the other hand it still made several of the same mistakes they always seem to do… Well, lets take an overall look at the season, and see how the quality balances out…

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Arrow Season 6 comes to a close with a good batch of episodes. Although the cliffhanger was extremely predictable, there was at least one thing that caught me off guard. So let’s take a look at the final five of Season Six!

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Arrow Season 6 starts to fall into old patterns again, as Oliver’s life is once again turned upside down and he slowly “realises” he can only do this by himself rather than rely on allies… *sigh*… Still, there were some highlights, this isn’t Season 3 / 4 territory or anything, but I wish the writers would come up with something else to do to their lead other than constantly re-realising the positive effect of friendship…

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Arrow Season 6 picks up … a few months after the big cliffhanger ending, and wastes no time confirming that very little happened. Still, it does at least settle back into the Season 5 groove of group of group of vigilantes vs. large groups of thugs, which worked in refreshing the show last year, and sets up the rest of the season really well, so I can forgive the non-follow up… A bit. Let’s take a look!

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Arrow’s fifth season was a return to form for the show in most regards. It sits comfortably as not as good as Seasons 1 and 2, but far better than Season 3 and 4. It also ties up the flashbacks and has a grand finale involving many returning characters from the show…

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Arrow’s fifth season reaches its big finale, and what a finale it was. In fact this last chunk of episodes felt far more like a overall series finale than a season finale… well, accept that end-of-season cliffhanger… Anyway, let’s take a look!

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