It’s great to see Moira, Malcolm and Tommy, even if it is in this strange kaleidoscopic way. In addition to setting up an interesting 2040 canary-centric show (which I’ve been begging for and we’re eager to watch!) it turns out Oliver Queen is going to have a knockabout good time kicking ass with his best friend, while reminding us for the first time in years why we fell so in love with this show back in 2012.Īll of the revived appearances were such a delight. Many were concerned after the show’s apparent wrap-up last spring as to what, exactly, Oliver Queen and Arrow would even be do this fall. By planting the line in the sand of Oliver’s death (unless Diggle gets his way) during his and Arrow’s final crossover Crisis on Infinite Earths, it almost feels like Ollie and the show have been freed up not only from a plot perspective, but an emotional one. Perhaps some of the immediate pressure to mourn the network-altering – heck, television-landscape-altering – final season has been removed by last year’s finale, which served as a goodbye to Emily Bett Rickards and therefore the original trio. He’s even leaning into the brotherly back and forth of trying to pull a fast one on Diggle. Oliver is quippier than usual, lamenting his supposed years without tequila on Lian Yu, and bringing more puppy-like enthusiasm, like when he hears Felicity on this earth runs Smoak Tech (“Oh good for her!”). Yes, all the impending dread of his death and the heartache of the absence of Felicity are still there, but this is clearly a guy who’s enjoying his swan song, and he’s soaking up every minute of it.
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