Arrow - Spoilers galore

I thought there was a lot of good stuff in the finale. I’m still not totally sure why the FBI was willing to let a major (I assume) American city be taken over by a mobster/terrorist unless Oliver turned himself in, especially when everyone else was easily granted immunity.

I really liked Oliver’s 1-on-1 scenes with people in the finale, especially the one with (mayor) Lance.

I personally hope they don’t retcon Oliver publicly declaring himself as the Green Arrow. So many people already know, and he has rallied the entire city to stand & fight with him twice before, I think it’s time to drop the secret identity. “Will his secret get out?” has been used as a plot device so much, I’m kind of relieved if we are moving past it.

I thought the very beginning of the season was fine, and the end was pretty good, but boy, I thought middle of the season was dumb.

Agree that the middle of the season was pretty dumb. It felt like a lot of filler.

I believe I said earlier in the thread that Ollie needed to have his, "I'm Iron Man" moment. This should not be retconned. They have gone to that well far too often. Hopefully, the new showrunners take that baton and keep going in the direction of him being outed.