![]() ![]() (Remember the salmon ladder?) They balance serial stories of epic scope with one-off episodic adventures and character studies with elaborate setpieces. Brimming with soapy operatics and over-dramatic storylines. Jam-packed with action and acts of derring-do. Superhero comics can be, and are, a lot of things. execs, CW viewers, and superhero fans will never notice it. That will be Arrow‘s true legacy, even if the majority of DC or Warner Bros. In its first two seasons, Arrow delivered the best, most true-to-comics live-action adaptation of a superhero and his stories to date. ![]() That Season 8 proved a glorified memorial mashed up with an All Heroes On Deck adaptation of one of the comics’ more over-the-top crossover events should surprise no one.īut for fans who are paying attention, none of that should matter. Trying to turn Oliver Queen into Bruce Wayne was a bad, boring idea, and adapting the “Longbow Hunters” story that was not Mike Grell’s iconic, acclaimed comic saga was too. Save the brief reprieve of Season 5, Seasons 3 through 7 saw a steady decline in narrative quality. For the corporate executives, Arrow really only had to be excellent for two seasons-just long enough to introduce a spinoff-and that’s pretty much exactly how it played out. For DC Entertainment, that legacy is obvious: the enormous superhero universe it spun off from the show, resulting in The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl and on and on. Like Queen himself, Arrow certainly leaves a legacy behind. SEE ALSO: Why ‘Knights of the Old Republic’ Would Make Perfect Sense As a ‘Star Wars’ Movie Those episodes, by the way, include extended scenes with characters reminiscing about and eulogizing him as they talk to his empty costume behind glass, as well as the dramatic unveiling of a Justice League table at the new Hall of Justice with all the seats filled except for the Green Arrow’s, emblazoned with his arrow logo and empty in spite of the legions of other Arrows who have taken up his cause over the show’s course. Hell, the show’s producers already went above and beyond in giving Ollie an extraordinary amount of fanfare, killing him off twice-twice!-in recent episodes of the “Crisis on Infinite Earths” crossover event. When Arrow ends its eight-season run on the CW Tuesday night with series finale “Fadeout,” the show will be sent off with much pomp and circumstance and with what is sure to be an egregious amount of attention paid to the legacy of its leading man: Stephen Amell’s Oliver Queen, aka the Green Arrow. Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen in Arrow‘s “Pilot” episode.
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