Arrow Season 5 Finale
Right, be warned that if you have not watched 'Lian Yu' yet, then do not read on, as there will be spoilers for the episode.
So, last night was the Season 5 finale of the Arrow TV series, and lets just say that it was best season finale out of all the Arrowverse's 4 shows. Flash was alright, Supergirl was watchable, Legends was so long ago I can't remember (something about dinosaurs in the present day or something.) But Arrow was just incredible.
After the lows of Season 4, and how disappointing that whole Damien Darhk stuff was, this season really stepped up its game. With a great villain in Prometheus/Adrian Chase, to bringing back Manu Bennett as Slade Wilson/Deathstroke, now completely free of Mirakuru, and sane.
Oliver travels to Lian Yu in order to rescue his team, and enlists the aid of Deathstroke and Captain Boomerang to do so, and of course Boomerang betrays him straight away. Throughout the episode, we had hints that Slade would follow suit, but they were only teases, and he really was there to help. John Barrowman's Malcom Merlyn character went out on a good note, saving his daughter from a land mine, signalling the end of him for at least a little while.
At the end of the episode, we had Oliver chasing Prometheus on to a boat, discovering that if Chase dies, the bombs that had been placed on the island will blow up. He then gives Oliver a choice: Let him kill Oliver's son William, or go back and save his friends, and of course he chooses William. This all turns out to be in vain though, as Chase gives a speech on how he made the right choice, but it would be 'lonely without (William's) mom', and proceeds to shoot himself in the side of the head with a concealed gun, with the episode closing out with a shot of the island exploding, one bomb at a time.
As I've already said on Twitter today, October and Season 6 of Arrow cannot come soon enough, and I cannot wait to see how this all turns out, and which members of Team Arrow have survived.
So, last night was the Season 5 finale of the Arrow TV series, and lets just say that it was best season finale out of all the Arrowverse's 4 shows. Flash was alright, Supergirl was watchable, Legends was so long ago I can't remember (something about dinosaurs in the present day or something.) But Arrow was just incredible.
After the lows of Season 4, and how disappointing that whole Damien Darhk stuff was, this season really stepped up its game. With a great villain in Prometheus/Adrian Chase, to bringing back Manu Bennett as Slade Wilson/Deathstroke, now completely free of Mirakuru, and sane.
Oliver travels to Lian Yu in order to rescue his team, and enlists the aid of Deathstroke and Captain Boomerang to do so, and of course Boomerang betrays him straight away. Throughout the episode, we had hints that Slade would follow suit, but they were only teases, and he really was there to help. John Barrowman's Malcom Merlyn character went out on a good note, saving his daughter from a land mine, signalling the end of him for at least a little while.
At the end of the episode, we had Oliver chasing Prometheus on to a boat, discovering that if Chase dies, the bombs that had been placed on the island will blow up. He then gives Oliver a choice: Let him kill Oliver's son William, or go back and save his friends, and of course he chooses William. This all turns out to be in vain though, as Chase gives a speech on how he made the right choice, but it would be 'lonely without (William's) mom', and proceeds to shoot himself in the side of the head with a concealed gun, with the episode closing out with a shot of the island exploding, one bomb at a time.
As I've already said on Twitter today, October and Season 6 of Arrow cannot come soon enough, and I cannot wait to see how this all turns out, and which members of Team Arrow have survived.
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