While "Arrow" season 5, episode 9 is yet to air, fans are already anticipating the upcoming series finale that will come next year. The CW action crime TV series has got viewers thinking if it will be ending just as how showrunner Marc Guggenheim stated it would way back in 2012. Now that "Arrow" is nearing its final episodes, Guggenheim revealed how the flashbacks are going to turn.
Originally, producer Andrew Kreisberg stated that the ideal plan is by the last episode of the series, the ultimate flashback to be shown will be Oliver seeing the boat that rescued him in the pilot. Unfortunately, the show's big revelation is that "Arrow" season 5 finale will not be ending that way.
"It was really just a hope at that point [in 2012] that the show would run five years, and we always thought that we would intercut the final moment of the series with the first moment of the series, that it would form one big Moebius strip," Guggenheim said.
"There's still a part of me that wishes we could do that. But I wouldn't want to artificially extend the flashbacks [beyond five seasons], and I also wouldn't want to artificially cut the show short," the showrunner explained. "It would've been a beautifully elegant thing, and Five Years Ago Me would've loved it. But things change, and I do think it'll make the Season 5 finale pretty awesome."
Despite the revelation about the season 5 finale, Guggenheim promises the audience that they have incredible plans for the ending as their team always leaves some room for the craziest ideas for the show. Yet before getting to "Arrow" season 5, viewers will have to know what awaits them in the show's mid-season finale titled "What We Leave Behind."
Stephen Amell, the lead star playing Oliver Queen, advised the audience to not miss this week's "Arrow" season 5, episode 9 as something big is to happen, notably in the last scene.
