), and experienced a lot of creative ups and downs.
All of which begs a few questions: When shouldArrowcome to an end?
How should it end?
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And should the quagmire protagonist played by Stephen Amell pay the price for his immoral brand of justice?
In short: shouldArrowdie?
Season 5 wouldnt be a bad place to bringArrowto a close.
It has the tenor of a closing chapter.
The story in the present finds Oliver Queen as a man and hooded lawman in full.
By day, hes the mayor of Star City.
It gives us fodder for a lot of stories, says executive producer and co-creator Marc Guggenheim.
Hes someone that exists because of the things that Oliver has done.
Prometheus = Mary ShelleysFrankenstein, orThe Modern Prometheus= Arrows Prometheus is a monster of Dr. Frankenollies forging.
Season 4 also pushed the ship between Oliver and Felicity Smoak, a.k.a.
Overwatch (Emily Bett Rickards).
(Olicity has since broken up.)
Amell confesses that he became frustrated with last seasons creative direction.
Now that thats done, we have to do what we do well, says Amell.
There are things thatLegendsandFlashandSupergirlcan do, based on the sort of more fantastical nature of their shows.
But there are things that we can do that none of them can.
We are a street-level crime fighting show.
Were at our best when were focused on those things.
Its a great question, says Guggenheim.
Get thee to Netflix!)
But Amell does believeArrowhas reached a crossroads.
