Oliver Queen has truly been through the wringer this season.
(Don’t worry,Arrowhas alreadybeen renewedfor season 6.)
What surprised you about how he gets there?
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Arrow’s been going pretty dark in these last couple episodes.
Do you feel like the show’s going back to that season 1 feel?
Well, it has to.
Obviously [between] season 1 and season 2, there was a very profound difference.
During Wednesday’s episode, the police actually target the Green Arrow.
What is Oliver facing both as Green Arrow, but also as mayor?
Well, it’s interesting what we have coming up.
People like certain things, but you just have to do it.
You have to constantly try new things as a television show.
Curtis is in a better spot despite the fact that he’s having some marital issues.
Rene was kind of a directionless individual until he found the team.
Even Quentin seems to be on the road back a little bit.
Again, it’s not without tragedy, because that’s the nature of our show.
How will Oliver feel about Felicity returning to her hacktivist ways and forging her own path?
I like the way that we handled it.
I mean, there was a distance in the early part of the year.
Do you think they ever could be a couple again?
We know what came between them; it was a lack of trust.
Felicity walked away, and Oliver let her.
I mean, we live in a television world.
Fences can always be mended.
Oliver also believes that Black Siren can be redeemed.
Will we see more of that by season’s end?
What can you tease of what Talia al Ghul actually wants from Oliver?
How does Oliver not make that connection when meeting Ra’s al Ghul and Nyssa al Ghul?
Well, pay very close attention to whether or not she ever says her last name.
It is something that we address in the show coming up pretty soon.
That’s one of the interesting things.
What does that mean for a sixth season?
What do you hope to see, as the show is basically not beholden to anything moving forward?
There’s not a ton left on television from new shows from 2012.
Would you want to see a flash-forward to Oliver’s death?
There’s always an overarching plan, but it generally has to go season to season.
You know what I mean?
We’d have to know the end game if we did something like that.
I mean look, I’ve always had a very specific idea for how the series would end.
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Stay tuned for more scoop from Amell, including his take on a potential Dinah Drake-Oliver Queen romance.
