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A gut punching final act is enough to redeem the last 4 or 5 episodes.
The team suiting up for the end was incredible, and the return of Bronze Tiger was the icing on the cake. Felt like something straight out of a Justice League story line.
The final showdown between Oliver and Emiko was very anti-climatic. While Stephen Amell and Sea Shimooka gave outstanding performances, the final battle was boring, and the Ninth Circle did not impress me this season at all.
Emiko dying was sad, and the writers did a great job at making me sad about it.
Oliver and Felicity leave Starling City to protect their unborn baby. The feels and dialogue between him and the team was so sad, and well written. Oliver and Felicity's final conversation with John Diggle was hard to watch, as you recall all the things that they went through these past 7 seasons.
Watching Oliver and Felicity raise Mia was so hard to watch. It was great to actually see Stephen Amell portray Oliver as a father figure.
The Monitor arrives in the end telling Oliver that it is time to fulfill the deal he made with him in the crossover. The Monitor then tells Oliver that he, Oliver, will die during the crises. I knew this is what was going to happen, but it still hit me in the feels.
Oliver's goodbye with Felicity was the must gun wrenching thing I have ever had to watch on Arrow. Stephen Amell and Emily Bett Rickards arguably gave their best performances in just the last scene between them.
In the future, Future Team Arrow assembles and manages to take down the ARCHER program. Very anti-climatic, but the actors did great jobs at selling their performances.
The final scene between Felicity was a great sendoff for her character, as we know Emily Bett Rickards will not be a season regular next season. Her final conversation with Mia and William was gut punching.
Felicity then meets with the Monitor, and the Monitor then asks if she is ready to did this, and that there is no turning back from this. Felicity then says that she is ready to see Oliver again, they then enter a portal and she disappears.
Two theories on what happened. 1. Oliver somehow survived the Crises and is hiding on another Earth. 2. Oliver is in a heaven like place, and Felicity is going to join him in this heaven like place. Either way, this may have been the most emotional episode of Arrow ever.
Overall, despite a lackluster ending for the major story lines in the present and in the future, tonight's episode of Arrow delivers on the gut wrenching emotion, setting up an intriguing and emotional 8th and final season of Arrow, a great sendoff for Felicity, decently done action scenes, and powerful performances from Stephen Amell, Emily Bett Rickards, and Sea Shimooka, to deliver a satisfying ending to an overall great season.
Out of 4 stars I would give it...
3 out of 4 stars
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