Board Thread:Arrow discussions/@comment-4525203-20190514053430/@comment-31722073-20190516233856

Season 8 is the final season, ten episodes, presumably added after Stephen decided to stay on for the Crisis. The reason Emiko was so rushed was because she never was the main antagonist of the season, the main antagonist was Robert Queen's legacy, it was the whole point of the first half of the season and caused Emiko's evilness, its why they keep saying "break the cycle", and why the last half of the episode is all emotion, because the antagonist isn't a character.