Board Thread:Arrow discussions/@comment-4525203-20190514053430/@comment-25968757-20190522222032

Schroeswald wrote: 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.

That is a good one. That it was all about letting go off his dad and the burden he had handed to him. However it still feels weird that now Oliver/we will remember Robert and Moira as people who failed, and he basically broke with them. Again Moira seemed to try to make things right while trying to become mayor and she seemed to regret her role in the undertaking. She even died for Thea. So that Oliver now blames her for not having helped Emiko seems harsh. Robert also tried to make things right at the last moment and he left a video behind to remind Oliver that he had to hold on to his sould and not lose himself. That Oliver now broke with them seems harsh.... However in a way it is interesting as it basically started with his Father and now it ends with him.....