User blog comment:Nightslayer2/What I Like To See In Arrow Season 8/@comment-31722073-20190630121859

I think that the future arc will just sort of continue, this is a post-script season (very intentionally too), it’s not going to be super important to Arrow so the Star City arc will likely wrap up a few loose ends with the Ninth Circle while Oliver does the big work, setting up the Crisis.

Laurel isn’t coming back, there is literally a 0% chance of that happening, they’ve put too much work into E-2 Laurel too throw it all out at this point, and that’s not something you throw in during the ten episode eighth and final season when the show has usually been a full one, it would be even more idiotic than killing her was.