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Fadeout

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"Of course, life will go on. It always does. But how? What twists and turns it will take, I can't say. I don't know what the future holds...except to say expect the unexpected. Oliver may be gone, but his mission endures. That mission lives on, Oliver lives on, in the people he inspired. Some will take that mission to the rest of the world...maybe even beyond that. Because if the past eight years has shown us anything...it's that this universe is far bigger than any of us could have dared imagine. Even if it is a little less bright, without him in it."
—John Diggle's eulogy at Oliver Queen's funeral

"Fadeout" is the tenth and final episode of the eighth season of Arrow, and the one-hundred-seventieth and final episode overall. It aired on January 28, 2020.

Synopsis

After eight seasons, and the launch of countless superheroes, the series wraps up the story of the Green Arrow. Emily Bett Rickards returns as Felicity.[src]

Cast

Main cast

Special appearance by

Special guest star

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Uncredited

Trivia

  • Marc Guggenheim posted a picture to clarify viewers on where the title came from. In it, the fadeout is the area on a longbow where the grip tapers into the risers and limbs of the bow.[2]
    • In the episode, Mia instructs William on the parts of a bow, pointing out the fadeout.
  • Stephen Amell and David Ramsey got the ending they wanted for their respective characters.[3]
  • The final scene was a brand new scene Marc Guggenheim came up with after he just finished meditation class one morning at the time the ending had not been written. Guggenheim posted the script of the ending after he considered about doing it on the night of the airing in case it was cut.[4]
    • Stephen cried when Guggenheim told him about it at the Entertainment Weekly cover shoot. But there were a lot of hurdles because Emily Bett Rickards's involvement played a crucial role in getting the scene over.[5]
  • This episode was preceded by a TV special airing prior to it, titled Arrow: Hitting the Bullseye.
  • Madison McLaughlin[6] and Jessica De Gouw[1] were unable to make an appearance due to scheduling conflicts.
  • Of the main cast, John Barrowman ("Malcolm Merlyn"), Josh Segarra ("Adrian Chase"), Kirk Acevedo ("Ricardo Diaz"), Ben Lewis (Older "William Clayton", Joseph David-Jones ("Connor Hawke") and LaMonica Garrett do not make an appearance with footage of the latter's appearance being recycled from "You Have Saved This City".
  • There was talk about getting Emily to appear in the flashbacks but couldn't because she was only available to film for two days.[7]
  • Slade's appearance at the beginning of the episode makes use of unused footage from "Unthinkable" in which Oliver dreams of what would've happened if he had saved his mother.[1]
  • From Mia's perspective, it had been two weeks after the events of "Green Arrow & The Canaries", as opposed to Dinah Drake and Laurel Lance's point of view, as they were versions two months before the events of said episode.
  • This is the first and only episode to feature two different title cards during and at the conclusion of the episode. Since the end title card reuses Season 1's title card, Oliver and Felicity wear the exact same wardrobe from when they first met in "Lone Gunman".
  • Marc Guggenheim made an uncredited cameo during the statue reveal. He can be seen on the left side next to Diggle, and behind Felicity and Dinah.
  • Rene says to Diggle that is arms are the size of "telephone poles", a reference to the first season when Oliver says a variation of the line saying to him that his arms are "the size of bowling balls."
  • This is the first episode since The Flash episode "Invincible" that Barry Allen and Laurel have been in the same episode.
    • This is also the first episode that Kara Danvers and Earth-2 Laurel have been in the same episode.
  • Since Oliver Queen altered the reality when creating Earth-Prime, Tommy Merlyn is alive. However, Oliver stopped killing people because of Tommy in the original multiverse. This was explained in the flashbacks where it was John Diggle who convinced Oliver not to kill people in the new multiverse.
  • James Bamford directed his third and last Arrow finale.
  • This is the first (and only) time that Melissa Benoist has appeared on Arrow without the episode being part of a crossover.
  • Series creator Marc Guggenheim always planned for Arrow to end with Oliver dying. However, early plans for the series finale saw Oliver die in the final episode rather than ahead of it. Furthermore, the finale was originally envisioned with Oliver inspiring Batman to begin his own crusade.[8]

Production

Preparation ran from October 22 until October 30, 2019. Shooting ran from October 31 until November 13, 2019.[9]

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Arrow boss talks series finale, the episode he'd redo, and biggest writers' room debates" - Entertainment Weekly
  2. ↑ Marc Guggenheim (@mguggenheim) - Twitter
  3. ↑ "Arrow's Stephen Amell Says He Got the Ending He Wanted for Oliver" - TV Guide
  4. ↑ "Arrow's New, Very Final Scene Will Present 'A Lot of Logistical Hurdles'" - TVLine
  5. ↑ "How Arrow saved the TV superhero — and why it had to end" - Entertainment Weekly
  6. ↑ Madison McLaughlin (@MadisonMcLaugh) - Twitter
  7. ↑ https://tvline.com/gallery/arrow-series-finale-burning-questions-answered/ar810b_0197b/[1]
  8. ↑ 'Arrow' Creator Reveals Finale Almost Went a Different Way
  9. ↑ Marc Guggenheim (@mguggenheim) - Twitter
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