As Troy and Gabriella once sang, this video is the start of something new.

"All Thea really does is leave town or die." Never have truer words been said.

CW Crisis on Infinite Earths in 5 Words: THEY DID KEVIN CONROY DIRTY.

I hate that Oliver ALWAYS had to apologise, even when the noobs were clearly wrong, Oliver ALWAYS had to learn a lesson and apologise..; HATED IT!

The pan out to the riverdale poster on your wall genuinely cracked me up.

7:47 Yeah seriously, I always found laughable how Oliver is being called out for killing people when the majority of the team’s powers are “has guns”. Worst thing is, Oliver never calls their bullshit out, he always puts up with it and says nothing.

It was a Rocky Road with Many Highs and SO MANY Lows, but I'd be lying if I said wasn't sad to see the Show End. Goodbye Arrow, thanks for the Memories.

Kingpin from Daredevil season one, is a great example of how you do a "city infiltrate by secret terrorists" storyline. Ricardo Diaz felt like a worse version of him. However, I don't see how the Diaz twist was predictable. The writers kept the audience guessing without making it obvious. With better pacing and trimming the fat though, his reveal easily could have been the mid season finale, instead of waiting until episode 13.

16:18 I could not possibly agree more with everything you said. Stephen Amell is stupidly talented, dedicated, and he seems like a great guy in real life. I really hope that he doesn't get type cast in the future. I'd love to see him branch out and move on to more successful projects.

The CW Superhero shows seem fine until you watch something like Daredevil and realize how much better they could be.

S1- Great Start S2- Mind Blowing S3- Mediocre S4- ..... PULL THE TRIGGER, PULL IT MOTHERF*CKER DO IT DO IT!!! S5- Impossibly Fantastic, the finale is pure gold. S6- First half was eh, you know.... but then ep 17 onwards it was pretty great. S7- Prison Arc beats everything.... the rest is trash S8- A Good End.

Why is Slade's son such a horrendously bad actor? This video: "He's in Riverdale." Ohhh

man, i hope stephen ammel has a carrer after this, he is a good actor, chill guy, and really passionnate (i still remember he did all his stunts by himself for the tmnt out of the shadows movie, and they cut his scenes with only 1 action scene to make place to Turtles and Krang)

For the life of me. "Run Barry Run" is the reason i stopped watching the Flash, tbh i have always thought Arrow was better (except season 4)

My biggest question about all of Arrow is: How did Oliver survive a giant sword to the torso, but Laurel couldn’t survive an arrow?

I love how Rene, Curtis, and Dinah get mad at Oliver for keeping secrets when he knew one of them was going to put him in prison. And then when Oliver gave the other team intel, but they ignored it and found their own intel secret.

I like how Ra' Al Gul was a meh villain compared to Diaz and Prometheus. Its not like Ra' is a fk all villain in the comic but the show has been shown middle finger to comic readers for years

Alright let's do this one last time. -Spider-Man 2018

7:43 - 7:53 Maybe they were wearing League Armor

Arrow, I've loved you, hated you, been lukewarm. And in the end, I liked the finale, it was saccharine and reflective and fitting. Oliver did what he set out to do, he saved the city. Goodbye Arrowverse, Let's not do this again.

Stephen Amell deserves a role in the MCU IMO, full turn around Chris Evans style. I could see him playing somebody like Nova.

"I'm not saying I only consume high-brow complex TV, because I don't" *Riverdale Intensifies*

At the start of the Emiko plotline, It looked like she represented Season 1 Oliver, and that she would be used for juxtaposition to show how far he'd come in a positive direction, given that he was at the end of his arc and the show was wrapping up. That, of course, fell apart, but I briefly thought that there was a point.

Good things in arrow: John Diggle All of the Wells Oliver ranting other Team Members

It's amazing how, not just Arrow, but the Arrowverse as a whole went downhill with their stories and characters. I mean these shows have become unwatchable.

The problem with the later seasons was that they saved all the big stuff for the crossovers but the crossovers really only succeeded on the back of the chemistry of Benoist, Amell, and Gustin

I got even more finality out of the show because of this video. I remember about 3 years ago i started to watch your resumé’s on these shows and i loved it. You say they are bad now but i find them to be really good and i hope you won’t delete them as they are always a blast to rewatch to me and i think you are right about a lot of stuff. I’m happy you made this video as for me it was the icing on the cake for the Arrow ending.

8:36 the CW shows should take a page out of Agents of Shield books and split the Season into distinct pods that flow into eachother. (I.E. The first pod tells a closed story that leads into Pod 2 and they tell a closed story that leads into the last pod of the season

12:43 I love watching Wild Dog run towards the group just so he can turn around and slowly walk forward with them

Ending this video genuinely was a really cool way to do it. I feel pretty much the exact same way about Arrow. And while I’d never call it a masterpiece at any point, I also owe it a lot. Oliver Queen will always be a character I hold close to my heart.

"When a TV Show is with you THAT LONG, eventually you just start hoping for a good ending." Me when The Walking Dead announced its eleventh and final season. Much like Arrow, it was also a show that became a victim of its own success and after so many of years of this TV franchises highest highs, lowest lows, controversies, shocking moments, countless video games and the spin offs it spawned, I'm looking forward to it. Granted, I still haven't seen Season 10 yet so I gotta catch up on it. And while I am aware of how the spin off shows like Fear The Walking Dead and The Walking Dead: World Beyond carry important information that could play into the final season, maybe even go as far as having all of the characters from all three shows come together in one big crossover season, I just don't have any interest or patience in watching them. Maybe I'll see the Rick Grimes movie if it ever gets made, because come on. It's Rick Grimes. Lastly, I'm also aware how it ended in the comics, but I'm hoping the show ends differently with satisfaction whereas in the comics it just stops and immediately jumps forward in time with an epilogue.

This is going to be a roller coaster. I’m ready.

Every CW conflict can, and usually, solved with a cry and a hug in a hallway.

"All thea does is leave town or die" facts lmao

“All thea really does is leave town or die” fucking killed me😂😂

Your review of Crisis is surprisingly positive. As someone who has enjoyed the arrowverse (except for Supergirl & batwoman) I thought Crisis was awful & full of empty fan service, more along the lines of the rise of skywalker than Endgame

You see, Barry is literally incapable of instantly attacking someone and has to constantly appeal to their humanity

I WILL NEVER EVER, forgive arrow for not reviving Earth 1 Laurel in the rebooted timeline.

The 23 episode season format panned out well enough for the first two seasons but after that the Arrow writers should've simply taken a page out of Agent of Shield's playbook, going for the pod structure spanning anywhere from 8-12 episodes per villain/problem/... Also, the island exploding should've taken out several of Ollie's allies, such as Wild Dog, Lance, Thea and even Felicity to shake up the status quo and streamline the bloated roster. Mr. Terrific provides competent tech support and Ollie might've gotten closer to Black Canary.

Currently binging the Arrowverse for the first time and just finished Arrow, my ultimate takeaway: anyone can change. This show portrayed countless stories of redemption: Slade, Malcolm, Sara, Anatoly, Earth-2 Laurel, Dinah, Sebastian Blood, Moira, Roy, Nyssa, Maseo, Oliver, and so many more I’m probably forgetting. But, it also showed the other side of the coin, that anyone can also fall to darkness: Ivo, Cayden James, Andy, John Diggle Jr., Ra’s, and Waller. Ultimately, the show’s main message is that we each have a choice in our lives to rise to the light, or fall to the darkness. This is also present in other shows in the Arrowverse (mainly Flash and Supergirl), but Arrow is where it is most relevant. I will always miss Arrow and the journey that it took me on with Stephen Amell’s Oliver Queen.

I literally skipped Crisis on Infinite Earth cause from the start I had a feeling it would be done poorly, and I'm glad I did cause from what I'm hearing and seeing, all my expectations happened and I miss nothing.

His lack of sleeves dampened his martial art ability in season 4

I think Emiko was originally supposed to be a hero, then halfway through they decided to make her a villain. The Emiko we first meet is not the same as the Emiko we say goodbye to.

Arrow had a lot of downfalls but this show change my life for the better. It inspired me in many ways.

The writing of CW shows might be here and there but one thing I'll say is that one thing they always seem to nail is casting, ALWAYS. Whether it's Barry, Cisco and Caitlin or Oliver, Diggle and Felicity the chemistry between these characters always felt so real and never forced. CW also always manages to develop a great emotional attachment between us and the characters you always care about the main characters no matter how flawed they are. The characters are actually real. The character development sometimes moved in circles and did hurt their shows a little but it was still handled well. All in all, this show left an impact on me and I'm sure it did on countless others as well.

Crisis in five words Legends Should’ve Been Left Out

I quit this show right at the end of season 5. I just sticked around for crossovers. I wonder what you'd think of agents of shield. Edit I also need to add i watched all of season 8 and loved it.

It still kinda gets me that Felicity got over killing thousands of people in a single episode. And then it is never mentioned again. What kind of psychopath do you have to be when that storyline is done for you after 45 minutes.

You do realise you are probably going to have to make one these for flash when the day comes right?

Anyone else notice how efficient black lightning and stargirl felt in 13 episodes?

Glad you came back to it. The arrow breakdown is legendary.

Ironically enough it was actually your original videos on Arrow that got me to watch the show in the first place. It had many flaws, but I came to really enjoy it and it affected my life a lot more than I thought it would. Glad you decided to finish the show and make this video. It feels like everything has come full circle with this show for me.

If they insist on the 23 episode structure, then they should just resolve plotlines and start new ones halfway through the season. It’s not like there isn’t enough source material. Remember, when in doubt, steal from Batman.

I honestly think that people should give the majority of Arrow a lot more credit. Sure it’s not a perfect or the best written tv show I or many others have ever watched, but it’s a lot more than a “poorly acted and lowly budgeted soap opera.” Some of the actors have real heart in their roles. And when it comes to Arrow as it’s own show, it’s stories are so good that they’ve created some of the newer characters in present day DC comic issues. Sure Felicity could be better in some seasons, and Curtis can be annoying as all hell. But the show is able to communicate some of the better (if lesser known sometimes) characters and their arcs in a well done show. Hell I prefer Oliver in the show to most of the iterations in the comics. In the comics he’s far too close to another Flash much of the time, but in the show he has an added layer of nuance that I feel is complimented very well through some of the more important characters. From John’s lack of emotional control in certain situations, to Felicity’s abundance of emotion in even the mundane, to the Lance family’s views on justice, the show makes for a very good story that I feel stands up to the comics of the same characters (those that are in the comics) Flash and the others can be hit or miss to the point where I haven’t finished any of the others entirely, but Arrow is just a good show. Not the best, but a good one nonetheless

Oh boy, need to see that fight sequence in the finale again...

I loves this video series, and I'm happy that you stuck with it, it definitely wasn't perfect but overall I still love it and feel the same way as you do about the bad stuff fading away and remembering it as a truly great show Great video :-)

For me, the finale was perfect.

KZfaq Algorithm: “here’s an hour long final review about the show Arrow!” Me who hasn’t seen an episode of Arrow: “Man you really suck at recommending me shit; yeah sure I’ll watch it.”

HAROLD FROM PERSON OF INTEREST???!?!?!??? HOW DID YOU END UP IN THIS SHOW???!??!?!!?!

Will Ross ever return to Arrow? Well I wrote a song about it... PIANO SOUNDS INTENSIFIES NO.

In a way, Kate Kane did represent the future of the Arrowverse accurately

THE THING IS: *OLICITY FANS WERE NOT ARROW FANS,WERE FLASH FANS WHO JUST WATCH RANDOM EPISODES OF ARROW FOR CONTEXT IN THE CROSSOVERS, & SINCE IN THE TIME OF FLASH OLIVER & FELICITY WERE A TOGETHE THEY THINK THEY 2 WERE A COUPLE IN THE SHOW &START SHIPPING THEM*

We're in the endgame now.

No one has ever said I like the show but it really started to get good around season 8. The walking dead has entered the chat.

2023: _"The Last Arrow Video"_

Six seasons and a movie

I think it says something that I've watched all of this show and still remembered none of the things you brought up in this video I didn't even remember Oliver had a child

Arrow was a unique show in its own way, to the opening monologue in the beginning of every episode(My name is Oliver Queen) to the fights, the action, the acting by Stephen Amell everything is phenomenal.I really enjoyed it at a time when I was struggling the most and starting to watch tv series to escape reality.Yeah its no Daredevil but some of the seasons(1,2,5) are some of the best tv seasons put on screen.Thank you Arrow, U HAVE SAVED ME.

End of an era

"Well, I wrote a little song about it."

Good video man. Thanks for giving me some closure on the show I never got to finish. It was very satisfying.

you dont know how much better it is after watching all the good seasons of all the shows up to this what a perfect finale

Worst part is we never saw green arrow and black canary get together or explore that how it is in the comics

Best quote: "He had one of those personality things." (And, really, bad as season 4 was, the actor made Damien Darhk fun to watch, no matter how tedious the episode.)

Good job Ross, I still haven't finished the show. Had no desire to do so but you've convinced me to go back and rewatch the final 2 seasons... So thanks for a recap and everything.

They might aswell of killed Barry aswell because bullet to the head seems better than watching anything past flash season 3

tbh i watched the first episode of season 6, saw that no one died in the explosion, and that was what finally pushed me to drop the show

The fastest I've ever clicked on a video

This show is the reason I found your channel, and how you got your subscribe from me :D You have inspired me to go back and watch it all again. I had forgotten how much I missed this show.

It needs to be a law that no show can go past season 4

I completely agree with this take on the show. It reached a point where the storytelling was incredibly predictable. Blackstar shows up as a new mysterious character except she’s a tiny blonde like felicity, shes participating in an underground fight club like Oliver, her first scene is literally a transition from Oliver & Felicity having sex to William seeing Mia for the first time and look at that, Oliver, William & Mia all like to drink scotch. Oh my gosh! Who could she possibly be?🙃 This show definitely wasn’t known for being subtle. That said, even with its ups and many, many downs they still managed to make me care about the main characters. I wanted to see how the story played out for Dig, Oliver, Felicity, Quinten, etc and I’m glad I did. For all its flaws Arrow introduced countless characters, launched numerous shows and created an entire universe which is incredibly admirable. Most shows dont make it 100 episodes much less 170. And strangely this silly show about a guy with a bow and arrows inspired a rampant online community, spawned some real and lasting friendships and raised hundreds of thousands for charity.

I’d just like to take a moment for us to remember the piano.

great video man and don't be too hard on your old videos either it's kinda an interesting journey since I've felt my own views shift on shows with time. I like hearing what it's personally meant to you and the journey now.

Really enjoyed the video, great work!

Now I need 10 videos about Vampire Diaries, The Originals, Legacies, and Riverdale each.

Splendid! It's been super interesting watching your experience with this series so closely match my own. I don't know how you find the patience to make such entertaining long-form videos but it's incredibly impressive. Well done, dude. Question, what mic and input system do you use?

Been waiting 3 years for this

As someone who dropped out of the Arrowverse after season 4, these videos saved me hundreds of hours. And that's not even an exaggeration, surprisingly.

From S6-8, it was a just a constant mix of sub-par villains and the constant need to rake Oliver over the coals. The rest of the characters, good and bad, could do as they pleased and Oliver is the only one punished or judged by himself or others. CW hero shows have really lost steam the last few years. I came to resent every character for their words, actions, and lack of admitting their mistakes, and that included Diggle. A character I never thought I'd dislike. They were never forced to learn a lesson for their actions either. S6 was the end for me.

*WHICH ONE IS WORST:* _CW CRISIS OF INFINITE EARTH'S OR TO BOLDLY FLEE_

Really love your videos Ross. I struggle to find critical content on KZfaq that is intelligent and balanced. Your videos are both those things and more. For the record, I loved Season 6 of Arrow and found it surprisingly in-tone. But I still enjoyed hearing your opinions on it regardless. Keep up the amazing work man

The years I have waited for this video

We had Zoe . A child we saw for 2 seasons as a grown up in S7 for a couple of episodes Just to kill her off for no reason in S8. If someone deserved to be a main character in the new season it was her than 'Conner who' , who had no reason to be there. He was Just put there for cheap attempts at romance.

“All Thea ever does is leave town or die” I-

dude i swear whenever ross makes a video, especially one about arrow or the flash, im always hyped to watch.

Honestly if I can have one tiny difference that would have turned Crisis on Infinite Earths from a 7/10 to 7.5/10, is if he shot the sky beam into the Anti-Monitor. Like uhh... an arrow.

I gave up Arrow for Agents of Shield. The last 3 seasons of Agents of Shield were so good.

41:27 Were they trying to hide Ruby's tattoo? Like, I can clearly see a EKG line under some cheap foundation. Did they think that was good enough?

Time to rewatch every arrowverse video from you

Great video, Ross. I share a similar outlook on this series. Will always appreciate Arrow for starting out and attempting to maintain a sense of realism before Superhero media exploded into what it is today. I enjoyed the series even though it isn't the kind of media I would consume today. The OST is brilliant and one of my favorites from a superhero show.