Did they ever explain how she fiddled with the canary cry device? I know it was mentioned it was specifically created for Laurel's voice.
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Hey Ollie, you're mayor, now learn how to use a razor.
[Damien Darhk]Well, that happened.[/Damien Darhk]
I'm not a fan of "I abhor killing but I'll make an exception for you" endings, but at least Ollie and Felicity acknowledged that it was a dark and unheroic choice, that he's still wrestling with his two sides.
And why do the writers feel they have to break the team up every summer? Why not just have them go on fighting everyday crime in the downtime between city-threatening conspiracies?
(And did Diggle re-enlist in the military at the end there?)
It did look like he was sort of halfway between his usual stubble and a traditional Green Arrow goatee.
I kinda wish there'd been a line about the team trying to contact the Flash for help but being unable to reach him. But maybe that would've just called attention to the contrivance of both teams dealing with the climaxes of their respective world-threatening crises almost simultaneously. (Gee, Zoom's plan to destroy every Earth except this one wouldn't have worked out so well if Damien Darhk had destroyed this Earth a day later. Or if Vandal Savage had successfully collapsed time and reverted the Earth to 4000 BCE. It never rains but it pours...)
And why do the writers feel they have to break the team up every summer? Why not just have them go on fighting everyday crime in the downtime between city-threatening conspiracies?
(And did Diggle re-enlist in the military at the end there?)
It did look like he was sort of halfway between his usual stubble and a traditional Green Arrow goatee.
I kinda wish there'd been a line about the team trying to contact the Flash for help but being unable to reach him. But maybe that would've just called attention to the contrivance of both teams dealing with the climaxes of their respective world-threatening crises almost simultaneously. (Gee, Zoom's plan to destroy every Earth except this one wouldn't have worked out so well if Damien Darhk had destroyed this Earth a day later. Or if Vandal Savage had successfully collapsed time and reverted the Earth to 4000 BCE. It never rains but it pours...)
After the neck snap, I was wondering if people would start comparing it to Man of Steel.
If he did, how's he going to get back to Team Arrow?
I thought the same thing.
^Actually, before that twist ending on The Flash last night (well, this morning for me),
I was briefly wondering if, when Barry said he needed to go away to sort things out, they were setting him up to go to Star City and help Team Arrow out with the nukes.
The last few episodes just sort of dragged on. Or more like this season. I couldn't wait for the Damian Dahrk arc to be over, and now I feel a big sigh of relief. Having this supernatural element about the show got old and tiresome really fast. The League of Assassins and the occasional villain of the week were a lot more interesting. Here's hoping the next season will be better.
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Stephen Amell wants the show to get back to basics next season.
IGN's Jesse Schedeen, who's been throwing out "Great" and "Amazing" rankings to this season's eps like a department store Santa handing out 25-cent candy canes, abruptly gave this finale an "Awful". Day-um. 
I did too. I work 3rd shift and woke up a little early and decided to watch the last 15 minutes out of curiosity for the direction of next season.
I had an overall sense of what was happening and what I have missed from stuff I read online. I give them a little credit for actually making Oliver the Mayor. While this is an idea from the comics I do not see these writers doing it in a interesting way.
As Christopher said, I do not see the reason they feel the need break up the Team again. Next season is of course going to start with the reveal of the new Big Bad for the year. With everyone rushing back to help Oliver. I have never hated Felicity as a character. But the show really feels like it's becoming a caricature of what online Olicity haters always claimed it was. She is the only one who stays with him at the end???
There was absolutely nothing here to build excitement or speculation for next season. The finales for the Flash, Legends, and Supergirl all did that.
I wasn't real crazy about Oliver's white magic, It just never felt right with the character to me. I did like that they wrapped up all the storylines and planted some seeds for going forward. I think it could have been better but it could have been worse.
I wonder if there's going to be any follow-up to the nuclear explosion and the launch of 15,000 ballistic missiles. This is like 9/11 x 100, in the real world there would be massive ramifications. It might be interesting if Arrow and Company had to use their abilities to quell uprisings in the aftermath.
And though it's nothing new, it's still weird when they use their arrows as melee weapons. And Darhk really should arm his backup goons. It was kind of funny when he called them all in and they just ran forward into the fray like a big bar brawl.
I wonder if there's going to be any follow-up to the nuclear explosion and the launch of 15,000 ballistic missiles. This is like 9/11 x 100, in the real world there would be massive ramifications. It might be interesting if Arrow and Company had to use their abilities to quell uprisings in the aftermath.
And though it's nothing new, it's still weird when they use their arrows as melee weapons. And Darhk really should arm his backup goons. It was kind of funny when he called them all in and they just ran forward into the fray like a big bar brawl.
I'm still confused by their solution. Did they just explode 15,000 nuclear warheads inside the Earth's gravity well? If so, isn't that a rather large problem for humanity? Or did 'flipping the horizon' mean that the warheads will keep going up until losing propellant? If so, should we expect unexploded warheads (with nuclear material inside) to randomly be falling all across the world for anybody to find and use for their own purposes? Alternatively, are we supposed to assume that all these weapons actually had the capability to break out of Earth's gravity well and will continue to follow an outward path until losing propellant?
I started to offer some speculation about this based on what I recalled from the episode but... I got nothin'.
Really, I could've done without the whole "destroy the world" threat, on top of Legends of Tomorrow's "collapse all of history" threat and The Flash's "destroy the Multiverse" threat within a week of one another. We used to be able to rely on Arrow to be the more grounded, smaller-scale series. Granted, it's a little implausible that Star(ling) City has come under the threat of destruction once a year for the past four years -- and they actually lampshaded that outright here and just underlined how silly it is -- but I would've actually preferred to keep the threat limited to just the city again.
But doesn't that mean that the Earth has practically no nuclear weapons left?
They're in space (I think?), waiting for Supergirl to cross over, collect them in a net and throw them into the sun.
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