ARROW SEASON FINALE REVIEW!

This is a full spoiler review on the CW show Arrow, if you want my thoughts on the show/season without spoilers click here.

Arrow season one finally came to an end, and unexpectedly blew every single person watching it out of their seats.

This season focused mainly on Oliver finding out what his mom is hiding, which turns out to be the Undertaking. Now the Undertaking turns out to be a plan that Tommy’s father (Malcolm) created to destroy The Glades.

Firstly I thought that this season finally would just be Oliver fighting Malcolm, defeating him stopping the device and that Tommy would avenge his father by becoming the new “Black Archer”. I am glad that it did not happen and that the season finale was awesome from the beginning.

It starts off Oliver is having a flashback of his father’s death like in the Pilot, he shoots himself due to the food running out in the emergency boat and Malcolm wakes him up and there’s awesome dialogue going on and you feel the tension rising, it doesn’t get any better than that.

Then Oliver escapes, he has a moment with Diggle and Felicity to say that Malcolm is planning The Undertaking in the subway. I said in my non spoiler review that Diggle was a character that in the pilot I thought was a dead end but turned out to be just what the show needed and he is.

The highlights of the finale for me were when Tommy is all Harry Osborn when the episode begins and the tension (again) between him and Oliver is rising on dialogue, he even says “I wished you’d died on that island” at a point. Oliver warns him about his dad, which he ignores and his dad proves to be a dick when Moira tells the whole of the media when about The Undertaking when Oliver confronts her and Malcolm smashes the table because he was exposed and the tension is up there (3x).

By the way what happened to Moira? She got arrested then we don’t see her as far as I remember, or maybe we do and I forgot which makes me think they’ll just save that for Season 2 or just ignore it. I don’t really care honestly.

Malcolm has another showdown with Oliver whom just before forgave himself with Tommy (but not really) and the fight was cool but it was getting old… until the end where Malcolm is beating Oliver and he remembers his father saying survive and finally learns what he’s fighting for; his family and shoves an arrow which he picked up into Malcolm’s chest.

Detective Lance was trying to deactivate the device which would trigger the destruction of the Glades, he calls Laurel and they have a sad moment which kind of gets the tension (4x) up, but he fixes it. It turns out to be useless since Malcolm had a second device and it all goes to hell.

Meanwhile, Thea warned Roy of what would happen and he says he has to help the people escape, which is cool because throughout the season his meeting with the vigilante changed him. He is so going to be a sidekick in Season 2 it’s ridiculous.

Laurel gets trapped in the office where she works, Tommy goes and rescues her they try to run for it but one of the biggest moments in the CW this year happens and Tommy does not make it. Oliver arrives to find him dying meanwhile Lance stops Laurel from going in and she’s screaming “I love him!” which is her best performance yet. Anyways, Oliver goes in finds that Tommy has been stabbed in the chest, they reconcile and Oliver lies to him about not killing his father which I love because that’s the best thing Oliver ever did. Then Oliver bursts and Stephen Ammel just proved to me why he’s on the show, he starts saying he should have died for Laurel and screaming “Open you eyes Tommy! Tommy!” and we have a final shot of the city going KABOOM and nut’s just before the title card comes in and I tear up.

This season finale just proved that just because a show is on the CW doesn’t mean it can’t be as good as The Walking Dead.

The finale is definitely the best episode yet, and sum it up;

“Arrow’s finale not only brought the tension and dialogue to another level of the show, it had the best performances and delivered the best episode of Arrow yet.”

9.3/10 (Amazing)