The geography of the island was (of course) unclear, so we don’t know for certain that they had time to reach the water. But, definitely a good suggestion.
My main beef with that plotline is… how the hell did Adrian Chase have the time and resources to plant that many explosives? He definitely fit into the irritating stereotype (often seen in horror movies) where the bad guy always had infinite time to set up anything ahead of time, no matter the time and expense and logistics, etc.
Still, a fun season, and a good episode.
My reaction as a reader of much time travel fiction is that what Ollie needs to do is NOT go see if his friends are dead, because once he knows they’re dead, the timeline is fixed. Instead he should immediately call up Barry Allen and ask him to travel back in time and whisk all his buddies off the island one by one.
I’d be fine if we never see Malcolm again. However, we didn’t see him die so I’m pretty sure he found a boat named Plot Device, and rescued everyone.
My dream rescue would be Hal Jordan finally comes back to Earth looking for Diggle (we find out his real last name is Stewart) and saves everyone in a giant green bubble.
I quit all the CW DC shows months ago, but I watched the finale for this and still plan to watch the finale for the Flash (I was never into Legends and I’ve completely given up on Supergirl).
First, yay the flashbacks are over. Nice touch having Oliver call him mom as the wrap. I still find it annoying that Starling/Star City is in the continental US and yet about an hour’s flight from the China Sea.
Second, yeah, I can’t believe they even tried to play the ending as a cliffhanger. We’re supposed to believe not just Oliver’s entire team/friends are dead, but both Ras Al Ghul’s daughters, Cap’n Boomerang, Deathstroke, and Malcolm Merlin? Hell, I don’t believe we’ve seen the last of Adrian Chase and he’s got a bullet in his brain! To pretend this has emotional impact is kind of insulting to their audience.
Thirded about the false cliffhanger. The only way to make it work is to go 1/4 season without the team (which they won’t do) before having them somehow surviving. But as shown when Oliver “died”, they don’t have the balls to do that.
That would also work on The Flash, keeping Barry Allen totally out until November sweeps and letting Wally West be the titular character.
I find myself hoping this could be the series finale instead of just a season - simply because its nicely bookended - I’m not really sure what ‘new’ ground they could continue to cover.
They also gave away the exit - the plane on the other side of the island - or the team is simply hiding inside the big plane that was sitting there.
Apropos of nothing, Stephen Amell was on Celebrity American Ninja Warrior last night as part of the “red nose day” fundraiser.
How he did:
He was one of only two people (the other being the reigning olympic decathlon gold medalist) to make it through the course, which was a slightly-easier version of a normal city qualification course, including the 14.5 food warped wall. Then he kept going, and tackled the salmon ladder, and made it up that as well! Then he attempted the next obstacle, which was clearly out of his league, and gracefully surrendered.
Bumping this for a left-over question. Last season (season 5), there were two black-clad mystery figures wandering around the city interfering with our heroes.
One was the archer who turned out to be Adrian Chase. The other was a gun-wielding vigilante named, as I recall, “Vigilante”.
Did we ever learn who that was? Did that ever go anywhere? Am I just forgetting?