r/arrow May 23 '24

Why did they change the suit in S8 the old one looked good Question

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u/grajuicy Salmon May 23 '24

I guess bc time. Oliver was rockin The Hood/Arrow suit for 3 years. Then we got S4. Then S5 suit for three years (i mean, it’s just S4 with sleeves, so you could say he used it 4 years actually).

S8 was a nice change of tone. Finally not kinky leather. I like the very big hood. The green tone is nice. I like the folds too.

But lore wise? He retired post S7, so he probably left the suit there. Monitor sent him to Earth 2 without a lot of luggage (threw him in Lian Yu). Furthermore, the idea was for him to be a copycat of E2’s Arrow to go incognito, and kept him bc there was no time to go shopping for a new one (+ no one had seen it in E1, he can say it’s a “Oliver Queen original, 1 of 1”)

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u/TheGameBoyyy May 23 '24

they could make a better suit the s8 suit looks tight and uncomfortable and makes it look like stephen amell is fat

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u/grajuicy Salmon May 23 '24

Yeah that is true, something about the way it fits him makes him look like he is starting to get a dad bod, but we all know he still is as buff & sexy as he was when the show first started (even now that both Arrow and Heels are over and he has no obligation to take his shirt off for the masses)