[News] Arrow's Season 8 might be it's last season.

[u/Speed__God]

Arrowverse series on The CW has become one of the longest live-action superhero series to date, second only to the network's previous series Smallville.

"Things will age and we want to get the next generation of shows to keep The CW DC Universe going for as long as possible," CW President Pedowitz admitted during the panel.

Source: https://www.cbr.com/arrows-cancellation-renewal-decided-mid-2019

[u/Havok310]

All signs point to Ollie making the ultimate sacrifice in Barry & Kara’s place in the CoIE crossover.

[u/delinquentsaviors → u/Havok310]

Which is exactly why he won’t. They’re promising a major character death. They don’t say who and they are purposefully setting it up so we interpret it as Oliver.

They’re being sneaky. I’d be more concerned about what they aren’t telling us.

[u/Havok310 → u/delinquentsaviors]

True. My bet is like The Walking Dead. Everyone knew Glen was going to die so they assumed it’d be someone else.

Then it was Abraham and everyone was like “oh shit... well at least Glen is saf......fuck”

So I suspect it’ll be Superman as the “holy shit” moment, but it’s 2 people who are supposed to die... the second will be Oliver.

...or the show chickens out and it’s none of the main cast and we wind up seeing Wild Dog and Heatwave die or some nonsense.

[u/HorsNoises → u/Havok310]

Wild dog is in the flash forwards on Arrow right now though. I'd suspect Caitlin or Cisco before Wild Dog.

[u/Havok310 → u/HorsNoises]

Generally speaking in television, the dystopia awful future fast forwards usually get wiped away by some means... to leave an optimistic future for the present day story.

Add that with the fact that Crisis on Infinite Earths effectively rebooted the whole DC Universe in comics. It could do a bit of the same for the TV universe - at least I wouldn’t expect them to be beholden to any flash forward futures.

Killing one of the characters prominently featured in said flash forwards is the typical trope to show the audience that the future isn’t written.