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I've thought this for a very long time but also wonder how they destroy the whole island. My other wild theory is a Lost-sequel type ending where the island just disappears. It did have magic, after all.

For me, it's worse than the sister swapping. It's almost like twin sister swapping.

NVM

Is there anything you can share on the Arrow finale? — Eva Oliver will have to use everything (and everyone) in his arsenal in order to take down Prometheus. “The alliances are going to be very surprising,” EP Wendy Mericle says of the finale. “You’re not going to believe who Oliver is working with to defeat Prometheus. It’s going to be really emotional. It’s going to be all about Oliver’s family, but not the family we’re thinking of right now. It’s going to end in a giant explosion, but not where we think it’s going to end, and the emotional punch is going to be bigger than the actual physical part of the bombs going off.” Unless they blow up the entire island, I'm afraid I'm not going to be impressed.

We'll see someone show up in the red Speedy costume and assume it's Thea. But, bazinga, its Roy! Ray will fly in with the ATOM suit and Barry will run across water to get to the island.

I'm going to guess Malcolm Merlyn, because we'd never see that coming. /eye roll. Maybe they're breaking into the RQ Tech building to get him a new hand.

Since they are presumably already physically trapped it just seems redundant and unnecessary. And, we just had Oliver hitched to the floor in one place for an entire episode, let's do that again. Let's make it so Felicity is basically left laying on the bunker floor, that'll make for great blocking.* And, it'll also add the giant anvil of future relapse so we can worry about every explosion or Canary cry knocking out the chip, because she hasn't aleady been exposed to that (and nothing happened). Can you tell I'm not a fan of this potential development? Let it be part of their adult conversation but leave the dramatic revisit to her incapacitation for an episode where it could actually be addressed with thought and emotional impact. ETA: *Maybe that's why Oliver has to pick her up and move her.

But they're already trapped in the bunker. Do they really need to make her unable to walk too? I'd rather she be mobile and helping to find a way out. Not helpless, needing to be rescued.

I guess I don't see how using Lian Yu as the episode title is such a big spoiler.

Yeah, I get that. I just meant the bodyguards/driver, whoever escorts him "home" probably just thinks he must be living in an apartment in the building and not in the basement. It's easy for them to justify why he goes there instead of an actual house or apartment building.

They bought the building so Felicity/Oliver/GA LLC owns it. Conceivably, there could be apartments/lofts with other people living there so when his bodymen (when did they stop being guards?) drop him off, it's not entirely strange. At the least, his campaign office is still there so he does have an address to fill out the government forms! Of course, I don't actually think the writers put that much time into backing up their narrative, they just luck in to certain things. Money, or lack thereof, is probably the simple answer. But, your theory is a good one too. Keep the faith.

So, why isn't Oliver more concerned about Talia? I can see, when he tracked her down and discovered she had trained Chase that he might think the training part was her revenge. But, com'on, she's in Star City and she's the one that tranq'ed him. She is obviously still holding a grudge. And yet, Oliver thought it was all over because Chase got the true confession and there's been absolutely no further mention of Talia. I don't even think the team is aware of her presence. It's a little detail they might actually need to know.

I agree, last year, in particular, is hard to stretch out island time. But, we don't know how long he was in Coast City. He could have spent most of the year there hanging from wires and only a few months on the magical mystery tour. I don't see them ending the season on the actual flashback, if that's what you mean. I think it would be pretty anticlimactic. (Unless, the big reveal is, OMG, it's a fake wig! And a fake beard! Or its not yet revealed and it's the cliffhanger. OMG, how does he grow that hair out? I can hardly wait to find out!) They've already ended a season actually on the island with the "all's well that ends well" as they head back toward the plane. I'm hoping, if the gang is all there, that they at least stay over, camp out, sing around the campfire and roast marshmallows.

Regarding time jumps - so, the show follows real time and the flashbacks have always been 5 years ago. The show ends in May, jumps 5 months over the summer and always starts up in Sept/Oct. In season 1 the show started in Oct (I think) which means Oliver returned in Oct (after 5 hellish years). Now, in season 5 the flashbacks will be ending, presumably with Oliver's return. Except, it's May, not October. Does this just get retconned or have the writers* planned for it? Will there be a flash forward to Oct? MG has already mentioned flashbacks in episode 1 of season 6 (I think in the same breath he said they wouldn't be using flashbacks so much going forward). Is it possible they flash forward in 523 and back in 601? *Yeah, yeah, incompetent writers never plan, cant't write their way out of a paper beg, too stupid to know their own show.

I'm guessing he gets approached a lot at these cons with all sorts of suggestions that may or may not appear on social media. I also think he was just trying to be funny. I wouldn't be surprised to learn the audience laughed.