'Arrow' Changing its Formula Beyond Season 5
Producers at the TCA have given slightly contrasting evidence toward just what the plan is for Arrow beyond season 5. While producers informed members of the audience that Arrow would no longer be following its flashback formula after the coming season, showrunner Marc Guggenheim told IGN it isn't so simple.
"Last year, when we sort of realized we're going to go past Season 5, we basically made a collective decision that Season 5 would be the final year of flashbacks," said Guggenheim. "Next year, in Season 6, what we'll end up doing is we'll do some episodes without any sort of flashbacks.
"We've [also] established over the first four seasons of proof of concept that we can do flashback stories that don't involve what I call the island narrative, even when he's not on the island.
"We still want to make that part of our storytelling, because we do like them. We like when those non-island flashbacks sort of illuminate what's going on in the present day," Guggenheim added. "That'll always be a part of the show and a part of the show's storytelling structure. It just won't be telling a serialized story."
The possibility of a flash-forward was teased, which is interesting considering Legends of Tomorrow features the character that replaces Oliver Queen as Green Arrow in the comics. It also brings to memory Lost, which took that kind of approach from season 4 on-wards, a technique I personally liked.
Arrow returns Wednesday, October 5.
Source: Comicbook
