Arrow: Scoop on the season finale from Entertainment Weekly's Sandra Gonzalez

Here's some scoop on Arrow from Entertainment Weekly's Sandra Gonzalez's The Spoiler Room column, which was posted on 3/13/13.

‘ARROW’ FINALE DISH

How great was Arrow’s Paley panel this weekend? (If you missed it, you suck. Kidding! You can watch it here.) But before the event, Spoiler Room hit the red carpet for some scoop on the finale that executive producer Marc Guggenheim says will find the conflict between Arrow/Oliver (Stephen Amell) and John Barrowman’s Merlyn coming to a big climax.


“John Barrowman’s character is incredibly large in the finale end game,” he revealed. “He’s basically been our big bet of the year. Things are really going to come to a head between him and the Arrow — and him and Oliver. And Tommy will fall in the center of it.”

The idea, explained Guggenheim, was to set up the show’s second season while giving the first part of this story a proper conclusion. “The arc that Oliver goes on in season 2 really is set up by the finale. Everything that happens in the finale creates a sense of closure. You definitely feel like a chapter is ending, but it sets up everything that we’re planning,” he said.

Amell, meanwhile, admits he has not read the season finale script yet, but offered up a juicy tease in exchange: “We have a flashback coming up that goes way back,” he says.

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