Plus, the flashback featured a pretty epic fight scene that will definitely go down as one of the series' best. It wasn't the Green Arrow, as Diggle said, but a good man. It showed the juxtaposition between the Oliver who returned from Lian Yu all those years ago and the man who sacrificed himself for the universe.Īnd, with that, we, through Diggle, finally got an answer to what Oliver had to become when he returned. It was an amazing use of a flashback that also tied into the present when Byrne kidnapped William. : The Oliver that I met eight years ago is not the one we say goodbye to today.

Because if the past eight years have shown us anything, it's that this universe is far bigger than any of us could have dared imagine, even if it is a little less bright without him in it. Some will take that mission to the rest of the world, maybe even beyond that. That mission lives on, Oliver lives on in the people he inspired. Oliver may be gone, but his mission endures. I don't know what the future holds, except to say expect the unexpected. But how, with twists and turns it will take, I can't say.

Oliver brought heroes into the world, he inspired heroes. The best man he knew how to be, and he took all of us with him on that journey. I always thought that meant becoming the Green Arrow, but today I realized that meant becoming a better man. Oliver always told me that in order to save his city, he had to become someone else, he had to become something else. The Oliver that I met eight years ago is not the one we say goodbye to today. John Byrne was one of the first people on Oliver's dad's list that Oliver chose not to kill. It was more about what he stood for, which could not have been more thoughtful for the finale. As an individual character, he did not really matter as he is not from the comics.

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