WARNING: Spoilers for the Arrow Season 4 premiere are being discussed within.
At the end of the Arrow season premiere, which aired tonight on The CW, The Flash‘s Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) sped in to join Oliver (Stephen Amell) at the graveside for someone that is apparently special to both of them. Last week at a Q&A with Executive Producers Marc Guggenheim and Wendy Mericle, the executive producers promised that this big moment would be legit.
“It’s not a fake out. That’s not how we roll,” Marc Guggenheim assured.
The show’s chyron read “Six Months Later,” though t
hat might not be how it will play out for audiences, as the producers refuse to say if that will be happening at midseason or in the May season finale. “We’re not going to tell you when it’s gonna happen, because that would actually be a real big spoiler, because then you’re just waiting for it to happen. Then you’d know, like, ‘Oh! It’s Episode X!’ We’re not going to tell you what Episode X is!” Marc exclaimed.
Another promise made is that whichever character faces their doom, they will stay dead — no Lazarus Pits this time. “They will stay dead,” Wendy Mericle stated. “We want to bring stakes back to the show, so we will be finding a way to handle the Lazarus Pit portion of Season 3 in Season 4 in a new, inventive way that I can’t reveal, but it’ll be cool.” It will also be a character that means something to the characters and the audience.
“We wanted it, obviously, to have resonance, and if it doesn’t mean something to the characters, it won’t mean anything to the audience, either,” Mericle said.
At GreenArrowTV, we will be placing odds on who the character in the grave might be – you can read that piece here.
Arrow airs Wednesdays at 8PM ET/PT on The CW. See some photos from next week’s episode here and you can come talk about the season premiere on our forum!
