Arrow To Incorporate Flashbacks After Season Five -- But in a Different Way

Not long after producers told members of the Television Critics Assocation that Arrow would ditch [...]

By Russ Burlingame

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Not long after producers told members of the Television Critics Assocation that Arrow would ditch the flashback device after Season Five, series showrunner Marc Guggenheim told IGN that it isn't quite that 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."

He even teased the possibility of a flash-forward -- something many fans might be interested in given the fact that producers on DC's Legends of Tomorrow (including Guggenheim) have already introduced Connor Hawke, who replaced Oliver as Green Arrow following his death in the comics, to that show.

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Arrow Season 5 premieres Wednesday, October 5 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on The CW.

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