‘Arrow’ season 5 spoilers: 100th episode photo teases Oliver’s wedding — to Laurel!
The fifth season of “Arrow” is celebrating a rather-big milestone a little bit later this month, and it’s something that is worth of a rather dramatic celebration. Of course, we’re talking about episode #100! (Hey, we’re assuming that you read the title.)
What we’ve got for you above is one of the first images as released by The CW, and it showcases Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) seemingly preparing fr a big wedding — to Laurel Lance! Katie Cassidy is returning for this episode, which is going to have a certain sliding-doors component to it since you’ll see what Oliver’s life would have been like in the event that he never hopped aboard that infamous boat that led to him being on the island and becoming the Arrow / future Green Arrow. Many of his loved ones, for example, are still alive, which is why both Robert and Moira Queen will be featured in the episode.
Also, presumably Oliver’s relationship with Laurel would’ve been better, as well, judging from where they are now. We wonder how Diggle (David Ramsey) factors into all of this now — maybe he really is just a bodyguard in this world?
We love this idea in theory mostly because it makes us nostalgic for what the show was like during the early days, and some of what we took for granted. For example, we were fairly hard on Laurel the first two seasons of the show, and in retrospect we feel like we took advantage of her presence. Other than her apartment constantly being destroyed (which is still worthy of an eye-roll or two), she did a lot of wonderful things prior to becoming the Black Canary, which was unequivocally awesome.
This episode also does have that crossover component to it, but we’re rather thrilled that this episode isn’t just going to be about that. After all, what would the reason for that be? It would feel like less of a celebration, and we’re fine with it being a mix of that and Oliver’s alternate universe.
You can read up more on the 100th episode, if you are so inclined, just by heading over to the link here! (Photo: The CW.)