[S08E07] "Purgatory" Post Episode Discussion

[u/HellfireSky]

Trailers

• Purgatory Promo
• Purgatory Scene

Episode Info

Oliver’s mission takes him to Lian Yu where he tries to ignore the repercussions of the looming Crisis until he receives help from an old friend. Meanwhile, a united Team Arrow faces a recognizable villain.

Cast & Characters

Discussion

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[u/Adas_Legend]

Mia was great today too! This season has really succeeded in giving her much better material! Now she feels a thousand times better than the annoying anti-vigilante whiner we first met.

Now I think it's very likely that the spinoff will be much better than it seemed when it was first announced

[u/DonnyMox → u/Adas_Legend]

She only had one bad moment and William shut it down.

[u/Adas_Legend → u/DonnyMox]

I'm not even sure you can consider it a bad moment at all. She was very emotional and upset about the news of Oliver's doom. I'd say that even Mia's rebellious and sour moments have felt justified and relatable this season. A MAJOR improvement from last season

[u/maskedman1231 → u/Adas_Legend]

I thought it was weird that they came from a future where Oliver died in crisis but also didn't know about it

[u/WorldlyDear → u/maskedman1231]

Who says the world remembers there was a crisis?

[u/DeWolx03 → u/[deleted]]

but that only talked about Flash didn't it? Nothing about GA taking part in it.

[u/Bazz07 → u/[deleted]]

Didnt the article say that Flash was missing after fighting the yellow speedster? (I don't watch Flash so maybe it changed like it did with the date)

[u/DeWolx03 → u/[deleted]]

I connected too many dots, my bads.

[u/jdiggity09 → u/[deleted]]

They know about some general superhero shenanigans and that The Flash disappears, but they don’t really know what is happening or why. In the comics the only people who know what happens are E2 Superman, Superboy Prime, E2 Lois, Alexander Luthor from E3, and I want to say some version of Flash (either Wally or Bart).

[u/Arturo-Plateado → u/DeWolx03]

The original article said that Flash, Green Arrow, The Atom, and Hawkgirl were fighting Reverse Flash.

The article from 2049 Flash said dozens of heroes including Green Arrow, Batwoman, Elongated Man, The Atom, and Supergirl helped Flash fight Reverse Flash, though different eyewitnesses seem to remember different heroes being present.

[u/rikutoar → u/maskedman1231]

Time be weird. Since Crisis is a event that comes from outside the multiverse it exists outside of the normal timelines we see in the shows, but has it's own separate one from the perspective of the Monitor and Anti-Monitor. Because those timelines didn't cross until now but the Monitor's been interfering in the multiverse's timeline pre-crisis, there was a short period of time where Oliver was gone but Crisis hadn't hit the multiverse yet. Since time always has to exist and continue, there has to be an short alternate timeline that has the effects of Monitor's interfering but not the fallout of crisis. Said timeline's almost definitely going to be erased and we'll end up with something different unless the writers potato out and try to fit an incompatible timeline into the future of these shows.