My Name Is Oliver Queen

The Season 3 finale delivers a satisfying, if somewhat clean, conclusion to Oliver's long battle with Ra's al Ghul. With the bioweapon en route to Starling City, Oliver's long con finally pays off. He turns on Ra's mid-flight and-with help from Malcolm, Nyssa, and Team Arrow-works to stop a mass attack and take Ra's down for good.

The final fight between Oliver and Ra's is grounded, emotional, and symbolically full-circle. Ra's is a man of legacy, and Oliver ultimately defeats him not just with skill-but by choosing to live as himself, not as someone else's heir.

After killing Ra's, Oliver hands the Demon's Head ring to Malcolm, a controversial move that raises ethical questions but ties off the League storyline with a twist. Malcolm gets what he's always wanted-but at a price. And Oliver finally walks away, literally and figuratively, leaving the Arrow behind to find peace with Felicity.

There's a hopeful tone to the ending-perhaps too neat-but it feels earned after such a dark season. Diggle's doubts, Thea becoming Speedy, and the team's uncertain future all plant seeds for what's next.

Agh, this is frustrating. I love Arrow. When they do well, they do amazingly well. This finale has a lot building up to it, a lot of characters coming together, all the twists being revealed. All of this sets up for an exciting and intense finale.

With each fight, each moment of life or death, each rush to figure out the next move against Ra's, the suspense builds. Yet suddenly, annoying and useless bits of drama interrupt the mood. I wish I could say this finale is perfect, but the writing just brings it down. Constantly we are barraged with all the characters and their drama, as if they were all children - perhaps the show should be called "Ollie and his 8-year-old Friends"...

They manage to make even John, who has consistently been a likable favorite, turn into an irritating character to hate. Add Felicty, Laurel, Lance, etc. to that list. We understand, for the 100th time, the angst they feel over the smallest things, and their inability to focus on what's important - the city is about to die, yet their selfish, personal needs come first apparently. And Oliver has to suffer to that because he is the hero.

Frustration aside, it's a great episode. Once again, they manage to handle an abundance of characters well, giving everyone a decent amount of time to develop themselves. And they are great at throwing hints at future options, or just comic teases in general. One other complaint I would have is how they mostly give villains such anti-climactic and easy exits from the show. The "use my hand to take the blade and surprise you" move has been done a lot, to say the least. The bits with Tatsu and Maseo I actually enjoyed a lot, their arc I found to be much more mature and refreshing. Unfortunately, they are not the protagonists so they are brushed off quickly. That being said, it's an interesting finish to the season. A lot is building up for the next season with many characters stepping up into the light. Let's just hope they don't keep introducing senseless and repetitive drama into the show, which they will.

A suspenseful ending with so much thrill and content just as the viewers would like it to end....no regrets watching it and calling it my favorite show. The producers of the show have done justice to the Arrow. I could have never imagined a side character from the Justice league would to such a great work to save his city. I always compared Arrow with the Batman but after watching the seasons specially the finale of Season 3 I can say that the Arrow should not be compared with the Batman. The Arrow has his own personality and style of doing things and Stephen Amell who plays the lead role has taken The Arrow to a higher platform that one could never imagine. His personality suits best for the character. I wish him a good luck and would continue watching the show.

I had so much fun with this episode, it was truly a great finale and had some of the most intense scenes during the whole season. Though despite the action there were some brilliantly acted character scenes from each and every member. I truly wasn't sure how Felicity, Diggle, Malcolm, Laurel and Ray were going to survive being intoxicated but the writers came up with a brilliantly clever solution that I didn't see coming. Once again this episode truly felt like cinema quality and not your everyday television episode. Overall this episode was brilliant with great action and great character scenes. The final scenes showing what Malcolm and Ray were up to sent a tingle in my spine and it can only get better.

Well, that was unexpected. Usually, there's some sort of mild cliffhanger to whet our appetites for next season. But this ending felt like a show finale, the hero going with the girl off into the sunset, since the beginning of the season something felt kinda weird, thats right the writers gave up and forced a relationship, what used to be a sexy tension became a forced unnatural pursuit for the love of Oliver crying in every episode made a great character annoying. The season had great moments and also rock bottom moments... This season has sold what made it fantastic for the ratings, in my opinion it became a romance show 60% action 40%, Its based on a comic show and now it feels like any other soap opera, come on Writers get your head off your ass...