TV Equals: Last week’s episode was so huge, was there any budget left for the finale?
Marc Guggenheim: I was actually really worried about that. We definitely went really big in the penultimate episode. We did save some money left over to throw towards the finale and honestly, I think it is bigger than last year’s and it is bigger than episode 22 for sure. One of the things people have come to expect from our finales is that we really blow the doors off of the show and we always try to reach a new level of production value and I definitely think we succeeded on that score with the season finale.
TV Equals: With the battle between Slade and Oliver coming to a head, can you talk about what we can expect from them as we head into the finale?
Marc Guggenheim: We are really ending the season as we planned. The goal with the finale was to bring all of the various storylines to a close and these are storylines that we have literally been seeding since the season premiere of season two. The choices we have made throughout the season were all leading up to this final episode.
I will say we had some surprises along the way, but for the most part the season finale is the season finale we pitched to the studio and network almost a year ago.
TV Equals: If Oliver decides to kill Slade rather than cure him, what kind of impact will that decision have on season three?
Marc Guggenheim: Let me say this, the season finale definitely provides a definitive end to the story of the season and it is a definitive end to the Slade/Oliver story. Which is not to say there are not threads we won’t decide to pick up in season three, but I really think that the season finale is not just a conclusion to season two, but it really feels like the conclusion to seasons one and two.
The landscape we start out season three in feels very different. Obviously, it’s still the same show, but it feels like we are now starting a new chapter or a new book in our series of books than it did necessarily when we were at the beginning of season two.
Marc Guggenheim: I was actually really worried about that. We definitely went really big in the penultimate episode. We did save some money left over to throw towards the finale and honestly, I think it is bigger than last year’s and it is bigger than episode 22 for sure. One of the things people have come to expect from our finales is that we really blow the doors off of the show and we always try to reach a new level of production value and I definitely think we succeeded on that score with the season finale.
TV Equals: With the battle between Slade and Oliver coming to a head, can you talk about what we can expect from them as we head into the finale?
Marc Guggenheim: We are really ending the season as we planned. The goal with the finale was to bring all of the various storylines to a close and these are storylines that we have literally been seeding since the season premiere of season two. The choices we have made throughout the season were all leading up to this final episode.
I will say we had some surprises along the way, but for the most part the season finale is the season finale we pitched to the studio and network almost a year ago.
TV Equals: If Oliver decides to kill Slade rather than cure him, what kind of impact will that decision have on season three?
Marc Guggenheim: Let me say this, the season finale definitely provides a definitive end to the story of the season and it is a definitive end to the Slade/Oliver story. Which is not to say there are not threads we won’t decide to pick up in season three, but I really think that the season finale is not just a conclusion to season two, but it really feels like the conclusion to seasons one and two.
The landscape we start out season three in feels very different. Obviously, it’s still the same show, but it feels like we are now starting a new chapter or a new book in our series of books than it did necessarily when we were at the beginning of season two.
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