Arrow
Elseworlds, Part 2
TV Flash files “Elseworlds, Part 2” as hour 147 of 170 in the TV Flash guide — Arrow (2012–2020) on The CW, season 7, episode 9, aired 2018-12-10, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S07E09: listed hour 147 of 170 in the Arrow guide, hour 9 of 22 in season 7. It aired 2018-12-10 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Unmasked” (S07E08). Next is “My Name is Emiko Queen” (S07E10).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Barry, Oliver, and Kara travel to Gotham City to try to find Deagan, and meet the city's new protector while discovering that Bruce Wayne has vanished. Meanwhile, a Flash from another world arrives to warn the heroes of what they face and who is responsible.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Elseworlds, Part 2 sit in the Arrow guide?
S07E09 is listed hour 147 of 170 — hour 9 of 22 in season 7, season 7 episode 9.
When did Arrow S07E09 air?
Elseworlds, Part 2 aired 2018-12-10 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Do I need every Arrowverse show?
Arrow is the seed. It launched Flash, Legends, Supergirl crossovers. You can watch Oliver's run as street-level soap; the multiverse toybox arrives whether you clocked the spinoffs or not.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Oliver Queen comes back from the island in a hood and The CW builds an industrial complex around him. Grounded grit, Olicity wars, then multiverse toybox. Franchise seed: the show that made weekly superhero soap a decade-long strategy, crossovers as event television, and Stephen Amell's grimace a brand.
So about the Olicity wars: they were the second show, and the group chat never demobilized. (I said spoiler-free. The crossovers are the spoiler calendar.) Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, and Andrew Kreisberg's CW series (2012–2020) sends Stephen Amell's Oliver Queen back from a nightmare island in a hood, saving a corrupt city, and then builds an industrial complex around the grimace. Katie Cassidy, David Ramsey's Diggle, Emily Bett Rickards's Felicity, Manu Bennett, Colton Haynes. Grounded grit evolves into…
Filed against
- Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen / Green Arrow
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- Katie Cassidy as Laurel Lance
Katie Cassidy's Laurel Lance kept Arrow's hooded weekly soap from being a one-man island story — CW grit, then crossovers as event television, a franchise seed that treated superhero serial as decade-long strategy. We file her as 2010s…
- David Ramsey as John Diggle
David Ramsey’s John Diggle grounded Arrow as the island’s leftover conscience — Oliver Queen in a hood, The CW building an industrial complex, weekly superhero soap as a decade-long strategy. Olicity wars, then multiverse toybox. TV Flash…
- Emily Bett Rickards as Felicity Smoak
Emily Bett Rickards made Felicity Smoak the Arrowverse's laptop-and-heart engine — Oliver Queen's hood, The CW's industrial complex, Olicity wars, then a multiverse toybox. Weekly superhero soap as decade-long strategy. TV Flash files her…
- Manu Bennett as Slade Wilson
Manu Bennett put a sword through the origin as Slade Wilson on Arrow — Oliver Queen back from the island in a hood, The CW building an industrial complex, grounded grit then multiverse toybox. Weekly superhero soap as a decade-long…
- Colton Haynes as Roy Harper
Colton Haynes played Roy Harper on Arrow — Oliver Queen back from the island in a hood, The CW building an industrial complex around grounded grit, Olicity wars, then a multiverse toybox. Weekly superhero soap as a decade-long strategy,…