Why was this the most fitting ending? This was something that came out of the writers’ room and it excited us for a variety of different reasons. Instead of getting a happy ending, Thea has set out to right her father’s wrongs. So it’s always been an incredibly important, critical part of the show for us. It was one of the very first major creative decisions we made in terms of adapting the Green Arrow comic for live action television. That relationship is one of the things that we deviated from the comic book early on. Look, we love Willa, we love working with Willa, we love the character of Thea, we particularly have always loved Thea’s relationship with Oliver. She expressed a desire to be written out at a certain time in the season, which is around episode 16, so we accommodated her on that front as well. Season 6 is the end of her contract, and going into season 6, with all of us knowing it was the end of her contract, Willa expressed the desire to move on, not re-up. And we did, we reduced the commitment that she was making to us in season 5, and carried that over in season 6.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What came with the decision to write Thea off the show now and whose decision was it? MARC GUGGENHEIM: At the end of season 4, Willa had come to us and basically said that she would like some more time for herself, and would like to reduce her role on the show.
