When Does the TV Show "Arrow" Season Five (2016) Take Place?
"Arrow" season five is a superhero television series showran by Marc Guggenheim with Wendy Mericle [adapting "?"] that premiered October 5th, 2016. So when is "Arrow" season 5 set?
It takes place on an alternate timeline of the fictional DC Films Universe in the year:
We know this because in season 5 episode 4 "Penance", a screen displays a police "INCIDENT REPORT" about a recent explosion and robbery shown earlier in the same episode tagged with an identification number ("JID/POD") reading "20160619-A". Presumably meaning June 19th, 2016 AD.
It takes place on an alternate timeline of the fictional DC Films Universe in the year:
2016 AD
We know this because in season 5 episode 4 "Penance", a screen displays a police "INCIDENT REPORT" about a recent explosion and robbery shown earlier in the same episode tagged with an identification number ("JID/POD") reading "20160619-A". Presumably meaning June 19th, 2016 AD.
The entire season includes 2011 AD flashbacks to Oliver Queen's time in Russia. We can nail down these flashbacks because in season 5 episode 7 "Vigilante", Russian crime boss Konstantin Kovar says, "Oliver Queen, Starling City's favorite son, presumed dead after a maritime accident 4 years ago." Presumably, he is referring to the sinking of The Queen's Gambit, which we know occurred in 2007 AD.
2007 + 4 = 2011.
It is an early chronological TV series in the DC Films multiverse timeline (the first chronological show to feature Oliver Queen/Green Arrow) and can be watched at its timeline point.
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