Sarah-Lane

This is a good point that I hadn't thought of until now. They were deliberately misleading us with Felicity, I think there's a good chance they're dileberately misleading us with Laurel too. Ah crap. Now I'm back to square one. Tbh I don't really care who dies tho as long as its not Diggle. Although I will be a little pissed if they kill off Thea over Laurel. Thea's stoy has been executed better an is all round a hell of a lot more interesting than Laurels.

That's an interesting theory even if it sounds pretty unimaginative, its probably the best these writers can come up with. I don't even need them to confirm they know who's in the grave, I KNOW they know. They can't not know! The idea of them not knowing is just ridiculous to me! You can't be a professional TV writer (or any kind of pro writer) and just wing it through a season or a book. Nope. That doesn't happen. Even fanfic writers know they need to plan things out if they want the story to turn out half way decent. They definitely know who's in the grave and have done probably since they came up with the story back when they were finishing writing season 3 or you know, when they were notified someone's contract was up or had been changed. They're just saying they don't know so people stop asking them who it is!

This. This is exactly what I want too. Oliver's had his head up his ass for far too long regarding how his actions affect others. Funnily enough he's quite conscious of it in anything that doesn't relate to his personal relationships: Dude's always blaming himself for crap that has nothing to do with him but in his own personal relationships where he does mess up he rarely seems to acknowledge his wrongdoings or rather, he rarely ever takes resposibility in his emotional relationships the way he does with Arrow issues. I need to see Oliver fully understand why Felicity is breaking up with him. I don't need him to blame himself but I do need him to take responsibility.

But Thea and Laurel looking to Diggle for confirmation on all of Oliver's calls has nothing to do with anybody's individual mission, especially not Felicity's. It's has to do with Team Politics and who they want to lead them but it has virtually no bearing on how they got there, why they're there and the reasons they continue to stay on the team. Also I don't think it really matters what the fans think about this kind of stuff. I mean, I don't think the writers care. In my experience of watching this show, these writers have a specific vision or viewpoint and it seems like they don't really care whether it comes across that way, they're gonna run with it anyway. Look at 95% of Laurel's storylines. They never come across the way the writers want them to but they are still clinging to this idea that Laurel knows Oliver "in his bones" and they were "best friends" since childhood. Never mind the fact that they've never shown us evidence of that (in fact they've been showing us the opposite for 3+ years) or that 90% of the audience never bought that crap and never will, it's still something they try to sell as a "fact" in the show (as recent as 4x05) whether we agree or not. Whether it makes sense or not. So if the show has told us that Felicity's mission is as important as Oliver's then that's the idea they're going with whether the audience believes it or not.