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https://www.tvinsider.com/751657/arrow-season-7-episode-13-preview/ No mention of Felicity really bothers me. Curtis talking about them working together again. Diggle listing the people who did/didn't get notes. I guess Diggle's just including Felicity with Oliver, but come on. She's her own person/hero.

716 is the FF episode, so I wonder if we’ll get FBs to them getting the tattoo or if that’ll be the scene in the present to connect to the FFs and possibly Oliver’s only scene, to maintain the crossover deal mystery. If they do get the tattoo in the present in 716, that suggests Curtis does die soon.

Yeah, I hope we get an explanation for this soon because on LoT, it was because Diggle was dead, right? DR has already said he’s alive and well in the FF. Unless Diggle’s alive and well because he’s gone full ARGUS and he’s doing well because of that and JJ doesn’t agree with his methods? But I doubt that. Undercover work would really be the only way to explain JJ going by Connor now, I think. And that could be connected to Mia and her connection to Felicity and Felicity supposedly going evil and it all being undercover stuff/some sort of con. Honestly, I’m just going to be glad to get information about the future not from Dinah.

Not necessarily. They could think their kid is somewhere else and only know her as Mia and have not seen her in years. They could all have the tattoo because they went their separate ways X years ago. Roy didn’t recognize William when he first saw him. They could easily say that Dinah didn’t recognize Mia when she first encountered her and Mia never told her who she is for whatever reason.

A long con could work if they say the team (aka those with the Mark of Four) were estranged for a while and Dinah, Zoe, Rene, even Roy, etc. wouldn’t recognize Mia. If William and Mia are lying and do recognize each other, they could say the hozen being activated was a signal and William knew not to give up Mia’s identity once he saw MC Queen in Felicity’s logs (wasn’t that name there?) and either there was a signal they didn’t show between the siblings or Mia knew to follow William’s lead. Lets be real. The FFs are messy. In fact, I’m pretty sure they could come up with some crazy messy explanation in which Mia is Dinah’s daughter if they wanted to.

I know! And they’re basically representative of the entire Canary Network (the existence of which makes me roll my eyes), which doesn’t say much about them? No wonder Mia hates vigilantes.

So Oliver and Felicity get William back and they’re going to have to send him away again? Maybe they’ll transition William going to live with his grandparents to a FF revealing Mia’s Olicity’s daughter to suggest that’s why he didn’t recognize her and suggest that’s when Oliver and Felicity “abandon” William, though he’ll probably appear in the present again, just like they seemed to want us to think they never saw him again in the present when they first had William and Roy talk about Oliver and Felicity abandoning him.

Isn't 714 the one titled "Brothers & Sisters"? I'm assuming that at the end of 713, we'll find out who Mia is related to, presumably, so that the title can be about the present and future timeline. Especially since they can't keep the 714 title secret until 714 airs.

But at least Mia isn't with Dinah right now so that doesn't necessarily mean present and future Dinah. (I hope, at least.)

https://tvline.com/2019/02/06/arrow-season-7-preview-katherine-mcnamara-blackstar-flash-forwards/ Well, she doesn't say anything about the William part of the Q... Also:

Yeah, the live thread got me through some of season 5. There were definitely aspects of it I liked, but I do remember being so very bitter at times.

This is the only explanation for the FFs in general.

https://www.tvguide.com/news/arrow-kat-mcnamara-blackstar-past-anti-vigilante-mentality/

The problem with this episode is that it was the 150th. I wouldn't have been as annoyed I am with a regular episode. (I mean, I still would have been, just with all the Dinah and Rene and Diggle's "we had each other's backs" comment, but still.) I get they probably needed to set up what's to come for future episodes (the team being deputized, William being expelled), but it just felt like they missed emotional beats and skipped a few things that they shouldn't have with a milestone episode.

I think the reason I’m bitter about not getting enough Felicity and the lack of acknowledgement that she too is a hero in the 150th is that the entire season, it’s been, all these masks are heroes, in the present and FF. Meanwhile, because of the story they want to tell in the FF, we keep getting, “oh, Felicity totally went evil” and then in the present, Diggle’s comment about her maybe not being a hero at the end of it because of what she was doing to get Diaz. Felicity keeps saying everyone else is a hero. I just wish someone had said the same about her in the milestone episode.

Just rewatched the promo to double check, but it doesn’t look like Felicity is with the others talking at SCPD bear the beginning. Guess she’ll be with William for the episode again. Wonder how long it will be before we get Overwatch again.

Nice thought but I think it’s simply that she’s not a mask, and masks are what matter. Just ask the anti-vigilante vigilante. He was collecting masks.

I will say I liked the cameos: Lance, Sara, Sin, Rory, Barry The only problem? Felicity felt like a cameo just like them in the documentary since we never saw her with the team.

Good concept, and the documentary worked but that documentary starred Oliver and Dinah, not Oliver and Felicity. Thanks for lying to me, episode description. Way too little Felicity. Zero acknowledgement that she, too, is a hero. Even her brief return as Overwatch was disappointing because we didn't get any Green Arrow/Overwatch interactions like we should have. Not one Olicity scene? (Not counting Olicity+William because that was all about him.) Really? I don't even know why I'm shocked, but Oliver had more screen time with every other female character on the show than with his own wife. Including the mayor. WTF. Olicity is the show's main (romantic) relationship, and we get nothing? UGH. And Felicity felt very isolated – to the apartment, then to ARGUS when NO ONE ELSE was there. I've had it with Oliver/Dinah scenes. That's all. Don't even get me started on Diggle. Still mad at him. I feel like he's not even acknowledging that Felicity exists as a person. Did he really say they all had each other's backs when Oliver was in prison? Huh. Guess they all did, except when it came to Felicity because … she's not a mask? I don't know. I don't know this Diggle. And that makes me sad. He didn't even have Oliver's back because having Oliver's back would mean having his family's backs and, ugh. But sure, let's give all this screen time and attention to characters that just joined a couple seasons ago, not to someone who's been there since episode 3. I don't know why I'm surprised. Why does Felicity always lose out in these milestone episodes? That being said, the action scenes were good, and it is good to see Oliver back out there as the Green Arrow. Just wish it wasn't with the SCPD. I hate that stupid storyline, and now the entire team is deputized? Oh, joy.

Why couldn't we see Oliver talk to his family just once this episode (not counting that first scene since it was about introducing the documentary in Oliver's life) instead of all the Dinah this episode featured?

Well, his old cell is free since Diaz isn't in it like he should be and no one knows that.

This is stupid and it's going to take up screen time that should go elsewhere.

I feel like this guy should take one look at Curtis' mask and go, "Nope. Just no."

Overwatch!