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Can't we blame both Nora and Barry? Barry for making Crisis happen and Nora for bringing the timeline forward by 5 years (That's 5 years Oliver could have had with his family)?

EBR not coming back for S8, is actually hampering my ability to enjoy S7. I still haven't caught up with the latest episodes since hiatus. From what I can tell there's not much reason to at all. Given my location, I'm always playing catch-up it was easy to tell that the episodes since EBR's announcement were not what I would be interested in. I need to know that there is potential for S8 to turn everything around at the end. I Honestly think I won't catch up unless I know that Felicity will be in the S8 especially the Finale. Otherwise the way they are treating Olicity make no sense.

I will never forgive/never forget the HIMYM mess. In a completely opposite vein, one where a show (Well the Fan-won mini-series)) had a pretty great ending (for me). This article reminded me of how much I loved Farscape. John and Aeryn and their journey. *Sigh* Journey was mostly as fun as the destination, and they out there concepts, but they never forgot their main ship. https://io9.gizmodo.com/a-look-back-at-farscape-aliens-puppets-and-criminals-1833716459

Even if they did have Emily locked down for some of S8, they might not reveal it because it would be a major spoiler. These people loooove writing towards "Gottcha!" moments and sacrificing logical story-telling for surprises. I predict once the S7 finale airs and Felicity is written out there will be slew of speculation articles about likelihood of her appearing in season 8, and 1st possible official hint about this, that we may get could only be at SDCC, if not later.

They could try to bring Willa back, I know she left with some bad blood, but female lead might tempt her. back I think if you bring it back to the Queen Family it might be better, do something crazy like bring back Tommy, but please no more focus on Birds and Dogs. It would be hard to make KM female lead unless the season is for the majority set in the future and then the storyline would need to have a Queen family (Oliver, William & Mia) mission focused on getting Felicity back from some sort of adversity to have my interest and a possibility of a happy ending is a must I wouldn't be opposed to Alena coming in as a regular, but I don't think she could fully step into the void. She would be a nice connection to Felicity though. I'm not sure how I'll be watching but I watch hours behind anyway. The other thing they could do is take Arrow completely away from Star City, we know the future is a dumpster fire anyway, leave Renee and Dinah there to mess it up, put Oliver/Digg on some mission trying to get back to their families, Bronze Tiger can come too, but once again I would need hope for an Olicity Happy reunion post COIE.

This was a disappointing shock to wake up to. 😥 As everyone has stated interest in Season 8 has just plummeted. Ever since we saw the birth in the flash-forward scenes I had a tiny little worry in the back of my mind that the Story was accomodating EBR's exit and unfortunately it seems to be true. Now I just need the niggling worry about killing off Future Felicity to go away. Please, please please don't let this happen. They have been basically giving us everything we ever wanted for Felicity/Olicity this season, just need the future reunion of Oliver and Felicity. I need hope for the future 20 years is already too long! It feels like Crisis on infinite Earth is trumping have a decent natural ending for Arrow, it can just piss off IMO. While I'm happy for EBR to do what she wants to do, I'm not in a happy place about Arrow. So now we have a Canary Episode, then 3 episodes through to the season finale to try and Enjoy some decent Queen Family time. It won't be enough, I guess I'm free sooner than I thought, but not sure what I'll do with all this spare time, not obsessing about Arrow. I'll probably spend it still picking at Arrow, checking in, being disappointed, hoping for a Season Finale Olicity return. *sigh*. I will miss this board so much...even though I mostly lurked the last few years, it's always been my favourite place. If they want to make Star City 2040 a Series they should probably announce now and keep the flash-forwards out of Season 8, because I think I'll be just depressed if Felicity is missing form the future cause she is dead and if not, would they have Oliver there but without Felicity, it would be so bitter-sweet since they just had a presumed 20 YEARS APART. The ties to Olicity is what Anchor the future scene IMO, more Dinah or Roy is not going to cut it.

The sad thing is that we already know Oliver has missed out on William’s formative years, it’s just uppsetting to think he could possibly miss out on Mia’s whole childhood as well. That is why I don’t like the idea of a 20 year seperation. I’m hoping for a shorter than expected separation or a reset like Fringe did. Hopefully everyone learnt something for the HIMYM debacle, I think the EPS even lost a pilot order because of it.

Well I was not ready for that announcement. Actually season 8 being the final season, I knew it was a possibility but not that it would be only 10 episodes. I don't think I can watch SA's FB Live. 😞 I'm glad that, if they only had him for a limited run they are not trying to space the appearances out over 23 episodes and hopefully there will be a tighter scripted episode run. I hope COIE, if we must have it, is episode 8 and then I would suspect they would have 9 & 10 play back to back as the finale. Also I hope this talk about EBR is just speculation.

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I agree if LOT was going to take her they would have done so by now. Here's a thought, let's send her over to Batwoman. If not BS then DD...please at least one of them. 🥺 Lost Canaries can be the episode to transition whoever over to the new show.

I like both couples, but Arrow a little bit more, I think it would have been nice if they did win. On the bright-side I like that they were both married ships, I'm sick of the moonlighting-curse narrative where they think people loose interest once you get the couple together. It's not true.

This episode was pretty much what I hoped the 150th would be.

In E7.08 they went from Olicity having sex to BlackStar's introduction scene, for me that was always the Conception Transition. Which makes birth around September to October plausible. Like what @bijoux said.

KM is a good guess, it would make sense to scratch out her, but could be Willa or Susanna Thompson too.

That sums up how they have dealt with KC for years...just look at her Black Canary story. I'm concerned that because Lance (her previous best scene partner) is gone, and the scenes with EBR are pretty tolerable, compared to the last 6 seasons of KC on Arrow, plus Katie is finally acting in her wheelhouse, they will make EBR her main scene partner constantly. It's annoying how much Oliver and Felicity are split to make Dinah and BS relevant.