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If true, certainly raises questions (in my head) of the lengths she’s gone through to keep the role and stay on the show. Maybe it’s not just a contracts thing. 🤷‍♀️

I kinda cringed at that part of the video because she kinda made it all about her and nothing about Stephen and the show. I did LOL at the part about the black suit. I mean, sure, Caity, do you really want the "black" suit that has been passed around by so many versions? Stick with the white. At least in that you're unique.

That sucks about Soho Playhouse. I dropped in here to say I actually got a chance to watch Reborning during the weekend and thought Emily was fantastic. The play was described as a dark comedy but it was more dark than funny. Emily was funny but not Felicity funny. It was different and edgier, it was impressive really. Also, I never quite realized this, but she's tiny. She had great chemistry with Paul. I almost want to see them in a regular rom-com. Anyway, kinda bummed that the production is probably gonna shutter because of the fire.

If it's KC directing, I would LOVE to be a fly in the wall during a scene where she has to direct SA. I don't care about the episode, but I would want all the BTS gossip!

Wasn't that when soda was sent by the fandom to David? LOL!

Birds of Prey? No solo BC spinoff? Not that I think any of these would actually work. Not with the actors they have right now.

Guggenheim is straight up lying here, or being lawyerly. Why, I don’t know but he probably didn’t think it was a good idea to admit how much they screwed up with casting Cassidy. The shift in the writing started happening in Season 1, most noticeably AFTER the mid season finale. They gave a lot of romantic beats to Felicity instead of Laurel. If we were getting scenes like the “Can I trust you?” in episode 12, that means they were already making the plans to switch by October-November of Season 1. And Season 2 began full tilt with Olicity with the jungle swinging and such.

After reading the stuff about Stephen's insistence regarding Felicity's last scene, I'm wondering if they actually did film the reunion, not just Felicity stepping into the portal.

I think some of those fans are seizing comments made in the reviews and articles about how next season will be very different, especially with Felicity gone. I can see how, if they ignore everything else that the show has said about Olicity, they would interpret it as their chance, so to speak. Even if the show going there would mean chucking out 7 years worth of story. I mean, Oliver and Laurel shook hands! Oh, the chemistry! 😜🤣

Soooooooo, no Oliver until Crisis/crossover next season? I'm a little confused.

I'm not gonna hope, wait, whatever for EBR to come back in S8. Monday's episode is the last Arrow for me, then I'm finally done with this show. I might pop in here in the forum once in a while, though, just because I'm sure I'll miss the snark 😛

Gemma didn't RT, she liked Yashar's tweet, although now she's walking it back:

I guess she never watched the show.

Is EBR doing an Australian accent in that bday video? I almost didn’t recognize her voice. @Mellowyellow is she doing a good job or bad job (if she’s supposed to be Australian)? It sounds cute 😜

They've lost something like 390,000 viewers since the last episode before the hiatus. The last time I saw a drop that big was in Season 4 after Olicity broke up. Now, I know the CW doesn't care but consistently dropping viewers for 3 weeks straight? That's not a good trend.

Saw Endgame yesterday and loved it. I think I was crying for 2/3 of the film. The emotional moments and callbacks just really worked. Puzzled by the choice for 1 character, though.

😂 it made sense to me that they’d be left out. They were neither the best nor the worst.

The promo strategy for that episode was interesting. Before the day, a lot of the stuff I saw on social media was BS/KC, but on the day itself, the two clips they showed both heavily featured Felicity and BS was nowhere in sight. I think they realized, too late, that their "watch KC in all her BS glory" strategy wasn't garnering the expected results but that's just me being absolutely biased.

KC has better lawyers 😂

Is this a separate $10,000 from the one he promised before as a match to donations?

OMG, MellowYellow, I have to tell you about this Korean drama my niece made me watch where it started with a scene implying the couple committed suicide and then it goes back to show them meeting, falling in love, facing hardship (guy is super rich and from a family that expects him to run the business but he wants to be a playwright or something, oh and also very married; girl is poor but talented singer) ... I thought the suicide thing was going to be a trick -- AND IT WASN'T! I later found out the title was "Hymn of Death."

What I'm getting with this is how bad Arrow writers have been at providing important emotional beats for the characters that viewers have started expecting the worst -- and then we're supposed to be glad and grateful that they did the bare minimum.

Arrow writers: Hold my beer 😛

Responding to this in Bitterness thread.

I actually like the idea of the OTA billboard even more. It has always been a thank you to the characters we love, but now it's also a big fuck you to Season 8. At least that's how I'm taking it. I'm super pissed about this whole thing. And like many others on this board, I'm done after this season. I stuck around this long (though not much this season) because of Felicity and Emily. With her gone, there's nothing tying me anymore to Arrow.