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From the spoilers thread: Did she have to clean up the concrete where Sara fell too cuz there was a lot of blood there and she never called the police. (bitter) I'm also bitter that Oliver never bothered to tell Felicity that Barry had woken up and had super powers, she found out by listening in on his phone call. Given all that time Felicity spent by his bedside, all those visits Oliver resented, I would have thought that at least Oliver would tell Felicity Barry had woken up. Especially since he'd just dumped her.

Remember a year ago when they wanted to introduce Barry and said he was perfect for Felicity because he's as smart as she is and they talk the same language? And now we have Ray, who is perfect for Felicity because he's "the smartest person in the room" (I'm not buying that right now) and perfect for Felicity because they have the same banter? Yawn, I'm getting tired of the over-promoting of her with anyone who is not Oliver. I think that is the point where I thought 'yeah, maybe he does love her' because he trusted her to be brave and be willing to risk her life in order to take down Slade because it was so important all things he expected from Sara but never from Laurel. he previous year he told her to get out of the foundry when the earthquake machine was going to do its work and when she refused, he was 'okay, I gotta run and save the city.'. But in Unthinkable, Felicity was an equal partner even though she couldn't fight like Sara and Roy, or hold up Amanda Waller like Diggle. Oliver had faith in her to be a real partner. That's real love, to me. And then he turned into a douche 20 minutes into this season..

It felt to me like 3x03 was the show rather than still setting up. Laurel comfortable in the lair and starting her physical training to be a vigilante (hopefully it takes more than a couple of episodes, the new Team Arrow of Oliver/Diggle/Roy figthing together and Felicity trying to balance working at QC with working for Team Arrow still. EBR said in an interview that Felicity was going to have trouble balancing her work life with her Arrow life, which I now take to mean Corto Maltese. She also said that Mama Smoak comes at a bad time, which presumably when they are trying to catch Malcolm Merlyn who is back in Starling City.

Do they have any other? Traumatize Oliver so that he wants to honor his father? Have Robert blow out his brains while sitting right beside Oliver. (Image the trauma of having bits of Robert's skull and grey matter all over him. Want to turn Oliver into an archer? Have Fyers shoot Yao Fei in front of him. Want to motivate Slade to revenge and Oliver to putting on the hood? Have Ivo shoot Shado. Want to turn Olvier from a killer to a hero? Kill Tommy. Want to motivate Oliver to giving up to Slade? Kill Moira. Want to end Olicity before it began? Kill the people in the restaurant. Want to motivate Laurel to becoming the Black Canary? Kill Sara. Felicity is lucky, her motivation came from Walter's kidnapping. For Oliver, every motivation comes from death.

And since Nina Dobrev was on the CW international tour with CH and EBR, it seems strange Lainey never heard of her. From the Access Hollywood interview: It always makes me laugh when actresses take off their very fashionable shoes when the camera is not on their feet because the shoes are just so darn uncomfortable. Some day, we will evolve to the point where women can were comfortable shoes like men do, and not be considered unsexy, I hope. And when Christian Loubouton says that he doesn't care how uncomfortable his shoes are because they look good (as he did interviewed last spring), he will be pelted with flip flops.

I love that Harrison Wells knows who she is and is expecting big things from her. Finally, Felicity gets appreciated for her brain this season. In the deleted scene with Sara after Slade invades the lair, Felicity says to Sara "It's the first place in the world where I really felt that I was home. He took that." So it sounds as if the home she grew up in really didn't feel like home to her, which seems to say something about her relationship with her mother. It was the 'if I had been content to stay in Las Vegas and be a cocktail waitress like my mother' line that made me think that Mama Smoak didn't have ambitions for her daughter. If you listen to people like Michael Jordan who made it really big out of the environment where they grew up, they talk about how their parents encouraged them to reach for the stars. If Felicity's mother had been encouraging her to dream big and spread her wings, why would Felicity have said that to Oliver?

I'm glad Felicity is dressed wrong. She's socially awkward, but not that socially awkward. I'm so excited for the Flash tonight. I've been wondering where exactly Oliver and Diggle are going to meet Felicity's mother. The lair is out, Oliver and Diggle are no longer at QC, and Felicity doesn't seem like the type to throw a party at her apartment for family to meet friends. That makes sense, but it doesn't fit in with the "my mother is... my mother", which gives the impression her mother is someone she can't emotionally connect with and who discouraged her from going to MIT. If her mother was warm and loving, even if she didn't understand Felicity's brain (and IQ is passed along on the X gene), Felicity wouldn't have felt so family-less so as to cling to her new family in the lair. Same here. I'm afraid my love for Nyssa will be taxed if she's actually impressed by Laurel after being with Sara.

In drama and TV, opposites create interest. Think Castle and Beckett, two mostly complete opposites. Ichabod and Abbie, Elizabeth Bennett and Darcy. Like Barry, I think Ray is too close to a perfect match for Felicity to be able to generate interesting storylines. This show should either give up on trying to write relationships (although Diggle/Lyla is great) or assign them to one person who is good at it. That's why I want Oliver and Felicity to be together at the end of s3, and then Leave. Them. Alone. and concentrate on the action and villains.

She's always been good at talking about who Felicity is and what her fear and hopes and internal motivations are. She also only talks exactly where they are at the moment in terms of the episodes of the show, rather than 6 episodes down the line where she's read the scripts for. And she never, ever talks about how Oliver and Felicity are made for each other. ETA: Hee. After listening to their podcast of The Calm, I think they're funny but I get a distinct "girls are icky and they have germs" vibe. Sara is okay because she's a great fighter and wears a push-up bra with lots of cleavage. (Seriously, they talked about her outfit and the cleavage.) I think Olicity still matters, but it's not a main part of the show this session. Although MG did tweet that

Thanks olicityfan25. That makes me feel better. I see her on TV sometimes. Now I'll know not to listen.

Nyssa's badass, she can take dripping wax any time. Dripping hot oil too, I bet. Oliver said Sara brought it to them two weeks ago -- which would be before he went looking for Thea. So why wouldn't he have told Thea that her batshit crazy bio dad is still alive?

Oooh, they're so clever.... they will tell us Sara slipped him the pictures when they met on the rooftop out of sight of the camera.

These EPs think that if they put Sara in flashbacks, it will make up for killing her three ways. They just don't get it.

It looks like Sara told the LoA and Oliver that Malcolm was still alive. Should she have told Quentin? But what could he have done? Although I guess at least the police could have opened a file on him.

I couldn't hear the clip properly but didn't Oliver already know from Sara two weeks earlier (love how that was just cued up) that Malcolm was alive. But where? Was he dropping in to Starling City occasionally? Wouldn't someone recognize him? He was on the news media a lot even before the notoriety of the earthquake. Felcity's dialogue sounds better coming from Felicity. And speaking of male to female ratios (on the Felicity thread), the Arrow cave there now has three men and one visiting woman. I have a tipping point at which I'm no longer interested in a show, and that scene reached it. Poor Sara, it was never about her, always about Oliver or Laurel, or Slade or Ivo or even Nyssa. I don't think Lyla could have done it. Wasn't Diggle with her when Sara was killed?

They barely mentioned Oliver's conversation about dying with Felicity, but got really excited over the Oliver/Diggle conversation at the end of the episode because that's what they've really been missing. It seems like they don't like Olicity because Felicity is his "subordinate" whereas Sara was "his equal" and they don't want her to ruin the show with her girlyness (although they like her physical appearance). It sounds like if they ship anything, it's the Oliver/Diggle bromance. ETA: they didn't know Felicity was Jewish? Where have they been?

Considering she does gossip for CTV, the Canadian station that airs Arrow, that's a trifle crass, shall we say? (It's your job to report gossip on people, find out who they are instead of saying you've never heard of them.) It makes me glad I'm not an actress and don't have to be nice to people like her.

It's understandable though because she's a popular character and people have been waiting for 2 seasons to find out more about her. I'm kind of surprised the EPs realize that though.

I don't think there is sense to be made of the financial aspects of the show. But wouldn't Oliver get dividends from the stock going up? Maybe only quarterly but it might be enough to live on if he's frugal. On the other hand, probably not enough to pay for the Arrow toys. I don't think Oliver would want to live with Thea, wherever she lives, as long as she doesn't know about his night time activities. It would be impossible to keep that a secret, especially given how nosy Thea is.

It's reassuring to hear that criticism from people who can't be accused of being Olicity fangirls. And good for them for blaming the directing too. "Semi-attractive"? Ouch.

If Ray does a good job at QC, Oliver will have money from the stocks he still holds. But no more CEO of QC, please. It's like 19 years olds with PhDs running a company on soap operas. Felicity is better qualified to run QC than he is. Even Thea is since she had some actual business experience with Verdant. Isn't there a mayor position open in Starling City?

it's a good interview. I like how she thinks She's says she will be in s3, but I wonder if this is it or if she'll be back.

It's a three part series, according to IMDB. I think that's more because it was written by the grande dame of British detective fiction rather than because it's fanfic. But I love that she gives writing fanfic legitimacy. I know there was a series of books putting a new spin on classics which included Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Have any of those been made into a TV production?

This show has too many tunnels. There was that mess in 2b, and only 3 1/2 episodes (1/2 being The Calm) to enjoy before the next tunnel hit again. It's like a ride in a fun house, but not so much fun.

lol, I thought of her but younger siblings don't make good sidekicks, they're always too busy fighting you to prove they're better than you are (speaking as a first-born).