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So many shows that I watch are ending this year. Arrow (after Emily/Felicity leaves, I'm done. No s8 for me unless she's guest starring), iZombie, Elementary, Veep, Game of Thrones, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend... I'm sad. What am I supposed to do now? Go outside?!

I know they already have the set-up for Felicity (and Oliver) leaving Star City in present time but what will they do with Felicity in the future? Is she gonna sacrifice herself for her kids ala Moira? I don't want it. I don't want this. Can they just say Felicity's leaving to go wherever in the future, too? Just keep her off-screen while Mia and Will and Connor have their adventures?

I just got online today and this news was the first thing I saw. I'm sad. I'm happy for her that she got to decide when to leave but I was really hoping she could stick it out for the last 10 of s8. I wish her the best with whatever she chooses to do next but I'm still sad. (I'm also just a tiny tad bit annoyed and kinda wish this show just ended in s7 since I doubt anything's gonna change their depressing future during s8, anyway, 'cause Felicity will be gone.)

Me, when the show confirmed that yes, Rene is still a certified dummy, who would absolutely sell out his friends for his purposes, in the future:

I figured it was gonna be one of the al Ghuls training Mia as she grew up. Someone had to ('cause Oliver's dead/vanished) and they had to have archery skills. I liked the sequence with Nyssa training her. And Mia's huge fight sequence was awesome, too. The billowy coat thing at the end was cool. Okay, I know Felicity kept a lot from her but Mia is such a drama Queen. Lol. Totally like his dad. It was a really nice touch to confirm that Felicity was Will's angel investor all this time, though. I teared a little at their reunion hug. And I'm not going to say I did a little dance when they showed Felicity was still alive in the future (even though we all knew she would be and I totally did a jig) but it was just so nice to see her future self. I'm, also, totally going to take Felicity's old make-up being the best one and most realistic of people at 50 or so years old as a slight against NTA, even though I know it isn't and it's just the Arrow make-up team going overboard with their initial aging make-ups. Lol. Felicity truly is that unproblematic fave who barely ages a day after 20 years, huh? Love that. Still wtf at that Glades wall being a literal a Game of Thrones-like wall. Lmao. How the hell did they construct that shit and why tf did they waste all that money instead of investing in smart tech, like they were already doing with Archer?! Connor Hawke is a cutie. And I am interested at this Mia and Connor actually being a thing thing. That whole episode felt like a soft pilot and I think I might be into it. We'll see. It is so cool that Oliver's non-canon romance with Felicity, a supposed-to-be one-episode guest star, spawned a literal child who might lead the spin-off, though. Anyways, y'all! Mia not being into comics? I laughed.

I'm good with this. I just want Oliver, Felicity, Mia, and William to be happy and have reat things instead of the shit future we've been watching. They deserve to be rewarded for all that they went through.

She probably knows. I mean, Stephen was the one to reveal it. I'm both sad and relieved, like most of you guys, that the show is ending. I've just been feeling like I've been going through the motions when it comes to this show more and more. And I've sorta noticed some actors starting to phone it in, too. I wonder if they'll announce it this year or after Arrow's end in S8 that Kat and legacy OTA might be going on to a spinoff? I hope old Dinah isn't included in that spinoff, if it happens.

Apart from how cute William and Mia are as siblings, I just don't understand what the hell is going on in the future. Lol. Does anyone understand it? Every reveal is just so weird and whut-inducing. We finally had some good OTA moments and Diaz is D E A D. Yay! The short Olicity moments we got were wonderful. I wanted the pregnancy reveal to be longer and maybe with a kiss in there somewhere but that was cute and sweet and lovely, all the same. Aww. When Felicity and Oliver said "our children":

Kinda looks like either Keith David or Ernie Hudson.

There are so many canaries, I really wouldn't know which one they'd be referring to as the "lost" one, honestly. There's Sara, Dinah, technically Laurel's BS, future Zoe? Who is it??! Lmao! That character sucks in every iteration, though, so at least that's consistent. It would be funny if Laurel completes her redemption and dies in 7x18 making her the "lost" canary, though. BS is not anywhere in the ff so she's probably dead.

Me, coming back to the fandom because we have a child!!!:

I can see it, too, right on the edge. Sorry @Mellowyellow. That sucks that the jeweler lied to you. It's kinda reminding me of the mosquito trapped in that amber that was on the cane of Dr. Hammond in Jurassic Park, though.

LISTEN!!! I started suspecting that spoiler during Luke's episode (episode 4) when he kept talking about how he felt and then I got to episode 5 and we definitively found out what happened and I was sobbing! I was just full on sobbing throughout episodes 5 and 6 with squeaks of surprise when creepy stuff happened. I like watching horror movies and scaring myself silly but, honestly, I almost didn't care about the scary/creepy stuff in the show. It was the family drama that seriously hooked me and compelled me to finish the entire thing in one sitting. That was a productive Saturday. Heh. @bijoux and @tennisgurl, I really hope you watch it. It's seriously one of the best shows I've seen in a long time.

Has anyone seen The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix? Because, OMG! It is such a good show! I haven't been as affected and emotional over a show as I was with this one in quite a while. I cried at least once in almost every episode. Heh. The acting is great and the direction and cinematography is superb. The character development is fantastic. It's really, really good! If you don't like horror, please don't let the title and trailers put you off. It is creepy in some parts and there are jump scares and it very much has supernatural aspects but it's, honestly, really a family drama that wonderfully shows the complexities of how the events in that house led to such grief, trauma, heartbreak, and fractured the Crain family as much as it did. I loved it.

It's because there's another language that is dominant in the episode so the subtitles should be part of it and you probably won't need closed captions. (But, personally, CCs are always good to put on 'cause I miss stuff, sometimes.) It's for the majority of Episode 5 (Akane no Mai), some of Episode 6 (Phase Space), and the majority of Episode 8 (Kiksuya). The episodes are about those characters and their stories/how it connects everything to Westworld/Delos.