apinknightmare

Bless her, she updated already: http://archiveofourown.org/works/8944795/chapters/23527944

Didn't we last see him in that battle with Danny Brickwell and they never really clarified if he was dead or what?

I saw that after I posted. I'm glad she seems to be okay!

Wheeerrrreeeee is homeless Oliver?

Either that or manufacturing her chip.

Maybe he's talking about the GhostFoxGoddess legacy that inspired Alena and got her involved in Helix, and subsequently got Felicity involved in Helix. Seems to me they're dealing with legacy this season (in a messy, Arrow-y way) as moving away from that past person (Felicity doing sketchy hacktivist stuff, Oliver thinking he's a serial killer like in S1, Dinah with her messy self in Hub City, etc) on to someone who does better.

Since Roy technically took responsibility for any kills before S4, and the only one on record he has since then is Billy, they could either blame that on Prometheus, or just ignore it since Pike (who is still alive, right?) already knows that Green Arrow was the one who killed Billy and he basically talked his way out of SCPD's manhunt by lamenting about his guilty feels. Once Chase is taken care of and (hopefully) exposed, Oliver could claim he was blackmailed into the shoot-on-sight order for Green Arrow or something that I'm not really expecting to make a whole lot of sense.

It's another case of them telling a different story than they think they are.

C'mon, man.

If they brought them on because they like the current dynamic it doesn't have to mean anything for Diggle or Felicity. Outside of Very Special Episodes, they're still getting more screen time than the newbies for the most part.

WHY

The issue is that I hate it, haha.

Based on one of MG's Tumblr answers it seems like they do have plans for that.

My only hope is that Rene stops calling people Hoss.

I can't remember which one - but one of the reporters said he actually confirmed it with the network.

I think this is the tweet in question:

RUN TOWARD THE LIGHT, BARRY. RUN.

I believe that very special knowledge is called "because plot." Although I find him knowing about William for whatever reason much more believable than him knowing about the Legends or Black Siren.

I think if William does wind up getting kidnapped after Oliver sent them away with no contact, that she'd be completely stupid to keep the kid from his father when it's clear that threats are always going to be a part of their lives, and he at least can fight them. If she hadn't been such an asshat about it before and the whole team had known about William when Darhk was around - they probably could've kept him from getting kidnapped last season.

If she and William are kidnapped and that team-up gets them free, I doubt she'd care that much, haha.

Yes - he's said this more than once this season - he's okay with crossing lines himself because he's a ~lost cause, but he doesn't want Felicity or Diggle doing that.

I think we could see a premiere bump next season from people who've caught up on this one. And then it'll drop again after they inevitably do something stupid.

I read that he said that he wanted his return to be a secret if he ever came back, so I'm guessing he's trying to counteract it being ~spoiled. He would've been better off just going with it. This is just messy (and, like you wrote - weird).

It's weird because it makes zero sense for SA and MG to troll people about him coming back, and it also makes zero sense for him to deny that he's doing it after it's been announced. Like...why not run with that buzz when you get it? Surely it's the most anyone's talked about him in a while.