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I totally missed this last night, but I love Thea's distressed "Allibert," when Felicity told the team that another Star City celebrity couple - Allison and Robert - had been kidnapped by Cupid.

I think he was referring to their decoy wedding.

I get it. Still don't buy it, though. Believing that she'd leave on the spot like that requires me to suspend too much belief from what I know of her character. Given how much the mission meant to her, I don't think she would've ever taken a permanent break, and knowing how often that Oliver, Diggle, Thea, and Laurel's lives have actually been saved and catastrophe has been averted because of her extraordinary skills makes it difficult for me to believe that she'd tell Oliver he'd be fine without her because he was able to reroute some money once. Maybe we'll find out she's arranged for a replacement in Curtis (which would make me feel better about the whole thing) or something, IDK. It's not her responsibility to care for these people at the expense of ignoring her own well-being, and I'm not saying she should've stayed out of obligation, but it seems super OOC of her to just walk away like that (I think it would be in-character for her to do it in a rash decision because she was upset, but I don't think this was meant to be a rash decision).

LOL

I totally get the reasoning and the room for growth, I just don't quite get what exactly it is he can do to prove he's changed. Throughout the course of their relationship, seems like he'd been pretty open with his thoughts/feelings/concerns. He only hid the BM/kid stuff. How do you prove you're not hiding things? Seems like he'd have to be given some kind of an ultimatum, and go to her with it this time. I just don't see how he could offer up a change in behavior, because apart from everything with the kid, he's been behaving just like she wants him to.

I think it'll be interesting, because he's generally been pretty good about sharing with her when they're on good terms, all things considered. He moves at a snail's pace, but he's opened up to her about the island, about things he's afraid of. So really doing those things shouldn't sway her, because he's done them before. We'll see. Hopefully it comes up soon! I'm interested in the ensuing makeout!

How does he do that, though? The only way I can think of is for someone to give him another ultimatum, and for him to decide to tell her. Otherwise, he's pretty much been not lying to her for a long time (apart from the kid lie, which she said she understood his reasoning for) - like... he'd just continue on as he had been for the past however many months they've been together.

Hopefully this was a Waller decision and not a Lyla Michaels decision.

Oliver shot her with a tranquilizer.

With lawyering like that, I'm glad it wasn't the A plot. If they had written Laurel as remotely competent (WHY, SHOW. WHY), then I would've really liked that.

But I don't regret it. I don't regret it one single, bicep-y bit.

I disagree with you a little bit here - I think that permanently leaving the team and the mission that she has repeatedly said made her more than she thought she could be and gave her life purpose because of a breakup is really OOC. I know that she won't be gone forever, but she intended to be. Doesn't ring true for me.

Looks like I might have been wrong? Hopefully? Keep living!!!

I thought he tranqed her?

Same. But she's probably going to take it back, haha.

No #blessed?

And it's especially sad since he asks her to share what she's feeling with him all the time - and she does! He just doesn't extend her the same courtesy to let her be the kind of partner to him that he is to her, at least as far as listening and sharing problems goes. I don't blame her at all for calling off the engagement at this point. I just wish they had let the whole thing breathe a little, instead of cramming it all into the last two minutes. Ugh.

The story on the indiegogo page indicates that they're contributing some of their own money - how much, they of course don't say. And I wonder if anything over and above the $200k goal increases the overall budget, or decreases the amount of their own money that they're contributing.

Seems like they're hoping to go over the $200k goal: https://twitter.com/robbieamell/status/712722942631645184

Her going after Darhk for the crime where the victim and his mother have disappeared, the father doesn't want to be publicly identified, and the only witnesses to it were masked vigilantes is *so* Laurel, though.

Maybe they do? They aren't at the hearing for the kidnapping in the preview, and since it seems like it's going nowhere, maybe Laurel decides to bring in witnesses that can attest to being there and seeing what he did during the holiday party? And that's why the team is in the other courtroom scenes, but not this one. There was a BTS pic of DR on the stand, so...seems likely.Why she wouldn't have done that first doesn't make any sense, but this show doesn't make sense half of the time, so whatever!

I thought that when she apologized for poor choice of words (by saying "married"), Oliver was kind of implying that maybe the choice of words wasn't so poor, because when Felicity gave him the ring back all she said was that she needed space, so that he wasn't clear on their relationship status (like, he was going to say, "It's not like we're not together" or something). And when he said, "Actually, I don't know what it's like" was an indicator that he wasn't sure where their relationship stood, so she spelled it out for him. Could totally be wrong. I'm not sure what that dialogue was about, but that's what it seemed like to me? I mean, she was moving out, but maybe he thought that was part of her needing space, and that they were still going to try to work on things?

Oh my god, the "It's not like...I don't know what it's like" dialogue was the most convoluted way to get Felicity to outright tell Oliver that they're through. It took me way too long to figure out what in the hell they were talking about. Maybe if she hadn't walked out on him in the middle of their convo he would've gotten that message sooner.

I'm interested in why people think this as well. Unless she has difficulty actually working with Oliver (which she could, I guess), she seems eager to get right back into the thick of things as far as Arrowing goes.

Wouldn't William and Samantha need to be present for this? ETA: or what dtissagirl wrote