Will Arrow Tragedy Bring Felicity Back to the Team, If Not Back to Oliver? 

In the wake of Laurel Lance aka Black Canary’s vicious death at the hands of Damien Darhk, Team

Arrow is down a man, and at a critical time. Might that tragic setback, coupled with a sense of empathy, nudge Felicity back into the fold?

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Executive producer Marc Guggenheim tells TVLine, “There are two issues” at play for Felicity, who exited the team shortly after ending her engagement to Oliver. “She’s broken up with Oliver and she’s also broken up with the team essentially. And in Episode 19 [‘Canary Cry,’ airing Wednesday, April 27], we’ll see the undoing of one of those decisions.”

reality where Felicity resolves one split and one split only. “One does not mean the other is going to happen,” showrunner Wendy Mericle told TVLine as part of our May Sweeps/Finale Preview Extravaganza. “She could come back to the team and that does not mean that she’s back together with Oliver.”

At the close of the March 30 episode, “Beacon of Hope,” Thea tried to coax Felicity into returning to the team, after seeing the tech whiz ably and enthusiastically fend off that

yotch Brie Larvan’s assault on Palmer Tech. Felicity, though, held her ground, indicating that she sees a way for her to offer “hope” to others by way of life-enriching next-gen biotechnology, such as the chip that allowed her to walk again.

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Circling back to the recently touched-upon issue of Felicity secretly synching with Team Arrow during her and Oliver’s time in suburbia, Mericle notes, “We started off this season with Felicity really wanting to come back and do this because she herself enjoys this kind of vigilante lifestyle, but that is separate from Oliver. In [the Season 4 premiere], he didn’t want to; it was more about her making herself happy than anything else. So she’ll be grappling in some ways with that.

The coming episodes “will echo [the premiere] in terms of where a lot of the characters end up,” the EP adds, “specifically Oliver and Felicity.”

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Guggenheim says of the “Olicity” sitch, “People will have to see if things change or not change” as Season 4 winds to a close. He then reiterates, with regard to the series’ latest death, that which was shared in TVLine’s post mortem Q&A: “We never had to kill Laurel to make Oliver and Felicity a couple. That is really independent from the romantic history that Oliver and Laurel had, and a completely different set of dynamics.”

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I’m guessing she comes back to the team again but doesn’t get back together with Oliver (at least not yet).

Do these people talk about anything else then felicity and olicity, jesus christ just rename the show the olicity diaries and be done with it.

Oh yes because they contacted TV line to discuss it or perhaps it was the other way around.

Also how many other questions have they answered previously that don’t include Felicity ?

(Wendy was talking to me for TVLine’s May Sweeps/Finale Preview Spectacular Extravaganza; this was one of 12 topics covered.)

I don’t usually post, but, I have to agree with you. The focus on her and Oliver has driven me away from this show. I still follow the show via recaps and read various articles, but I usually won’t watch an episode if their relationship is the focus or they waste time on it.

I completely agree. This show has turned into a terrible soap opera about olicity. A real shame because the first two seasons were really good.

Personally I think the split with Felicity and Oliver is a bit ridiculous. She’s been with the “team” long enough to know that secrets need to be kept and she herself was injured and paralyzed and Oliver wanted to keep her safe thereafter…it just seemed like an excuse to break them up over the son that he isn’t going to see anymore anyway. Shows that put them together after so long and then break them apart is getting old for me….

The good ol’ “Conflict Ball”, as they call it on TVTropes.

I was supposed to do work but then you reminded me TVTropes exists!

It’s just the way TV is. Couples break up in sweeps and get back together in sweeps. I hope this is the last time though. No more back and forth once they’re back together, whenever that happens! :)

Glad that more — than likely — Felicity will be back on the team. Hoping for more OTA scenes, and with Thea as well, but I have been seriously missing OTA.

When you realize Oliver/Felicity/Diggle really haven’t talked to each other (in any combo) most of the season… I get a little sad. :(

OTA was just Oliver and Diggle, Felicity didn’t join the team until later.

OTA is Oliver, Diggle and Felicity. It’s always been that way. Even show recognized it, is it really that hard to understand and accept that fact?

I Agree, it started with Oliver and diggle, they are the original team. I’m just tired of felicity, I wish someone would tell her off when she makes stupid comments like in the episode broken hearts, people were getting killed but as always she found a way to make it about her. Oliver yelled at Curtis, but no body tells felicity off.

She always makes everything about her, like Moira’s secret, then she has the nerve to disrespect her at the funeral when moira was a hero by scarificing her life.

Two isn’t exactly a”team”, lol! She was on board unofficially very early on, and board officially as of s01e09. OTA!

I hope that the writers stop with all the wounded, passive-aggressive dialogue for Felicity towards Oliver as she rejoins the team. This makes her character repellent and snarky, and frankly unlikable. I’d rather see Curtis in that role is she continues to be so unpleasant. Also, I hope that she and Oliver are done, and Oliver moves on. He deserves to be happy, which Felicity’s pushing him to return to Star City cheated him out of. If anybody should be bitter, it should be Oliver toward Felicity.

Yes, plus she “LIED” to him for 7 months when she continued to help the team and never told him.

Diggle joined Oliver’s crusade in episode 1×05, Damaged. Felicity had been helping Oliver since 1×03 and Oliver&Diggle since 1×06 although it was 1×14 when she joined with the official handshake..

It wasn’t until 2×14 that the next person, Sara, joined the team.

1000 x this. I’ve missed that core relationship of the three of them. It worked. I hope we see some of that again.

The fact that Marc has to spell out that her death had nothing to do with Oliver and Felicity is sad. They were planning to get married when she was alive and kicking. She was literally a non factor in their lives …

Ah, so that’s why they made Laurel’s last words all about Olicity? You need to stop drinking Marc’s koolaide.

They made Laurel’s last words about how she still wanted Oliver. Yikes on bikes at that. But that dialogue was verbatim from one of Katie’s interviews, so who knows what happened there.

So agreed!What about the guy that died for you? Ick dialogue.l, but not because she hoped he’doesn’t find happiness.

Don’t know what happened there! Posting from mobile… anyway, Ick factor was not because she wanted Oliver to be happy, but because she said he was the love of her life. Such a toxic relationship, sister swap and all!

That was Katie’s head canon though. In an interview she said she still believed Oliver was the love of Laurel’s life…so I guess the writers gave in to that even though everything in the story pointed to Laurel being over Oliver. So, yeah, I hated her last words being about Oliver and Felicity…but I don’t think it was about propping Olicity as much as it was giving in to Katie’s head canon.

Katies head canon is not the shows head canon.

Nah that was Katie Cassidys head canon. It was a last minute write in to please the actress.

Where was that ever confirmed that they put it in to please her?

Or maybe because Laurel’s relationship to the team never evolved out of being Oliver’s ex and Sara’s replacement. Even this whole season it went back down to what Oliver did to her and how he betrayed her. So yeah her storyline would conclude with how much Oliver meant to her because her world still very much revolved around his actions.

Agreed. Oliver and Felicity were already together while Laurel was alive. Her death had nothing to do with them. I’m confused as to why anyone would think otherwise.

Still hoping Laurel is secretly alive. I don’t get why they killed Black Canary (again!!!).

Couldn’t care less about Felicity’s love life. I like her character but I honestly hope they keep her and Oliver single.

From what I’ve read the actress who played Laurel had become difficult and was not happy with her role on the show so it kind of came to a head and they both agreed to part ways. Rumor has it that she’s is up for another show, where she’ll be the lead, on the CW network.

Ooh! What news site was all of that on…?

Felicity is so important to team Arrow and Oliver I hope everything be OK by the Finale

Well the last episode showed she can be easily replaced, so no she’s really not important to the team at all.

Ok, not the last episode, I mean the one with he other guy who did what Felicity would normally do.

His hacking skills are not on par with hers. His strength lies in mechanical engineering. I’m thinking he’ll be used in this capacity, not as a general tech guy.

I’m very much hoping that the answer to both of these questions (Felicity coming back to the team and Oliver and Felicity getting back together) will be Yes! before this season is over. I really dislike that the show keeps removing her from Team Arrow every time they want to build up or add in another guy super hero. This is twice now. Whether the show realizes it or not, it’s become a pattern and kind of troubling. If you have to remove Felicity (or any of the original members) in order to make a new one work or fit or serve a function, they really need to ask themselves WHY they’re trying to expand the team. That said… yes, please. Felicity back on the team pronto.

technically, couldn’t Sarah, in the future know what happened to Laurel and come back at the time they left and stop this from happening. I know it won’t but I love all this timey- wimey stuff

Happy she’s coming back to the team but I wish the show would stop having her quit and return, quit and return. It’s a bit ridiculous, especially when she was the one who wanted to return to Team Arrow at the start of the season. The writing for this series is so frustratingly inconsistent.

So she’ll come back to the team and then get back with Oliver in the season finale as I predicted a long time ago.

Theres been enough Olcity in this show now to last a whole life time. The show need to get back to being a good show.. And not a Olicity shippers wet dream

I’m glad Felicity is gonna be back with her team.. So excited for the rest of the season, looks awesome. :)

Really more interested in how quentin is going to deal with losing a daughter for the third time, with his heart condition. How Thea will deal with laurel who has been like a sister to her since she was a kid. How Diggle will come losing another team mate.

Would have loved some questions about things that aren’t felicity / Oliver-felicity related. This show has so many good character that are pushed aside for this relationship.

Felicity is a essential part of the team, she needs to come back.

Hopefully the rest of the season will focus on Oliver/Felicity/Diggle, individually and as a team, i’ve missed that.

I can’t wait for the series finale 4×19 so I can be rid of this show. They officially turned me off after Laurels death.

I’m rooting for Felicity Smoak back with the team and Olicity reunited as a couple. This series needs it. Arrow needs a balance, hope and positive things.

Hate to see Laurel Lane die. But I think that the Arrow would be better without a love interest. I would like to see him get darker like he was in season 1. Death of Laurel can send him in that direction. On Felicity I’m tired of the soap opera with her. There was strong reason for Oliver keeping the secret of his son. She acted like big baby.

That’s not going to happen. Arrow is about him developing into a lighter/happier hero. I think the baby mama drama was unnecessary and felt forced, but she was upset because they were going to get married and he was making a decision about sending away his son (abandoning him like SHE was abandoned) without even discussing it. Families make decisions together. Still, I think this drama to force a breakup was unnecessary. I’d like to see them together with the relationship in the background of the show.

I was ok with Oliver and Felicity breaking up for a while but I wasn’t ok with Felicity leaving the team so I’m happy she’s coming back. I think it was obvious that the big death was going to bring her back to the team because she’ll have even more reason to want to get Damien for good this time.

I don’t know if Oliver and Felicity will be back together by the end of the season but I hope so. I’m still rooting for those two!

Of course this will bring Felicity back to Oliver and the team. Guggenheim must’ve giggled his head off over this, whacking off a canon character so his tv creation can reign supreme.

i’d like olicity to reunite at some point, but only if they make felicity more tolerable again, they took a wonderful, funny, kind character and turned her into an annoying, selrighteous know-it-all.

Who cares any more? They really don’t need her since Curtis is joining the team next season. Why do we need 2 computer people? I don’t even recognize this show and it makes me sad.

Because Curtis know 1 thing or 2 how to hacking but not a expert, he’s a computer engineer and Felicity is Cyber security computer expert… he can be additional to the team but not doing all her work on Arrow Cave.

Felicity is my favorite character on TV, and a huge part of that is due to her interactions with the Team. Looking forward (hopefully) to more than one reunion….

I think she and Oliver are going to get back together, but she’s going to focus on her project to help people with spinal injuries and Curtis is going to take over the tech side of Team Arrow.

Am i the only one that doesn’t like felicity? Give me Sarah or Nyssa or maybe Shado’s twin sister or better yet the huntress. Phuck Felicity

The death that gives the biggest bang for their storyteilling buck.

While I’m glad she’s on the team and interested to see the character dynamics with a combination we haven’t seen yet, I’m not expecting Felicity and Oliver to get back together yet. That will happen (hopefully) at the end of the season, with a wedding in the 100th episode, which just happens to be the annual Flarrowverse cross-over ep.

Honestly I couldn’t care less about Felicity they have turned her into the worst kind of inconsistent character. I honestly would have no problem with her dying and bringing in new characters.

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