Sorry to bother you with this but I was on Reddit and came across a Dinah/Laurel ship pic and someone said "why be with someone who killed your love" and it made me think of Felicity and I guess what I wanna know is Do you think the writers should have ever let Felicity go back to Oliver after he killed (set up he was but still, killed) her at-the-time boyfriend?
Oh man. This is some heavy stuff, let me get on my computer for this:
The one thing writers did not do in S5 was let Felicity properly develop as a character.
What the writers wanted was for Felicity to go through what they wanted Laurel to in 5 years time, condensed into a time span of 3 to 5 months, this idea of their “island”. Whereas Laurel has a 7 year island, Oliver being there for her one in a half years, present in the last half, with a lot of time to see her develop into a vigilante hero - because she was already a hero in the daylight. When compared to Laurel, and hell, even Thea, Felicity is nowhere near the development of either female characters, and she’s had more screen time at this point in the show - since S3.
Now, full disclosure, I’m comparing her to Laurel and Thea as female leads of the show, not to pit her against the other women. Felicity is *not* a feminist icon, to me, and hasn’t been since ever. (That’s a whole other ask to ask lol)
When Billy dies, we never ever see Felicity and Oliver even talk about it, at all, that he killed her boyfriend. It is literally everyone coming together to hug Oliver and say, “I am sorry you killed someone innocent.” and then having Felicity cry over it and use her anger, immediately, as a reason to hate E2 LL, as a jealous, pitiful, ex-girlfriend of his first-love. The two never talk about it, there’s no verbalization of Felicity even forgiving Oliver or Oliver asking her for forgiveness. There’s not even a funeral or Oliver, as the Mayor, honoring the loss of Detective Billy Malone. It is all around disgusting and emphasizes why they are so bad for each other, in the first place. Felicity only knows the mask, she knows nothing of the man underneath it.
When Tommy died, Laurel blamed The Hood, because she thought he let him die and goes after him. Oliver was so broken for so long that Laurel blamed him - he thought, but Laurel never blamed Oliver, she blamed The Hood, and the moment he says The Hood is him, Laurel understands - she immediately takes back what she says and knows Oliver did his best to save Tommy. This scene really showed that Laurel will always believe Oliver, she cares about him beyond the mask. Laurel doesn’t know The Hood, she knows the man underneath it.
Felicity Smoak deserves better, Oliver Queen deserves better, Laurel Lance deserved better.
