#flarrow meta

This is not just about Oliver Queen however. This is also about Felicity Smoak. You have taken a healthy, adult relationship, and basically smashed it to pieces. And for what? Drama? Felicity Smoak, as a woman involved with Oliver, as a person who is deeply involved in his personal and professional life, does have a right to know. Felicity even said it herself, she doesn’t care that Oliver has a child, she cares about the fact that Oliver was lying to her face. Instead, Oliver chooses again to not tell Felicity. This is a big deal. This is a huge, fracking deal. Because this is one of the most healthiest, and honest adult relationships on television today that you have taken with poor writing and plotting, and blown it to pieces. Yes, I know every relationship has its ups and downs, and isn’t smooth sailing all of the time. But, writers, if you wanted drama, you could have easily, EASILY had Oliver tell Felicity, and gain multiple scenarios for dramatic scenes between the two. Felicity could have been angry, and sad, over a child being willingly brought up without a father, Oliver could have been sad, guilty over not being there for William. Felicity could talk with Oliver about her own abandonment by her father. THERE ARE INFINITE POSSIBILITIES WITH THIS.

Felicity is an woman with abandonment issues from her father leaving her and her mother. I’m sure she would encourage a relationship between Oliver and William. She grew up without a father; if Oliver had a choice to foster a relationship with William (which he does, but under extremely poor circumstances) with her knowledge, she would encourage it. I’m sure of it. Absolutely. This could have also been a chance for Felicity to face her abandonment issues again, for the audience to further their journey into Felicity’s past when again paralleled with a similar situation in the present.

But now we have a secret, a ticking time bomb of a relationship, and one soon-to-be pissed Felicity Smoak, along with a soon-to-be guilty Oliver Queen. So thank you, Arrow writers, thank you for sacrificing so much about Oliver, Felicity, and Olicity, for the sake of drama, and a barely-there storyline that has been brought up three times in the past three seasons. I believe these characters deserved so much better with this storyline, and the handling of it could have been better as well. 

"Oliver and Barry have very different hero’s journeys to make. One is about choosing to be a hero, the other is learning how to be hero. One is brave (def n: ready to face and endure danger or pain; showing courage). I believe this to be Oliver. He is prepared (both mentally and experience-wise) to face whatever dangers and has definitely endured a lot of pain in order to save those he needs to. The other is bold (def n: showing an ability to take risks; confident and courageous). This is Barry, he’s more about confidently taking the risk, regardless of if it’s the smart thing to do or not. Both words have slightly different definitions, but at their core mean the same thing, just like our two heroes have different methods, but at their core are just that: heroes.

These fundamental differences are what makes me so excited for this crossover. They may get in the way in the first part, divide them and put them at odds with one another, but with a combination of these personalities, a “two heads (teams) are better than one” mentality, they should be able to defeat any enemy that comes their way.  They will go from meeting as rivals in “Flash vs Arrow” to working in conjunction in “The Brave and the Bold.”