I don't think Felicity got lost. She's always been the support in the Arrow cave - and that (until tonight) never once changed. She's never had an outside storyline that was just hers - last year her PT involvement was to include Ray in the story, and this year her PT involvement is to include Curtis in the story. Her…

No offense, but what's there to love about the legal work? Laurel basically had to be told by a non-lawyer to stop trying the case that had absolutely no viable witnesses, and to pick up the one that did. Which, seems like…that shouldn't be something she has to be told, haha.

It's maddening. I don't need romantic drama on here. I like Oliver and Felicity best when they're working as a team, and being supportive of each other. They set the two of them up in the first two seasons as people who work out their issues by the end of the episode, and have a pretty good understanding of who the…

That whole breakup was ill-timed and rushed, but I don't think Felicity wanted an actual say in the decision about William, I think she was just frustrated that this was just something huge in Oliver's life that he didn't share with her until it had already happened. The prospect of marrying someone like that has to…

But she *was* sympathetic to what he did and why. She flat-out told him that. She just expressed frustration with him not including her in the big things in his life, like the decision to send his son away, because she's his partner, and part of her function in his life is to help ease him of his burdens, which he…

When wasn't she speaking to him? She worked with him through the kidnapping, she had a nice talk with him about William and Samantha's demand for the secret keeping in the campaign office. There wasn't anything in-show that indicated she wouldn't have been open to having a conversation with Oliver about what was going…

I think all of Oliver's claims of "protecting" William flew out the door when he completely brushed off not only Malcolm knowing about the kid, but Thea being able to track him down based off a check that Alex was worried would get into the hands of Ruve Adams, a woman Oliver knew was married to Damien Darhk.

I don't think Felicity expected to be consulted about the actual decision. She made it pretty clear that she's tired of Oliver keeping very important things to himself. Even when he had no reason to hide from her, he still went about sending William away and dealing with that all on his own, without talking to her as…

Nope. She said, "I knew it. I knew the second I realized he was gone that you had to have some sort of involvement in this."

I loved that Oliver didn't even get up to make sure she was steady, and just sat there watching her inching away from him, haha.

I loved that Samantha told Oliver that she knew he had something to do with their kid disappearing, but for whatever reason he wasn't the very first person she contacted, lol. And that Oliver actually WENT TO DETROIT to go get Vixen, when Felicity had spoken to her on the phone.

Even in the lair, when Felicity was explaining the situation to people she knows Oliver trusts, she referred to William as "a ten-year-old boy" instead of telling them said boy was actually Oliver's kid. The whole secret and justification for keeping it was terrible writing to reach a stupid plot point. Arrow at its…

Yes, he's absolutely being derelict. His whole reasoning for not telling anyone about the kid is to keep the kid safe. But in the past two weeks he's had quite a few HUGE RED FLAGS that the kid is NOT safe. Malcolm knows about him. Alex dug up that check that led Thea right to William's identity, a check that Thea…

She's not in the grave. We know based on what the show told us that the death happens in April(ish). The show's almost always been in real time, so whoever's dying has about 6 weeks of living left to do.

True, but that doesn't negate my point.

What I don't understand is why, if Oliver is truly worried about William's safety, he doesn't tell the people he works with who, you know, go out and protect people every night? Barry, Malcolm, and now Thea know. It's not a secret anymore. Oliver shouldn't go out and tell the whole world, but at this point him not…

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What's maddening though is that Oliver *should* be condemned for this. Not because of the lie necessarily, but because Oliver is repeatedly brushing off actual warning signs that the kid isn't safe in order to keep said secret. Malcolm knowing doesn't seem to bother him (which, fine…Oliver's reasoning where Malcolm is…

Thea telling Oliver to keep this "secret" is especially stupid considering the reason she was able to piece it all together was because of something Alex dug up and was worried Ruve Adams would look into. Ruve Adams, who she knows is married to Damien Darhk, a dude who has done a whole lot of terrible shit to Thea and…

I think it needs to be someone who wears a mask. If they're trying to re-establish stakes here, after the magical pits and herbs and such, then it should be someone who willingly goes out and fights crime every night. Since Sara was technically killed in her capacity as an assassin and not a crimefighter (so she…