I can't believe Barry was able to resist Iris's incredibly romantic declaration of intent to pursue! "We’re married in the future, and on another earth, so…might as well give it a go, huh?" ::dreamy sigh::

Okay!

I never said there wasn't a way to make it compelling, I said that there isn't really any other way to show that change in dynamic - Oliver being the one to rein the two of them in from their own guilt - other than talking about it.

Well, she does seem to have moved on now. I agree it's a drag - I think the kid was an original plot line they had for Oliver and Laurel to break up over, and they kept it. It would've made sense for Oliver to lie to Laurel about it even without the idiotic ultimatum from Samantha, since William was a product of…

The writers seem to have forgotten this, but last season when Ra's was talking about Damien Darhk being with the League, he said he took off from Nanda Parbat with some Lazarus Pit water. I'm guessing maybe it's the magic that's been keeping him young, but they probably should address what happened to that water at…

"so much time" = 90 seconds, lol

The reason they had them all talk is because this episode is probably the beginning of a dynamic shift in their relationship. Diggle and Felicity have always been the one talking Oliver off of the ledge, and now Oliver's matured to the point where he can be the one to do that for them. There really isn't any other way…

Felicity made it pretty clear both when she broke up with Oliver and when she told him that she didn't want to get back together that she didn't want to marry a person who kept things from her. Regardless of the reasons WHY Oliver kept things from her, I think that's a pretty reasonable bar to set for herself. Laurel…

I don't know - given her questionable deathbed confessional about Oliver being the love of her life, I'm more inclined now to believe that she didn't love Tommy that much, loved Oliver way more than she should have, and didn't love herself nearly enough. So, probably not a lapse in judgment, but an actual hope that…

To be fair, Laurel did say she *felt* like she cheated on Tommy with Oliver and that it was a mistake.

I love that despite the fact that Barry, Thea, and even MALCOLM knew about the kid, Felicity is somehow still ridiculous for being upset that Oliver didn't tell her about him. Once MALCOLM MERLYN of all people knows, the whole barely-there internal logic of Oliver being "forced" to keep quiet flies right out of the…

Get factual with the person who wrote the post instead of the one enjoying the snark.

Oliver was kind of a dick to her almost always. And even in the recent episodes where he and Laurel did have some friendlier moments, they were mostly about him wanting Felicity back. So still…nah.

Wondering if things would've been different if she'd been around to help. Selfish monster!

Whenever faced with the prospect of being with Laurel, Oliver flees to China. So, nah.

I'm not mad that Laurel died, but I'm not really a fan of the ep. I didn't like the retconning of Oliver and Laurel's past relationship (it made her and Oliver look even more gross where Tommy was concerned, and made her look more pathetic where Oliver was concerned) and the show memorialized someone who I don't think…

That coat wasn't bedazzled, it was full of grommets. Which is worse, somehow.

It is a little weird that Oliver isn't working overtime to find a way to resurrect her, but she's always cared a whole lot more about him than he ever did about her.

Yes. Marc Guggenheim wrote a comic that took place after S1 - in those, Oliver spoke at Tommy's funeral, and then took off to Lian Yu right after. S2 complied with that canon, where Oliver and Laurel seemingly hadn't spoken to each other since the funeral.

To be fair, she had been locked up in a cult compound for months. Takes a little while to get that spring in your step back.