I thought Henry's mother's maiden name was Garrick?

The quality of the show dipped when they brought in an idiotic murder "mystery" that required Oliver to take leave of any and all common sense he had in order to keep Malcolm Merlyn alive and somehow pretzeled into the plot. Then it further dipped by bringing magic into the show. The romantic drama is dumb and…

It's because he's a dumbass.

I swear, people who hate Olicity bring them up more than actual shippers. Even in a thread for a show that they aren't part of, haha.

If she thought that version of Wells loved Earth-1, can you imagine what a miserable bastard he was on Earth-2? Miserable-r bastard?

I love that Barry wouldn't make a move to save his own father, but will undo time to go back and reset everything he's screwed up by being an utter dumbass.

Yeah, I know it's just a stall tactic. Oliver needed to start believing in ~hope again or whatever, haha.

Well, obviously there's *something* he can do, because I doubt they're going to let Darhk succeed.

When the entire world is about to be ended by a maniac with magical powers who's trying to get control of an arsenal of nukes, I'd say doing anything that doesn't involve stopping that is unnecessary, yeah.

She specifically told him that *no one* could know. Once three people do - one of them being a mass murderer - seems to me that all bets are off.

Yeah, it's super thin. And if the whole point was to "protect" the kid - which Oliver reiterated several times when he was justifying the secret (in addition to him promising he wouldn't let anyone know), then he failed spectacularly by not letting everyone who he knows is trustworthy - like, everyone who has kept his…

Even as a collective, there isn't a cycle of them being caught in a lie "repeatedly." Donna lied about leaving Felicity's father. Felicity's been caught in a lie once at the beginning of the season. They are high and mighty about lying, yeah - not arguing with you there. And I would say that Donna is in fact a…

Nope, just calling out inconsistencies where I see them. If you're gonna call out Felicity for dealing with family drama while the whole world is in danger, then call out Oliver for dropping all of that to go save his sister. If you don't care for the bickering, then just say so. Not so difficult.

"which is obviously a much bigger and more pertinent violation of trust than Oliver explicitly promising a boy's mother he wouldn't tell anyone he was the father? Right!"

What lies has Felicity repeatedly been caught in? Apart from the general hiding the secret identity, which both Oliver and Diggle do too, Oliver called her out for lying to him about feeling sick on their trip so she could help the team back in Star City. I can't think of any other ones.

"B+ if you completely throw away the entire Felicity plot and re-write it wherein the non-stop family bickering bullshit is removed. There are literally hundreds of nuclear weapons at risk — and one just landed! A few minutes ago! Nearby!"

On top of that, Thea also reiterated that Oliver needed to keep the kid a secret from Felicity to protect him, and never quite gave any reason why she thought Felicity knowing would harm the kid? I mean, even after Felicity found out, when she was briefing the team about William's kidnapping, she referred to him as a…

It's not really a disparity though. If there was some end-of-the-world threat that she needed to help stop during the "my crush married an assassiny assassin" & "my fiancé has a kid whose mum forbade him from telling anyone" moments, then I would've expected her to compartmentalize there, too. She kind of did…

Right? It's like…all this talk about Oliver "protecting" the kid, when protecting William would've actually involved Oliver telling the people around him who could've helped keep him safe. All Oliver did was actively put the kid's life in danger by being a dumbass. How anyone is on his side truly baffles me, haha.

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