Arrow Is It Time for 'Arrow' to Put Oliver and Felicity Back Together?

[rachelmac]

Arrow season 5 has been one of the best years of the show since season 2 and it might just be the best season yet. It's also a year that has ignored any kind of romantic tension between Oliver and Felicity. The two have interacted but they have mainly been doing their own thing with just scant mentions of their romantic history. Seasons 3 and 4 of Arrow have problems of their own outside of the intense focus on Olicity, season 3 especially. A failing aspect of both of those seasons is that it put the spotlight on Oliver and Felicity to the detriment of nearly everything else.

What do you think?

 

[legendkillin]

Nope...

 

[hopeless]

No.
They need to get over that, they need to pay attention to what works and that didn't!
They should be fine if they keep them from messing up as badly as the latest season of The Flash did!
How about have the Rogues turn up instead and have it be about Captain Cold's successor whose gun is shot out of his hand by Oliver accidentally breaking the copy he had built activating his metahuman abilities becoming a cold projector with a fondness for ice weapons rather than freezing a for solid?

Omatopia, sorry the hero killer how about he comes after the new vigilantes?

 

[Deltron3030]

Honestly, if they can be together and not give felocity much air time I'm all for it. It's not the olicty that bothers me it's the felocity drama that bothers me, and the overphasis on her on the show.

 

[Legendver2]

It seems like its happening next season with how the finale ended though.

 

[KillerMcQueen]

The problem for me isn't the idea of the pairing, they have decent chemistry and done correctly can add to the show, the problem is they spent two seasons handling the relationship in a way that detracted from the show, it was consistently one of season 3's many issues, and it managed to almost singlehandedly trainwreck several episodes towards the end of S4. Bringing it back isn't a guarantee of the show going downhill again, but it certainly gives some of us a bad feeling about the shows potential direction given its close association with seasons 3 and 4 which aren't even close to the quality of seasons 1,2, and 5.

 

[Osiris-Rex]

The problem for me isn't the idea of the pairing, they have decent chemistry and done correctly can add to the show, the problem is they spent two seasons handling the relationship in a way that detracted from the show, it was consistently one of season 3's many issues, and it managed to almost singlehandedly trainwreck several episodes towards the end of S4. Bringing it back isn't a guarantee of the show going downhill again, but it certainly gives some of us a bad feeling about the shows potential direction given its close association with seasons 3 and 4 which aren't even close to the quality of seasons 1,2, and 5.

The problem with season 4 wasn't Olicity. It was they made Felicity the main focus of the show and reduced Oliver to a supporting character in his own show. Season 5 was good because it got back to the show being about Oliver.

 

[cheungcheung]

Doesn't matter what we think since they're obviously getting back together next season and stay together

 

[shabadoo25]

The show has always been at it's best with those two playing off each other, so yes.

However, I'm guessing that Felicity will be in major danger all next year due to her flirtation with Helix.

 

[marvelrobbins]

yes.here was the problem during season 4.felicity was better as being tech part of team arrow and li of oliver but her as ceo was stupid as well as forcing
her parents onto show as semi important characters.

 

[Syncos]

The show has always been at it's best with those two playing off each other, so yes.

However, I'm guessing that Felicity will be in major danger all next year due to her flirtation with Helix.

This show was at it's worst when their relationship was a thing. So I would absolutely disagree with you.

The show was at it's best in seasons 1 and 2 before Oliver "realized" he had feelings for Felicity.

So no. Absolutely Not. Don't do it. We've been down that road, it was awful.

 

[KillerMcQueen]

The problem with season 4 wasn't Olicity. It was they made Felicity the main focus of the show and reduced Oliver to a supporting character in his own show. Season 5 was good because it got back to the show being about Oliver.

Felicity's increased importance through S4 was directly tied to Olicity though, Felicity's parents probably wouldn't have become semi-regulars if not for Olicity, being LI to the main character calls for more development, and they've created a background for her that is toxic to the show. Bringing back Olicity makes me concerned that those elements could return, and that would almost certainly only be detrimental to the show. Technically I will concede that Olicity wasn't directly the problem most of the time in S4, though it certainly still had some bad moments, Olicity did almost singlehandedly trainwreck episode 4-15 in all of one scene.

 

[inkblaster]

Nope, as previously stated the worst two seasons were 3 and 4 when Olicity started. I'm also old school, Green Arrow and Black Canary's relationship is one of the firmest(if there is such a thing) in DC.

For whatever reason they decided to just go and kill off Laurel, and focus on Felicity, and then bring in Dinah, but whatever, nope, no Olicity, Oliver in a steady relationship doesn't seem to work well for whatever other plot points, might as well keep things casual.

 

[metaphysician]

If they are willing to actually *put them together*, and allow them to *actually be together*, yes definitely. The problem with "Olicity" was the insertion of weird forced drama. Some of the best parts of season 4 were the early parts before they started foreshadowing dumb breakup plot.

 

[Syncos]

No. No "Just being happy". That's not a thing they get to have.

When Oliver is in a relationship with someone, that relationship becomes a large portion of the show. Thus becomes a pain point in a show about a vigilante. You can't have two main cast members in a relationship and not have it about that.

This was also a weak point with the Laurel relationship in season 1-2. That one wasn't soo bad, though. Because it was a minor plot point. Laurel wasn't "in the fold" and part of the vigilante shenanigans.

Oliver should only have relationships with secondary characters.

I didn't mind Sara and Ollie, or Isabelle and Ollie (even though that went south) or Susan Williams. As long as it's a relationship that's happening mostly off screen, with a few moments here and there, it generally works.

If i've gotta sit through Oliver and Felicity longingly staring into each other's eyes, or refusing to accept each other be a part of stuff for their own safety for 22 episodes i'm going to tear my eyeballs out.

 

[Babillygunn]

Nope, as previously stated the worst two seasons were 3 and 4 when Olicity started. I'm also old school, Green Arrow and Black Canary's relationship is one of the firmest(if there is such a thing) in DC.

For whatever reason they decided to just go and kill off Laurel, and focus on Felicity, and then bring in Dinah, but whatever, nope, no Olicity, Oliver in a steady relationship doesn't seem to work well for whatever other plot points, might as well keep things casual.

This. I really would like to see Ollie like his comic counterpart. Give us a Sherwood, give us left wing activism. Give us a Canary ship. If not laurel, then Dinah. No more brooding no more self loathing.

 

[shabadoo25]

No. No "Just being happy". That's not a thing they get to have.

When Oliver is in a relationship with someone, that relationship becomes a large portion of the show. Thus becomes a pain point in a show about a vigilante. You can't have two main cast members in a relationship and not have it about that.

This was also a weak point with the Laurel relationship in season 1-2. That one wasn't soo bad, though. Because it was a minor plot point. Laurel wasn't "in the fold" and part of the vigilante shenanigans.

Oliver should only have relationships with secondary characters.

I didn't mind Sara and Ollie, or Isabelle and Ollie (even though that went south) or Susan Williams. As long as it's a relationship that's happening mostly off screen, with a few moments here and there, it generally works.

If i've gotta sit through Oliver and Felicity longingly staring into each other's eyes, or refusing to accept each other be a part of stuff for their own safety for 22 episodes i'm going to tear my eyeballs out.

Likely not to happen, at least not past S6E3.

I think they get together again but are threatened/separated by either Helix or Laurel-2.

 

[Gallops]

I think that Oliver will push Felicity away after what happened this season. He'll say he doesn't want her in harms way anymore because of him.

I think that E2 Laurel ends up getting reformed in some way, maybe realizing that with Chase gone, she has nobody to turn to now aside from Oliver who likely still believes she has a bit of his Laurel in her. They eventually grow close, and have a relationship.

Or, Oliver and Dinah have a relationship to keep up with the Black Canary/Green Arrow relationship lore.

 

[$0UL3$$]

This is like pairing clark kent with cat grant or barry allen with jesse quick. No. Green arrow belongs with the black canary, whether its laurel, dinah or sara in my opinion

 

[Batmannerism]

Why not ? They have good chemistry and I thought the pairing worked well - probably because they're both Canadians...... just kidding, but I do think they are a good on-screen couple. So why not indeed ?

 

[Dark Raven]

Big no to Olicity. This season has been much better without them. The two previous seasons were much worse. Do they want to regress to seasons 3 and 4 again after this much stronger season?

I prefer they keep Felicity to a minimum. I can't stand all the romantic scenes with Olicity, especially the sex scenes. They are so cringe worthy. We had to suffer through that this season with that flashback to Olicity when they were trapped down below. That was like having to relive a season 3 or 4 episode.

With Olicity, we know we're going to get more of EBR's melodramatic acting and voice quiver, which is excruciating to watch. Just keep her as the side character like she was in season 1 who has a few quirky lines here and there. That's when I think she worked best instead of taking over the show.

 

[Trainwreck2100]

I'm hoping that Oliver using his son's hostage situation as some reasoning for never entering into any kind of relationship ever again.

 

[Dark Raven]

I'm hoping that Oliver using his son's hostage situation as some reasoning for never entering into any kind of relationship ever again.

Until Diggle tells him that he's already been here each season and that he's just going through the same cycle all over again.

 

[2kt09]

I hope...Felicity is dead...

 

[shabadoo25]

I think that Oliver will push Felicity away after what happened this season. He'll say he doesn't want her in harms way anymore because of him.

I think that E2 Laurel ends up getting reformed in some way, maybe realizing that with Chase gone, she has nobody to turn to now aside from Oliver who likely still believes she has a bit of his Laurel in her. They eventually grow close, and have a relationship.

Or, Oliver and Dinah have a relationship to keep up with the Black Canary/Green Arrow relationship lore.

I'm still betting on a F/O/L2 triangle.

Dinah gets with Quentin to loosely follow the JSA Canary lore.