The weeks after Oliver’s death left Felicity feeling hollow and empty. Then one day after a trip to the grocery store that had her sobbing, she returns home to find someone waiting in her home. Suddenly her world made sense again, life and color returning, leaving nothing but unconditional love in its wake.
I really want to talk about how calm Oliver is when Felicity shows up in the paradise dimension.
Compare it to how she rushes toward him.
She is overwhelmed by seeing him.
Meanwhile, he’s just soaking her in.
I LOVE this contrast for two reasons. First, it really brings home the different ways each of them have been anticipating this moment:
Felicity has been missing Oliver with every beat of her heart for 20 years, a part of her always yearning toward him. She’s been getting less patient, more frantic, the closer the times comes for her to join him.
Meanwhile Oliver has had to be patient. Unlike Felicity who was busy living her life, being a hero, raising their children, running her company while half her heart was elsewhere with Oliver, Oliver has had nothing to do but wait. And dream. And plan (because you can tell he meticulously planned this moment down to the very last detail).
Second, it accentuates their core personality traits, and parallels their very first meeting:
Oliver is still, steady, grounded, certain, and magnetic, with a gravitational pull. When he approached her for the first time in 1x03, he stood still and waited for her to notice him. Meanwhile he was drawn to her brightness, fascinated by her energy. The same thing applies in this last first meeting. He’s just completely taken with her.
Felicity, meanwhile, is buzzing, energetic, bursting with life. When Oliver first approached her in 1x03, she was overwhelmed, nervous, and so attracted to him that she completely lost her chill. When she sees him again here, it’s like she’s meeting him again for the first time. She’s so nervous. Unlike the first time, she knows and trusts that he loves her with his whole heart, but it’s been so long since she’s seen him. She’s forgotten, just a little, what it feels like to be loved so completely. So when she sees him here again, just like the first time, she’s overwhelmed by him - by his steady, boundless love just for her. And again, she loses her chill a little 😂
It’s how they have always been, it’s who they are. Oliver is patience and fortitude while Felicity is an overachiever, never content to settle. He is stillness, she is movement.
Just like always, they are drawn to each other, they complement each other. Perfect.
I’m seriously angry at myself for watching the crossover and MG, BS and ALL the Arrow writers for jumping on my already broken heart.
Oliver Queen is dead again. I already cried - in May. I didn’t need this garbage again. And then read how gleeful MG and BS are about it - like it was the BEST possible ending for Oliver. They did not deserve access to that character. Even if they pull some crap and bring back in the finale - YOU F*CKED UP!
Felicity is a widow. Her biggest fear has officially be realized. She has lost Oliver. There is no hope of Baby Mia being influenced by her father and becoming a good person. It’s so freaking tragic. Felicity’s friends didn’t even offer her comfort when her husband died!
Arrow’s Oliver Queen and Felicity Smoak finally got married in season 6 after years of obstacles. Then in season 7, they took the next step and had a baby together, Mia. Even though Mia’s birth scene was brief, it was still moving because Oliver and Felicity were in it together and it’s a rare moment of normalcy for a couple that’s constantly dealing with super-villains. —Chancellor Agard