“Arrow” tried its best to give Olicity fans what they wanted in seasons 3 and 4, but it didn’t quite turn out the way people expected. After having great chemistry together for the first two seasons, Oliver and Felicity turned out to be an awful couple, and fans quickly grew tired of their arguments.
One of the biggest complaints people had about Olicity was the fact that Felicity always seemed to nag Oliver about the way he does things. Oliver Queen is notorious for hiding the truth from his team, which is something Felicity didn’t agree with. Now Felicity is hiding the fact that she’s working with Helix from the rest of the team, and producer Marc Guggenhiem says her perspective on why Oliver does the things he does is going to change big time.
“We’re starting to put her in Oliver’s footsteps a little bit,” EP Marc Guggenheim told EW. “She’s going to get a chance to experience things a little bit more from Oliver’s perspective. I think the reason they broke up was her difficulty to see things from Oliver’s perspective. They broke up fundamentally because she didn’t trust Oliver, and the reason she didn’t trust Oliver is she couldn’t understand why he made the decisions he made.”
There’s a reason why Oliver Queen is the leader of Team Arrow, and although it’s easy to understand why the rest of the team gets frustrated with him at times, they could probably give him a little more credit.
Whether or not this change in Felicity’s perspective could lead to a second act for Olicity remains to be seen, so we’ll just have to wait and see how it all plays out.
“Arrow” will return on Wednesday, March 21st with “Kapiushon.”
“Prometheus (Josh Segarra) goes to great lengths to break Oliver (Stephen Amell). Meanwhile, in the flashbacks, Anatoly (guest star David Nykl) becomes worried about Oliver’s increasingly violent tendencies, which come to a head in a brutal confrontation. Kevin Tancharoen directed the episode written by Brian Ford Sullivan & Emilio Ortega Aldrich.”
