User blog comment:Taw2541/I am officially done with Arrow/@comment-33634200-20171220190857

If I may make a logical argument with as little bias as possible, I'll try to explain why you are right Taw2541.

As two individual people, Oliver and Felicity have little in common. What they do share is a desire to help others. That is a reasonable basis for working together, as teammates. But when it comes to morals, they seem to be at opposite ends on some points.

At the beginning of Season 1, Oliver, true to his 5 years of hell, is targeting the List because he has researched it, and knows the people on it are the corruption that strangles Starling City. He is aiming to defeat the metaphorical hydra by cutting off its heads, one by one and making sure two don't grow back by first using fear to keep them in line. If fear isn't enough, he is willing to kill them and tear down their power bases to the same end. Extreme circumstances, extreme measures. Smart.

However, Felicity seems to have a more romanticised, narrow view of how to save the city. Going after individual criminals seems to be her idea of fighting the corruption. As Diggle pointed out in Season 1, Episode 14, Oliver is trying to go for the root of the metaphorical disease, not abate the symptoms. Now, I'm not saying Oliver's logic is without its flaws, but he seems to have a better grasp on the 'big picture'. Felicity doesn't seem to understand how his mind works, what he is, and what he's had to endure to become that.

Now this is where my personal opinion may conflict. From my point of view, Sara is in the best position to understand Oliver, she even keeps using his previous method come Season 2, despite his protests. It might be hard to see, but she could have been trying to push him back to how he used to handle thing because it worked. An example is Chen Na Wei/China White. He would have killed her in Season 1 but never got the chance to finish the job, but in Season 2 he let her live, which made her a threat in Season 5.

However, as much as I personally like Oliver and Sara together, they have some differences and history that make a relationship not the best idea for them. What they have done with the two now, close friends who are still able to read each other with a glance and would die for the other, is the best thing for them.

Laurel, for whatever shortcomings she may have, by Season 4 was beginning to understand Oliver like Sara did, and still loved him. She would have made more sense as a romantic partner for him, if she'd been given a little more time to come to terms with the finer points of his ideology and their history. If she'd lived to Season 5, and with the Olicity relationship not a thing any longer, I believe she could have accepted all of him, and it would have also given us a chance to see the Black Canary she was meant to be, strong, skilled, without hesitation, byt also moral, kind and understanding.

And whilst on the topic of the Black Canary as a hero, not an individual, I do agree that she could have been done justice much better, but they chose to kill her too soon for that to be possible.