User blog comment:Eobard95/Felicity dies saving Samantha?/@comment-24152851-20170702001110/@comment-24152851-20170704125000

Well unfortunately it doesn't come down to what we think, but what they think. You know? Despite there being an absence of Olicity in the first half of the season, she actually annoyed me even more than Season 4 due to her being more of a hypocrite than before. Killing off Laurel is still one of the most puzzling decisions Arrow has made, but she at least didn't form the primary Team Arrow trio. Killing Felicity would be like killing off Cisco, which is virtually impossible at this point. As insufferable as Felicity is of recent, there wouldn't have been a Team Arrow without her, it would just be Diggle and The Hood. I've actually read up on different interpretations of Felicity dying in Doomworld. Some think it was supposed to be tragic in how the previously non-action hero is forced into a field role and is the last survivor left, but every Felicity hater went and jumped on the "this was a gift to those who hate Felicity" train. I'm not fully convinced they did that just to acknowledge Felicity is a bad character.

Well yes, someone will probably die. But aside from "Felicity is hated in the fanbase", there's not really any obvious clue which points to it being her.

Felicity/Olicity was a contributing factor, but even if you took both out completely, Season 3 would still suck. I admit Season 4 would have been improved due to far too much Felicity-oriented episodes. There's also Oliver being depowered and Oliver's son drama that people hated, which Felicity didn't directly contribute to (with the exception of her getting mad at him not telling her). While it wasn't the best decision to pair Oliver and Felicity, the relationship itself wasn't automatically bad from day 1, it was the very poor handling of it. How Felicity would always dominate the relationship and can scold/criticize Oliver, even though she was guilty of the exact same things. Being a hypocrite was what destroyed Felicity.