User blog comment:Mynameiskeithstone/5 Things that Need to Change in Season 4 of Arrow/@comment-65.175.152.2-20150527201227

You said, "Before the series even began, one thing that every fan wanted to know was how long before Laurel became Black Canary."

No, every fan did not want to know that. You seem to think that everybody that watches Arrow cares about comic books---They do not, nor do they all care about comic canon.

"I LOVE Felicity Smoak"

While I appreciate that you didn't say she should "die", I think your claiming to "love" her character is disingenuous at best. Felicity Smoak interferes with the couple you want to happen, so no, I don't think you "love" her at all.

"Oliver and Felicity have ZERO romantic chemistry, and the fact that Oliver is just all of a sudden madly in love with her makes no sense at all."

Let me take the second part first---Oliver did NOT just all of a sudden fall for her. The show has been thinking about O&F as a couple since as early as #l08. All the actors have said that the way Arrow, or really any TV show, is cut together gives hints/clues as to where it's headed or at least thinking about heading. That happened in #108 when Diggle told Oliver, "...and when you meet the right person you'll be ready for her." The very next scene is a shot of Felicity walking into Walter's office. The show could just as easily have cut to Walter and then to Felicity---they didn't.

SA and the EP's have all said that in #206 when Oliver gave his "I cant be w/anyone I could really care about" speech, he was specifically talking 'about' Felicity---that at that point Oliver had realized he had feelings for her. The EP's also said that one of the reasons they brought in Sara was to "slow down" Oliver and Felicity (and I'm guessing to put that final nail in the coffin of O&L in #214 I think). Also at one of the Cons last summer, SA was asked why Isabelle Rochev hated Felicity so viciously---SA indicated that "his" head canon about that was that Oliver may have had an unfortunate in-the-throes-of-passion moment during his "night" with Isabelle (as in calling Felicity's name).

When Sara broke up w/Oliver in #220, after she says that Oliver needs someone who can harness that light that's still inside him, that she's not that person and never will be, she turns her head and looks in the direction of Felicity. There was absolutely no reason for the character to do that, except to remind viewers about Felicity w/o even showing Felicity.

Oliver realized he was in love w/Felicity in #222, in the clock tower, after F's "I believe in you" speech.

In #223 when Oliver told her he loved her, it was the truth. Their kiss was cut.

At the end of #223, on the island, when Felicity all but outright asked him if it was true what he had said---he just smiled --he never denied it.

There are many more examples, prob better, I just cant remember them and dont have the time for research. But the point is, they were there for anyone who was actually willing to "see" them, and that cannot be denied at this point, as something just being "made up" by a particular fandom, since Oliver and Felicity are in fact a couple.

I think I saw that you agreed w/a poster down thread that there was a brother-sister feel betw O&F. Umm No. If I saw any brothers and sisters looking at ea other the way O&F do, I would be seriously concerned.

You said that O&F "don't go together." A nerd w/"Oliver Queen". That is exactly why I like them together---it's actually one of the best things about themthey're opposites--its interesting--and besides, opposites attract.

Zero chemistry. Well, chemistry is in the eye of the beholder---subjective. But I might give a little more credence to your assessment of their chemistry if I thought you'd actually "had" a romantic relationship---if I thought you'd had ANY life experience to warrant trying to give the impression that you actually KNOW what you're talking about w/regard to who, and who does not have chemistry. I don't. I think you are very young. Mid teens prob. I think you are intellectually mature, but not emotionally mature. I do NOT mean that as a criticism at all. I think you still have a lot of growing up to do. I certainly wasn't emotionally mature when I was 15 or 16although I def thought I was.

You said, "...but I cannot take her seriously at all as a love interest." That is entirely because YOU do not want HER to BE the love interest. You are not open to it at all. It's not about a lack of chemistry for you---I think that's just something you read and decided to use as justification. For you, it is plainly dismissed as an option---prob because it is not in the comics. You clearly want Oliver to be w/BC.

In S4, after the 1st episode, where there will obviously need to be some exposition as to where the relationship betw O&F is at that point, I think their relationship will just be treated as a fact not a focus of the series. Oliver will be a happier guy (although happier is 'relative' on Arrow), which is bringing him closer to his GA persona. I would think Felicity will also be happier -- perhaps back to her inappropriately quippy self.

Ok sorry, this went on a LOT longer than I anticipated. I don't want your head, because you'll need it when you grow up, and because as you said, your opinion is your opinion. I had no intention of offending you either, hope I didn't. And if you are older than 15-16, all I can say about that is---oh.