User blog comment:TheDoctor230/Arrow's Reddit Page/@comment-1183010-20171202083855

While I'm no fan of Olicity, I doubt this will change things. The problem is that the showrunners don't have the balls to take the plunge and do something shocking anymore. Everytime they have left things that could hint at Felicity's death they change their minds. First it was Season 4 as Felicity getting killed by Dahrk would have been a better storyline over Laurel, simply because Laurel had no real development and she was made a greater person that she was made in the series. While I loved Laurel, the way they talk about her makes me wonder what she did throughout the series. It made no sense.

Then of course there is the most recent Season 6 Premier, they had the chance to change the line up by killing off some unessecary characters but they kept them all alive. It seems to me that the showrunners are too chicken to change anything about Arrow.

The fact that they can do that as it has been shown in the crossover by killing off Stein, They could have easily written him out so that he could be still alive and have retired, but nope they took the plunge and killed him off and it was a good motivation for the team to take on the Nazi army. His death & funeral were tearjerking and was written well. If they put as much effort into Arrow like they did with the crossover minus the last minute then maybe Arrow wouldn't be such a sad state.

Now I'm not saying that Season 6 has been all bad, I loved Black Siren in the first episode, but the fact that she has been relegated to a minion rather then a main villian is annoying, Vigilantie's identity was a huge letdown and Dragon hasn't been as intimidating as I though he would be but there is still time for him. The Slade Parts were awesome and was one of the best parts of the series so far, it's unfortunate that it's unlikely we will be seeing Slade for the rest of the series.

But the problem is that this time last year Season 5 was awesome, you had an awesome villian in Prometheus, and you had some good and intresting characters on the team like Ragman, but this time while I love Michael Emerson as Cayden James, he is not as good as Prometheus was. They will need to blow us away with the Mid-Season Finale if they want to regain the fans support, because at the moment their not doing well.