User blog:Eobard95/Could Felicity still be dead?

I know there are a lot of implications that Felicity won't die, mainly teases of Olicity returning, but I still think there is a chance she may die and the EPs are very elaborately stringing people along.

I heard a while ago the EPs hinted that a main character would die, I think they said "Don't expect everyone to survive because of contract agreements" or something similar. They also did say it was a very Walking Dead 6x16 based cliffhanger for those of you who watched that and TWD 7x01 you know how that ended. They also said "Oliver Queen will still lead Team Arrow despite deaths" which indicates at least two characters of close importance to Oliver are going to die. So this removes Talia and Evelyn even if they do die and I don't think Nyssa is getting killed because there's still more they can do between her and Talia so that leaves Samantha but that's at least one more to account for. I heard Quentin, Curtis and Rene were spotted filming a street scene so they seem to be safe and while Thea hasn't been spotted, I think killing her is unlikely so I thin comatose is most likely. That leaves Felicity and Diggle. While they've been reported to be on the set I haven't heard that much else about them filming and I've been suggesting for sometime now that one of them could simply be hanging around on set to mislead people, and they can still film the occasion flashback or hallucination scene.

Also they say the ending of 5x23 is more about how people will be affected but come on for a group of people who have been shot, stabbed, kidnapped, tortured, encountered meta-humans, sorcerers, aliens and even ventured into the afterlife, how is surviving an explosion gonna shake them up unless somebody major dies? While they have made hints towards Olicity they've also hinted towards Diggle suffering a PTSD arc but for a guy who killed his own brother without being traumatized for life and given the circumstances they're in, only thing I can think of is watching somebody he cares about getting killed. In the trailer he's also not that far behind Felicity as the island is exploding and in the trailers it also looks like Oliver is looking down on a woman's body. As for the Olicity teasing well they've also teased that Dinah will have a new love interest and I thought maybe it was Rene but I'm thinking it might actually be Oliver. Now I still haven't given up on my hopes to see E2-Laurel redeem and be with Oliver but I wouldn't mind Oliver and Dinah in the meantime and it would make sense as nothing would happen between Oliver and E2-Laurel at this stage anyway and if that is going to happen later and Felicity is dead, then CW law dictates that Oliver needs a love interest in between.

One thing I've noticed is that in Flash 3x22 Felicity texts Cisco and that episode is set in May 22nd whereas Arrow 5x23 is set in May 17th which indicates she is alive but honestly this may simply be an oversight. Remember Andy Diggle? He was first seen in the flashbacks of 3x14 which was set in 2010 yet when John met him again in 4x07 which was set in 2015 he claimed Andy had been dead for 8 years which would place his "death" year in 2007. So they've already made one massive timeline screw up. Also Hawkman and Hawkgirl's timelines are a bit screwed up as well as their lives as Joe and Edith Boardman ended in 1925 yet in their next incarnations they were already adults in 1941 when they should have been teenagers. Even Malcolm's wife's death year seems to change between 1993/1994.

Felicity has been reported to appear in Flash 4x05 and I saw a behind the scenes photo with her, Iris and Cecile but I've also read that the main villain of the season, Clifford DeVoe / Thinker, is a telepathic villain who can make people see visions so maybe he's mind f***ing with Iris? It would make sense for her to be thrown off the idea of marrying a superhero once reminded of the last superhero pairing that ended in tragedy, and the fact that Iris was almost killed by an evil version of Barry last season because of his recklessness. CW does also like to throw drama in so if Barry does actually return in 4x01 that's another 7 episodes to kill before the wedding. I also don't know why Felicity would be traveling all the way just for a girl's part to be honest it's not like Central City is down the road from Star City. Or another alternative is that Flash is actually helping Arrow keep the secret by spitting out bullshit.

A while ago at Comic Con, or one of the conventions, David Ramsey (Diggle) teased to a fan that there would be a wedding. He didn't specify between who but it was generally assumed that he was talking about an Olicity wedding, but recently he's hinted that there will be a wedding in the crossover but it will be WestAllen not Olicity. I think WestAllen is what he was actually hinting towards originally so if people are making assumptions based on this they could be making assumptions about a lot of things and Oliciters do have a habit of stretching things a bit. Also has anybody considered that the EPs are making the biggest deal out of Felicity because she's the one character nobody is expecting to get killed? They could be making it sound like there is no chance she'll die so we're all trying to figure out who is dying while leaving her out of the picture because she's safe, only for it to really be her that died the whole time? Stephen Amell also sighned a fan autograpgh before of the fake Olicity wedding in 4x16 saying "next time it's real" but come on who says the fan didn't ask him to write that just to stir up trouble? We are talking about a fan base that keeps sending threats to Katie Cassidy and Amell's wife and twist the EPs words all the time remember.

Honestly if nobody major dies that's just gonna bring the show's reputation down even more for stringing people along like that for 6 months for no resolve. As annoying as Walking Dead 6x16 was at least they didn't bitch out and have Negan kill nobody in 7x01. I know lying about the show is generally not what the EPs do but they generally don't have cliffhangers with everybody's fates unknown either do they? I've also thought about this a lot and trying to look at this as non-bias as possible I'm not seeing who else is getting killed if it's not Felicity but again if nobody dies it's gonna be a waste of time. It's also not like they haven't teased things before that either turned out to be a lie or an elaborate cover up for something else. In 5x23 they also did the infamous CW kiss before tragedy move as well, or at least every CW show I've seen where two estranged couples who make up and kiss one of them gets killed like 5 minutes later.