User blog comment:Eobard95/Could Felicity still be dead?/@comment-1330227-20170915235251/@comment-26624146-20170916212531

Well this is a CW show so romance is unavoidable (personally I would have Oliver be with nobody since they can't seem to do it right) so yea it would be nice if they actually paired Green Arrow with who he's supposed to be with as he has been for the last 50 years of comic book history.

Olicity started off as fanfiction and yea it may have been adapted but that doesn't make it not fanfiction as Felicity Smoak has never been romantically involved with Green Arrow in any version of the story prior to Arrow, and considering how utterly it messed up the show it likely never will again. Hell Felicity showed up in New 52 and people stopped buying the comics and now in the Rebirth series GA and BC are together again and Diggle and Malcolm have both been introduced yet Felicity han't been brought back so even DC knows how unpopular she is.

Pairing Felicity with Oliver at the expense of Black Canary is like killing Lois Lane and pairing Superman with Barbra Gordon.

Persoally I never took 2x06 as a serious hint towards it because I naturally assumed Oliver would be with Laurel as per comic tradition which again Smallville and Flash have both done properly as expected.