User blog comment:Danielpickering/Has Stephen Amell caused the Death of Arrow?/@comment-27700324-20180114182218/@comment-27700324-20180115200320

Trust me Doc, if Guggie was writing the Oliver and Laurel relationship for as long as Oliver and Felicity, she would grow just as bad a character.

It isn't how a relationship going on for a long time is destined to fail. I watch Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D and the writing team is obviously different. The show being made by Joss Weadon's younger brother. It is more the fact that the CW is more focused on the drama when it comes to relationships. Not the working romance part. So that is the difference here. No matter what, they need to create problems because a relationship that actually works isn't interesting to Guggenheim or the CW. That is shown with the difference between Fitz/Simmons and Oliver/Felicity.