User blog comment:Mynameiskeithstone/5 Things that Need to Change in Season 4 of Arrow/@comment-86.132.197.198-20150510132940/@comment-5544928-20150510210835

i don't think the flashbacks went wrong by going to hong kong, as oliver has mentioned several times throughout the series that he wasn't always on Lian Yu during the five years. What I think the mistake is was not having any character development for Oliver at all and not having an interesting storyline to go with it. I also don't want felicity to leave, but I don't think they can just forget oliver was ever in love with her (even though he pretty much forgot he was ever in love with laurel)so the best way to end that storyline would be to have her leave the show