User blog comment:Eobard95/Felicity dies saving Samantha?/@comment-24152851-20170702001110/@comment-26624146-20170704051536

Killing or sparing Felicity will have consequences regardless true, but I honestly think it's better if she gets killed. I mean this year really was their second chance to prove they can put Olicity behind them and keep Felicity as the tech-nerd character we all loved to start with and they failed, and people are just ready to assume she'll live and Olicity will be endgame and will stop watching as a result. I'm halfway there myself to be honest. As for being significant well not many people thought Laurel would be killed and she was and people's anger only skyrocketed as a result, (hence why I'm convinced E2-Laurel returning is them trying to fix their mistake), espeically when many of those people wanted it to be Felicity who died instead which only further indicates that Felicity dying is the better option now. I mean LOT 2x16 basically acknowledged this by having Felicity get killed by Sara (who still remains Oliver's best love interest) on Damien Darhk's order.

Oh yea TWD 6x16 ended with a villain named Negan showing up and holding Rick and co. hostage and randomly picked one of his group to die in retaliation for killing several of Negan's men weeks earlier. Now that victim wasn't shown at the time. Instead Negan smacked his baseball bat at the camera with blood pouring down it as it faded to black, and only after a 6 month wait in 7x01 was it revealed who it was. 5x23 ended very similiar, even Guggie has said that.

I think it was a shame too that people didn't come back for Prometheus but I don't blame them I mean I almost didn't come back myself this year and the only reason I did was because I needed to see how the final year of flashbacks ended. Season 3/4 also had a few other flaws besides Olicity but I still think it was the main cause. I mean Flash season 3 wasn't as popular either for a number of reasons but Barry and Iris weren't so untolerable as a couple that people were turned away, and there was still enough going on to keep people interested.