User blog comment:Eobard95/Felicity dies saving Samantha?/@comment-24152851-20170702001110/@comment-26624146-20170705044847

That's the point. Show ratings have gone down because of the way they've poorly written her and unless she goes it will only get worse. Trying to fix her isn't going to help either because not many people can see past her for what she is now, so getting rid of her is the only way to fix things and it may even bring back some of the vewiers they lost. They could take the Roy apporach with her I guess but because of Olicity I don't see that happening unless there is a hell of a good reason that she suddenly falls out of love with Oliver and leaves. If she dies everybody does treat her like a saint true but personally I can live with that because she's still not around toweigh everybody down. I think killing her would be a braver option but if she left for good I could live with that too. Like you said it's a 50/50 chance with her now.

I know I may be grasping for straws but every other tv show I've seen were a couple is having issues that leads to a makeup kiss that's usually when something happens that either drives them apart, or one of them dies for character development reasons. I'm getting the same feeling now because of that kiss in 5x23.

Believe me I'm trying not to get hopes too high either because if the casting is undecided I know it could just as easily be somebody else, but I'm just holding out for hope that it will be her which frankly I'm amazed I can still do at this point.