I've Been Trying To Do It Right, I've Been Living A Lonely Life

[redbrunja]

So, there was some grade-A shippy tropes going on with Slade and Shado, wasn't there? Huddling together for warmth, Slade asking Shado to leave him behind and Shado refusing...

The rest of the episode was enjoyable and everyone looked freaking gorgeous in their coats and hats.

I wasn't surprised, but I was rolling my eyes over Oliver sleeping with Summer Glau's character. Oh, Felicity, you deserve better than Oliver. I really hope Arrow doesn't start circling this place where Oliver sleeps with other women, Felicity is hurt, and nothing every changes. (I want Felicity to sleep with other people, Oliver to be emotionally hurt, and Felicity to rebuff his first few advances, because she's a smart girl.)

Comments

[mollivanders.livejournal.com]

+1

The actress has made some comments in interviews where she's pushing the writers to explore Felicity more outside of Oliver and Team Arrow, which is heartening.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

i'm kind of really super bugged by the amount of time we HAVEN'T SPENT developing felicity as a character outside of her cutesy cutesy "heaving bosom to oliver's gleaming muscled chest" scenes. like??? she's a serious hacker where did she get THOSE SKILLS

as mollivanders mentioned, everyone, including the actress, wants to spend more time with the non Oliver-centric part of Felicity's life.


new head canon, felicity is from gotham and she learned those skills from her girlfriend barbara gordon in between lots and lots of sex.

i can dig it.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

new head canon, felicity is from gotham and she learned those skills from her girlfriend barbara gordon in between lots and lots of sex.

Works for me!

[empressearwig.livejournal.com]

Admittedly, I ship Oliver/Felicity less than most of fandom does (I ship them in the OT3 far more), but I didn't have a problem with the Oliver sleeping with Isabel part. For all that there was that end scene, Felicity and Oliver aren't together and SHOULDN'T be together, not for a long time. Oliver's not wrong about thinking that he's not in a place where he could be in an actual relationship.

As for how they develop the relationship in the future, I'm flexible, but I would definitely like it to include Felicity having a life outside the Arrowcave. They did that for Digg in this episode, it's time for Felicity to get that development too.

[mollivanders.livejournal.com]

This episode was okay? But I didn't get why Oliver felt the need to make that little speech at the end to Felicity. Putting aside my shipper goggles, I could see Felicity being upset over Oliver sleeping with Isabel because she's part of their circle - it's not likely Felicity would care if Oliver hooked up with someone Felicity didn't have to work with on a daily basis. I was more annoyed at Isabel's insinuations about Oliver/Felicity - I get where she's coming from, but the way she just marginalized Felicity to Oliver's hook up was really discouraging.

Oh, Felicity, you deserve better than Oliver.

Well it's likely she's going to, soon ;) And then I'm all there for Oliver not being prepared for Felicity having a boyfriend.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

You know, I actually liked that? Because it felt really realistic and because (as I mentioned in my previous episode review) the way Felicity and Oliver interact (especially re: shaving/blood on Oliver’s face scene) read as 100% the actions of two people who are sleeping with each other, especially without the context of their actual relationship.

And in fact, I did get the feeling that part of Felicity’s problem WAS that Oliver slept with someone both Felicity and Oliver are going to have to deal with on a day-to-day basis (i.g. the line about how many women over the age of consent there is in Russia).

Do we have spoilery confirmation that Felicity is going to be getting a bf? Or is it just that everyone is rooting for that?

[mollivanders.livejournal.com]

I think we do have spoilery confirmation. I've been avoiding the exact spoiler but everyone in the olicity tag on tumblr seems to know what's up.