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Felicity Megan Smoak-Queen is the HBIC of the Team Arrow way

Wow, it’s been an emotional week and this episode did me in.  Arrow is finally starting to feel more like Arrow.  I’m more in love with OTA/Olicity/Felicity than ever and I never want to let them go.  Grab a pint of mint chip and let’s dig in!

Episode 7x15 spoilers ahead>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I have to admit when Felicity announced her pregnancy last week, I was scared the writers would sideline her as a result.  So far, tonight proved those fears to be unfounded.  Felicity was actually more actively involved in the action than she has been since Oliver got out of prison.  I am kinda peeved that we didn’t get to see her deputized with the rest of the team (because the 150th episode was hot garbage for not recognizing her as a hero).  But in my head canon, Oliver was like ‘I’m not going out in the field with you incompetent idiots without my wife on comms. Periodt.’  And I think Felicity only agreed because there was no way she was letting her hubby go out in the field with incompetent idiots without her on comms.  This is not the face of someone who signed up willingly or gladly lol.

And, per usual, our certified genius is not wrong.  OTA does not belong at the SCPD and everybody flippin’ knows it.  They’ve saved the city countless times and are now treated like rookie cops.  While I commend Oliver for wanting to do things ‘in the light’ his mission has always been to make Star City safer, whether for his children or someone else’s children.  So basically, we wasted a lot of screen time to come full circle because by the end of the episode, the Team get to be vigilantes, but still work under the SCPD, which just seems to be a slightly more formal arrangement than they had with Quinton for years.  Also, I was giving DD some serious stink eye when she was lamenting losing everything.  Cause Felicity did lose everything and DD didn’t seem to care all that much.

Anyhoo, we waste enough time with them on-screen and I’m not spending any more time ranting about them.  Let’s move on to something that really matters...

Oliver’s ugly coat was no where to be seen and neither was oddly distant, fear of eye contact Oliver.  Is there a correlation?  Hmmm.....whatever.  Wherever they went, I hope they stay gone.  I vastly prefer the Oliver we saw tonight, looking adoringly at his wife, complimenting her smarts, working with her, kissing her, and I truly didn’t think it was humanly possible, but he is more smitten than ever.  Mint chip?  All you want, honey.  Still hungry?  He will go all Master Chef and whip a whole meal right up for her.  Does my stomach look bigger?  Major husband points for not saying the tiny bump she’s noticing is probably all mint chip at this point lol. Felicity Smoak is gonna rule his world for next nine months.

LOL, Flarrow coffee date Oliver had no clue that one day he would be expectant father Oliver and still happily doing whatever she asks because she’s so cute and he loves her so much.  #smoakedforlife   

Olicity had several conversations tonight that touched on how they are partners always and how their children will have them to lean on.  Beautiful sentiments but in the Arrowverse, we all know it’s foreshadowing that something bad is going to happen.  But the thing is, Arrow has already shown us the dystopian future with no Oliver Queen in sight.  Mia directly stated she grew up without her father.  We’re seeing the crap future in present time.  Maybe I’m still in deep denial or just wishful thinking, but I think if Oliver dies, something will happen to bring him back and change the present and/or future.  I just can’t fathom that his journey from billionaire playboy to tortured castaway to hooded vigilante to fully recognized hero ends in an early death and never seeing the future he fought so hard for--hanging up the hood, growing old with his wife, raising his children in a city that he made safer, and in a world made better by his heroism.  Felicity, who joined his crusade to help a man who was nice to her and given selflessly of her time, intelligence, and skills for seven years, and was the happy story of Oliver Queen’s life, should have her happy story with Oliver by her side as she makes a difference in the world through Smoak Tech.  They are a team.  Always.

Speaking of Smoak Tech, we got a Delicity scene that was reminiscent of the bond that used to exist between John and Felicity.  (Pod Diggle went away with ugly coat and pod Oliver, hopefully never to be seen again).   Diggle was happy and supportive when Olicity told him they are having a baby.  Oliver’s glowing face was kinda a dead giveaway but we’ll pretend Diggle was shocked lol.  Dig knowing the news led to him bringing Felicity what Lyla used for nausea when she was pregnant and in true Yoda Diggle style, praise and encouragement for the tech she is developing.  I have missed this dynamic so much and I am very glad the writers are finally remembering and respecting the history of this brotp.

Tonight’s episode was so good because it focused on the core three.  The show finally seems to shedding some of the extra weight it has been carrying for far too long.  Curtis and Diaz were a good start but I hope to see it pared down even more. There was a much better balance between the emotional scenes and the action scenes.  All they ever have to do is just write toward the dynamics that make this show work, that have always made this show work for the past seven years.  Honor and respect the history of Original Team Arrow.  It is my fondest hope that these last episodes of Arrow will do just that.  This started with the three of them.  It’s time we got back to that.  OTA forever. <3 <3 <3

INFINITE JULIE GIFS: 49/∞