‘Arrow’ season 3 spoilers: The Oliver / Felicity journey ahead
Could “Arrow” season 3 actually end with Oliver and Felicity being together? While this has not been confirmed in any way, we do feel pretty confident in saying that the second half of season 3, assuming of course that Oliver is alive, will be very much about how these two figure out how they could make their true feelings known. For much of the series’ run, they have spent their time either joking around, hiding their feelings, or putting their head in the sand.
Obviously, Oliver seemingly dying at the hand of Ra’s al Ghul changes things, and upon the moment of his return (remember our earlier assumption), Emily Bett Rickards’ character could have a few things to say to him about where her heart lies. Executive producer Andrew Kreisberg says as such to TVLine in a new interview:
“She speaks up! … She definitely speaks up, but not quite in the way I think people are expecting. She has a lot of strong feelings … [This] season is really about them saying all the things they’ve never said … Where that takes them is to some tough places, but also to some right places. The how and the why and the when and the where of that is the fun in the back half of the season.”
Do we want to see them together? Definitely, and we’ve felt that way ever since the first season. However, we agree that it needs to take time, and Oliver needs to feel some of the emotional pain and longing of not being with someone when he wants to be with them. Waiting to Felicity that you love her until right before you seemingly die? Not cool, and this comes after being with Sara Lance around her and the whole stunt in the season 2 finale. He needs to earn her heart, and for Oliver, that should be a challenge. This is a man who has become rather used to having any woman he wants due to his history and wealth.
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Jennie
January 16, 2015 @ 2:17 am
Sorry but I disagree with the whole longing and waiting until the last minute to tell her he loves her. Felicity fell for Oliver and Oliver did not fall for her in that romantic way until the end of Season 2. Felicity saw him and Sarah together and yes that must have hurt but they were not in a relationship. Oliver is not responsible for how Felicity felt about him because he gave her no indication he felt the same way nor did he lead her on or encourage those feelings.. He told her he loved her twice,he told her “you know how I feel about her” and he told her “don’t tell me to say I don’t love you”..
Oliver has told her over and over again that because of what he does he cant be with someone he could really care about. If you bring Sarah into it well she could protect herself which Felicity cannot and has been proven time and again every time he rescued her. Finally we come into Season 3 and this man who has lost so many people he loves sits in a restaurant and actually tries to start a relationship with her and it literally blows up in his face. Oliver is in love with Felicity and if she had died in that explosion he would blame himself because that’s what he does. It would be enough to push from being a hero to being a villain.
When has Felicity opened up about her feelings for him. Yeah she is still skirting around it and knowing how he feels and how he blames himself SHE decides to walk away from it or go on a date to cause angst. I have no problem with Felicity I love Felicity but to put this whole thing on Oliver is just to much. There are two sides to every romance and until she says how she feels and stops kissing other men I have no sympathy for her. The way I see it if you truly love someone you should have zero desire to kiss someone else. If you truly love someone and want to be with that person you certainly don’t start falling for another guy a few weeks later.
Instead of looking at Oliver and relationships pre Island start looking at Oliver now.
kate277
January 15, 2015 @ 6:14 pm
I agree, there needs to be some desire on Oliver’s part to pursue his feelings regardless of the consequences. She needs some time too because she did make the right and healthy decision to try and cut the chord but then where she is now might impact her. Even if she has Ray around, he clearly is still hung up on his wife and he is going to go and likely put himself in more danger than Oliver does (at least normally, Oliver uses at arrow to avoid hand to hand) and she will need to come to the decision that she can’t risk her heart.
Oliver, I presume, is going to come back changed and there has been this discussion that he likely comes back closer to the iteration of the Green Arrow as social justice crusader that he originally was. And I think part of that will be outright pursuing Felicity regardless of what she says, I mean, its still Oliver so part of it will inevitably be Oliver just putting his heart on the line and then walking away to hide. And he will probably be pissy to Ray when they eventually get together and he will probably spend time with Laurel just helping her out that Felicity misinterprets until he says he is just biding his time. Then, I have a memory that there is going to be a wedding this season (Dig and Lyla’s), that would likely be the romantic occasion that Dig and Lyla (Dig being president of the Olicity fan club and I think Lyla agrees) can manipulate to put them together.
Amber 2
January 15, 2015 @ 10:48 am
I think Oliver realised he did love Felicity during ‘Unthinkable’ and I agree he needs now to earn her love. But he has to get to the point of acting on his love or else he will keep coming across as weak. Felicity deserves better than a two-minded man. Having said that, their relationship zinged from the moment they met, and I can’t conceive of Oliver’s romantic endgame being anything other than Olicity. Simply love those two together ?.
Sy
January 14, 2015 @ 11:04 pm
I so agree with you. Oliver really has to kiss butt and earn her love because, like you said he has always gotten ANY woman he wanted. He even had two sisters falling out & losing their self respect over him (cough Lance sisters, cough) and instead of dumping Oliver & reconciling, they both want Oliver over their sister! Shameful, not any type of hero we’d want to emulate. IF Sara had not broken up with Oliver, was he ever going to get a ‘light bulb’ moment and say ‘Nope, this relationship is wrong & not what I need, I need Felicity’ and breakup with Sara? I wonder because he actually wanted to MOVE IN with Sara (something he refused to do even with Laurel) and he was happy to be in that relationship so 5-6 months down the line he could still have been shacking up with Sara in front of Felicity had Sara not left him. He must have known it hurt Felicity seeing all that (everyone else did), does that mean at that point he didn’t care about Felicity? As much as I think Oliver should be with Felicity (she’s a very positive force in his life, she loves him, warts an’ all unconditionally, brings fun/humour to his life which is very lacking, oh and he didn’t bang her sister) it shouldn’t feel like ‘Oh well, Sara dumped my ass so I’m single and hey Felicity is here so why not?’ The writers should make it believable, I don’t want to believe the theory that because the writers are men they can’t connect emotionally with the audience. Besides Laurel he’s never really dumped anyone, it’s always him that gets dumped it seems and I feel for once he should make actually decisions and sacrifices to get the woman he wants.