‘Arrow’ season 3 spoilers: Show boss on Oliver, Felicity, and patience

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If you are hoping to see some sort of big, shocking revelation when it comes to Oliver and Felicity on Wednesday night’s new episode of “Arrow,” you may want to prepare yourself right now for disappointment. Based on what we are hearing right now, these are not two characters who will be crashing back towards each other in the near future. Instead, we more expect them to be drifting apart for a time, and for Felicity to turn instead to Ray Palmer.

Is there a rush for the producers to get Stephen Amell and Emily Bett Rickards’ characters together? It is interesting in a way, given that their relationship may be aided by the pure unexpectedness of it all. What we mean by this is that these are not two characters who were originally planned to be endgame, and given that they have become seemingly that way over time, the evolution has not led to anyone growing particularly annoyed by waiting … at least not yet. This is something that showrunner Marc Guggenheim astutely comments on in a chat with Variety:

“I try very hard to avoid evaluating our own show. I’m much more comfortable with letting the audience do that and sort of speak to us. We’re on the Internet. We’re on Twitter. I haven’t gotten a sense that people are feeling jerked around or tired of it … I think in part because Oliver and Felicity, they’re not comic book canon, as it were. They weren’t put together with the intention of becoming love interests. So perhaps, because of those reasons, there’s a little bit more patience on people’s part, or maybe we’re just striking the right balance. I don’t know. I’ll say before an episode airs whether or not I’m excited about an episode, but once an episode has aired, I really like to let the episode speak for itself.”

We’re certainly not tired of the will-they-or-won’t-they game just yet, but we do feel like if the two are not moving more in that direction by next season at the latest, there could be trouble. The show has been so quick to move ahead with other stories, it would be a shame to not see them go at a complete snail’s place here.

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