Farewell Felicity Megan Smoak-Queen
My love for you is bigger than the frackin’ universe EPISODE 7x22 SPOILERS>
So tonight Felicity’s journey came to an end. Beth was right about one thing in her interview–it’s a lot to process. I have so many mixed emotions right now. The majority of the episode was the writers hitting us over the head with the redemption theme, hence the need to have BS and Bronze Tiger there. That said, I adore Bronze Tiger. Why couldn’t we have traded all of NTA and BS for him earlier in the season? I have never identified with a character more than when he punched that dude in the face and told the crowd that Oliver is trying to save their dumb asses before glaring and scaring them into dispersing. That is the kind of teammate Oliver Queen deserves. Take notes, DD and RR.
Oliver also tried to redeem his half-sister. Again. His approach tonight was to tell her he wanted to kill her after she told him she let their father die, thus causing his life to spiral and endure more loss. He even handed her a weapon and told her to kill him. I appreciate his belief in her but dude, you have a wife and child and a baby on the way and as of last week, she dropped a whole building on you and was trying to do it again tonight. Anyhoo, apparently Oliver said or did something different tonight than the other 500 times he’s tried to get through to her and she chose not to kill him and they fought against the Ninth Circle. Since Emiko was redeemed, of course she died. I’m still not sure why or how Emiko was killed and Oliver wasn’t but I honestly wasn’t paying that much attention and I don’t care. Emiko’s parting words to her brother were that the Ninth Circle is going to kill his family and he needs to get them into hiding.
I’m with Emiko if it means getting Olicity out of that ungrateful city. Before they go though, the ‘team’ has a reunion at the bunker. They say really lovely things to each other that don’t ring true to me but okay. Then everyone leaves except for OTA (THE WAY IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ALL ALONG). I appreciate the visual of OTA standing together in the center of the bunker but something about it was lacking the emotion I wanted to feel with that scene. We got a much better and more emotional OTA scene at Olicity’s new home where they tell each other that they are family and that they love each other. #OTAForever <3
Olicity were finally alone to settle into their new home. We got a montage of moments, (that even had a couple of callbacks): Oliver saying that even if it’s not a tropical paradise (Aruba), they never got a honeymoon, followed by a sweet kiss. Olicity sitting together on their porch with two lit candles between them…..
…to Mia’s birth and Smoak-Queen family moments. It was nice but all too brief, just like Olicity’s time together. Oliver’s headstone said 2019 so Mia was only a few months old before the Monitor shows up to collect on his deal with Oliver.
Yep, Oliver is happy and content in their little love shack in the woods achieving maximum domesticity so of course someone needs him to give all that up, this time to save the whole universe. Remember earlier when I was talking about BT and said I never identified with a character more? That was until Felicity asked Oliver: WHY DOES IT ALWAYS HAVE TO BE YOU?!?!?
Oliver has suffered so much. He watched his father commit suicide. He spent five years being tortured, betrayed, and watching more people he cared about die. He came home to right his father’s wrongs and make the city a better place. He has been shot, stabbed, beaten, and burned for his efforts and watched even more people he cares about die. He has been made to bear the responsibility of his entire family’s legacy and has never been given the respect or recognition he deserves. Felicity fell in love with Oliver because she knew his heart and she saw the hero in him when he didn’t even see one in himself. But loving a hero means his suffering became hers.
Oliver’s sacrifice is now Felicity’s sacrifice as well. She puts on a brave face as she gently wipes away his tears during their goodbye. We got another callback to 3x20 when Oliver tells Felicity she opened up his heart in ways he didn’t know were possible. Those were the same words Felicity said to Oliver right before she told him she loved him for the first time. A soul-changing moment for Oliver that he waited so long for and one he remembers all these years later.
Olicity’s goodbye also gave me a couple of things I have waited a long time for. First, Oliver finally said that Felicity is beautiful; and two, that his only regret is that he didn’t tell her he loved her sooner. I have long held the belief that Oliver knew he loved Felicity way before he uttered those three words in the mansion. Vindication! I’ll take my happy from this show any way I can get it.
Of course, it also took things away, namely 20 years of Olicity’s life together. Unlike Felicity Smoak, math is not my strong suit but let’s look at some numbers. Oliver spent five years in hell. It took three years after that for Oliver to choose happiness. Ironically, Oliver had to leave Star City back then to truly be happy. He and Felicity had less than a year together before the BMD bomb blew up their relationship. The dumbass writers then kept them apart for a year and a half. Reunited and married during the course of season 6, only for Felicity to lose Oliver to prison. They were physically apart from May until November of last year. They had maybe a year before being separated for 20 years. That’s a f**kton of years for these two amazing heroes to be apart from one another.
They shouldn’t have to be good at goodbye. They deserved those twenty years. They deserved all the happiness and joy life can bring them. They deserved to raise their children together. So I’m still struggling with that even though I knew going in tonight that they wouldn’t get the ending I wanted for them. It’s not that I don’t like angst but for too long, the ‘happy’ moments haven’t balanced with all they have been put through with little emotional payoff. YMMV.
After Oliver left, Felicity fell to her knees in tears and sorrow. I’m trying not to imagine how long she stayed there, sobs wracking her body and her heart broken into pieces. Probably until she heard Mia crying for her and then she picked herself up and kept her promise to her husband by loving and protecting that baby girl for the next 20 years all on her own. But every day, she knew a part of her soul was missing. Flash-forward Felicity helped next-gen Team Arrow figure out how to destroy Archer, stop the Zetas and bring down the wall between the Glades and Star City. Mia was the archer out in the field and William watched over her via tech. Green Arrow and Overwatch 2.0. Olicity’s kids are now the heroes saving the city, setting up the potential spin-off. Their final scene together was at Oliver’s grave site. Felicity told them she was going off the grid but it would be different this time. Felicity was saying goodbye to her children so she could be reunited with Oliver wherever he is in the universe.
I did love that Felicity has the ability to summon the Monitor at will. Ugh, her power. Does anyone else think that wasn’t the first time? Except all the times before, she wasn’t ready but she had the Monitor tell Oliver how she and Mia are doing and that she loves him and Oliver would have the Monitor tell her how proud he is of her and how much he loves and misses them. Like the Monitor is their own intergalactic messenger boy. It’s the least he could do TBH.
With Oliver and Felicity still alive, I’m holding out hope for some sort of reset out of the crossover. It would be nice for Olicity to get that time back, even if we won’t get to see it. I’ll always wonder how Olicity’s journey/ending could have been different if it hadn’t been at the mercy of a crossover and a spin-off. But mostly, I’ll always be grateful for the kismet that brought Emily to Arrow and how she brought life to one of the most amazing characters of all time and with SA, had the chemistry that created a ship that is now multi-verse endgame in canon.
FELICITY SMOAK IS IMMORTAL AND OLICITY IS FOREVER! <3
At the present time, I have no plans to watch season 8 unless EBR returns so this will be my last review. But I’ll still be around, celebrating our amazing heroes and enjoying your creations and friendship. As it states on the Olicity bench, ‘we found ourselves in each other.’ That sentiment remains true, show or no show. I couldn’t have asked to be part of a better fandom. xoxo
Much love and appreciation to all the talented gifmakers! :) Oliver FML gif: nonillionth3.rssing.com%2Fchan-3335304%2Fall_p114.html; Felicity 3x20 gif: hypable.com
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