Oct 24, 2020
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My Favourite Felicity Smoak Moments!
As you all know Felicity Smoak is my favourite character EVER. Even when I was unhappy with the Arrow writers - I stayed because she is still Felicity which is why I’m still watching today. So given that this is her last season why remember her awesomeness with the gifs created by our very talented fandom!
Thanks to those who made the gifs
Arrow 7x07 Sneak Peek "The Slabside Redemption" (HD) Season 7 Episode 7
Looks intense folks! One more hour!
Arrow Rewatch 2018 4x07: Brotherhood
I'm back!!!!!
- James Bamford's first episode as director.
- Oliver encourages John to give his brother the benefit of the doubt.
- Great shot of Oliver on look out. I love how the the camera pans up to him standing watch over his city.
- Andy's alive!!!! I got chills at John's reaction. He is stunned. My poor bb. So much of John's journey has been about finding justice for Andy, now, not only is he trying to come to terms with the fact that Andy wasn't the good guy he thought he was, but that he's alive. And has been this whole time.
- Season 4 flashbacks are the worst.
- Look at Star City's power couple. Olicity dress up nice.
- 'This has to be a better way than how you usually spend your evenings; dressing in leather and tying people up.' That lady's reaction lol.
- Felicity with her proud wife hearteyes at Oliver's speech.
- John Diggle, you break my heart. David Ramsey is killing it this episode. And me.
- Felicity listing all of Oliver's terrible ideas is hilarious. I'm pretty sure that's just the cliffs notes version lol.
- Her reminding him why he's running and talking him out of getting into bed with Dahrk- the whole time I found myself wishing we'd had a scene like this in S6 when Oliver decided to keep her out of the loop. Another terrible idea for the list.
- the way he looks at her is just everything. The boy is the definition of hearteyes.
- Thea's bloodlust is back in a big way. Can't say I'm too sad about her pummeling the 'No means yes' creep.
- Dyla!!!!! Lyla is always offering good advice and David Ramsey is just ripping my heart out. I hate seeing John hurting.
- Felicity patching up bae.
- 'Let's take this son of a bitch down in the light of day.' Hell yes! That's my boy, John.
- The team wanting to save Andy for John's sake is just giving me all the feels.
- 'Deadly bingo.' Never change, Felicity.
- The fight between Thea and Andy in the elevator was pretty cool.
- So Damien's magic somehow clears Thea's bloodlust. Huh?
- 'My brother needed me. The Green one.' BROTP 4 LIFE!!!!!
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 John Diggle in pain hurts me in my soul. Confession; I'm absolutely dreading watching the crossover. I've been putting off getting back into this rewatch because I detest the bmd storyline so much. Just need to power through.
@hope-for-olicity @blondeeoneexox @allimariexf @memcjo @it-was-a-red-heeler
(insp.)
“Andy let his son and his wife believe he was dead for eight years, Oliver. Eight years!! And there’s no excuse for that”
“John, I’m-- you don’t know”
Ohhhh. Letting your family believe you’re dead for years. Oliver understands that. He can think of some reasons why it might happen. And at this point I don’t know if Diggle realizes that Oliver could have come back from the island and chose not to (Oliver hasn’t told him that on screen) so he may not realize exactly how much what he’s saying applies to Oliver. He certainly not thinking of it right now. But Oliver definitely is. He sees himself in Andy. It’s like seeing for himself what might have happened if Thea had stumbled upon him while he was working for Argus, or undercover with Reiter, or a member of the Bratva. What might she have thought of him? And all his reasoning is there in his head but so is his guilt for staying away and he really needs to offer Andy the understanding that he hopes he would have gotten.
“No you don’t know, Oliver. You have this inexplicable way of excusing everything because it’s family”
“It’s not inexplicable. I’ asking you-- I’m asking you to hold out hope for Andy because I need that hope. I need to believe that no matter what happens in our lives, no matter how much darkness infects us, I need to believe that we can come back from that!”
He wants to believe in Andy because he empathizes with what Andy might be going through, but more than that he’s fighting a deep fear that people will lose faith in him the way Diggle has lost faith in Andy. He’s fighting the idea that he too is a lost cause.
This is the real Oliver peaking through the veneer that he’s been wearing all season. He seems happy and optimistic and light-hearted but it’s really just Oliver feeling that this is what he should be. He thinks (because everyone around him is sending this signal) that he has to be healed and without issues if he is going to help the city, lead the team, stay with Felicity, be friends with Laurel and Diggle, etc. If he doesn’t preserve this image of himself, they all go away. He’ll end up shunned and alone like he felt at the end of last season. that’s why he dove headfirst into the domestic lifestyle, why he moved to the suburbs, made friends with the weird neighbors- because this is what it takes to hang on to the people in his life. It’s why when everyone around him keeps blowing up at him he just shoulders their problems with a smile.
Because he is desperately holding on to an idea that he should be healed when deep down he is terrified that the darkness has infected him and he’ll never get it out. He’s terrified that his team will see that darkness and realize that he’s a lost cause.
And it’s this dichotomy that defines season 4. Oliver is denying the darkness and the damage within him,so he’s pretending to be something he’s not. He doesn’t trust his decisions so he lets the team lead, he won’t fight to his full capability, he won’t take charge of his own campaign, he won’t kill Darhk, he won’t fight for his right to be in his son’s life and ends up lying to Felicity. He is defined by a lack of trust in himself and a fear of who he might be. A schism between the dark and the light- culminating in the season finale. Killing Darhk allows him to acknowledge the darkness within him, to begin to address it and work through what of the darkness was good and what was harmful. He’s allowed to be less than perfect without fearing that he’ll lose everyone and everything and to work toward trusting himself. It’s what allows him to be a deadly vigilante and a beloved mayor and save people in different ways. It’s how he can be a hero and a killer. How he can be himself.
Felicity Smoak Is One Brave Precious Badass Cupcake! #26
As we all know Felicity is a precious badass cupcake! I figure it can’t hurt to look at the many acts of bravery she has performed because let’s face it - our girl rocks!
Arrow 4x07 Being all cutesy and supportive
Arrow 4x07 Felicity reminds Oliver of the bad decisions he’s made without her
Arrow 4x09 Felicity confronts Oliver when she finds the engagement ring, asking why he didn’t ask
Arrow 4x09 - Felicity is her own boss
Arrow 4x09 - Thinking she was going to die, her last words were I love you, over and over again to Oliver.
FELICITY SMOAK IS AMAZING.
Thanks to those who made the gifs.