blackcanarydinah replied to your post “i think what bothers me about this whole spin arrow is taking with...”
it rly doesnt feel like parallels? it's actually a lot like what most of us wished to have had w s3. for now it does feel like most the initiatives are oliver's but he always makes sure to involve felicity befor e making a decision this time around. to me it's not that theyre rehashing old sls but rather they want to show that oliver learned from his mistake which is good
i get all of that, its easy to see actually. but that’s not what i meant - i don't mean literal parallels. it feels like they’re doing this the way they do the parallels. I'm not even sure that the is the best way to say this, honestly.
besides, i don't get this feeling from the inside-the-story pov. like, oliver’s thinking, felicity’s thinking. oliver involves her etc, and this is great. (even though be honest, after five years of watching this show, it feels like this turn is coming too late, or like i’ve kind of seen it before or something? because the fact that he’s doing this now, undermines stuff he did before? that back then looked like he was doing one thing but now it turns out he wasn’t? christ, i don't know how to explain this, whatever.). (this is not about the portrayal about his mental illness so much as about the storytelling, and how it confuses me because there seems to be no continuity. or internal logic or something.)
but its not about that. it’s a feeling i have from the writers. the way they tell the story, something i became aware of a while ago and that now i can't unlearn, you know. it’s everywhere, and it really keeps me from enjoying any aspect of the show. every time i get the urge to write something that validates canon, this feeing is like a slap to the face.
