Arrow: Who is in the grave?
By Sean Penney
Felicity Smoak
This is the obvious choice, isn’t it? There would be no greater loss for Oliver than the death of the woman he recently became engaged to. It’s a loss that would be as devastating to him as it would be to fans that would lose the presence of the lovely Emily Bett Rickards on the show.
The death of Felicity is also something the show has been teasing in the first half of the season. The winter finale ended with the happy couple heading off to celebrate their engagement, only for Darhk’s men to intercept their travels by riddling their limo with bullets. At the end of the episode we find Oliver cradling his fiancee as she bleeds in his arms.
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Needless to say, it’s not looking good for Felicity when last we saw her. The trailer for the show’s return also hints that something may have gone wrong during surgery, as a distraught Oliver attempts to find comfort alongside Felicity’s tearful mother.
All the signs are pointing to Felicity being the obvious casualty, so much so that it almost seems a bit too obvious. This leads me to believe that she will pull through in the midseason return episode, only for another character to meet their demise later in the season.
Another reason to believe that Felicity will survive is that the show needs her to live on due to her knack for using her immense brain power to move the plot along quickly. Need to find out where the bad guys placed the bomb? Felicity just figured it out in the click of two buttons by piecing together footage from three different security cameras and running a trace on a cell phone. The show needs her, if only to make it somewhat more feasible that Team Arrow manages to gather the information they need to spring into action without diverting half the episode to watching the rest of the crew stumble through tedious research.
Aside from Oliver of course, Felicity is perhaps the most irreplaceable character on the show. Who else has the computer savvy to hack into various networks to gather intel in the blink of an eye? The Green Arrow has plenty of sidekicks that can hold their own in a fight, but none of them can contribute what Felicity does.
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