I love how Felicity is waking everyone up to the fact that while they have gone on with their lives and made peace with everything, her life - her family -has been turned upside down. It is not okay and she can’t move on with her life because her life is locked away in prison - something he did to protect the rest of them and allow them to continue to live their lives.
Felicity makes sure they realize that everything is NOT okay and Oliver didn’t give himself up for NOTHING.
Her relentlessness to fight for her family and her life is empowering and heartwrenching at the same time. Empowering because we get to see her take charge and show that feistiness and strength in action. Heartbreaking because she feels she has to do it alone.
Her conversation with John broke my heart because when she came on to the Arrow team, it was just John and Oliver. They weren’t a team…they were something, but they weren’t a team. She made them not just a team, but a family.
“These last 6 years meant something to me.”
They meant everything to her. They gave her a bigger purpose. They gave her the love of her life, a son, and a brother she never had. They gave her a family. And then it was all taken away. And she can’t understand why her brother - the man that married her - that protected her, taught her, comforted her, reminded her not to give up a time or two - won’t help her now. She knows he has his own family…but they were family too. So she has to wonder why he won’t help her get her family back. She’d do the same for him…she HAS done the same for him.
Because it’s his family too.
beautifully said!!!
