[Shitpost] Fuck Felicity

I don't mind a bit of humor, but I prefer if the humorous moments are distributed a bit among the main characters, as they actually were in S1, when Oliver, Diggle and Tommy had their funny moments. And if you watch season one Laurel without blinders, you'll see that her relationship with Tommy (and even her Dad at times) was pretty lighthearted and humorous at times.

The problem with Felicity's brand of humor is IMHO that it rapidly grew stale. Her comic relief delivery was fun and refreshing in the beginning, but it soon became a mannerism (or a "shtick" as I believe it's called in US slang). The motormouth, foot in the mouth, sexual innuendos, the gestures and the odd phrasing has become a cliché and honestly just as annoying as Curtis' lame attempts at humor. Humor and comic relief needs to be done with finesse, because otherwise it just becomes embarrassing and jarring, especially in the kind of high melodrama, life-and-death atmosphere of many "Arrow" episodes. For example, not many days after Felicity dropped the bomb that destroyed Havenrock and killed thousands of people Felicity was her usual chirpy, quippy self. That's not funny at all....in fact, it makes her look like a plot device rather than as a real person.

I don't know how much you've watched of later seasons of "Arrow", but in seasons three and four there was relatively little of lighthearted Felicity, and quite a lot of melodramatic, and quite self-centered Felicity. Furthermore, from a secondary hacker/generally nice and funny character she morphed into the show's unacknowledged female lead and a flawless Mary Sue who managed the most unrealistic feats and who was universally praised, not only by Diggle, Ollie and other Arrow characters, but by the Flash characters as well. And when a character who is no more special, brave, resilient than any other character becomes the subject of so much in-show shilling, s/he loses her luster and becomes aggravating, at least IMHO.

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