'Arrow' Season 3 Spoilers, Plot News: Show Runners Talk Felicity and Ray's Relationship
Fans of "Arrow" and of Stephen Amell and Emily Bett Rickards' Oliver and Felicity were shocked when last Wednesday, Felicity finally gave into her feelings and chose to be with Ray (Brandon Routh).
Though many were expecting that there's hope for more Olicity scenes in the coming episodes, showrunners Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim explains why Ray and Felicity got intimate so quickly.
"Part of the fun of watching couples on television is keeping them apart and watching how people come in and out of their lives," said Kreisberg to reporters after an early screening of the episode, "Nanda Parbat."
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"There are a lot of people who believe Oliver and Laurel (Katie Cassidy) should be together, there are people who believe Oliver and Felicity should be together, and we're not sure how it's all going to end up. We just do what's right at the time and at the time, right now, Oliver has decided, 'I can't do this.'"
Kreisberg also says that after Oliver has thought himself unworthy of love which made him push Felicity away, she isn't going to "sit around and wait for him."
"[Oliver] is the one shutting himself down emotionally when he has this amazing person who is basically offering him hope, guidance, and friendship and love. He doesn't feel he deserves it or what's best for her whether she agrees with him or not," said Kreisberg.
Apparently, Ray's new relationship with Felicity will inspire him to make some revisions to his A.T.O.M. suit and take flight for the first time.
"It's not just the Felicity/Ray/Oliver love triangle that's in play, but it's also the fact that there's a new superhero in town and he's going to go about things in a very different way than the Arrow does," says Guggenheim. "Right now, he's just a very smart guy in a very powerful suit. Oliver is definitely going to have an opinion and the first instance of that will be [episode] 17."
"Arrow" airs on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. on The CW.
