[ SECRET POST #2739 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2739 ⌋

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Comments

[fauxkaren]

Yeah, I'm sure the fact that the fandom is almost completely made up of Felicity/Oliver shippers had nothing to do with a scene where Oliver confessed his love to Felicity (except it wasn't real, so it will have zero impact moving forward). It's a way for the show to cater to those shippers without having to commit to any kind of relationship. Shippers can squeal over that scene and say "omg Oliver says it was all part of the ruse, but he really meant it!" and love it. But it won't have any impact on the show. It was a zero consequence way to give shippers what they want.

I checked out Arrow's AO3 page the other day in the interest of looking for Laurel fics and I laughed when I saw that the most popular ship is Felicity/Oliver and has 1,740 fics. The second most popular ship is Roy/Thea and it has 87 fics.

LIKE. If that doesn't tell you that the fandom is oriented around Felicity/Oliver then idk what to say.

Anyway, I'm not saying ANYTHING Olicity related is pandering. I just said that that particular scene was. And it was ridiculous.

[(Anonymous)]

Never said the fandom isn't mostly Olicity - it is. But first, I hate the term "pandering". Two, there are quotes from Marc Guggenheim from October that seem to indicate they always planned for the season to end with that, so it wasn't so much "pandering" as it was "gotcha". They were more interested in the fakeout. Third, if I HAD been an Olicity shipper, I would have been hugely pissed, and indeed not a few of them were. Not all of course, maybe not even most. But quotes from the EPs going into the finale indicate they knew they were running a risk of alienating fans with the fake out - again not exactly what you might call "pandering". In this case however, they seemed to be willing to run the risk of outraging their primary fanbase in order to have the "gotcha" moment (and also possibly to distract people from the "oh and btw Laurel will be Black Canary next season" moment). Let me be clear. I didn't care for it. I don't like the way the writers are playing games here. But I do not think it was "pandering".

[fauxkaren]

I can't speak as to what any of the EPs said or what their intent was. Like I said, I only watched the show a week ago, so I had no idea about any of that context. So completely removed from that context, the fake love confession felt... I don't even know how to explain it. It felt cheap and like it was trying to throw Olicity fans a bone.