Felicity Smoak is arguably the female lead of Arrow, but she is also the member of Team Arrow about whom the least personal information has been revealed. She has had the fewest plots just about her. Emily Bett Rickards has turned Felicity into one of the most nuanced characters of the show, but shes had little help from the writers. Her father has yet to be explored. Her past is still mostly a blank slate. Her life outside of Team Arrow activities is a big question mark. Most of the big deaths of Arrow had come to some degree of closure; theres still so much story left to Felicity that her death in Season 4 would be a complete waste from a narrative point of view. The writers have had their missteps, but they wouldnt kill off a major character who still has such a wealth of story potential.
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