Arrow Season 4: 13 Questions We're Asking After Eleven-Fifty-Nine
2. Is She Really Dead?
Damn you, television shows. The past year has included the 'deaths' of Game of Thrones' Jon Snow and The Walking Dead's Glenn, so immediately when any character dies and there's even a shred of ambiguity to the scene, the question of whether said character is actually dead immediately comes up.
That's certainly the case here, and it's not helped by the fact that Arrow has previous with bringing characters back from the dead, and has devices including the Lazarus Pit and time travel (the latter of which can counter the destruction of the former).
So there's that, and there's also the promise Oliver made, and the way it cut away before she started seizing. One minute she's fine, then all of a sudden there's a promise, then we don't get to see it, and then she's dead. It's suspicious, if nothing else. Could they have found some way of faking her death, perhaps to ensure Darhk doesn't continue to target Quentin? It seems a long shot, but you never know with Arrow. If she is dead, will she be staying that way?
The producers have of course already debunked these notions, but then Kit Harington's been saying Jon Snow is dead for the past 9 months, so you can't trust what these people say.