Arrow feelings....
You know, I'm a shipper. I ship a lot, and I ship hard. And I did get into this show on this feeling that I was gonna really ship Olicity based on all the things I'd seen. And I do ship them. I love them each as characters, and I love what they bring out in each other, and they have great chemistry, they do.
But I love the other characters on this show, very much. I am invested in everyone, all the way around, and when I heard Charlotte Ross was gonna play Felicity's mother, I was excited. I've been watching Charlotte since she was a teenager on Days of Our Lives. (I was a pre-teen. We grew up together, basically.) So, you know.
But I'll be honest, this season of the show thus far hasn't been as good for me. I've had various problems with various aspects of it. But essentially, I still really love these character and I'm not prepared to give up on them quite yet. Tonight's episode went a long way towards getting me invested again. There is lots of slow build stuff going on, and I'm appreciative of the fact that Felicity's not gonna be anyone's pining fangirl. I feel like Felicity is not a creature we've seen before; she breaks down archetypes and is her own special configuration with many traditional heroic qualities, but with a dash of something brand new. And that's exciting and interesting, it is.
I just really want to be as breathless for each episode of S3 as I was for S1 and S2, and how it would kill me that I could only watch like four a night because I had to be responsible and go to sleep so I could get up and go to work. So, I'm gonna hope that S3 keeps picking up from here; and it doesn't have to be all *shippery* to do that for me. It just needs to be consistently good. With a little shipperiness.
But I love the other characters on this show, very much. I am invested in everyone, all the way around, and when I heard Charlotte Ross was gonna play Felicity's mother, I was excited. I've been watching Charlotte since she was a teenager on Days of Our Lives. (I was a pre-teen. We grew up together, basically.) So, you know.
But I'll be honest, this season of the show thus far hasn't been as good for me. I've had various problems with various aspects of it. But essentially, I still really love these character and I'm not prepared to give up on them quite yet. Tonight's episode went a long way towards getting me invested again. There is lots of slow build stuff going on, and I'm appreciative of the fact that Felicity's not gonna be anyone's pining fangirl. I feel like Felicity is not a creature we've seen before; she breaks down archetypes and is her own special configuration with many traditional heroic qualities, but with a dash of something brand new. And that's exciting and interesting, it is.
I just really want to be as breathless for each episode of S3 as I was for S1 and S2, and how it would kill me that I could only watch like four a night because I had to be responsible and go to sleep so I could get up and go to work. So, I'm gonna hope that S3 keeps picking up from here; and it doesn't have to be all *shippery* to do that for me. It just needs to be consistently good. With a little shipperiness.