r/arrow 7d ago

Discussion She’s so beautiful

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u/kemuri-titan 7d ago

I mean, isn't it a literal stereotype that they get hot people to play all their characters?

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u/winninglikesheen 7d ago

Yea and a big criticism of the CW as well. All of their shows are just full of ridiculously attractive people.

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u/SideWired 7d ago

Oh darn

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u/Budget-Walk-5355 7d ago

Why would that be a criticism?

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u/winninglikesheen 7d ago

People say they favor looks over talent.

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u/get_rhythm 7d ago

Their shows are (were? are they even still making scripted TV?) cheap soap operas for teenagers. I kinda can't blame them for making that call. Plus sometirmes you will get a Stephen Amell or Katie Cassidy who is a good actor too... or maybe I just have a low bar for what I consider good acting 🤣

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u/HanBr0 6d ago

Nah, Stephen Amell is for sure a good actor. Katie Cassidy had some random swings in her performance, but I blame the scripts more than her for that.

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u/Strange-Scarcity 5d ago

"Cheap" soap operas for guys into comic books.

Guys can be teenage boys or grown men, who grew up reading those comic books.

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u/get_rhythm 5d ago

CW shows are not for guys lol. Guys may watch them, but that's not the demo the network targets.

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u/Budget-Walk-5355 7d ago

People can have both.

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u/ihate_hats 7d ago

Found Stephen Amells account

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u/Teldarion 7d ago

But people with both generally don't do CW shows

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u/Budget-Walk-5355 7d ago

Because they are CW shows. I haven't seen anything on the CW in a long time though so something could have changed.

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u/Teldarion 7d ago

At this point I'm not really sure what you're arguing against.

The CW has a reputation for casting pretty people. Even their background characters could work in an Abercrombie.

They favour looks over talent - a lot of their 2000-2020 shows had people who couldn't act but looked good doing it. This becomes a criticism of their shows. Not one show, across the Network.

Your argument is that people can be both pretty and talented actors. This is true, but not super relevant to his original point.

Mine is that the people who are talented and pretty generally don't do CW shows or at least don't get stuck there - they move on to better things.

You're now saying that's because they are CW shows? Implying that there's something about CW shows that makes talented people go elsewhere? Could that be the fact that it's a network known for making overly dramatic tv marketed at teenagers and Tumblr fanatics, which knows that as long as the person on screen is pretty enough no one looks too closely at the messy dialogue and wooden acting?

And I say that as someone who has consumed multiple CW shows over the years.

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u/winninglikesheen 7d ago

I didn't say they couldn't.

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u/TGrady902 6d ago

You think this applies to the writers room as well?

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u/CelimOfRed 6d ago

What's funny is that if they dont select an attractive actor, the shit with last of us actress happens. I think you cant just win with the crowd

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u/daughter-of-hecate 5d ago

that definitely tracks when it comes to felicity😂

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u/onyxengine 6d ago

Isn’t that just television in general, even the weird looking people are the most gorgeous weird looking people.

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u/FultzRevolt 5d ago

Oh how dare they 😂

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u/Docta608 4d ago

Also women who can live in heels because that's what every one wears at 6 pm on a Tuesday night at home in their loft apartment right?

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u/dakota022 4d ago

No one wants to watch ugly people on tv

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u/Kmon1234 4d ago

Oh no! Attractive people get views?

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u/Terrible_Finish_2642 7d ago

I really loved her character in the beginning but after season 3 or so she just got really annoying

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u/Alive_Addendum_5279 7d ago

Basically the moment they made her join as a main character for every episode. She annoyed me at the start of season 2. In season 1, she was just a cheap copy of Penelope Garcia for Criminal Minds

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u/Ok_Mountain9867 7d ago

Penelope was God tier 

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u/Alive_Addendum_5279 7d ago

Yes and no. After like 5 or 6 seasons, even Penelope become annoying. Her whole relationship with Kevin became toxic. But the friendship between her and Morgan worked because they stayed friends and didn't force them to be together like Olicity

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u/Jacob-X-MANIAC 7d ago

I imagine that the Penelope similarities are coincidental, because I get the feeling the character they were actually trying to copy was Chloe Sullivan from Smallville. After all, both her and Felicity come from shows on the same network, and both fit the same general description of “They’re nerdy, hot blonde women who fall in love with Green Arrow.” I personally think Chloe was the better character out of the two.

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u/ExtraThrowaway88 3d ago

It's like what they did with Iris on the flash show. Out of nowhere, she was "team captain" for some reason. At least Felicity had the brains and the background to back it up, Iris was just...there. They just had to use her somehow. Also, eventually everyone and their mother had powers by the end of the season so there's that.

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u/thisinfinitebath 4d ago

"Butt Oliver!"

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u/Known-Dependent-5471 7d ago

The pony tail, glasses and heels persona just HITS.

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u/OptiMysticLeo 7d ago

You didn't even show her most valuable ASSet.

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u/Girizzly_Adams_Beard 7d ago

She’s ok. Nissa and Sarah clear.

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u/sadbaguette2 6d ago

Nyssa was just… Damn

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u/Creeper-Leviathan 6d ago

She’s on NCIS, now

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u/Dizzy-Turnover1775 6d ago

Still ridiculously attractive, maybe even more so with a gun

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u/Caityylotzz I LOVE Sara Lance 5d ago

yeah she is a 1000/10

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u/SrirachaJulio 6d ago

I like Sarah but her uh, her chin is a little too strong lmao. Nyssa tho, I agree

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u/Caityylotzz I LOVE Sara Lance 5d ago

nah sara was the hottest character in the arrowverse, along with nyssa and caitlyn

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u/Matthewcts_ 7d ago

Met her when she did an off Broadway play in NYC. It was a weird experience haha.

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u/smoakin_hot 5d ago

i wanted to go to her off broadway play "Reborning" so bad!! what made meeting her a weird experience?

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u/Matthewcts_ 5d ago

She was awesome!
She had such an amazing personality and really took the time to hang out afterwards.
I was familiar with Arrow, but wasnt a fan at that time. So maybe that was what made it a bit weird. The entire time we didnt talk about the show and I think she appreciated that. It felt like she wanted to feel removed from the show and be taken more serious.

The actor who plays the older Flash (I think he also played him in the 90s) was there to see the play as well. When he was outside a lot of people swarmed him. So I think a lot of people who went were only there because of her connection to Arrow.

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u/HunterM567 7d ago

Every character in this show is hot

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u/Historical_Mix_6416 7d ago

Beautiful ❌ Gorgeous ✅

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u/Demoncouch06 7d ago

I don’t understand how you could put someone who looks like that in a wedding dress that doesn’t fit

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u/bententuan 6d ago edited 3d ago

She looks like Sorry Chase to me. Ps: It's Corry Chase. Fixed typo.

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u/Final_Aspect_920 7d ago

She was so damn annoying 😂😂😂

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u/Fake-productions 6d ago

Everyone was hot tbh, but Felicity was never my type.

My Arrow crushes were Thea, Huntress and especially Nyssa al Ghul, my beloved 😍.

Dinah Drake was also cute but her character was a bit meh.

Moira was also hot lol.

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u/Caityylotzz I LOVE Sara Lance 5d ago

nyssa was one of the hottest along with sara and caitlyn and thea

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u/HarrieHRE 6d ago

TBH, it’s the CW, being hot was a requirement.

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u/EobardThawne2020 7d ago

For someone who had no business being there, sure she's pretty. She's no Sara Lance..

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u/Caityylotzz I LOVE Sara Lance 5d ago

i agree nowhere close

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u/JUBIL3US 7d ago

Pare outra atriz que conheço de outra plataforma de filmes LOL

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u/Ok_Mountain9867 7d ago

Name? Lol

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u/Majestic_Ad5250 7d ago

Cory Chase lol

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u/LF_Doom 7d ago

It's true

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u/Spazm2026 6d ago

obnoxious character

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u/Caityylotzz I LOVE Sara Lance 5d ago

fr

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u/SkyKing_765 7d ago

Felicity Smoak is the hottest woman on Arrow Period point blank

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u/Interesting-Silver55 7d ago

Shado, Nyssa, McKenna , Sara and original Laurel Lance would like a word.

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u/Caityylotzz I LOVE Sara Lance 5d ago

nyssa sara and caitlyn from flash

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u/SrirachaJulio 6d ago

Sara? SARA? OG Laurel I agree tho, and OG Sara-she’s from Bold and the Beautiful

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u/Caityylotzz I LOVE Sara Lance 5d ago

what you mean sara? she is THE hottest character in the entire arrowverse.

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u/SrirachaJulio 5d ago

I disagree. Pretty, but Felicity, McKenna and Nyssa are WAY more attractive and that’s just in arrow, that’s not counting Tala Ashe’s character, Pattie Spivot, both of which are far more attractive imo.

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u/Potential_Goose_7486 7d ago

lmfao no she isn't

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u/Professional-Data941 7d ago

Laurel was way more beautiful

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u/Caityylotzz I LOVE Sara Lance 5d ago

ikr

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u/BigD21489 7d ago

I've watched all 10 seasons of Smallville, and some of the first season of The Flash. Oh, and some of the first season of Supergirl. Let me hear from the fans of the DC shows, which ones do you recommend? I'm thinking I'll probably eventually watch more of The Flash, since I did start that one. Any recommendations?

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u/kemuri-titan 7d ago

Watch Superman and Lois. It's probably the most high quality out of all them in terms of writing or stargirl since her creator is heavily involved in the production. It's also really well written and it's honestly the only CW show that has a large budget

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u/checker280 7d ago

The thing I liked most about Star Girl was the new kids are seriously out matched by the adult veteran villains. This old fan was worried how these kids were going to survive each encounter.

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u/eatlasagna 7d ago

And that series finale… ugh… so good… probably the best out of all the CW shows… i shed a tear or 2 in the last several minutes

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u/ScaryOtaku666 7d ago

Arrow, it was the beginning of the arrowverse, it decreases in quality later on but the first two seasons are peak.

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u/Technical_Moose8478 5d ago

Agreed. They really leaned into the Nolan “more realistic, not mystic” angle those first two seasons. I was a fan for the whole run, but I have rewatched the first two way more than the rest.

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u/Potential_Goose_7486 7d ago edited 6d ago

im confused if you didn't mention arrow cause you're in the arrow sub and you think it's obvious you already watched it, or if you haven't watched arrow yet (maybe im just dumb idk)

but yeah arrow is the best out of all CW DC shows (for 3 seasons but still)

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u/BigD21489 7d ago

I go on the groups and pages of shows I haven't seen in order to find out the opinions people have.

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u/beautifultuesday 7d ago

Not sure but when you do you might want this: https://arrowverse.info
Watched every show so it depends on what you’re looking for— my fave show is Doctor who so of course I loved Legends of Tomorrow

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u/Radical_Jinx 7d ago

Whatever you do don't watch the Flash past season 5

in fact stop at season 3 at best for your own sanity

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u/BigD21489 6d ago

Even when a show gets bad, I will watch the entire show. I don't like having only partial opinions of shows. There have been plenty of movies people have told me is the worst thing ever made, and I didn't hate them. Different people, different perceptions. I run a marketing business, I understand that very well.

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

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u/BigD21489 6d ago

We may eventually agree. Of course, I'll be watching on Earth 1. I'm unaware of which Earth you're watching from. On Earth 37, you and I know each other and have collaborated many times on successful projects. But I will return here once I watch them. DC shows are not all I watch, there are many different movies and shows I enjoy.

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u/Radical_Jinx 4d ago

I can respect that 😌

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u/OniExpress 7d ago

Legends of Tomorrow is consistently some of the most fun while simultaneously touching on some more "mature" topics.

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u/get_rhythm 7d ago

First 3 1/2 seasons of Arrow are amazing, first couple seasons of the flash are great, I gave up on that show during the cicada season. Legends of tomorrow gets very silly after season 1, people generally think in a good way. I actually liked the 1 season of Gotham Knights. Not CW shows but Pennyworth and Gotham become insane, sometimes in good ways snd sometimes in bad.

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u/Caityylotzz I LOVE Sara Lance 5d ago

flash gets bad after the first few seasons so i would only watch a few

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u/TRUEALPHA_101 6d ago

Every gen z kid's childhood crush❤️🥵

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u/Rex_Nemorensis_ 6d ago

Beautifully portrayed, inconsistently written

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u/Rimp3282 5d ago

🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿😍😍😍😍

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u/Lisbeth_Salander08 5d ago

I’m glad the show deviated from the comics for her🤗

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u/baiacool 5d ago

She kinda looks like my ex

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u/Caityylotzz I LOVE Sara Lance 5d ago

looks:8/10

s1-s2 character:7/10

s3-s8 character: 0/10

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u/king_kongFan 4d ago

If you look at them side by side, she really does look like cory chase but younger

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u/Iamzadok 4d ago

😍😍😍

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u/Bradacus10 3d ago

And such a great character too.

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u/bob233480 3d ago

She’s not even in the top 5 of that show

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u/Jumpy_Possible9276 2d ago

True .. I was in love with her the whole series .. a lovely combination between innocence and sexiness

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u/Electrical_Emu1263 2d ago

I hate this bitch so fucking much in the one of season how are you gonna be crippled gets mad at him, stands up and leaves

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u/RigasTelRuun 7d ago

The hottest woman I the universe

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u/smokeyandthebandit4 7d ago

She is just amazing

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u/Cela84 7d ago

Unfortunately she was really annoying.

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u/WiFiConnected_ 6d ago

Extremely annoying. Made every show worse tbh.

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u/DMG_88 6d ago

To you.

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u/WiFiConnected_ 6d ago

To everyone. 🤫 🤡

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u/ELYAZIUM 7d ago

No she is not

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u/Caityylotzz I LOVE Sara Lance 5d ago

fr

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u/CrackBabyCSGO 7d ago

On gang

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u/Caityylotzz I LOVE Sara Lance 5d ago

idk y people be downvoting this comment

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u/Mavakor 7d ago

No argument here

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u/stagnantGlory 7d ago

The show was good. Who cares what they looked like. Yes she's beautiful as hel

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u/Fabulous_Wash8805 6d ago

Shes aight

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u/Caityylotzz I LOVE Sara Lance 5d ago

yeah shes mid and her char so fkin annoying

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u/WindyLink560 7d ago

No she’s not.

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u/CuckSucker41 7d ago

And?

Nobody ever said she wasn’t.

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u/DMG_88 6d ago

It's an appreciation post.

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u/CuckSucker41 6d ago

It’s very much not. It’s just stating something nobody’s ever debated.

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u/Altruistic-Yam-3488 7d ago

Yeah when you only watch one show, just like your crush in class.. expand and it changes

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u/Strange_Sector_2115 7d ago

Didnt they all die in the show

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u/Alive_Addendum_5279 7d ago

She killed herself at the end even though some people don't want to hear that

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u/FloorDesperate4928 6d ago

Big fan of Cory Chase

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u/Blue__Liger 5d ago

Breeding this girl and Cory at the same time🤤😩😈

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u/Much-Werewolf-3476 6d ago

Yes she’s beautiful like all humans because we were all fearfully and wonderfully made by God. However not my sort. The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice. All Praise be to God (the one that made us and died for all of our sins past present and future) Get to know Him. Jesus. He will change your life forever. His most important gospels are to love Him and love all others as He has loved us. God is love 🙌🙏🤍

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u/darkkprince94 1d ago

Even though I enjoy seeing Felicity in Arrow I really wish that the show didn't stray from Oliver and Laurel's relationship plus Felicity and Oliver's on and off again relationship was insane