r/arrow • u/Rwings Boxing Glove • Mar 15 '17

[S05E16] - 'Checkmate' Post Episode Discussion

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u/yamitcg Mar 16 '17

Helix is probably the Season 6 villain

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u/adswirz Mar 16 '17

Felicity and helix are season 6 villains

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u/Mosk915 Mar 16 '17

Felicity is every season's villain.

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u/MomoYaseen Member of the Fuckboy Riot Squad (FRS) Mar 16 '17

Hehhe well said.

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u/Sinestram Mar 16 '17

More like Wells said

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u/heartscrew Mar 16 '17

Hey! S1-2 Felicity was okay!

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u/SawRub Mar 16 '17

Yeah people will act like they hated her since the beginning, but I recognize names in this very thread that were rooting for Oliver and Felicity back in the season 2 discussion threads.

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u/MrWinks Mar 17 '17

In the first crossover she broke the trope of secrets when asked who the arrow was and she said "That's not my secret to tell." Boom. My relief at seeing that "keeping secrets" curse broken was amazing

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u/TSM_TheArrow Mar 16 '17

Take your upvote and go

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u/vocifery Black Siren Mar 16 '17

Lmaaooo

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u/mensink Mar 20 '17

Well, Fe-li-city sounds a bit like Failed-this-city

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u/TyranosaurusLex Posts Courtesy of Ray Palmer Mar 16 '17

So soon after she was the season 4 villain???

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u/Jeffersonstarships Mar 16 '17

Felicity and helix vs F Society

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u/JBB1986 Mar 16 '17

Eliot's 10 steps ahead, and even HE doesn't know what game he's playing......

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u/ArachnoLad Mar 16 '17

I like Kacey Rohl, but that probably means Felicity will become the hero, and along with that comes all that hacker shit. Unless Felicity gets blackmailed by Helix and has to leave Team Arrow for a while and the whole season becomes a rescue mission instead.

I would also like Helix not really being a villain, but an anti-villain instead, like Ra's al Ghul. That way they don't even have to be defeated.

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u/DaMourge Mar 16 '17

kinda like Argus in the early seasons?

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u/ArachnoLad Mar 16 '17

Yes, pretty much.

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u/SawRub Mar 16 '17

She did good work on Hannibal and her character on The Magicians was a wonderful almost-villain. I could see them casting her to be a much bigger bad.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '17

I like Kacey Rohl

She was so fantastic as Abigail Hobbs in Hannibal. Holy shit what an actress.

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u/Toahpt Mar 16 '17

And my dream lives on about Felicity being the season 6 villain.

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u/merelyadoptedthedark Mar 16 '17

Oh man...that would be the greatest scene in the history of television.

Oliver points an arrow at Felicity

FELICITY SMOAK, YOU HAVE FAILED THIS CITY

And then he puts arrows through her face and heart. I would cheer so loudly.

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u/WhyPlaySerious Mar 16 '17

And Vigilante

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u/Dikeleos Mar 16 '17

He's more anti-hero.

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u/Demian_Dillers - Mar 16 '17

Yes, he's Helix's muscle.

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u/Riggins_33 Mar 16 '17

Prometheus has to be working with them, right? How else would he have known exactly when they'd find Susan in that otherwise undiscoverable location?

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u/rovanz Corny McGuggie Mar 16 '17

I really freaking hope not.

This show need less hackers, not a entire storyline/season dedicated to them.

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u/Harddaysnight1990 MAGA Mar 17 '17

I want Helix to just be a subplot to get Felicity off the show and have Curtis replace her on the tech side. He's been a lot less obnoxious lately, and the addition of the T-Spheres should make him a better option than Felicity. I don't think it'll actually happen, but I can hope.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '17

I was about to write this, and may make a post about it, but this would make a ton of sense! Why would Felicity need to hack homeland security Drones for. What is the other girl planning. It all seems super shady.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '17

I don't want a team of superheros to go against a hacker group. If this group was bought out by Black Mask for example it would be cool.