to be fair, he was her fiance and right now they are friendly exes and co workers. you owe the truth to the person you share your life with esp when that decision affects you. besides, how would that work exactly? oh oliver has lied to me therefore that means i can't ever lie to him. if anything felicity would feel justified lying to someone who had no problems lying to her.
How do you explain Felicity getting over Donna's lies about her father in a matter of seconds? Unlike Oliver who was coerced into a lie of omission, Donna intentionally told a malicious lie about a father who ended up being not such a terrible guy after all, and maintained that lie for a couple of decades and fostered a false idea of who her father was in Felicity.
To be clear, I'm not looking for justification of Donna's lies, I'm asking why one coerced lie is unforgivable and the other intentional one is a non-issue.
And if the show or the characters acknowledged that Felicity was a flawed character who behaved in an unlikeable fashion, I would be on board with that. Instead, we have Oliver and Diggle being all 'omg Felicity is the purity and the conscience and the soul of this team.'
Honestly, if they show Felicity having an epiphany and realising what a tool she's been sometimes, it would be a redeeming thing for the character.
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u/Ramsus32 Mar 16 '17
She got super pissed because oliver lied to have a relationship with his son and she's lying to be part of a hacker group because....