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Following a screening of tonight’s episode of Arrow, titled “Nanda Parbat,” earlier this week, producers Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim discussed the decision to move forward on the Ray Palmer/Felicity Smoak relationship they’ve teased all season.
ComicBook.com was there; here’s what the producers had to say. Keep an eye peeled for the full interview after the West Coast airing of the episode.
Can you guys talk about getting Ray and Felicity together in the sack so quickly?
MG: Oh, it was all Andrew’s idea!…See what I did there?
AK: We often talk what life would be like if Twitter existed in the days of, like, Cheers, when we’re writing. Part of the fun of watching couples on television is keeping them apart and watching how other people come in and out of their lives. There are a lot of people who believe Oliver and Laurel should be together, or people who believe that Oliver and Felicity should be together. We don’t know how it’s all going to tur out; we just do what’s right at the time.
For right now, Oliver has decided that “I can’t do this,” and Felicity isn’t going to sit around waiting for him. She’s probably the most healthy of all of them. He’s the one who’s shutting himself down emotionally when he has this amazing person who’s basically offering him hope and guidance and friendship and love and everything. He doesn’t feel he deserves it and doesn’t feel that that’s best for her, whether she agrees with it or not.
Then you’ve got Ray and in a lot of ways he’s an analogue to Oliver. He’s had a tragedy and he’s trying to do right by it. But he’s opening his heart to her. And he’s Brandon Routh. How can you blame her?
