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EPISODE
SEASON
Arrow - Season 3 Episode 05: The Secret Origin of Felicity Smoak
Can the arrow ever been the ordinary Oliver Queen again? just when he thought the battle against crime has been minimized to the lowest level, a new enemy is born.
7 February 1967, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
21 December 1978, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
5 February 1973, Woodburn, Oregon, USA
5 March 1969, Wellington, Shropshire, England, UK
3 January 1987, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
18 July 1976, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
9 December 1952, Luling, Texas, USA
August 02, 2018
The writers manage to make a Felicity-heavy installment without it feeling like blatant fan pandering... If it weren't obvious already, this entry makes it clear that Felicity is one of the best characters on TV.August 03, 2018
The episode takes a character that could have been a one-off joke and turned her into a three-dimensional figure whose great power was her ability to raise a good daughter.August 02, 2018
"The Secret Origin Of Felicity Smoak" is another strong entry for the season, mostly because it remains so difficult to resist the charms of a Felicity-centric episode.August 03, 2018
"The Secret Origin Of Felicity Smoak" proves to be a bit of a bait and switch.August 03, 2018
So it was a nice, fun, diversionary episode ... and then the ending scene hits from out of nowhere.August 02, 2018
The nice thing about getting to explore Felicity's origins beyond what we've heard in exposition, was to see that the character always had something of a heroically badass streak.