Tune in with Turner

     A few days ago I wrote about Oliver's adversity.  Now, I thought I would focus on Felicity's adversity and her journey. In a way it mirror's Oliver's.  Her character will reveal who she in her heart, and like Oliver, she will need help in coming out of her dark journey. Felicity had a dark beginning.  She and her boyfriend were hacktists.  As I said in my other post, adversity doesn't build character, it reveals it.  Felicity pulled the plug on her boyfriend's hacking, because she knew it was wrong.  She tried to pull herself out, and she did succeed.  She died her hair blond and began to use her computer skill for good, eventually working a Queen consolidated.   support her.  Then she met Oliver, and he drew her into his world.  There she has learned a a lot of hard things. Sometimes our trials seem small, but it is the small things built up over time that becomes difficult to bear, so in that sense her adversity ...

  Adversity does not build character, it reveals it .  We know that Oliver before his island experience  played around with women. He thoughtlessly went from girl to girl and he never focused on anyone or anything but himself.  Or did he?  We know that Oliver did show some remorse when he received the phone call saying that his baby had died.  He showed glimpses of the character that we know as Oliver Queen. His time on the island revealed to Oliver what already lay hidden in his character and in his heart.  So the five years he spent on the hellish island served to show Oliver who he really was in his heart.  He was a good man who wanted to do right but had no foundation.  The island adversity became his foundation.  He wanted to save people not hurt them.  He never wanted to kill Shado to save Sara. He didn't want to "kill" Slade Wilson; he thought he had no other choice.  As he told Felicity, when he saw people,  he s...