I agree with you about Felicity. She really suffered from her expanded role and making her Oliver's one and only. I didn't bother finishing season 4 because I couldn't take all that manufactured drama. She worked in her limited role of the earlier seasons but I get the feeling she's too much of a writer's pet and the show suffers for it.
Moving on, another thing I liked was the characterization of Dark Arrow and Overgirl. They were clearly scumbags but they weren't just mustache-twirling villains. I believed their love story, more than Oliver/Felicity's and I'm not kidding, and I even think the show may have done too good of a job at humanizing them because I thought they made for good villains who I wouldn't mind making a couple more appearances. I still don't understand why Thawne was allying himself with them wholeheartedly unless it was just another way to mess with Barry.
Romantic blunders aside, this crossover succeeded in making me enjoy all the awesome fun I was seeing onscreen rather than bringing my cynical side out. That suit up scene they did during the Arrow portion was campy, cheesy, and completely unnecessary. Yet, I freaking loved it especially with the mixing of all of their themes.
It's hard to pick out the best scene but I thought that whole wedding battle was the most incredible of the battles. Everyone there got their chance to shine. Killer Frost whipped out that armsicle, Barry and Wally catching bullets and throwing them back into the gun, Alex and Sara kicking ass, Mick being Mick, Cisco vibing Oliver onto the balcony to fight Prometheus, and Kara finishing off the battle with her thunder clap.
Moving on, another thing I liked was the characterization of Dark Arrow and Overgirl. They were clearly scumbags but they weren't just mustache-twirling villains. I believed their love story, more than Oliver/Felicity's and I'm not kidding, and I even think the show may have done too good of a job at humanizing them because I thought they made for good villains who I wouldn't mind making a couple more appearances. I still don't understand why Thawne was allying himself with them wholeheartedly unless it was just another way to mess with Barry.
Romantic blunders aside, this crossover succeeded in making me enjoy all the awesome fun I was seeing onscreen rather than bringing my cynical side out. That suit up scene they did during the Arrow portion was campy, cheesy, and completely unnecessary. Yet, I freaking loved it especially with the mixing of all of their themes.
It's hard to pick out the best scene but I thought that whole wedding battle was the most incredible of the battles. Everyone there got their chance to shine. Killer Frost whipped out that armsicle, Barry and Wally catching bullets and throwing them back into the gun, Alex and Sara kicking ass, Mick being Mick, Cisco vibing Oliver onto the balcony to fight Prometheus, and Kara finishing off the battle with her thunder clap.