Board Thread:Arrow discussions/@comment-807326-20170202010018/@comment-3423279-20170203222606

SeanWheeler wrote: If they wanted Dinah Drake to be Black Canary, why couldn't they use Alex Kingston? Why did they have to introduce someone to retcon who Laurel's mother is? Probably because Alex Kingston either has other things she is working on or because she is 53/54 years old.

This doesn't retcon who this show's Laurel Lance's mother, as this Dinah Lance wasn't ever the original Black Canary.

And we also never got her character's last name.