Board Thread:Arrow discussions/@comment-807326-20170202010018/@comment-27700324-20170209223340

JQuake101 wrote: Aspiring wrote: The writers need to just outright say they hate Katie Cassidy and Laure Lance.

It's one thing to kill her, it's another to introduce a new character and slap on the name Dinah, give her the Canary Cry, and pretend like this was their plan all along. It's a pathetic excuse for them to say, "Look guys! We have the real Black Canary now! We're doing it right!" and then pat themselves on the back for a job NOT well done.

Yeah, this is honestly the most contrived plot twist the show has come up with, and it truly places Arrow at the lowest common denominator for the DCTV shows. There's no saving this show now. The worst part about it is that I like the new girl, but the way she was concieved was just so contrived and disrespectful. And not just to Katie Cassidy, but to the new actress as well. Women aren't interchangeable.

Arrow has fucked up so bad that we've ended up with four people named Dinah, and  cycled through four canaries and a siren. What even. Then you should throw shade at the comics cause they just change Black Canary constantly. First it was Dinah, then Laurel, and back to Dinah. It is ridiculous that they had both in the comics. So Arrow basically continued that by having this new Black Canary who i remember from the tv show Birds of Prey. She was Dinah Redmond, who was actually the daughter of Black Canary AKA Dinah Laurel Drake. This Black Canary was killed and eventually her daughter took down the killer. Now she is the Black Canary and actually wears a mask unlike her mother. She also went by her real last name Drake by the half way point in the show. A very familiar scenario is happening with Arrow.