User blog comment:Kir the Wizard/Laurel is the New Felicity - a Posthumous Glorification/@comment-28501280-20170216024404

What annoyed me is the way that they portrayed Laurel's journey to vigilantism. If you go back to season one you can see Laurel is clearly capable of fending for herself (especially in the seen where she kicks the butt of the club owner picking on Oliver and Tommy). She fought back against the multiple people that invaded her apartment over the season and even in the first episode of season two she saves her boss from being shot in the face by knocking the guy out. And then season three rolls around and she can't even jump onto the roof of a parked car five feet below. Then she trains with Nyssa and can suddenly defeat several League members. Could Nyssa have taught her the League's moves? Maybe. But the inconsistency of her fighting ultimate weighs down her actions as the Black Canary. The skip to season four and she's great again. They never portrayed her as the butt kicking hero they do in season five. After she brought back Sara she literally had nothing to do until the few episodes before she died (when they decided to kill her off). Suddenly she was the one Oliver turned to when he had troubles with Felicity and she was portrayed as the calm and collected one during Williams abduction. Then she saves Oliver's life and puts away Darhk. They rushed to make her a hero instead of letting it smoothly run. They never focused on her relationship with Oliver prior and she never did anything but scream. She had A LOT of potential and Katie Cassidy worked her butt off (apparently she only got two-four hours of sleep every night because she would go the gym at like four in the morning to train before shooting for the next 16 hours). They instead focused on Felicity and ultimately that didn't work. Now they're to compensate for that now by making Laurel the greatest hero to ever be in Star City when they never appreciated her while she was alive