Board Thread:Arrow discussions/@comment-807326-20170202010018/@comment-5340308-20170202023712

MS225 wrote: I think someone probably told them they needed a Black Canary for Green Arrow after all the hate they got after Laurel died so they got a new one. They probably should've just killed Quentin instead. If they knew the mess there is now, trying to find a balance between the Olicity fans and Laurel fans, they probably would've just knocked either him or Donna off. Save themselves the trouble. It's not like they're using him this season anyways There wasn't anything to balance. By that time in season 3 to 4, Ollie and Laurel had already come to terms with themselves and were fine as friends. There was no threat to Olicity whatsoever. There was no point to it.

And I agree about Quentin. The BS excuse they came up with for him was that they needed the cop connection (which they're more using with Adrian than Quentin, doesn't he even have his job back?). So with that, I choose to believe they were lying through their teeth and planned on killing Laurel all along.