Board Thread:Arrow discussions/@comment-807326-20170202010018/@comment-27700324-20170211005915

JQuake101 wrote: Kir the Wizard wrote:

JQuake101 wrote: 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. ...And man are? What the heck are you even going on about?

This is a multiverse that had three Counts Vertigo, an Eobard Thawne played by three actors, and an interchangeable role of "current Harrison Wells".

Legacy characters are a thing, like them or not. Laurel HERSELF was a legacy character, originally trying to imitate her sister Sara, the original Canary. Who brought men into this? Ya know what, now that you did, let's discuss this. Imagine if instead of the Black Canary, we had Batman on this show. Imagine them cycling through four or five different people calling themselves Batman and more than half of those people conviently having the first name 'Bruce'. Imagine the outrage from hoards of fanboys that their white male iconic hero was being butchered, disrespected, and side lined the way Dinah Laurel Lance was through her entire time on Arrow and even in death. The Black Canary is not a legacy, it's an exclusive daughter-mother mantel. But as is evident (and has always been), Arrow has zero respect for comic canon, and is misogynistic. We would be fine with it cause Batman has been replaced before. They would probably adapt Knightfall if Batman had a show. In that comic, Jean Paul Valley became a ruthless Batman. Right after that, Batman's former sidekick Dick Grayson took up the mantle. So, no we wouldn't be upset about it. If we never had Bruce Wayne on there, that would have fan outrage.