User blog comment:Eobard95/Arrow Season 5 - what it should be/@comment-27700324-20160617152145/@comment-3221148-20160619082311

This is fiction, not to mention that the idea of ever-possible redemption is one of the cornerstones of our culture, born out of Christianity. The other cornerstone, with more modern origins, is the idea that the nature of one's actions depends on the point of view. Both Darhk and Ra's were driven by good intentions (even if we'd consider them misguided). Even the later Darhk, Zolomon, Thawne and Slade acted of their own personal "moral myopia" position (as in, they felt justified in their actions based on their own personal stories: Slade thought that he brings justice through his revenge on Oliver; Thawne thought that his goal to go back to his time is more valuable than the lives of "insignificant" people; Darhk and Zolomon were both motivated by personal tragedy, that they thought absolved them for doing harm to the world).

One way or another, Laurel-2 is but another metahuman criminal with no motivation provided to her, so sending her to the cast of Arrow would be seen as an asspull. I'd rather see Slade return in a non-antagonistic role, or have something more on Zolomon's rise to villainy (something that the final Flash episodes REALLY lacked), than such a lousy attempt to bring a random version of Laurel back to the main cast.