User blog comment:Chinkycandie/Casting Decisions/@comment-1183010-20171221084517

Overall I liked it, but half of the problem with the awful section is poor writing and lack of exposure. Here are some that I mean;

Helen Slater as Eliza Danvers

I have enjoyed Helen Slater as Eliza, and she has had some great scenes with Cheryl and Melissa, but she has not had that much time to really be explored as a character. Even the flashback was more centered around young Kara and Alex than Eliza. Pretty much over the two and half seasons she has only been in a handful of episodes and considering there was a lot of episodes in S! and S2 that we could have done without, those could have been done with more exploration of her character, especially when Dean Cain came back as Jeremiah

Robbie Amell as Ronnie Raymond

Once again another character who was not given the chance to be explored. Just as we started to get to know this character he was gone and killed off. I think Robbie is a decent actor and I think he and Danielle had some good scenes. I wish though he was used a bit more. His lack of use is one of the main problems.

Madison McLaughlin as Evelyn Sharp

Same goes with the others, I was looking forward when I heard Evelyn was coming back in S5 because I enjoyed the episode she was in and they were setting her up as someone who worshiped the Black Canary and I would have liked to see how she went. Beside Ragman she was the more competent member of Team Arrow and I was hoping something would develop down the line between the two characters, but then they had her team up with Adrian, and yet they NEVER revealed why. All we got is a want to protect the city from you. But that makes no sense, Oliver hasn't been that killer in a long time and yet she teams with someone who is a mass murderer. It makes no sense, then again this is the Arrow writers who have done the same thing with Vigilante working with the Cabal

Erica Durance as Alura Zor-El

Not had much chance to be explored as Alura plus she is following after someone else who played the role well. It would have been better to explain why Alura looks different to the viewers. An attack by Cadmus led to the hologram being corrupted which led to Kara having to revert the program to a previous version of Alura.

Katie Cassidy as Laurel Lance

Okay so this is more about the showrunners than the writers. The fact is Laurel was a somewhat decent character after S2 as they were setting her up really well. But unfortunately the Olicity Era came and Laurel's character was left on the wayside. She was one of the major casualties in the Olicity Era both figuratively and literally. Instead of focusing on her character and development they focused on Felicity and when it seemed they were starting to distance Oliver and Felicity away and gravitate him towards Laurel again they killed her off to stop at any chance of them getting together. Now I do agree that Black Siren is a better character as Katie seems to enjoy playing as her and she seems to be more popular than Black Canary (both versions)

Overall that is my opinion. I feel that had the writers and showrunners focused on these character a bit more than they would not have been on this list.