User blog comment:Eobard95/Arrow Season 6 - Two characters dying?/@comment-31657011-20170811160255/@comment-26624146-20170815034910

I know Black Siren was already meant to appear when Laurel died, though to be honest I suspect that may have been Andrew Kreisberg anticipating the Laurel death backlash as he was one of the Arrow show-runners and basically made a backup plan, but I'm mainly talking about her returning as a main character next season which has happened after 1 year of them trying to make audiences accept her death by having closure episodes and introducing Dinah Drake. Yet nobody let up and either kept bitching or simply gave up so I think they realized they were wrong and fell back on the one backup option they could: Black Siren.

Thea's death wouldn't work because that would destory Oliver more than Felicity's death and Guggie has said he'll never kill her though that doesn't mean she can't be written for a while. I also get the writers pet thing but that's only gonna get them so far. Also yea I know Eddie was going to die so WestAllen could happen but Olicity isn't an iconic comic relationship so I don't consider it any different to Eddie and Iris' relationship. Maybe the aplogy was meant to make up for things and get things back on track but that was before there was an explosion on Lian Yu that left everyones fates unknown, plus not many people gave a damn about her aplogies regardless so they may just off her yet,