Board Thread:Arrow discussions/@comment-807326-20170202010018/@comment-9346948-20170203222924

SeanWheeler wrote: If they wanted Dinah Drake to be Black Canary, why couldn't they use Alex Kingston? Why did they have to introduce someone to retcon who Laurel's mother is? Like it's been said a few times already, Alex Kingston never played a Dinah Drake, her character was only ever called Dinah Lance. It's not a retcon if they decided to split the comic counterpart into two characters.