My feelings about the choices made by Arrow concerning a number of their female characters is well documented from even before I became a Mary Sue staffer. I am a fan of Jurnee Smollett’s version of the character in last year’s Birds of Prey movie, especially since it respected her far more than Arrow ever respected the legacy of the Black Canary. Yet, I wanted this series for Katie Cassidy’s Black Canary because Arrow did wrong by Laurel Lance. Dinah Laurel Lance was treated like crap in Arrow for reasons that we will probably never fully know, but as someone who loved Black Canary and started watching