For God sake, please kill off Laurel. She's not only useless, but she acts like a child. It's like the writer wants us to hate her character for all the wrong reasons on purpose. It's sucks because Katie Cassidy's acting was pretty strong during the court scenes, even with the clunky dialogue.
Pathetic is an understatement. All she does is wallow in self pity in the most immature of ways. She can still be salvaged once all the characters around her (especially Ollie) stop coddling her and actually give her tough love.
It's funny that Thea, a character who got a lot of flack last season, managed to actually becoming a better and more interesting character than Laurel has (though I'm curious where they'll take Thea now that the trial is done). It's like they took the worst aspects of Thea and decided to give it to Laurel.
It's as if the writers feel the need to have at least one whiny ***** on the show at all times. When it wasn't Thea last season, it was island Ollie haha. It's starting to become unfair for Katie Cassidy, who should be cursing all the writers out at this point over how her character has been written.
Thing is, even if they get rid of Laurel.. they'll write one of the other female characters to behave the same way as her. There has to be the token drama queen on the CW soaps. Pretty sure a significant portion of their CW audience watches Arrow for relationship drama.
Thing is, even if they get rid of Laurel.. they'll write one of the other female characters to behave the same way as her. There has to be the token drama queen on the CW soaps. Pretty sure a significant portion of their CW audience watches Arrow for relationship drama.
I hope they re-cast Laurel for S3. It's their best bet.
Cassidy was simply miscast in the role. She doesn't have the range for a role like this. Not that acting is a big deal on the CW, but even by the low standards of the network.. her performance is still bad.
^it was one guy she took out, not a body guard, just a rich boy. I could do that, doesn't make me Arrow.
its called character development,the same thing happened with TheaI didn't like Laurel in season 1, she got progressively worse and adds nothing to the show. So she can disappear forever and it wouldn't make a difference.
She's definitely not the Black Canary that anyone wants to see. Who wants to see a hero be a whiny, self pitying drug addict? I don't. They had already written storylines for her character and chose to give those storylines to another actress (one that is much more physically able to portray the Black Canary).
And the fact that so far this season she's not in 2 out of 8 episodes is saying something
I don't think Laurel is a lost cause. Thea used to be much more annoying than she was, but now most of us are okay with her.
Thea at least had the excuse of being a hormonal teenager.
Okay, yeah, that was stupid.She also didn't lead a manhunt...
...or tried to get someone's parent on death row.
That's not fair. She was only doing her job. She didn't have a choice in the matter.
She did. She could have said no.
Might that have cost her her job? Who knows. But it's still better than being responsible to get someone's mother killed when she succeeds.