Before I begin, I just want to reiterate that I am not a Laurel Lance fan. I don’t hate her, but I don’t love her. So what I am about to say next is by no means biased by my (nonexistent) feelings for her.
Since the last episode, I have been reading such negative sentiments towards Laurel that it almost disturbs me. I strongly believe that she doesn’t deserve such bashing.
One of the things that keeps coming back is that Laurel somehow violated the sanctity of the foundry by bringing Sara’s body there. This irks me on so many different levels. Here we have a woman who saw her sister violently die. Shot with three arrows and fallen off a building, all Laurel can do is hold her sister in her arms as she dies. She brings her to the only place she can think off. And we fault her for that?
Where else could she have taken her? The hospital? The police station? How could she have explained the situation? Who is supposed to turn to? Should she go to her father the man who has had another life threatening health scare? She carried her sister’s broken body to the only place she thought she could.She knows she has to keep this quiet so that her father doesn’t know. In the shock and the trauma of the situation she did the best she could.
Let me pose these following questions to you. Would you still feel the same way about the action itself if Sara had been found and brought to the foundry by say Oliver or Diggle or Felicity or Roy? And what about Sara herself? Do we all not consider her a member of team Arrow, a member of their family? When Diggle, Roy, Oliver or even Felicity are injured they are all taken to the foundry. I know the extent of Sara’s injuries is no where near to what the others have gone through but we all take this as fact that when one of them is hurt they take care of their own. Laurel’s intention was not to violate or intrude into the foundry, it was to bring Sara to the only home she had known after coming back to Starling City.
I have also read so much about how she dwelled in her own anger and grief. About how she was selfish in her own sorrow. Are we really going to point fingers at a woman who is mourning the loss of a sibling?
Laurel and Sara have had a complicated relationship to say the least. But never ever have I doubted their feelings for each other. Laurel has felt betrayed, angry, jealous and devastated by Sara. There was a terrible chasm between them.But just as they had managed to reach a happy state with each other Sara is wrenched away. One can only imagine the added sense of loss that Laurel must feel. She might even feel guilt that she missed out on time with her sister, time that could have been spent together. She is processing the torrent of emotions in her veins the way she best can. She channels it into her rage. She is hell bent of revenge. Can anyone of us blame her? If Laurel weren’t focused on finding her sister’s killer we would call her cold and unfeeling. That she was selfish to think only of her own comfort. Our biases against the character color our opinion of show she deals with the hand that is dealt to her.
I am the older sibling and my “baby” brother is 6’1, and is built like a mountain. But guess who is more protective of the other? Me of him. Me the 5’4 light weight. Why? because he will always be my baby brother. He will always be the child that would come running to me in school when the older boys tried to bully him (I brought them all down a peg or two thank you very much). When you are an older sibling thats what you do? You step in when the world gets too tough for your brother or sister and you tell them all that to get them you have to go through me. This is all of course just personal opinion, but the show seems to expound how powerful the sibling relationships are.
The third thing that I keep reading about is how Laurel kept leaning on Oliver for comfort. I have no idea what these people assume was meant to happen. Was she supposed to deal with it by herself? Whether we like it or not Laurel and Oliver along with Tommy have been established as being friends. Oliver is the only one she can lean on. She doesn’t share a close relationship with any of the other characters other than Lance and she isn’t going to share this information with him. She needs support and she leans on the person that knew Sara as well as or maybe even better than she did.
And finally, there is no comparison between Felicity’s grief and Laurel’s grief. This is another position that I have been reading which annoys me. Felicity lost a friend, Laurel lost a sister. Each grieved in their own way, they did what they needed to do. This is not a contest. There is no winner for the who grieved the best.
I love Felicity Smoak. I make no efforts to hide that. But I think as fans of the show we should all draw a line when the way feel about certain characters colors of views on the others on the show no matter how much we may like or dislike them.
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