can I tell you something that genuinely shocks me to this day? the fact that the white canary is a character of colour in the comics and everyone just kinda accepted that they were gonna whitewash her so that Sara could continue to have a role in the show. Like. Why? To this day I don’t understand it.
Neither. I’m glad Gail Simone called them out on it so much, too.
Also, to be genuinely honest with you too, I kind of liked Arrow adapting the mother/daughter canary dynamic from the comics into a sister/sister one with one being “the canary” and the other becoming “black canary” (even though Alex Kingston as Dinah Drake and being Black Canary would have been fucking siiiiiiick). It felt like an adaptation of the story, but then it quickly devolved into them resurrecting Sara because they saw how many fans loved her, making her a comic book character she had no right being, and then killing off the real Black Canary, and introducing another “Dinah Drake” and all the nonsense that just derailed what could have been an interesting take on the canary legacy story.
