Arrow Season 4: 23 WTF Moments From 'Legends Of Yesterday'

5. What Is The Point In Black Canary?

Urgh. If feels that barely an episode goes by without Laurel Lance/Black Canary doing nothing of note or simply just being awful. In fairness, Laurel€™s effort in the first part of this crossover, Legends of Today, was stunning to watch because€ well, because she wasn€™t in that episode at all. With Oliver deciding to take Black Canary, Speedy and Diggle into battle with him against Vandal Savage this time, Canary appears out of the back of a van like something out of a bad A-Team episode. What follows is a Canary Cry that just felt €œmeh€ and had you again asking WTF is the point of Black Canary in this show. Seriously, there is no character in any comic book-based show that is written worse than Canary right now.
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