Arrow Season 5: 8 Things That Must Happen Next
1. Laurel Can't Really Be Back
Laurel's death made it difficult for me to keep watching Arrow - it felt to me like the writers gave up on her, ironically, just as she was beginning to resemble Black Canary - but they made it very clear that she was gone for good, and the one redeeming factor of her death is how they have gone about honouring her legacy.
If Laurel is back, the theme of legacy is put into question, and if she isn't (it could be that she's a hallucination or a Laurel from another Earth) and the whole things turns out to be a red herring, then the writers have gone and dug themselves the deepest hole in the history of holes.
I'm not sure how they get out of this one, unless she somehow turns out to be Prometheus, but I'd rather see her gone than have her return only to be a secondary character all over again. Either way, the show loses credibility, but after everything that has happened since her death, and everything we and the characters have gone through, bringing her back is not really an option.
What do you want to see happen next on Arrow? Share your thoughts down in the comments.