Katie Cassidy as Laurel Lance in Arrow season 4
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Arrow season 4 episode 18 finally revealed the identity of
the person in the grave, who the show has been teasing since the
premiere episode. Laurel Lance (played by Katie Cassidy), who became the
new district attorney and hung up her Black Canary suit in the episode,
is the latest victim of Damien Darhk.
Darhk's powers are restored in the episode and he kills Laurel to take revenge against detective Lance, who betrayed him.
Executive producer Marc Guggenheim spoke to Entertainment Weekly about the shocking death in the episode. He said,
"Obviously
Arrow is always a show that's evolving. It's always a show where every
character, arguably except for the Arrow, is fair game. We started off
this year with the promise of a death and when we worked our way through
our various different creative choices, we realized that the thing that
will give us the most pop going into the end of the season and into
next
season unfortunately would be Laurel."
The showrunner also
hinted at a fan backlash after the Black Canary is killed off. "We knew
that it would enrage a lot of people. We're not immune to the 'shipping
and we're not immune to the Internet controversy — when I say immune, [I
mean] we're not blind to it. We've never made decisions on the show
creatively because of the Internet." he added.
Although Laurel is
dead in Arrow, there is a big possibility of her character showing up in
The Flash or other DC universe shows. Guggenheim said he has ways of
keeping Katie Cassidy in the Arrow-verse family.
"
Not
getting a chance to work with Katie day in and day out is tempered by
the fact that we now live in a universe where there's resurrection,
parallel
earths
, time travel, flashbacks — we have all these different ways of keeping Katie in the
Arrow-verse family," he added.
The actress is
confirmed in the upcoming episode of The Flash season 2, where she will
play the Earth-2 version of Laurel Lance. Speaking about Cassidy's
appearance in The Flash,
Guggenheim said, "
Katie is reprising her role as Laurel of Earth-1 to be in
Vixen
season 2. Death does not mean goodbye on any of these shows, but we
made a creative choice and we're sticking to it. We're recognizing that
Black Canary and Laurel have an incredibly loyal fanbase, and Katie has
an incredibly loyal fanbase, but the show has never been just about the
comic book history, it's never been just about one or two different
particular fanbases. We make the creative choices we feel benefit the
show as a whole and the story that we're telling overall."
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