By: Andrew Kreisberg & Wendy Mericle (story)
Spoilers ahead. From the moment it was announced a Canary would be appearing on the show, speculation ran rampant as to her identity. Quite a lot of people immediately insisted that it had to be Sarah, the younger Lance sister who ran away with Ollie, only to meet her watery death. I, always hoping that a story won’t be tempted to take such an obvious route, thought there was at least a possibility not-Canary would turn out to someone no one expected.
Once again, however, I find my hopes ruthlessly dashed. From the moment that Felicity and Ollie hypothesize that not-Canary has been following Dinah, not Ollie, all along, it pretty much clinches the Sarah theory. I’ll say this for Arrow, though: it doesn’t tend to dance around the obvious. Rather than spend an entire episode delaying the inevitable reveal, the show gets it all over with in the cold open, leaving us free to enjoy the fallout.
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