5 reasons why The CW needs to pick up Green Arrow and The Canaries

The Birds of Prey series we’ve been waiting for

Way back before the Arrowverse was even a notion, if you had asked any fan what they’d like to see from an Arrow spin-off, chances are that they would call for a Birds of Prey series. The fact is that Arrow has had many empowering female heroes – from the original Laurel Lance’s Black Canary to Sara’s Canary and Thea Queen’s Speedy to Helena Bertinelli’s Huntress – but there just wasn’t enough time to showcase all of them.

Arrow wasn’t built to be an ensemble show but a Birds of Prey spin-off would have been – after all, look at how well DC’s Legends of Tomorrow balances its characters. That’s where Green Arrow and The Canaries comes in.

This one is built as an ensemble property, so it would have no problem balancing its trio of heroes. Mia Queen’s struggles with the fear of disappointing her father and resuming a life she left behind may have been at the center of the episode, but so were Laurel Lance’s continued attempts to be the hero she had become before Crisis On Infinite Earths took her world from her and Dinah Drake’s concerns over the fact that she had somehow found herself dropped in 2040 without any explanation as to what happened to her.

A show of this calibre – with this potential – should have been the very first Arrow spin-off, but it’s equally fitting that it carries on its legacy. Give the show’s incredible female heroes a chance to shine and, maybe somewhere along the line, introduce some more superheroes. Yes, give us the Birds of Prey spin-off we wanted and pick Green Arrow and The Canaries up.

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