Arrow 511 Second Chances Review
Last night Arrow gave us the new Black Canary aka, Tina Boland, whom we find out at the end is really Dinah Drake. Of course we know that Laurel's first name was Dinah, so this is Arrow's new Black Canary. She got her Canary Cry in Central City at the time of the particle accelerator explosion. She knows how to fight, because she had been CCPD Clearly, Juliana Harkavy can act. Her performance was both believable and authentic. She holds her own with Oliver. As I have stated before, I know zero about comic books or comic book icons, so I had to do a little research as to why the showrunners found it necessary to give us a Black Canary, when there seems to be plenty on board who can help Oliver fight crime. Apparently the original Black Canary in the 1947 comics was named Dinah Drake, so this is a wink at history. I guess the Green Arrow has always had a Black Canary, and since Arrow is taken from the Green Arrow, then it would seem...