[ SECRET POST #2967 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2967 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

Re: What shows are doing this?

[(Anonymous)]

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Ok, from an out-of-universe viewpoint, I suppose the reason was to accelerate Laurel's ascent to Black Canary. Within universe, however, it's much more convoluted.

At the end of season two, Thea left town with Malcolm, who turned out to be her birth father, because she was mad at everyone lying to her. (Guess lying is worse than mass-murdering 500+ people.) So he starts training her to be a mini-ninja. Meanwhile Sara goes back to the LOA at the end of the season as payment for their help in stopping Slade. Ra's Al Ghul has it out for Malcolm, basically because Ra's let him go from the LOA and he went and murdered a bunch of people. So Ra's wants Malcolm dead. Malcolm wants Ra's not to kill him. So he decides to drug Thea and program her to kill Sara, so that Oliver will take Thea's place and fight Ra's to pay the debt for Sara's life. The supposed idea is that Oliver will kill Ra's and Malcolm will be off the hook. But of course Ra's kicks Oliver's ass and almost kills him, so Oliver comes back to Malcolm and says, please! Train me to be able to defeat Ra's! Whereupon we all say...what the what?

Re: What shows are doing this?

[nightscale]

I don't... I'm guessing that Oliver knows that he orchestrated Sara's death? Because never mind that Malcolm's plan is stupid to begin with, because it's fucking Ra's Ah Ghul, the idea that Oliver would want any help from the man that killed his friend/girlfriend is ridiculous.(I mean the whole Thea mini-ninja thing made me want to smack my head into the desk anyway. Also how could Thea kill Sara? Who's been a LOA member for years at this point).

Re: What shows are doing this?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah Oliver knows that Malcolm was behind the whole thing, because Malcolm showed Oliver a video of Thea killing Sara, and told him how he made her do it. And he told Oliver that Ra's wouldn't care that Thea was drugged and doesn't remember any of it and that Malcolm was behind the whole thing - that Ra's would still want Thea dead regardless. And we are believing Malcolm on this point because....reasons I guess. So Oliver dutifully troops away to go fight Ra's to protect his little sis, but he gets skewered instead and falls off a cliff. So after being miraculously saved by the future Katana, she tells him that "only the student can defeat the master". Oliver in his great wisdom deduces that this means that he must get Malcolm to teach him to defeat Ra's, and so....here we are.

Now mind you, Ra's still, as far as we know, does not actually know that Thea was the one to have killed Sara. Although he does seem to have a very good idea that Oliver is lying through his teeth when he claims to have killed Sara himself.

As to how Thea managed to kill Sara - basically she caught her off guard. While it's still a stretch (as you say, Sara was LOA-trained), Sara let her guard down when she saw Thea, someone she presumed to be a friend, and Thea put three arrows into her.

Re: What shows are doing this?

[nightscale]

That is so ludicrously complicated, I don't know whether I want to laugh at it or face palm.

Ahhh, okay her thinking Thea is friendly and Thea shooting her makes some sense. (Tho now I'm trying to remember other shot by arrows deaths in Arrow to see if this like LoTR has the three arrows are always fatal thing, because that would be amusing to me).