There’s still a lot of story left to be told with Sara. "One of the beautiful parts on the show is we do flashbacks and we still want to tell the story of what happened when Sara washed up on the shores of Lian Yu after the events of 223, the sinking of the Amazo, and how she met Nyssa and how she joined the League of Assassins.
And the truth is, we have stories that involve Caity Lotz." You’ll see her in the next episode and then you’ll see her in at least a third episode. We WILL See Sara AgainWe’d heard Caity Lotz would be appearing in a minimum of at least three episodes this season and when I asked Guggenheim about that, he replied, “I wasn’t lying! I wasn’t lying! Totally true. It's always a hard thing to do but it's really the ending that is driving the whole third season.” Guggenheim also got into specifics about how Sara’s death will affect some of the characters closest to her. It speaks to all of the things that we wanted to do this year in terms of Laurel’s character, in terms of Oliver's character, in terms of Felicity’s character. It will create all of these other complications and dynamics that I can't talk about because it would spoil stuff. It will set Laurel on a trajectory she’s never had before on the show. It really kicks off a mystery that will drive us for at least the first half of the year. It’s always hard to kill off someone who you just really enjoy working with and you really love writing for and seeing on the screen.”Ĭaity Lotz as Sara Lance / Canary in Arrow.Guggenheim promised, “As with Tommy’s death, as with Moria’s death, the story implications for this development are so far reaching for the show and affect all of the characters. Caity Lotz completely fit into that family. Like when we were meeting with Brandon Routh, part of our process with casting recurring characters is obviously we don't screen people for their personality, but I tell you, we've got this great group and a really wonderfully welcoming cast. Especially because, we're very lucky, and I really mean this - our cast and our guest cast are always wonderful people. We’re not Game of Thrones, we’re not Sons of Anarchy. Every time we kill off a character on the show, it’s always incredibly hard. It was one of the first ideas we kicked around.” That being said, Guggenheim noted, “It was hard. It was just part and parcel of our plan for the year, ever since we started. I've spoken at length at this point that it’s about identity and we talked about what Oliver’s journey for the year would be and we talked about what all the other characters' journeys would be and just in the course of those conversations, we had this notion of sort of starting off the year in the way we typically end the year. So why did they kill Sara? Said Guggenheim, “We just sort of started off talking about what’s the season about. Arrow executive producer Marc Guggenheim had a question for those of us among the press who’d assembled to watch the Arrow: Season 3 premiere a few days ago: “Do you guys hate us for killing off Sara?” Yes, the Arrow team are well aware that there will be many displeased with the death of Sara Lance, AKA The Canary, in the final moments of the episode.