gogoboywonder:I miss this take on Dinah and Ollie - the one...

gogoboywonder:

I miss this take on Dinah and Ollie - the one where she’s grown and moved past him and made her peace with everything. Of course she still loves him, because he did mean a lot to her, and they had been through a lot together. At the same time, she’d grown past it. She loved him, but she wasn’t in love with him anymore. It was great character development and a wonderful way for Dinah to kind of complete the journey that Gail Simone had started for her when she took over writing duties on Birds of Prey. No more being kidnapped, no more being gagged, one of the world’s finest martial artists, a superhero in her own right. She was the bad-ass she was always meant to be. 

And then the writers did away with all of it, because suddenly in Green Arrow/Black Canary, Dinah’s easily apprehended by a street thug and can’t find her way out of it. Dinah hasn’t been the same since then, no matter how much they change up continuity. It’s sad, because she’d finally realized her potential. She’d finally lived up to it, only to have it all taken away by people nostalgic for the past…none of which worked out well.