As many of you who know me are quite
aware of, I am not a fan of the way Helena Bertinelli was portrayed
on Arrow. I though the show did a great disservice to her character,
and got more people to hate her rather than become fans of her. The
way she was portrayed on Arrow was one of the worst forms of
essentialism I have ever seen. What I mean by that is: the show
basically stripped Helena of all her admirable traits and instead,
reduced her to the 'psycho bitch ex-girlfriend' trope. And it did so
in order to move a contrived plot along, and to get one of the minor
characters to move to another city.
Below the cut will be an examination of
everything the show did wrong, in terms of her character.
