It amazes me how polarizing she ' s been actually . Because the reasons people bring up for disliking either the actress or the character are ones that I simply don ' t see . Doesn ' t necessarily mean they ' re invalid , but I ' ve never felt that way somehow . I don ' t think her acting is any worse than most other actors on the show . They ' re all asked to play highly unrealistic characters and roles that do shit that makes no sense for a normal person to do or feel . They make the best of it and come out semibelievable enough that the plot can keep moving forward . The same goes for her . The times that struck me as bad were not her line delivery , but her lines . Some of the things that they crammed in to put a wedge between her and oliver toward the end of last season were so incredibly contrived that I couldn ' t think of any actress who could have pulled that off believably . The part where she finds out he has a son that he wasn ' t allowed to tell her about or he ' d never see him again . Out of all the things to have her char get upset enough about , that was not a good choice by the writers .