Board Thread:WARNING ALL USERS False Info\Spoilers/@comment-10280603-20140210215216/@comment-6207588-20140211221947

Pizzanigs wrote: What? Colton Haynes didn't make the decision to leave until after Season 2 ended. He left because they weren't putting him in as many Season 3 episodes as he wanted, and then Arrow approached him a few months later. true...contract negotiations for S3 broke down over screen time after the S2 finale had already aired.

As for how I think it affected the season...I think we probably would have found out about who his parents really were....they might have even been in the flashback episode (Visionary) since we were introduced to some of Beacon Hills past (yet deceased) characters in that one (Talia, Paige). That was one of the mysteries of S1 and S2 I had wanted solved so badly and now will probably never know.