#malcolm merlyn
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17) another thing he’s done which i’m chuffed to bits about is have action figures made of the characters he’s played, and he’s one of the few people to have action figures in 3 different shows. Doctor Who,TorchwoodandArrow.
[top pic] the various iterations of Captain Jack Harkness… from the original, through to Malibu Jack (with hat!), coated Jack and the Torchwood ones…
[second pic] hooded and unhooded versions of Malcom Merlyn from Arrow
[other pics] my Captain Jack Harkness Action figure sure has travelled a fair bit when I’ve gone places, those pics are of course from Cardiff & the Roald Dahl Plass where Torchwood 3 is. ;o)
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49)AfterTorchwood JB got a good gig in the US playing the Businessman/ Assassin Malcolm Merlyn (a.k.a. Ra’s al Ghul) in Arrow. He has now played same character on four different series: Arrow(2012-6),The Flash(2014),Supergirl (2016) and Legends of Tomorrow(2016).
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First season done, seven more to go.
But my overall impressions after rewatching it years later are these:
- Many characters and subplots that I thought will show up in later seasons, appeared in the first one. For example, I expected for Roy Harper to appear in S2 (since he has larger role there, anyway). I also suspected that The Return of Huntress episode will be in S2.
- I’ve noticed some positive things about Laurel Lance, I didn’t notice before. Back when I watched this show for the first time I didn’t like S1!Laurel, because her romantic drama with Oliver and Tommy was distracting from what I really wanted to watch: crime fighting. It was only in S2, when her character grew on me, when she had to face her own demons. But while rewatching S1 this time, I’ve noticed that her law work is an important factor in many episodes - in far more episodes than I originally remembered. Even her love subplot was far less irritable than I expected.
- Malcolm Merlyn was far more manancing, but also far more sympathetic here, than in later seasons. Him being a crusading widower, hellbent on destroying Glades for mugger killing his wife and bystanders letting her die, was a really powerful characterization. Compered to this Malcolm Merlyn, his each subsequent appearance in later seasons deteriorates drastically.
- I also didn’t remember that Royal Flush Gang debuted in Arrow S1. After I’ve seen them last time in The Flash, I thought they debuted as Scarlet Speedster’s villains.
- Finally, the Lian Yu flashbacks are far more confusing than I remember, partly because Lao Fei keeps on betraying Oliver and co., but we know he’s kinda coerced into it
Now, onto the Season 2! I’m especially looking forward to see first apperance of Barry Allen
For now, Malcolm Merlyn is just a douche to his son and a creep to Moira.
In later seasons our collective reaction to this waste of space will be: “No! Not him again! Get the fuck out with Malcolm Merlyn and his dumb face!”
In fact, the only time Malcolm Merlyn was tolerable in any way, shape or form, was when he was part of Legion of Doom. At least him playing off of Damien Dahrk and Eobart Thawne was entertaining, while in each subsequent apearance in Arrow he was more and more annoying.
Diggle: Let Nyssa kill Malcolm Merlyn, Oliver. The world without him will be a better place.
Me: Oh, you have no idea, man. We’re at the “annoying smug asshole” stage of Malcolm Merlyn’s dickery. And he will get so, so much worse.
Malcolm Merlyn: I swear on Thea’s life: I’m not Sara Lance’s killer!
Me, years after the big reveal of S3:
Aries: Damien Dhark
Taurus: Nyssa Al Ghul
Gemini: Laurel Lance
Cancer: Slade Wilson
Leo: John Diggle
Virgo: Sara Lance
Libra: Thea Queen
Scorpio: Roy Harper
Sagittarius: Malcolm Merlyn
Capricorn: Amanda Waller
Aquarius: Oliver Queen
pisces: felicity smoak
