ARROW Season 3 |OT| Welcome to the New Age

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BKatastrophe said:
Guess they're not using her. She may pop up again later. My guess is that they didn't use her because of how closely she ties into the Batman side of the DC mythos, they instead opted to use Nyssa. Much more creative freedom with Nyssa, that way. Considering how she isn't that popular. Also, Ra's has at least what, 10 kids (someone who knows more help me out!)? So I'd expect more to pop up throughout the series.
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Ra's apparently has tons of kids, but only three are named characteres: Talia al Ghul, Nyssa Raatko, and Dusan al Ghul (an albino son known as the white ghost)

Comic Nyssa was born in 19th century Russia, and is a Holocaust survivor. They're definitely not going this route with Arrow Nyssa since we've seen her as a child when Malcolm began his training.
 
I was hoping that Ollie had some secret plan that involved keeping Malcolm alive, but nope.

Holy fuck, I hope the season ends with the following scene, but swapping out Prometheus for Malcolm:

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What was retarded was, Malcolm was like "NO PRISON CAN HOLD ME, NOT EVEN YOURS ON LIAN YU."

But.... Oliver doesn't need to kill him. He could have just literally broken his hands and thrown him in a pit and just had someone throw in food every other day.

He's not dead. He's in prison. And he'll stay alive for a long, long time, and not be able to hurt anyone.

JDSN said:
Nyssa going for that Oliver Queen Xbox achievement of banging both Lance sisters.
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Can't wait.
 
BKatastrophe said:
Guess they're not using her. She may pop up again later. My guess is that they didn't use her because of how closely she ties into the Batman side of the DC mythos, they instead opted to use Nyssa. Much more creative freedom with Nyssa, that way. Considering how she isn't that popular. Also, Ra's has at least what, 10 kids (someone who knows more help me out!)? So I'd expect more to pop up throughout the series.

You could also use Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Particularly S4. The other seasons tend to be more justified, but S4 is when he actually becomes a main character.
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I didn't use him because he wasn't as problematic as Klaus and Merlin. He was their foe, sure, but he didn't really do much damage to the gang, while the other two managed to murder several close friends (and even some family members) of the main cast.
 
Kayo-kun said:
Agree. The "don't kill Malcolm or you'll lose your soul" thought that Oliver keeps preaching is so stupid.
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He is essentially saying that to Thea and Laurel, two characters that still haven't killed anyone. He has killed countless people, he knows how it has changed him from that first kill going forward. It doesn't excuse him not killing Malcolm on the other hand.

Corpekata said:
Malcolm reminds me of Klaus on the Vampire Diaries. A character that's played well and fairly compelling on his own but makes everyone around seem really stupid to justify why he was hanging around despite how much harm he'd done. Wisely that show eventually spun him off. So yeah, Malcolm needs to either die or at least sit out next season. Maybe go menace the spinoff gang or something.
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At least for Klaus they had an excuse, it is difficult to kill the immortal being whose death would kill all of you, especially when he has two high powered immortal siblings hanging around. But they'll probably end Malcolm in the finale to save Thea or something.
 
*Malcolm sitting by the wall* "Oliver, I really appreciate everything you have done. I really could not have reached this point without you."
*Oliver to Thea* "Have you ever seen a Unicorn?"
*Thwap*
*Oliver walking away* "Now you have...."
 
John Barrowman is too good of an actor to get rid of. Plus, I'd rather have him fucking around in Arrow than give Moffat a chance to ruin his Doctor Who character.

Assuming he can't/won't do both at the same time.
 
SG-17 said:
John Barrowman is too good of an actor to get rid of. Plus, I'd rather have him fucking around in Arrow than give Moffat a chance to ruin his Doctor Who character.

Assuming he can't/won't do both at the same time.
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Barrowman still wants to appear on Who, and Arrow's writers are willing to let him do it -- they kept his schedule open so he could appear in the 50th if he was called on.
 
SG-17 said:
John Barrowman is too good of an actor to get rid of. Plus, I'd rather have him fucking around in Arrow than give Moffat a chance to ruin his Doctor Who character.

Assuming he can't/won't do both at the same time.
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Its not like RTD was doing us any favors with Miracle Day
 
SG-17 said:
John Barrowman is too good of an actor to get rid of. Plus, I'd rather have him fucking around in Arrow than give Moffat a chance to ruin his Doctor Who character.
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Oh so we're still pretending Moffat is garbage and RTD was God's gift to television, huh?

Okay.
 
SG-17 said:
John Barrowman is too good of an actor to get rid of. Plus, I'd rather have him fucking around in Arrow than give Moffat a chance to ruin his Doctor Who character.

Assuming he can't/won't do both at the same time.
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He can do both and would, if everything he's said on the matter is to be trusted.

Steven Moffat also invented Captain Jack Harkness and wrote the two best episodes of Doctor Who that Jack was in. Just saying.

Htown said:
Oh so we're still pretending Moffat is garbage and RTD was God's gift to television, huh?

Okay.
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RTD is the better showrunner, Moffat is the better writer.
 
Moffat is good at writing singular stories, but he can't run a season and he tends to make characters he takes over into shells of their former selves (12 is a total asshole) and every time he creates a woman character he turns them into objects (the girl who waited, the doctor's wife, the girl who lived). They can't exist without the doctor unlike Rose, Martha, and Donna who were their own people before they met the doctor.


But this is an Arrow thread, not Doctor Who. So anyway, Barrowman is too good of an anyway to get rid of.
 
Malcolm is weightless. He has no screen presence.
The only time he had that, it was when he was still a threat to Oliver.

Just look at how useless and pointless Deathstroke was in the Island.

I get it, the actors look cool, yaay. But their time on this show has passed.
 
Htown said:
Oh so we're still pretending Moffat is garbage and RTD was God's gift to television, huh?
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There's a middle ground, you know, between garbage and God's gift.

That said, I vastly prefer RTD's Who to Moffat's. I like both, but I know whose faults I find more detrimental to my enjoyment.
 
There is no logical reason why Malcolm is allowed to run around, at all.

It's just cause John Barrowman is a fun actor to be around. But Malcolm's character should be dead or in a jail cell while permanently crippled at this point.
 
NotTheGuyYouKill said:
What was retarded was, Malcolm was like "NO PRISON CAN HOLD ME, NOT EVEN YOURS ON LIAN YU."
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That was just Merlyn acting cocky. If no prison could hold him then he should have been able to escape Nanda Parbat without Ollie helping him.

Joni said:
He is essentially saying that to Thea and Laurel, two characters that still haven't killed anyone.
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Laurel has killed someone and Thea killed Sara and tried to kill Merlyn last season.
 
infi said:
Laurel has killed someone and Thea killed Sara and tried to kill Merlyn last season.
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Sara doesn't really count, does it? At least, Oliver has clearly explained why it doesn't. And yes, she tried to kill him last season. She has done this season too.
 
For me, the issue with the Merlyn story line is that it's just not interesting. It's stupid. Imagine how much better and less complicated things would be if Ra's just hired Komodo to kill Sara, Ollie challenges him, and Merlyn is still in the background fucking with shit. Thematically nothing would change. Obviously there are a few things to work out but it sounds much more interesting to me.
 
StaticJam said:
For me, the issue with the Merlyn story line is that it's just not interesting. It's stupid. Imagine how much better and less complicated things would be if Ra's just hired Komodo to kill Sara, Ollie challenges him, and Merlyn is still in the background fucking with shit. Thematically nothing would change. Obviously there are a few things to work out but it sounds much more interesting to me.
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Well, let's go back even further: The idea of a murder mystery involving one of the Arrow Crew, who has been killed by another archer, was fantastic. I honestly believe that. Then introducing multiple archers, both new and old, (Komodo, Cupid, the League, Merlyn, Thea, Roy's Mirakuru bullshit, etc.) to really shake things up. I thought it was a really neat and cool idea.

Then it kind of just sputtered out and died on the road.
 
Joni said:
Sara doesn't really count, does it? At least, Oliver has clearly explained why it doesn't. And yes, she tried to kill him last season. She has done this season too.
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Thea still blames herself for killing Sara so in her mind it counts, that's why she let Nyssa out after all. What Ollie says doesn't change that Thea did kill someone she cares about and will always carry the guilt with her. Hell Ollie still blames himself for Shado's death and he wasn't the one to pull the trigger there.

TheGreatDirector said:
Who did Laurel kill?
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She shot that cop that worked for Brother Blood last season.
 
Is it just me or does everyone know where the Arrowcave is now?

You got Malcoln, Nyssa, Captain Boomerang, Slade and a bunch of others know it location. That place is not even secret anymore.

Hopefully by the end of the season, they get a new arrowcave soon.
 
mooncakes said:
Is it just me or does everyone know where the Arrowcave is now?

You got Malcoln, Nyssa, Captain Boomerang, Slade and a bunch of others know it location. That place is not even secret anymore.

Hopefully by the end of the season, they get a new arrowcave soon.
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They will. I know for a fact that they will (more like an extremely well-educated guess).
 
Well considering
the police discover its location in the next few episodes
we'll most definitely be getting a new Arrowcave. Hopefully it'll be called the superior Quiver.
 
BKatastrophe said:
You were never supposed to like him or root for him. You're supposed to root against him, if anything at all. Don't know how this is a complaint. Malcolm is at rock bottom, where he fucking should be.
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Malcolm's the most charismatic character of the show and yeah sure, technically, he's a villain but he's a cooler character to root for then gruff-face Oliver, whiny-ass Felicity, all the father figures in my life are terrible people Thea and mr. flip age Roy.

Not to mention that yeah sure, he tried to annihilate an entire part of a city but it's not like the show has any shortage of morally amibigious characters anyways,

Oliver: straight up murdered motherfuckers in season 1
Roy: uhh he killed that one police dude when he was high on mirakuru
Sarah: she was in the league of fucking assassins, the group known for killing mofos
Slade: killed ollie's mother and a bunch of other people
Felicity: uhh master evil hacker in the past or whatever that dumb flashback episode was about
Moira: manipulative, the whole malcolm glades things, also dead

so yeah, if we actually look at it, in the grand scheme of things, malcolm aint so bad. if the writers didn't colossally fuck up his character with this thea-sarah subplot, it totally makes sense to root for him.

#teammalcolm

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Frog-fu said:
Assuming Palmer is dumb enough to believe the Arrow's gone hood again (geddit?), that's as good of a reason to hunt him down as any.
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Anyone who falls for Rasrrow would have to be dumb and gullible. It's not like you become morbidly obese and develop an English accent overnight. Of course this means Chesthair is totally going to fall for the ruse. He really is a terrible detective.
 
Gah! That video really makes me think that a lot of the shittiness of this season really might be because Marc Guggenheim has seemingly become the day to day guy on Arrow with Kreisberg having more of his attention on Flash, Marc really seems to like the romantic drama and shipper/Felicity shit the show has pandered to at the end of last season and into this one.
mooncakes said:
Is it just me or does everyone know where the Arrowcave is now?

You got Malcoln, Nyssa, Captain Boomerang, Slade and a bunch of others know it location. That place is not even secret anymore.

Hopefully by the end of the season, they get a new arrowcave soon.
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I thought they were going to be moving this season but then... Nope, still under a club with the "flooded basement". <_< It's beyond stupid at this point and the only reason they didn't move to a new place has to be because of the show's budget.
 
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