{"id":131033,"date":"2016-07-09T04:50:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T04:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/09\/if-we-cant-have-more-captain-jack-ill-settle-for-more-malcolm-merlyn.html"},"modified":"2016-07-09T04:50:18","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T04:50:18","slug":"if-we-cant-have-more-captain-jack-ill-settle-for-more-malcolm-merlyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/09\/if-we-cant-have-more-captain-jack-ill-settle-for-more-malcolm-merlyn.html","title":{"rendered":"If we can&#039;t have more Captain Jack, I&#039;ll settle for more Malcolm Merlyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Barrowman gets a cross-CW-DC-hero contract. Excellent.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, this (like the Wentworth Miller  \/ Captain Cold contract) is pretty clever. It&#39;s a lot easier to have villains cross-over between <i>Arrow \/ Flash \/ Legends of Tomorrow<\/i> (and, maybe, <i>Supergirl?)<\/i> than heroes. The latter always makes for weird imbalances and interference with the current or seasonal plot. <\/p>\n<p>The idea that Merlyn is plotting something that&#39;s manipulating the good guys in multiple cities \/ in multiple spots of the time-space continuum \/ on multiple shows? I am so down with that &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/the-dc-cw-universe-has-a-bad-case-of-barrowmania-1783364385'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/PYc9_UwqYaC6njNZPQrqlolbZNg8oJr4eEMlPRiLKWJSsFIRGaUrTzcVdr5OOMUqvqY2td5qtL9NcNcAnlMAWM-hZJ6ql69CEjHkjTNGtd5041PWQBZ1UFZO7A8tqkWYqTuSlmoPqDDSpTNS-pqRGNo3_xtFnoH0qhzspBPv6DqPFppDb-bqlTA_2mTShHMsm0vBORkpdtTe=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/the-dc-cw-universe-has-a-bad-case-of-barrowmania-1783364385'>The DC CW Universe Has a Bad Case of Barrowmania<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nWhy? Because John Barrowman now has a deal that makes him a series regular across all of the CW&rsquo;s DC shows including Arrow, The Flash, and Legends of Tomorrow,\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/dnxYUaXqUvK'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Barrowman gets a cross-CW-DC-hero contract. Excellent. Actually, this (like the Wentworth Miller \/ Captain Cold contract) is pretty clever. It&#39;s a lot easier to have villains cross-over between Arrow \/ Flash \/ Legends of Tomorrow (and, maybe, Supergirl?) than heroes. The latter always makes for weird imbalances and interference with the current or seasonal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/09\/if-we-cant-have-more-captain-jack-ill-settle-for-more-malcolm-merlyn.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If we can&#039;t have more Captain Jack, I&#039;ll settle for more Malcolm Merlyn&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":127939,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/10\/of-all-the-sins-of-arrow.html","url_meta":{"origin":131033,"position":0},"title":"Of all the sins of &quot;Arrow&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 10-Sep-15 10:39am","format":false,"excerpt":"I can critique it for its force-grown interpersonal conflicts. 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