Malcolm, when cornered by both Nyssa and Ollie, does offer an alternative, but it is something almost alien to both the hero and the anti-hero. It makes sense, especially given the web of lies that surrounds him and Thea (more on that later), but Sara’s death is a pretty major event in the show, and I want there to be something tangible done about it until we learn who really killed her. Not to say that he has been less than dedicated in finding out who killed Sara, but he’s worked more on connecting with his family.
She wants immediate answers with immediate results, and she forces Ollie to get off his ass and do something. Given that Ollie has been acting a bit dazed since he found out that Sara was dead, and that their only solid lead, Simon Lacroix, didn’t get them anywhere, Nyssa coming on the show was a great boost for the tension. It could be that he did kill Sara on a jet-setting trip back to Starling, but then why would he antagonize Nyssa al Ghul like this? Doesn’t add up, and that’s what this episode explores. This week’s “ The Magician” is all about Nyssa discovering that Sara is now dead and her joining up with Team Arrow to hunt down her killer, with Nyssa believing that since Sara was on the hunt for Malcolm Merlyn, whom the League knew was alive and well despite what happened in the season 1 finale, that he was the one to have killed her.Īnd it is a plausible theory of course, but hardly one that matters I think because we know that when Sara was killed, Malcolm was in Corto Maltese with Thea, training her to become a fighter. Nyssa was the one who took her in and made her into the trained fighter that she’d become, and this was honestly one of the best moments of the season. Last season we discovered that at some point after being separated from Ollie on Lian Yu, she’d joined up with the League of Assassins and that she went on to become one of its better agents, even becoming Ra’s al Ghul’s daughter’s lover. Note: Some spoilers from the episode are mentioned here.Īt the end of last week’s episode, Nyssa al Ghul returned to Starling City to find out what had happened to Sara Lance. Either way, I had a lot of fun with this one since Katrina Law’s Nyssa is one of my favourite elements of the second season, and she turns in a grand performance here, really charging the show with some much-needed drive and direction in the hunt for Sara’s killer. Sure, it was a fairly good episode, but it just didn’t feel like such a momentous episode, though I suppose that the detail is kind of irrelevant. I’d expected some really great things from the show in this episode, but it kind of failed to deliver on that expectation.
Nyssa al Ghul made her season 3 debut on the show in this week’s “ The Magician“, which also happens to be the show’s 50th episode. We’ve seen some development so far, not entirely satisfactory, but it has been a good source of background tension to the show and things look set to intensify even more. And this season, it looks like the big mystery is “Who killed Sara?”. The big mystery of who was bankrolling Sebastian Blood last year was a terrific reveal, as was the whole subplot about breaking to Thea the news that Malcolm Merlyn is her blood-father, not Robert Queen. Last week I mentioned that Arrow is really good at keeping secrets close to its chest, until the right amount of critical mass is reached to unveil said secrets.
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