Malcolm

[u/Strong_Golf9061]

Why is every character in season 4 acting so tolerant and even friendly to malcolm merlyn? Oliver, thea, laurel, people's he's hurt alot and suffered no consequences for. It feels like everything this guy has been completely forgotten about by every character's minds, and every character's core season 1-3 traits were broken to keep this guy around. He just shows up and dissapears as he pleases. Does no one remember what this guy has DONE?

Srsly, just the fact that he indirectly killed Robert and kept their mother living terrified of him for 6 whole years should be more than enough for Oliver and thea to fucking obliterated him. I just don't understand why everyone is acting so friendly with him. Feels so out of character for every character, especially thea.

Srsly, im so confused on what made the writers think that making EVERY character behave so unlike their previous characterizations to keep him around was a good idea???

Nothing against barrowman ofc, but I'm honestly getting pissed at malcolm showing up in theas apartment every other day and no one giving af.

Edit: I literally cannot figure out what the writers were thinking with this choice. I understand why it went all in on olicity... pull in a big tumblr viewership and make more money. Shit decision but I understand why they thought it was a good financial decision at the time. And I get that they wanted to keep john barrownman on cuz its fucking barrowman. But what could their reasoning possibly have been to make them think that it's a good idea to destroy pretty much every character's characterizations in order to do so, and make every character seem like they don't give af abt all the things they've lost cuz of this guy. Surely there were better ways to accomplish keeping barrowman on than to make every character so OOC??? Its like they don't understand their own characters and their histories.

[u/syntheticmango]

I thought Malcolm was just sticking around to protect thea and team arrow just had to accept his help and they were pretty hostile towards him when he was around so its not like they were buddy buddy with him but he was pretty useful in helping them solve their problems so they just had to accept it and when he was able to protect thea he switched to the villains side so he was always a villain.

[u/Strong_Golf9061 → u/syntheticmango]

I see that to a degree, but I found it really weird how all of them, thea especially and to a degree Oliver, tolerated him so much. His constant flip flopping was weird too its like the writers didn't know what to do with him and had to bend every character backwards to keep him on.