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Spoilers DC's Legends of Tomorrow - Season 2

The guy playing Vandal is a foreigner, so I do wonder if he was told not to use an American accent, he can't make a passable American, or if the accent he is using is his own, or something he made up, since either I'm more used to it now, or how he talks has been mildly evolving since his premiere on Arrow last year.

The actor (Casper Crump) is Danish, and judging from behind-the-scenes videos, he's using his natural Danish accent in the role. I have no ear for accents, so I couldn't really trace it until I looked it up, but I think it fits the character very well to have an exotic, perhaps hard-to-discern accent. The Hawks reincarnate, so they would have accents based on their present lives, but Vandal has lived through the millenia, picking up hundreds of languages in order to consolidate his power base. It makes little sense for him to have the same accent in his first life (as Hath-Set), but I could see him settling down on a particular way of speaking English and sticking with it for hundreds of years.

Maybe his public backstory for Curtis Knox (and other aliases) had him being born and raised in another country and coming to the United States at college age.
 
Fun Fact: Dean Cain has played both Superman and Vandal Savage.

And both Phil Morris and Miguel Ferrer have played both Vandal Savage and Martian Manhunter, among other DC roles. Morris was Savage in Justice League and J'onn in Smallville, and Ferrer was Savage in Young Justice and J'onn in Justice League: The New Frontier.
 
There's accent, and then there's delivery. Savage is the kind of concept that wants an actor with a little gravitas. What we got came off as a conniving pipsqueak, IMHO.
 
An actor from The Flash has something to say about season 2 of Legends. Beware though, what's said has a big spoiler from the season 2 finale of The Flash.

John Wesley Shipp is now playing the real Jay Garrick and he had the following to say in an interview.

"...I was watching Legends [of Tomorrow], and they were announcing that they were going to be dealing with the Justice Society of America and knowing that Jay Garrick was the founding member of the Justice Society of America and that all of these shows are going to be overlapping, it's very important to have him there."
 
An actor from The Flash has something to say about season 2 of Legends. Beware though, what's said has a big spoiler from the season 2 finale of The Flash.

John Wesley Shipp is now playing the real Jay Garrick and he had the following to say in an interview.

"...I was watching Legends [of Tomorrow], and they were announcing that they were going to be dealing with the Justice Society of America and knowing that Jay Garrick was the founding member of the Justice Society of America and that all of these shows are going to be overlapping, it's very important to have him there."

Oooh I am excited!
 
There's accent, and then there's delivery. Savage is the kind of concept that wants an actor with a little gravitas. What we got came off as a conniving pipsqueak, IMHO.
You found the words I was looking for to describe how Savage came across .
 
You found the words I was looking for to describe how Savage came across .

Yeah he seems short, but then the new origin is Egyptian Priest, not the Last Neanderthal (That makes him kinda like Galactus, in the wrong light.) but what got me, was that it's the 21st ####ing century and he's carrying around 60 pounds of knives and hatchets, so that eventually he can kill almost 12 guys, if he gets in or picks a fight.

It's called a gun.

Get with the program Vandal Savage.
 
You're just drawing attention to the fact that Trump makes a more convincing villain than LoT's Savage, which isn't helping Savage any.... :p

What's sad, though, is that Trump isn't a convincing villain at all. If anyone had tried to write his campaign as a work of fiction, even as a spoof, it would've been rejected as too unbelievable (and with terribly written dialogue to boot).
 
The throng hears what they want to hear.

What he says doesn't relate to what they think they want to hear.

(Which is true of any mob. Democracy is after all, mob rule at a snails pace.)
 
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