Lexa Doig has joined the cast of “Arrow” and she’ll be playing Talia al Ghul on the show. We’ve already met Ra’s al Ghul and Nyssa al Ghul, and we’ll be meeting Talia sooner than later, as she’s set to arrive in the tenth episode of the current season.
Talia is set to be part of a multi-episode arc this season, but given that “Arrow” deals with both the present and the past, fans have been wondering how she will fit into the story. Stephen Amell recently spoke to TV Line, and he noted that Talia will have an impact on the flashback storyline.
“We learn about Talia before we meet her — and she is, I think, our gateway to really accelerating the flashback storyline.”
Whether that means Talia al Ghul will be appearing exclusively in the flashbacks, or in both the flashback storyline, and the present storyline is unclear at this point.
Talia al Ghul was introduced as a young girl during the first season of DC’s “Legends of Tomorrow” while Sara Lance was stuck in the past. So, it’s not hard to believe that Oliver Queen could have met a grown up Talia al Ghul during his time in Russia.
As we’ve seen before, the flashback storylines allow the writers a lot of freedom in regards to what Oliver encountered during his time away from Star City. As we’ve also seen before, Oliver Queen has absolutely no problem keeping secrets from the rest of Team Arrow, so the idea that he already has some sort of preexisting relationship with Talia al Ghul certainly isn’t far fetched. But we’ll just have to wait and see.
“Arrow” returns tonight with Vigilante.
