YMMV / Flash Gordon (2007)

• Awesome Music:
  • The commercials for the show featured a great cover of Queen's theme song done by indy band Louis XIV. Unfortunately, said cover never made it into the show.
  • The show in general had excellent music, "Til Death" had Aura enter in all her bad girl glory to Tv/Tv's Indie Rock Girl.
• Complete Monster: "Benevolent Father" Ming is the tyrannical ruler of the planet Mongo. Controlling the Source Water, Ming heavily taxes Mongo's cantons and threatens to let them die. When Dr. Lawrence Gordon gets transported to Mongo, Ming puts him under a mind scanner and plans to steal Earth's water to renew his dwindling supply. During his rule of Mongo, Ming has any Deviants discovered in Nasant City killed, despite being a Deviant himself. When Flash Gordon and Dale Arden are captured and brought to Mongo, Ming tries to make Dale his pleasure woman, a common occurrence. Ming tries to start a war between Dactyl and Zurn to hide that the Source Water is depleting. When the Baron of Verden tries to kill him, Ming attacks the village, selling its people into slavery. Ming enslaves countless people in the mines, where they are fatally poisoned, and also approves mind control experiments that fry victims' brains. When the heroes freely distribute water Ming stole from Earth and give credit to the Deviants, Ming poisons the water in order to ruin the Deviants reputation. Not even his own family is safe from his cruelty, as when his son was born with a minor deviation, Ming tried to have him killed, and banished his own wife. Despite seeming to care for his daughter Aura, it is revealed that Ming made her mother swear a blood oath that would kill Aura if Vestra ever acknowledged their relationship, and when his daughter stands up to him, he tries to strangle her to death.
• Growing the Beard: It was getting better by episode 13 "Sorrow".
• Improved Second Attempt: Though keeping his appellation that is derived from China's Ming Dynasty, Ming the Merciless lacks the Yellow Peril look of previous portrayals.
• One-Scene Wonder: Ty Olsson as Vultan.
• Poor Man's Substitute: Jonathan Lloyd Walker as Rankol is the poor man's Gary Oldman.

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