The Legends have returned, announced a (mostly) lighter tone for this season, and find they must kidnap Einstein in order to keep Hitler from developing the atomic bomb first.
No, really. That’s the plot.
The characters also skip across several places and times, Ollie Queen makes an appearance, and we’re introduced, briefly, to the Justice Society of America.
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“I can’t pretend to understand this time travel thing, but it sounds important.”
–Captain Lance, trying not to sound absurd
While Ollie and Dig sneak around a suburban dystopia in the most conspicuous manner possible over on Arrow, Captain Lance takes time to guest-star on the season finale of Legends, which has the team jumping through history and previous episodes in a desperate attempt to end Vandal Savage for all time, before he can reset time with himself as master of the world.
Feel free to discuss Arrow here, too, since we don’t have a review this week.
Arrow takes us to “Monument Point” this week, while the Legends face their “Destiny.” Here’s the place for you to review or discuss either or both.
The two most recent episodes, “Leviathan” and “River of Time,” see Vandal Savage captured– and the Time Masters’ duplicity revealed.
The Legends now face their biggest challenge: with the Avengers back in the theatres, does anyone care?
This week, the Legends mosey on back to the Old West to meet Jonah Hex.
Legends heads to a grim future of corporate feudalism and really bad gray suits, and addresses those perennial favorites of time-travel questions: if you could go back in time and kill Hitler Per Degaton while he was still a boy, whould you do it? Should you do it?
The consideration of the question is good, if not original. The execution of the show remains uneven, and it raises several questions:
When the Rapture occurs, the Legends of Tomorrow must battle demons…
Actually, this week’s episode deals with the fallout from the previous week, with three characters abandoned in the mid-twentieth century and the rest under attack.
Chronos is unmasked, and Ra’s al Ghul makes an appearance.
In one of the strongest episodes to date, Joe Dante directs the Legends in a 1950s horror movie, with Savage as mad scientist. The small town, of course, has secrets, just as picket-fence period America has its horrific side. It was a fun times, we’re reminded, if you weren’t relegated to the back of the bus or the back of the closet….
This week, the Waverider, carrying blue paint, crashed into some space pirates, whose ship is carrying red paint, and both crews are marooned.*
Okay, okay… Sorry. The conflict has a very silly instigating incident (Rip can’t recognize an obvious trap) but it made for an occasionally fun Star Trek / early SF TV homage that mines the potential for this series when our heroes don’t have to focus on Vandal Savage. It gets bogged down by two dubious romance subplots, one of which involves a ridiculous and derivative Time Masters law.
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