Well, after what has felt like a never ending season, I can finally say: this is the final review of Legends of Tomorrow until the fall. Thank goodness.
1. Bye Bae
Is this the end of the Reverse Flash? Lord, I hope so. Don’t get me wrong, he was by far the best villain of the Legion – especially before Captain Cold joined up – but the show is ready to do something different. In the first season, the show was obviously connected to the greater Arrowverse by the team members having come from other shows. This season, the show attempted to give viewers an even more connective experience, but that muddied the waters considerably. Instead of giving the show cohesion, it just made everything a fucking reference, and the winks got more and more distracting as the show moved on.
By giving the show a new mission/villain next season, it can work on being the fun, goofy, weird show that we all fell in love with, and that it still was at points. With the constant ties back to the Arrowverse, the show felt bogged down – free the Legends Berlanti and co.
2. “Multiple Promised Deaths”
There was a fair amount of press yesterday about the season finale having ‘multiple deaths’ promised and, aside from Thawne, it had a bunch of time remnants die, but that’s it. Now, I don’t mind that – I don’t watch TV to see the characters I like bite it on screen – but it feels a little disingenuous to characterize it as an episode with major consequences when, actually, it has none whatsoever. Even when you take the time travel bit out of it, who is gone? I guess Snart, Darhk, and Thawne all revert to their dead selves, and everyone else is still around. So…yeah. That proclamation was a lame press stunt.
3. Playing with fate
The resolution to Amaya and Nate’s ‘how can we be in love and not fuck up history’ storyline was incredibly lame. Essentially, the producers threw their hands up in the air and said “fuck it, we’ll figure it out!” This was one of the more compelling storylines this year; it was one of the few times that time travel has appeared to have actual consequences, and it was dealing with the Back to the Future idea of no one knowing too much about their future.
Seeing Nate and Amaya tearfully say goodbye, for the good of the universe, was a poignant moment left on the table.
4. Mick, reformed
While he’s crossed the team a solid dozen times at this point, seeing Mick fully embrace being a member of the Legends (still an incredibly stupid name to call themselves in story) was a nice bit of closure on this season. Please, please, please can we drop this story now? If Mick turns on the team once next season, I’m going to lose my mind.
5. Time is broken
Having the season end with dinosaurs in modern day Los Angeles, with a potential hat tip (being reported elsewhere as totally absolutely a reference) to Kamandi is super fun. Seeing that the show is looser than a pair of Jncos with the consequences of the characters’ actions, it was nice to see something actually change, actually matter, and see the team scramble to fix that. Now, this won’t lead to any real changes – sure, maybe we’ll get the Diggle kid to change genders/ages yet again – but Arrow isn’t going to have Queen Consolidated run by a raptor next year.
So, now that it is over, what did you think of the season? Let me know in the comments!
