Welcome back all you Legends of Tomorrow fans! It’s your usual fill-in writer, Elias, here, hot off of my Giant-Size Supergirl finale review. Chris tried to send back a Chris-bot to make sure he could cover this week’s episode but it arrived just a little too late, and in a few too many pieces. Don’t worry, if I’m reading the timeline right, the real Chris should be back next week, ready to accompany the Legends to…well, we mustn’t get ahead of ourselves.
And as always, spoilers ahead.
1. Clothes Make the Gary
I really dig Gary’s outfit in this era. It seems to fit him and I kinda wish we had met Murder Inc. so that we could have some good old fashioned hijinks and an excuse to see Gary pretend to be a mobster. Sure, it’s just a regular ass suit and he’s been wearing it since the start of the season, but it didn’t really strike me until this week. It’s a weird way to start these thoughts, sure, but how else am I to talk about what is undeniably the weirdest CW Superhero show?
2. This is My Pet Rock. It’s Name is Lucky.
One character lying about the powers imbued in an object only to have to come clean at the end because it’s lost or stops working or whatever is an old cliché but clichés are clichés for a reason. When done well, they work really well, and Astra pretending to make a rock lucky with, like, a light spell was perfect. I actually thought she had cast a luck spell at the top too! I did wonder why she’d never done this before if it was this easy, and I probably should’ve followed that thought, but eh, my enjoyment was not lessened one bit by falling for it.
You saw the infectious joy the characters showed when they had the rock! Spooner gains the confidence to talk to and convince “Cannon Ball” Baker to take them to NY on his record-setting cross-country journey, fulfilling the “Mad mad mad mad” part of the title; Astra sweet talks the NJ cop into letting them go; and in what has to be the stand out scene of the episode, Gideon wakes up in the back of the stolen car and beans the car thief on the head with the rock! Any episode that allows me the chance to use this image gets a 10/10 from me.
3. Bots. Why’s It Always Gotta Be Bots?
“Tiny footprints” has been Ava’s motto for the team in 1925 but, well, these are a bunch of screw-ups and losers who are honestly pretty terrible at their job. I love them all, don’t get me wrong. However, as evidenced by the death of Edison and the prior death of Hoover, their footsteps are about as tiny as a Wooly Mammoth’s, and now that they don’t have the magic of future technology to fix those problems, someone else has to step in to smooth things over.
Sadly, it seems that this person is Bishop and he’s sending robots back in time because he’s gotta stay on brand. They’re not clones but, come one, it’s close enough to his MO. I feel bad for this Bishop but not really all that much. How many bots do you think will be running around the time stream by the end of the season? My money is on at least five and the other three will ALSO be important but somewhat odious, like Edison and Hoover.
4. No Wonder He Look so Familiar
It took me way too long to register that Matt Ryan was playing Doctor Gwyn Davies. Seriously. How’d I not notice from the photos we saw earlier in the season? It’s so obvious now! I’m glad they’re keeping him around ala Tom Cavanaugh on The Flash because Ryan is a treat to watch, even if they’d done all they could with a wacky, PG/tapping-on-the-door-of-PG-13 John Constantine.
What we know about Davies thus far is pretty small but that’s OK. Like Spooner and every new addition, it’s going to take a bit to flesh him out beyond his initial two or three character traits. So far he’s driven by a singular purpose to save his love, someone named Thomas I suspect, and he’s got terrible anxiety (mood.) Oh and he’s a brilliant scientist but at this point, nearly half the waverider residents are. Should be fun! And if not, at least we got that sweet beard on Ryan.
Continued below5. IMMENSE TIME TRAVEL POWERS, itty-bitty electrocution problem
So this entire episode, and really most of the last few, is a race against time to prevent the Legends from actually taking their maiden voyage on Davies’ rickety time machine. Because this is quite literally the dawn of the last day, things naturally get a bit more intense. There were a couple different ways this could’ve gone and I honestly thought the writers were going to take us on a more deterministic route i.e. the actions of Spooner, Astra, and Gideon actually CAUSE the machine to go boom instead of stopping it.
Thankfully, I was wrong and now the show has a brand new character that’s been displaced from time near their day of death. Because…yeah, Davies was actually supposed to get got in the “real” timeline. Dunno what kind of ripples that’ll cause but since he’s going on these missions with the Legends, I suspect it won’t be too many. Or maybe it’ll cause everyone to be replaced by robots! That’d be a fun twist.
That about does it for now! Thank you all for joining me for my fill-in. I always love covering LoT for a short time, though I think I get distracted by the oddest bits instead of talking about, you know, the important plot beats. I didn’t even talk about the starting set up for Nick Zano to leave the show aka Zari and Nate maybe going to live in the totem full time. Ah well. That’s for Chris later in the season once the Legends escape the Cretaceous Period…again…I think. Until then, stay time traveling y’all.
