Even as a kid I saw the flaws of only one enemy shows.
Granted there have been a few episodes where they look for Savage, don’t find him, and something else happens. Or the episode with time pirates.
Setting the Time Masters as the real enemy is at least different.
Brian
This latest episode is more of what I had hoped for out of the series - given all of the previous episode’s flaws, it was quite good.
didn’t anyone bring some duct tape with them?
It is literally the best thing about the show.
His voice has certainly provided endless entertainment for my wife and me. We can’t help but MST3K his voice. Every time he’s on screen, we do quiet little imitations of his inflections under our breath, like they would with a joke that ran through an entire movie.
We’ll miss him.
I thought his version of, “There are no strings on me” was better than Ultron’s, and that’s high praise.
Where’s his cold gun? Left at the Vanishing Point, or on board the Wave Rider? It’s a useful weapon.
Not a bad episode at all, compared to the season so far. I came to terms with Wentworth’s over the top voice back when he was on the Flash. It’s all fun.
The last episode certainly explains why the team kept frakking everything up. I wish they had made the revelation a bit earlier, say as a mid-season cliffhanger.* It would have increased the sense of danger, knowing that Vandal Savage was in cahoots with the Time Masters. Would this be evident when rewatching the season?
Captain Cold’s snarky inflection was one of the best parts of the show. Certainly a refreshing change of pace from Ray’s eternal optimism and Rip’s glowering pessimism.
*Though this show really didn’t have a mid-season hiatus, did it?
Oh, I’ve been reading every post in this thread in his voice.
“Setting the Tiiiiime Masters as the reeeeeeal enemy is at least . . . different.”
Snart’s the best part of the show, so I hope he’ll be back. Maybe he’s been scattered through time ala Clara from Doctor Who.
Feels like they realized Vandal Savage was a drag on the show so they will be resolving that story line this season and next season will be about them stopping the Thanagarians themselves.
I presumed from early on that Savage was this year’s big-bad. I figured he’ll die or be stopped in the finale the whole time.
Savage was badly miscast and his beard looks super fake. I think they screwed him up big time and only a small part of the responsibility is on the actor.
They probably can’t kill off Savage, since that would bring an end to the curse, and the Hawk kids might lose their powers and they wouldn’t be able to milk that for more stories. They might be able to cast him out of the time stream or some silly thing for awhile.
I don’t like Savage’s beard either. He’s just got a little too much of it, covering a little too much of his face. His mouth looks a bit like a sphincter in the middle of it.
Some episodes of Legends of Tomorrow have had something of a Voyagers! or Quantum Leap feel that’s been engaging. Good examples are the 1958-set episode “Night of the Hawk” (3/10/2016, directed by that Joe Dante) and Old West-set “The Magnificent Eight” (4/12/2016, also directed by feature-film vet Thor Freudenthal).
What I hope the producers/writers/directors can do going forward is wean the drama away from defeating Vandal Savage and focus more on shorter dramatic arcs (like the back-to-back episodes “Night of the Hawk” and “Left Behind”, 3/10 and 3/31/2016). In a universe with what seems to be fairly unconstrained time travel, there’s not going to be much tension or interest generated by anything that can be readily wiped away by a just-so hop backwards/forwards in time. Let the characters’ interactions with the unfamiliar settings and people more often carry the episode narratives.
Keep Vandal Savage around, but “out of the way” most of the time - I think levdrakon is right about Savage’s death ending the Hawkfolks’ superpowers.
I think once they realize that the death of Rip’s family is a “fixed point in time” the gang’s personal reasons for going after Savage will be put on the back burner. Sure they’ll fight if they cross paths, but they will no longer be seeking him out. Either they’ll switch their focus to the Time Masters themselves or just travel through time and space doing superguy stuff.
Possible exchange:
“Why didn’t you ever kill Hitler?”
“Tried that. Bad idea.”
Heat Wave and the Atom are starting to remind me of Nelson Muntz and Martin Prince Hark to the tale of Nelson and the boy he loved so dear! - YouTube
Er, maybe not 
Though, for the short term, they’ve taken off … so maybe same difference.
Well … the finale was pretty hectic, what with trying to suddenly figure out how to ice the big bad AND execute the plan AND deal with a last-second contingency AND drop everybody back off back in 2016 AND deal with one character’s personal fallout from that AND have time for Mick to run a personal errand. Then they had to hurry up and wedge in a three-minute set-up for Season 2.
Phew!
So … Justice Society of America, eh? We’re going to have Earth 2 shenanigans with the Legends, it appears. More hands on deck to deal with Flash’s buddy Zoom? The Justice Society’s Hourman has an interesting power that should stop Zoom in his tracks – literally. And, Hourman and Rip Hunter have crossed paths in the comics.
No need for the spoiler box in post #76 above … just realized that the Justice Society guy introduced himself as Rex Tyler … aka the Golden Age Hourman.
Snart’s a pretty smart guy–kind of weird that when Mick was acting strangely that he didn’t follow him to find out what was up. (Possibility: He did just that, is hiding nearby, and eavesdropping on the conversation with Hourman.) He’s supposed to appear on Legends and The Flash next season. I wonder if future information he picks up here helps him change his fate.
Did Atom see Mick burn the guy with the cold gun alive? BTW, did Mick pick up the cold gun, or is it just lying around?
Re: *Flash */ *Legends *crossover(s):
Aren’t they going to have to rehabilitate Jay Garrick’s character somehow? Golden Age Flash was one of the main Justice Society heroes.
Plenty of speedsters in the multiverse, including, presumably, other Jay Garricks. They’ll work it out somehow.