At the end of last season, the Legends had defeated the Legion of Doom by using Spear of Destiny to destroy itself. But in the process they seemed to have destroyed the very fabric of time itself. Given how well the last season went, it’ll be fun to see how they’re going to fix this anachronistic stew this time.
As previously announced, the Waverider is going to be getting a new crew member. Zari Adrianna Tomaz is described to a “grey hat activist” from the year 2030 who also happens to be Muslim-American. Her superhero name in the comics is Isis, though maybe they’re not going to use it here. In the past few days, they’ve also announced that Constantine will coming along for a few episodes.
So Rory finally got to Aruba. It’s just too bad Julius Caesar had to throw shade on him. Too bad for Caesar, that is.
Rip very aptly described the Legends as a chainsaw. But sometimes a chainsaw is the right tool for the job. Is dour lady time agent going to be their liaison? How long before Sarah tries to get into her pants?
The early part of the episode was reminiscent of the first (!) Gilligan’s Island reunion movie, when the castaways find that they’re just not happy in civilization any more.
Over on Reddit, someone pointed out that the title of the episode “Aruba-Con”, aside from finally getting Rory to Aruba, is also a pun on Rubicon. And they even had Caesar specifically mention the Rubicon in the episode. I can’t believe I missed that. :smack: I take it that this is the point of no return for both the Legends and the Time Bureau.
Just a thought about this episode. While they were watching the Waverider training, the students save Apollo 13 by rupturing the oxygen tank. Anyone else get the sense that the Time Bureau went back and fixed the Legends messing with Apollo 13 and end up causing the original disaster?
[Spoiler]Victor Garber, who plays Martin Stein, one half of Firestorm, will be leaving mid season to perform on Broadway in the revival of Hello, Dolly, alongside Bernadette Peters.
This episode perfectly encapsulates what the show is all about. A minor anachronism mushrooms rapidly by the Legends’ blundering about, but they somehow solve everything by the end. Rip should just go ahead and send them to the worst, level-10 anachronisms. After all, they can’t make the situation any worse. The entire team bursting out in laughter about confronting the “ultimate evil” was a great endcap.
I knew Sara was going to confront the lady time agent at some point. I just didn’t expect it to come so soon. They were flirting, weren’t they?
Given their followers’ uniform, I wonder of Mallus is the Time Trapper.
And, further to that thought, I’d be unsurprised (assuming I’m right about that) if the Legends take him down with almost no effort about halfway through the season, maybe as a side effect of bringing down Kuasa. And the faceless follower who revives Kuasa here turns out to be Glorith, who functions as big bad for the rest of the season.
There were a ton of random references. One of Barnum’s heavies was dressed up as B’wana Beast. There were acrobats dressed as the Flying Graysons (i.e., Robin). Best one was Martin Stein saying whoever designed the Titanic should be should. Victor Garber played that very designer in the movie Titanic.
Oooh, that’s a good one. (Also explains why they gave that line a beat, which didn’t make sense when I didn’t get the reference (I have never seen Titanic, and probably never will).)
What’s this, an episode of The Flash funnier than Legends and a serious Legends episode? How do we know it was serious? Well, cyberpunk futures aren’t known for being particularly pleasant plus Sara spent most of the episode pissed off. You know shit’s about to hit the fan when Sara is pissed off.
A serious Legends episode is still pretty funny, though. I particularly liked Gideon’s cheerful pronouncements of the Waverider’s imminent demise. She also got in the last word against Agent Sourpuss. “What a bitch!”
What do we think of the new team member? That’s Agent Gary, isn’t it? He spent so much time bumbling about, which is just the Legends’ style. This girl Zari is too unsmiling to fit in.
I was a little surprised that ARGUS categorized Ray and Mick Rory as “metahumans” - White Canary has been resurrected, so that probably counts, Amaya has magical powers, and Jax is definitely a meta, but Mick and Ray are just guys, you know.
This show is now just blatantly, shamelessly stealing plots from old movies. It’s great! Who knew a baby Dominator would be so cute? OK, it was still pretty ugly but cuter than E.T. ever was.
Great callback to last season. The bespectacled agent in charge here was the same one we saw in last season’s episode with the Dominators. The poor guy is going to be spending his whole life chasing those aliens, only to be ultimately exiled to a remote arctic station.
In the last scene with the heroes’ lineup, Zari appeared in a costume that was inspired by her comic-book counterpart. I wonder if we’ll ever see it again.
I’m going to be sad to see Victor Garber go. He lends the show just that tiny bit of class.