Apparently, NBC wouldn’t allow Constantine to smoke despite one of his distinguishing characteristics is being a chainsmoker. They made it a running joke on this episode with John not able to light up until the final scene, and even then Gideon still got in her last licks.
I’m more than ok with variously superpowered folks traveling in a time-ship, but for some reason, I couldn’t help thinking “Gee, I’d expect an asylum to cut that young woman’s hair quite a bit shorter.”
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This was such a great, finely-crafted bottle episode. I never expected to see this mashup of ABBA, Star Trek, Groundhog Day, and The Matrix. Great character moments not just for Zari but for the whole crew, including Gideon. It also confirms that Gideon has a wicked sense of humor, by throwing Gary into the trash compactor just because it would be funny.
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She’s not a Mick-level writer, though. The ‘time loop on a time ship? What are you, nuts?’ contrivance to keep the rest of the crew from believing her until she could hit a rapport with Nate and get the Groundhog Day reference was the biggest case of running with the Idiot Ball in the series.
(Sidenote…it’s funny…the ACTUAL situation in the episode did match GD pretty well - the loop would continue until Zari managed to mesh with the crew - but the loop she was stuck in in the simulation was more like Edge of Tomorrow/All You Need is Kill - getting sent back to the start every time she died, so she could try another angle of attack. But it’s totally in character for Nate to go to GD, rather than EoT…just an observation on layering, not criticizing Gideon’s choice, there.)
I liked how when Zari first tried to jog Nate’s memory, she said “Hedgehog Day.” Hedgehog Day is a real thing, commonly celebrated on February 2nd in Europe. The Romans first looked to hedgehogs as a weather predictor. The tradition spread through Europe, and when German immigrants first arrived in America, they noticed a define absence of hedgehogs, so they found a more common animal for their holiday, the groundhog.
The sequence where they were breaking into Mick’s secret case did strike me as coming from Edge of Tomorrow, but repeating a thing until you get it right was also the concept of Groundhog Day. And the fun montage was pure Groundhog Day.
Ray name-checked the Star Trek TNG episode “Cause and Effect” (which aired before Groundhog Day) which is in character for him.
The fun montage also reminded me of the timeloop episode of Stargate SG1
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I haven’t really cared for Damien Dahrk all that much but I absolutely loved his sense of humor this last episode.
"I enjoy destroying the world to remake it in my image. And I like trying new restaurants.” 
I liked this episode, Wally is getting on peoples nerves and has not quite fit in just yet and its Elvis. I forgot how much I liked his stuff, now I am gonna have to think of a playlist beyond Suspicious minds. What felt odd, is that this could have been a halloween episode with all the spooky stuff.
R.I.P Axle -
I finally get full internet access back, just in time for the season finale.
These last two episodes have had some of the most deliciously meta moments of the entire series. From getting the actor John Noble to voice lines for Mallus (who is voiced by John Noble) to poking fun at how no one seems to know how to pronounce the Big Bad’s name. (Is it Mollusk? Mall-us? Ma-lus?)
It wasn’t really necessary to bring back the Romans, pirates, and Vikings to fight the Legends dressed as cowboys, Jonah Hex, Helen of Troy (aka Wonder Woman), and Jax, but it made for a cool battle. For the climactic battle with Mallus, I thought they were going to get Voltron, but they probably couldn’t get the rights and getting Beebo was much, much funnier.
A great end-cap to a great season.
I don’t think they ever even really wanted or tried for the actual Voltron. That was just a metaphor. The whole season was building towards a 25 foot tall Beebo kicking Demon ass and that’s what we got.
I half-expected the Stay-Puff marshmallow man, but Beebo was good.
Brian
Someone should make actual Beebos. (Not as big as that one, of course.)