DC’s Legends of Tomorrow SN1 EP9 – ‘ Left Behind ‘

Welcome back!  Today I am reviewing Legends of Tomorrow SN1 EP9 – ‘Left Behind’.  In this episode, there is a surprise return of a cast member, and an appearance by  Ra’s al Ghul, reprised by Matt Nable.

It is the year 1958, and Sara, Ray and Kendra have been left standing in a field outside of Harmony, Oregon, unaware that Chronos has broken into the Waverider.  They are not sure of what to do. Ray’s Eagle Scout training dictates that they should stay put, but Sara’s League training says they need to keep moving.  Time passes.  Sara wins, because they don’t know where Vandal Savage currently is. They don’t know why the Waverider left, but can only assume that something bad has happened.

They appropriate a car (ah, the joys of a misspent youth, Sara) and go to Hub City where they rent an apartment.  So what do you do when you are stranded in 1958?  Linear time dictates that you move forward, of course.  Ray busies himself building a time beacon, and becomes a college physics professor, Kendra becomes a librarian,  because there really isn’t much in the way of employment opportunites for women in the late 50’s and angst ridden Sara leaves to find someplace where she can belong.

Plus there is the whole awkward third wheel dynamic going on, since Ray and Kendra are developing their relationship.  And time passes.  It is now the year 1960, and Ray is teaching Bill Gates’ father, who sees the potential for miniaturization in Ray’s theories.  After class, Ray and Kendra are picnicking in the park.  It is the anniversary of the Waverider’s disappearance.  Ray has finally given up on ever being rescued, and is about to ask Kendra to marry him with a terrific proposal speech, when the time beacon activates, and the Waverider appears.

Rip opens the door and says sorry they are late.  Understatement of the year!  Kendra gets on the ship, seemingly without a regret or a care for life over the past two years.  Ray is bewildered and hurt, sensitive guy that he is.  Oh, that adorable whipped puppy face!  I would just love to SQUEEZE it!

So where and when was the Waverider? And what exactly were Rip, Leonard, Martin and Jax doing?  For them time has not passed, since they have been outside of time struggling to wrest control of the Waverider from Chronos.  Chronos has fought them off the bridge.  Rip sends Martin and Jax to the jumpship, while he and Len go back to the bridge to stop Chronos.  Martin and Jax hear the resulting carnage, and so Martin decides that danger to the Waverider be damned, they have to merge to save their friends.

Firestorm burns through the bridge door to find Rip lying on the floor unconscious.  There is no sign of Chronos or Len.  Gideon informs them that Chronos has taken both Len and the jumpship.   Excuse me?  And here we thought Rip was the intended target.  Rip realizes that Gideon can’t get control of the Waverider, and must be rebooted.  Rough ride!  Gideon is then able to lock onto Ray’s time beacon signal and voila!  Ray and Kendra are recovered.  Ray has to go back to the apartment to pick up the Atom suit, and is devastated when Kendra tells him that she doesn’t want any of their ‘old junk’ from the apartment where they lived just that morning.

Now to recover Sara.  During a conversation between Ray and Kendra, where Ray persistently misunderstands Kendra’s feelings, Kendra realizes that Sara has probably gone to the one place she always felt she belonged, Nanda Parbat.  It turns out very conveniently that Rip’s graduate thesis for the Academy was on the League, which gives him a fairly in depth knowledge.

Gideon pulls up the Shadow Log, and they discover that Sara has joined (rejoined??) the League in 1958.  The team travels to Nanda Parbat, 1960.  Leaving the rest of the team to guard the entrance, Rip enters Nanda Parbat to find Sara.  She raises the alarm, which results in all of them being captured and imprisoned, to await execution for trespassing.  And of course, Sara has relieved Ray of his suit, and has instructed the guards to keep Martin and Jax separated.  Rip thinks that Sara is suffering from time drift, which essentially means that she has spent so much time in this alien time line that she has lost touch with her former life.

Kendra realizes that this is probably why her powers have gone dormant.  Ray wonders why she hadn’t told him that.  Rip demands an audience with Ra’s al Ghul, intending to avoid execution by demanding trial by combat.  Ra’s chooses Sara to be his champion, since she is important to Rip and the team.  Ray volunteers, but Rip chooses Kendra, over Ray’s objections. Kendra knows why, and tells Ray she’s got this.  Sara and Kendra battle with swords,  Kendra recovers her wings and reaches Sara by reminding her that she is White Canary.  Chronos blasts his way into Nanda Parbat.

So why did Chronos take Len instead of Rip?  On the jumpship, a handcuffed-to-the-railing Len wants the answer to that very question.  Chronos tells him that he should have figured it out already, since Chronos is supposed to be the dumb one.  He takes his helmet off to reveal Mick Rory.

Mick tells him he should have killed him.  Len says that he was always coming back for him.  Mick notes that he took too long.  When the Time Masters found him, he was nearly out of his mind and becoming more animalistic, surviving by eating rats.  YUCKKK!!  The Time Masters had taken him to the Vanishing Point, restored him to mental and physical health, trained him and given him the chance to become Chronos, which he had jumped at.    Len wonders why he hasn’t killed him yet, so Mick tells him vengeance is a much better fit for him than arson.

He plans to get his vengeance by going back in time to kill Len’s sister Lisa in front of Len , over and over again.  Thankfully the jumpship interrupts, telling Mick that Waverider has landed at Nanda Parbat in 1960, which puts him back on task as Chronos.   Once Chronos has left the jumpship, Len manages to free himself in a particularly gruesome method.  He works his way to his cold gun, freezes his hand and smashes it on the floor (OWWW), thereby getting out of the handcuffs.

Inside Nanda Parbat, Chronos is wreaking  havoc on the Assassins.  Rip, with Sara’s help, convinces Ra’s that the only way to defeat Chronos is to release them. A firefight ensues.  Firestorm and Atom are instrumental in taking Chronos down.  Atom is about to end Chronos when Snart staggers in and stops him.  The team are understandably shocked to learn that Chronos is Mick.

They put him in the Waverider’s brig for safe keeping.  Ra’s now understands why Sara had done so well in her training over the past two years.  He tells Sara that there is no place within the league for someone who is conflicted between her ability to kill and her desire to show compassion, and releases her to reclaim her past life and name.  Sara asks him to make certain to send his daughter to the coast of the island of Lian Yu in October of 2008. He is curious as to why he would send Talia, so Sara tells him that it will be his as yet unborn daughter, whom she is pretty sure he will name Nyssa.  

The team demands an explanation from Leonard. Len points out that he never actually said that he had killed Mick, but that he didn’t have to try too hard to let them think he had.  Rip sees this as a unique opportunity to reform Rory.  Kendra objects because he killed her son.  Martin points out that Chronos killed her son, but Rory was fighting on their side that day.

Sara points out that she knows about being trained by an organization to kill, and that she needs to know for her own sake that Rory can be reached.  Martin says that the Time Masters took one of their own and turned him against them.  He wants to undo their handiwork.  Ray remembers that Mick saved his life in the gulag, and feels that he is more than a criminal and arsonist.  Jax agrees that Mick is a member of the team, but Len thinks he is a lost cause. Rip says that miracles abound on the timeship.

In the medlab, we see one of these miracles occur. Rip has Gideon regenerate Len’s hand using genetic samples that he took from each team member at the beginning of the journey for exactly this purpose.  Meanwhile, in Ray’s quarters, he is looking at the ring he bought for Kendra, which he then hides as Kendra enters.  Ray is still misunderstanding Kendra’s point of view, but she finally clears up his confusion by telling him that it was just being stuck in the 1950’s that she wasn’t happy with.  For the first time in centuries, she is able to choose who she is with, and she chooses him.

Rip tells the team that they now need to go to 2147, mere decades before Savage conquers the world.  The team is confused, because they were told that Savage had disappeared from history.  Rip says that he has always known that Savage could be found in 2147. They have not gone there yet because that time is fraught with more peril than he was willing to risk, but now they have no choice.  They must stop Savage in 2147 or die trying.

My Favorite Moments:

Call me sentimental, but I just KNEW that Len could not possibly have killed his long time partner, protector and friend, Mick.

Ray is just so darn cute with that disappointed, bewildered look on his face.  For a smart man though, he really isn’t very bright when it comes to figuring out women, lol.

Jax’s unexpected but totally cool KO of the sentry at Nanda Parbat.

Ra’s has a heart!  Who knew?

 

 

 

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow SN1 EP8 – ‘ Night Of The Hawk ‘

In Episode 8 – Night of the Hawk – we are back to hunting Vandal Savage who is trying to build an army of Hawk-like creatures, and we experience the small mindedness and prejudices of the 1950’s.

The Waverider lands in Harmony Falls, Oregon in 1958, where a hot rod race is taking place on a deserted road.  One of the rods blows a tire and crashes, leaving the driver’s girlfriend semi conscious.  The driver of the crashed rod and the pair from the other car see a mysteriously glowing rock a few yards a way from the crash and examine it, wondering if it is some kind of comet.   Vandal Savage appears from the undergrowth, and tells them it is actually a meteorite that he too was drawn to.  He says that he was not expecting to find them, but that he considers finding them to be destiny.

On the Waverider, everyone is shaking off the effects of time travel, which apparently increase with the length of each jaunt.  Gideon produces the information that Harmony Falls has been the scene of some grisly murders while other people have gone missing.

They quickly set plans to find Savage.  Kendra and Ray are to pose as married, Martin will be a Doctor filling a vacancy at the Asylum created by the untimely death of Dr. Miller, Sara will be a nurse and assistant to Martin.  Leonard and Rip will be federal agents, and Jax will be the new kid in town.

Problem is Kendra and Ray are an interracial couple,  Jax is black, and Sara is gay, none of which, is ideal for Small Town, let alone anywhere in the 1950’s. This becomes apparent when Kendra and Ray are talking to the real estate agent about a house, and she offers to find them a place in a more forward thinking town.  While Martin and Sara are being welcomed to their new positions, the Head of the Asylum, Dr. Hannah (Ben Wilkinson) leers at Sara.  Snart and Rip  introduce themselves to Sheriff Ellison ( Darryl Shuttleworth) to examine police files relating to the case.  Sheriff Ellison insists that there is no serial killer, just some unexplained accidents. Snart tough talks him into giving them the files.

Sara, Martin and Jax meet at the local soda shop where Martin waxes nostalgic about the idyllic scene they find themselves in.  Jax points out that it is only idyllic if you are white, and Sara adds “and straight, and a man”.  Martin gets the point.  They notice that the girl from the crash, Betty Seaver (Melissa Roxborough), is sitting by herself in a melancholy state at the counter.  Jax introduces himself, causing shock from other girls sitting at the counter.  Betty apologizes for them, saying that they had never seen…., and Jax interrupts with “a guy dipping his french fries in his milkshake?”.  Betty laughs and they chat until some jocks try to intimidate Jax by telling Betty that she doesn’t hang around with losers.  Jax offers to fight, and they back down, telling Jax that it isn’t over as the soda shop owner shakes his head at them.  Betty invites Jax to hang out.

Back at the Asylum, while Sara is tracking down files of violent patients for Martin, she sees Dr Hannah sexually harassing Nurse Carlisle (Ali Liebert).  She bumps into him causing his coffee to spill on him.  Sara asks Nurse Carlisle for a tour, during which Sara sees a wing that Nurse Carlisle is not taking her to and asks about it.  This mysterious wing is Hall H, and is where Dr. Knox works with the most violent of the inmates.

At Kendra and Ray’s house, a neighbor has come by with a tuna casserole and an invite to their house party.  The neighbour introduces herself as Mrs. Knox, and her husband as Dr. Knox.  As Dr. Knox comes into view, Kendra is shocked to see that he is Vandal Savage, but manages to cover up.  Ray comes to the door to see who Kendra is talking to, and is also shocked, but covers up in a stumbling tongue-tied way.  They accept the invite.

The team meets at the Waverider to analyze the police files.  Snart observes that Savage is very good at making people disappear.  Jax snarks “something you have in common”.  Jax is forced to admit his concern that if Leonard had no problem making his best friend disappear what would he do to the rest of them?  They decide that since Savage will be busy with the party, it will be a good opportunity for Sara to search his office.  Kendra and Ray are tasked with finding out whatever they can at the house party.

Nurse Carlisle catches Sara searching Knox’s office, and wrongly assumes that she is looking for booze.  They go to the cafeteria together, where Sara lets her know that she is gay too.  Alarm bells start going off in the Asylum in Hall H.

Kendra and Ray enter the house party, where Kendra is mistaken for a waitress by one of the guests.  Ray and Kendra split up, with Kendra keeping Savage busy, while Ray checks the rest of the house.  He finds a locked room.  Savage puts moves on Kendra until he is called back to the Asylum, but promises her that they will talk more.

It seems that Tommy Fuller (Levi Meaden) has been a very bad transformed monster.  He has killed an orderly.  Savage is not pleased.

The next day, Carlisle works up the nerve to kiss Sara, but Sara pulls away and rushes out.  She later confesses to Martin that it terrified her, because it opened up previously dead feelings.

Kendra stands guard while Ray breaks into Savage’s locked room.  The search produces Kendra’s dagger.

Jax and Betty hang out on Lover’s Lane, in her Dad’s car.  Jax wants to talk about the disappearances and what happened to Tommy the night of the crash, but Betty wants to make out with him. The jocks from the soda shop show up, wanting to fight. Suddenly Tommy appears and knocks the stuffing out of the jocks, destroys the roof of the car and slashes Betty’s neck with a talon.

Jax jumps back into the drivers seat and tries to get Betty to medical attention at the ship, leaving the wounded jocks behind.   He is pulled over by Sheriff Ellison for speeding, who pays no attention to the wounded Betty, or to Jax’s story about the attack and other victims needing help, focusing instead on Jax being on Lovers Lane with a white girl.  He knocks Jax out and drags him to the cruiser, leaving Betty to bleed out in the car.  Luckily, Snart and Rip have been tracking Jax through his bio signature and find Betty in time get her to the medical bay on the ship.

Betty tells them what happened the night of the crash. Gideon finds silicate materials in her bloodstream which brings them to the conclusion that the meteorite Savage found is the same type of meteorite that transformed Kendra and Carter, and that Savage is trying to create an army of mutated versions of Hawkgirl.  Gideon and Martin build a serum that will hopefully cure anyone transformed by this particular meteorite.

Kendra meets with Savage at the asylum, in hope of getting close enough to him to use the dagger.  However, Savage turns the tables on her, and reclaims the dagger.  Savage doesn’t buy that she is there alone, and pushes a button to release his army. Kendra and Savage battle for the dagger. Meanwhile, the rest of the team have infiltrated the Asylum.  Rip and Ray are caught snooping by Sheriff Ellison who works with Savage, and Martin and Snart are checking out Hall H when the test subjects are released.

Sara has been making amends to Carlisle when they are interrupted by one of the nasties.  Sara gets medieval on its ass, Ray and Rip get away from the Sheriff, and Ray rescues Kendra from Savage, who disappears.  A transformed Jax appears in Hall H, where Snart is busily stopping the other nasties with his cold gun.  He fires at an overhanging pipe to disorient Jax, and Sara arrives in time to knock Jax out.

Back at the ship, the serum is administered to Jax, curing him. The team returns the others to normal. Sara goes back to the Asylum to say goodbye to Carlisle, Jax gives Betty  a new car, and Kendra and Ray pack up the house. Back at the Waverider Jax apologizes to Leonard.   Chronos attacks and gains entry to the Waverider, and episode ends as the ship pulls away, leaving Sara, Kendra and Ray standing in the field.

My Favorite Moments:

Martin’s realization that back in the day really wasn’t the ideal that he remembered

Sara spilling coffee on Dr. Hannah, stopping the harassment of Nurse Carlisle

Jax dunking his french fries as a way out of a potentially awkward line of conversation

Jax’s apology to Leonard, and his acceptance of Leonard as a team member

Martin praising Leonard for his restraint and quick thinking

 

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow SN1 EP7 – ‘ Marooned ‘

In Episode 7 – Marooned – Dr Stein fulfills his childhood dream of being an heroic space ranger, and we meet another Time-Master.

Gideon needs an upgrade, because his database is out of date.  He has run out of clues as to where Savage might be found next.  In the normal course of events, this upgrade would happen automatically whenever the Waverider returned to home base.  Gideon receives a distress call from another Time-Ship in the vicinity, the Acheron.  The team points out to Rip that it is too coincidental to be anything other than a trap, but our fearless leader insists that this is the only way that Gideon can get his upgrade, and so they rush to the rescue.

Upon boarding the Acheron, Rip, Jax and Mick are captured by ‘Captain’ Valor (Callum Keith Rennie) and his crew, who Rip realizes are space pirates.  Acheron’s time drive has been destroyed per Time-Master protocol, and Valor wants the Waverider.  Rip tries to defuse the situation, claiming they are all on the same side for once because of the danger posed by Savage.

Valor doesn’t give two rips for the danger, and sends a message to Ray at the Waverider’s helm demanding that he allow the pirates to board and take the Waverider over.  Rip slips a codeword in which executes one of Gideon’s emergency protocols, causing the Waverider to fire a shot and take evasive action.  Valor orders pursuit and fires a shot in return, blowing a hole in the Waverider’s hull. Valor then warns Ray that he has 10 seconds to comply or he starts shooting prisoners.

Rip manages to slip another codeword in to deactivate the holographic Waverider that Acheron has been chasing, but now Valor catches on and throws the three into the brig.  Sara and Len try to fix the breach,  but Captain Cold’s gun runs out of steam before it can be completely sealed, causing the bulkhead doors to close which traps them inside the engine room.

Atom dons his suit and goes outside to finish sealing the breach.  While Sara and Len are slowly freezing to death in the engine room, Sara tells Len that there is no way that Rory will ever return from the dark, but Len reminisces about meeting Rory in juvie, where Rory first saved him and says that Rory has had his back ever since.

Len gets existential and wants Sara to tell him from her unique perspective what it is like to die. Meanwhile, Professor Stein has realized that something is up and leaves the jumpship to find and disarm the Acheron’s targeting system and weapons array . Sneaking through the Acheron, and managing to avoid all but one of the pirates,  he does just that, and then goes on to release Rip, Jax and the oh so judgmental Time-Master Captain Eve Baxter (Stephanie Cleough) .

Rory has already been released from the brig because he wants to make a deal with the pirates.  Rip has told him that he was never part of the plan, and that he was only along because he and Snart were a package deal.  Awwww, Rip hurt his widdle feewings. Rory’s deal with the pirates includes being taken back to the moment of meeting Rip, so that he can tell him to shove the mission, thereby getting his partner Leonard back.

Rory and some of the pirates take the jumpship back to the Waverider, where Atom has succeeded in sealing the breach, nearly killing himself in the process, but releasing Snart and Sara from the engine room.  As the pirates follow Rory onto the Waverider, Snart realizes that it is time to choose a side, and fires at Rory, while Atom, Sara and Kendra take on the rest of the pirates.

Back on the Acheron, Rip has come up with a plan to rid themselves of Valor and the remaining pirates.  His plan is based on his memory of a training simulation where his illicit girlfriend uses explosive decompression to great effect.  After a rip-snorting fight with Valor and just in the nick of time, Rip shoots Valor and opens the hull doors, sucking the remaining pirates out into space.  Captain Baxter is grateful, (and now considerably less judgmental) and gives Rip the update that Gideon needs before returning to the Vanishing Point.

Back on the Waverider, the team has a discussion about Rory’s fate.  His betrayal was not part of any larger plan, which means they are not able to trust him again.  The brig is not built for long term incarceration. They can’t release him in 2016 because the team has too much family there, so what to do?  Leonard makes the clearly difficult decision that he needs to take care of it.

The Waverider lands somewhere, somewhen; Leonard takes Mick outside.  Mick realizes that this is the end for their partnership, and quite probably for him.  He wants to know what happened to Snart, the punk kid he saved in Juvie, and the partner he has had since.  He says that only one of them can leave this spot alive.  Leonard agrees and shoots him with the cold gun.

My Favorite Moments:

Rip’s facility to baffle ’em with BS. “You don’t know my crew, iron-willed and battle-hardened.  The most formidable warriors to navigate time and space.”

How Rip’s girlfriend became his wife, when the Time-Masters expressly forbid relationships.

Rip telling Captain Baxter that he doesn’t regret betraying his oath to the Time Council, because he is following a higher calling.

Stein on being a space ranger:  “I’ll teach you to mess with a nuclear physicist”

The kiss – Kendra and Ray FINALLY !

The entire conversation between Sara and Len while they are trapped in the engine room, where Sara admits that at least if they die they won’t die alone, followed by Len knocking Mick out to save Sara, all of which points towards the potential for a romantic relationship between the two.

Stay tuned for my reviews of Episode 8 & 9, and remember to follow skatronixxx.com!

A Recap Of DC’s ‘Legends of Tomorrow’ First Six Episodes

Hi All!  I’m the new reviewer for Legends of Tomorrow, the newest addition to DC’s universe.  As the show has not yet been reviewed at Skatronnixx.com since @mitch_rated wrote about it coming to Sky1 in Britain, I thought I would start with a catch-up of the story from pilot to episode 6.  But first, the credits.

Legends debuted on The CW on January 21, 2016, in Canada also on CTV and airs on Thursdays.  It was renewed for a second season on March 11.

The Characters:

Rip Hunter – Arthur Darvill

Atom – Brandon Routh

Firestorm (the brains)/Professor Martin Stein – Victor Garber

Firestorm (the brawn)/Jefferson Jackson – Franz Drameh

White Canary/Sara Lance – Caity Lotz

Hawkman/Khufu/Carter Hall – Falk Henschel

Hawkgirl/Chay-Ara/Kendra Saunders – Ciara Renée

Captain Cold/ Leonard Snart – Wentworth Miller

Heatwave/Mick Rory/Chronos- Dominic Purcell

Gideon – WaveRider’s AI voiced by Amy Pemberton

Vandal Savage/Hath-Set – Casper Crump

The Story So Far:

In the first episode, we meet Rip Hunter, Time-Master and Captain of the timeship Waverider, in the year 2166.  The world has been basically laid waste to by the immortal baddie, Vandal Savage.  Rip,  a flawed Time-Master, wants to go back in time to stop Savage before he gets started: in effect to re-write the future.

Having had a personal run-in with Savage, he knows that he can’t go it alone.  He presents his plan to the Time-Council, and it goes pretty much as expected, a big fat NO. He and Gideon get the hay out of Dodge and go back in time anyway to collect a team to help him.

The Waverider lands in Star City, in the Arrowverse, where all of his potential crew are currently in the middle of their own battles.  Now Rip doesn’t much believe in explaining himself more than once, so he collects each member by zapping them with his space ray gun just as each of them triumph in their missions.

When they wake up he tells them who he is,  what his mission is, and indulges in some ego stroking to get them to agree to join him.  Some of the members don’t want to go, notably Rory, Jax and HawkGirl.  Professor Stein hijacks Jax by means of drugging and kidnapping, because after all, heroes – nay, Legends – are required and Stein alone cannot be a hero, Snart convinces Rory by pointing out that they can steal the most valuable treasures in history, and Hawkman and Hawkgirl settle it like warriors.

The team assembles, and leaves 2016 to track down their first lead, Professor Boardman in 1975.  Meanwhile, the bounty hunter Chronos arrives in Star City and informs his employers that he is closing in on Rip.  Professor Boardman turns out to be not only an expert on Vandal Savage, but is also Kendra and Carter’s son from their just previous lives.  Although he dies because of a stray bullet in a firefight between our heroes and Chronos, he provides them with their next clue contained within his journal.  And now the truth begins to emerge.

Rip tells them that he has quit the Time-Masters because they did nothing about Savage killing his wife and child, but that he has not lied about the rest of it.  He has allowed them to think that they are heroes in their futures, but that he took them because they are actually insignificant to the time-line.

They want to make their own fates, so they all agree to continue with the mission.  In succeeding episodes, they romp through the time-line in hot pursuit of Vandal Savage, while being chased themselves by Chronos.  Along the way, they lose and recover a piece of the Atom’s suit, stop Savage from selling a nuke – cameo by Damien Darhk (Neil McDonogh), discover the one weapon that can end Savage forever, get Hawkman killed, nearly lose Kendra and are captured by the Russians who are trying to build their own Firestorm.

And we get a little of Snart’s history, when he tries to change his father’s fate.  In  episode 6 they travel to a ravaged Star City in 2046 where they talk Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) out of retirement to join Diggle’s son Connor Hawke (Joseph David-Jones) who has taken up the Green Arrow mantle.  DeathStroke (Jamie Andrew Cutler) makes a cameo appearance.  Captain Cold and Heatwave have a “difference of opinion” when Heatwave realizes that he is losing Captain Cold to the team and wants to stay in 2046.

My Favorite Moments:

Pretty much anytime Snart opens his mouth.  What comes out is always humorously dry, witty and sarcastic, and I am really enjoying this character’s development.

Jax tells Professor Stein that he thinks Stein still has plenty of adventure left in him, and that he wants to be part of the team because in his high school football days, when he felt safest was when his teammates were looking out for him.

Rip’s memories.  They make him who he is – a “flawed” but very human time master- and are the driving force behind his self imposed mission to end Savage.

My reviews of Episodes 7, 8 and 9 will be coming at you in the next couple of days.  Stay tuned and don’t forget to follow skatronixxx.com!

 

 

 

 

 

Supernatural S11 EP17 – Hit Us Hard With ‘Red Meat’

S11E17 -Red Meat

Written By: Robert Berens & Andrew Dabb

Directed By:  Nina Lopez-Corrado

Well, we got our first female directed episode last night…. and, Chuck help me, it hurt like Hell.  Now, I need therapy.  I was late with this review because I’ve been hiding in my closet in the fetal position since The Show ended last night.

I am so not joking.

If you haven’t seen the episode yet, be sure to have a box of tissue and a therapist on speed dial when you do.

I mean, I knew it was going to be rough from the moment (a few weeks ago) when I read the spoiler that Sammy got shot in the episode.  Because, as addicts… uh, I mean, FANS of The Show will tell you, when Sammy gets hurt … Dean will kill your feels.  And, this Dean girl hurt FOR him.  There’s a moment when Dean is pleading with The Reaper Billie (played by Lisa Berry) to “Bring him back, and take me instead”.  You can see the tears welling up in his eyes and you’re wondering how he’s holding them back because you’ve already flooded your living room.  I wasn’t crying that hard.  Really.  I’m just using metaphors and stuff, cause, you know, I’m a writer.  Then there’s that moment when Billie tells him that the kicker is that Sammy’s not even dead.  You can see every muscle in Dean’s body just relax in relief.  And, you let out the breath that you didn’t even notice you were holding until then.  You did.  Not me.  Because again, I’m just using metaphors and stuff.

Really.

I do have to say that it was a real treat to see BAMF Sammy in this episode.  We see BAMF Dean a LOT.  But, even after being shot and smothered, while bleeding profusely, Sam managed to take out two werewolves and make it back to Dean in time to take out another and save his brother.  Now that’s a BAMF right there…. but it’s just another day of the week for a Winchester.

The best part of the episode wasn’t a line this week.  It was that moment when Sam made it back to Baby.  He fell against her rear quarter panel and sort of patted her trunk, before digging in his pocket for his phone to call Dean.  When he made it to Baby, did you fist pump the air and yell out “Yes!” loud enough to make the neighbors think you were having a romantic encounter in the bedroom?  No?  So, it was just me then?  That’s cool…maybe next time.

Can’t wait ’til next week when they emotionally compromise me again.

Arrow SN4 EP14 – ‘Code Of Silence’

So it’s time for this weeks review of Arrow and this weeks episode centers around the team trying to locate Damien Darhk and team uncover a sinister hive plot in the process.

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We start the episode in a theater with Oliver and the team preparing for a live debate session with Darhk’s wife Ruvé Adams the team are discussing if they have uncovered anything on Ruvé that will help them win the race for mayor of Star city just as she arrives. The pair exchange a few words and Oliver manages to drop some nice Darhk references into the conversation before she makes her excuses and leaves, the team spring into action and suit up to follow her and see if she leads them to Darhk’s location.

She ends up leading the arrow to a remote location under a bridge to appear and advise him that he had a meeting with her husband last week and he hates to be stood up. She then follows this up with but I’m sure he would hate you following his wife even more and he has a surprise for you and with that a group of hive soldiers come from behind her and open fire. Speedy and Spartan arrive to lend a helping hand but amidst the fight Ruvé manages to slip away.

Oliver and Thea are seen back at the campaign HQ and it appears that Thea has been tasked with looking into the Queen family history to make sure there are not more secrets that Ruvé can use against Oliver in the debate. This of course means Thea comes across a check written by there mum for 1 million dollars payable to a Samantha Clayton as she questions Oliver about this he just claims she was someone he went to college with and does not know why there mum had written her a check.

We then see a meeting between Darhk and other leaders of Hive where they are discussing phase 5 of there plan for Star city, one of the leaders advises that Darhk’s failure to take care of Oliver Queen has caused them to doubt it he can carry out the plan. Darhk does not take kindly to this and asks the man how his office is and he feels like he is there and the next thing we hear is a snapping sound so it appears that he has used his dark powers to kill this leader. We also see Malcolm Merlyn sat at the table in this meeting and he advises Darhk not to under estimate Oliver, it also appears that the fate of phase 5 now rests with Ruvé winning the race for mayor.

The team are discussing how they can track down Darhk and Laurel heads off to speak to father to check up on him as the team are worried that Darhk may try and take out Captain Lance due to him telling the team the location of his hideout. Just as the pair are discussing the issue Captain Lance receives a call from dispatch that back up if needed at an abandoned warehouse he heads off to help and Laurel decides to tag along to keep an eye on him. The pair arrive at the building and Captain Lance advises Laurel to stay in the car while he goes in to check it out.

Captain Lance enters the building and it appears to be empty with no sign of any officers in trouble as he is looking around an explosion happens knocking him of the platform and onto the floor. Laurel appears to try and rescue her father but then more explosions start to go off bringing the building down around them, the pair manage to escape just in time just as the building collapses in on itself the pair head back to arrow HQ and Diggle helps patch up Captain Lance.

Oliver advises Captain Lance that he needs to lay low for a while as this wont be the last time he might attempt to take his life.While this conversation has been going on Felicity has started work on tracking where the call to Captain Lance came from. Captain Lance calls Debbie to the campaign HQ and says that they need to put some distance between each other for a few weeks and uses the excuse that he has got in to deep with a gambling debt. Debbie does not by this for a second and ends the relationship if he cannot be honest with her.

We later see the Felicity and the team back at Arrow HQ and Felicity has managed to track the source of the call to a warehouse and the team head off to investigate. The team arrive to find three hive mercenaries setting up some bombs in order to erase any trace that they have been there, Diggle gets into a fight with the mercenary who is on patrol while the other three are held back by fire from a nail gun from one of the mercenaries as they plan there escape she fires four nails into the lap top and the trio flea but not before setting off the bombs. Oliver and Laurel go to find Diggle and Thea stays behind to grab the damaged laptop stating she will meet them outside, Thea manages to make it out of the building by jumping through a window moments before the building implodes.

Felicity is unable to gain access to the damaged laptop of she does not have enough power at arrow HQ so decides to visit Palmer tech to enlist the help of Curtis. We see him working on something just as Felicity comes in with the laptop he quickly shuts the screen down when pressed about what he is working on he states that he is working on an engagement for her. Felicity gives the damaged laptop to Curtis and asks if he can pull everything he can off the laptop and send it to her once he has completed the task.

We see Oliver and Thea back at the campaign office and Thea asks Oliver why he lied to her about how he knew Samantha Clayton? Oliver comes clean and tells Thea that she was a girl he was involved with at the same time as he was dating Laurel. Thea then advises her brother that she has looked Samantha up and has seen that she has a son called William, Oliver has no choice but to come completely clean with Thea and advise her that William is his son but he cannot tell anyone as this is the only way he is allowed contact. Oliver is surprised when Thea agrees that this need to be kept from everyone to stop William becoming a target.

Oliver then receives a call from Diggle to advise him that Andy has been digging around the dark web and found the warehouse where hive have been making there explosives and he will meet him there. They both arrive but they are to late and hive have cleaned out all the explosives from the warehouse and whatever they are planning to blow up if must be big.

 

We arrive back at the theater for the night of the debate and Felicity receives a call from Curtis to inform her that he has managed to gain access to the laptop and he is sending over the only piece of intel that was on the laptop. Felicity’s face looks panicked when she see’s that it is plans for the theater and advises Oliver that they need to evacuate the building and Thea decides it’s quicker to pull the fire alarm than wait for Felicity to hack the system.

As all the people leave we see Ruvé call the mercenaries from earlier as they are planting the bombs around the building advising them that there has been a change of plans and that Oliver must not leave the building alive. Team arrow suit up and start there search of the building as Captain Lance arrives on the scene to lend a hand and advising Debbie to stay outside as she was about to go back in and look for Oliver. We see Diggle come face to face with the same guy and sledge hammer he thought earlier in the episode only this time Diggle has some form of gadget to help him reflect the metal from the sledge hammer. Thea and Laurel attempt to take on the woman with the nail gun and Oliver is left to fight the remaining guy.

Luckily Diggle manages to take out his hive mercenary and diffuse his bomb and shortly after this is followed by Thea and Laurel defeating there mercenary and diffusing there bomb. Oliver seems to be having the tougher fight but just in time Captain Lance comes in and shoots the remaining mercenary and Oliver manages to diffuse the three remaining bombs. The debate then takes place and we see from a news report that early indications show that Oliver had won the debate as was favorite to become the next mayor.

We are then taken to Oliver and Felicity’s engagement party we see Captain Lance come clean with Debbie about what was really wrong and that he used to work for hive as Darhk had threatened to hurt Laurel and all is forgiven and the pair rekindle their relationship. Curtis arrives at the party to give Felicity and Oliver his engagement present, Felicity opens the box and is presented with a tiny microchip she thanks Curtis but is not sure what this chip does. Curtis advises her that it is not a chip but in fact an implant that will help her walk again once it has been surgically attached to her spine and that he just needed more power and achieved this by using the new power cell invented at Palmer tech.

The episode comes to an end at the home of Damien Darhk and we see him talk to his daughter announcing they have a new house guest and it’s none other than William. Darhk states that his mum has asked them to look after William for a while begging the question has he killed Samantha? What are his plans for William? and How will Oliver take the news?

We also see the flash backs to Oliver’s time on Lian Yu but as these are now becoming a bit tedious all I will say is Oliver finally gets to kill Conklin.

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Ben Affleck’s Solo Batman Movie Is “An Option”

Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice was released this month to a mixed response from fans and critics alike. Ben Affleck’s portrayal of Batman however has been almost universally noted as a highlight in Zack Snyder’s problematic DC Universe builder, brining a rejuvenated interest to the prospect of a Batfleck solo movie in the future.

In light of this, Patrick Whitesell of William Morris Endeavor was quick to revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that Affleck is “contracted to do at least Justice League One and Two, so at least three times wearing the cape;” noting that BVS being the first of three contractual DC appearances.

Whitesell further elaborated on rumours of a solo outing for Batfleck commenting that “there’s a script that he’s written that is a really cool [Batman] idea, so that’s out there as an option.“

Ben Affleck will also make a cameo appearance in David Ayer’s Suicide Squad later this Summer, as a bunch of his Rogue Gallery alumni – including The Joker (Jared Leto), Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) and Deadshot (Will Smith) – raise hell as part of the US Governments Black-Ops team.

Justice League Part One is currently scheduled to hit the big screen in November 17, 2017 with Part Two to follow shortly after in June 14, 2019.

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Damien SN1 EP4 – ‘ The Numbers of a Man ‘

Hey all, before we get into episode 4 here is a recap of last weeks episode…..

‘The Deliverer’ SN1EP3

Damien’s chat with Ann leads him to John Lyons, then-White House Chief of Staff who help raise him. Lyons warns Damien of Ann’s dark nature, believing she caused the fiery death of a staffer that tried to expose Armitage Global, a company which is now run by Lyons. Armitage Global is covertly set up to guide Damien down his path. Lyons believes Ann’s protective methods seem outdated, but she proves to still be viable.

‘The Number of a Man’ SN1-EP4

Simone is relaxing in the bath when all of a sudden the bath water turns red, she leaps out and then pulls a dead baby bird from the bath drain. That’s definitely put me of having baths for a while.

After Damien’s heroic efforts saving the boy from being hit by the train, Detective Shay is still convinced Damien had something to do with the Death of Troy Hendrie which occurred at the very time he was saving the boy, as Shay goes through security footage he see Hendrie being chased by Damien but then suddenly the footage shows interference then a distorted face flashes on the screen then disappears. Shay pays Damien a visit at his home and want’s Damien to go down to the station for more questions and Damien agrees to help.

Ann & John speak to their staff about their recently departed colleague Troy Hendrie, with him out of the picture leaving just Ann and John to keep Damien on his path, they have no choice but to start trusting one another. Shay continues to question Damien about Kelly, the professor and the taxi accident, four suspicious death all centering around Damien plus Shay being attacked by a dog, Shay can’t prove it but he believes it was all Damien’s doing, he tells Shay to see Ann Rutledge, in a secret room she has possessions from his childhood, as he’s leaving a guys start calling him the serpent that follows him in the darkness and he picks up a pair of scissors and tries to stab himself, but Damien tackles him but is pulled off and restrained by the cops as the man castrate’s himself and with his last breath calls Damien the beast.

Detective Shay decides to pay a visit to Ann Rutledge in the hopes of getting access to the room Damien spoke of, Rutledge indulgences Shay and leads him to the room although he’s not sure what he expects to find. I’m not sure on Ann’s intentions, it’s like she wants Shay to dig deeper in Damien and his past. After what happened to Simone in the bath tub, Mrs. Baptiste is convinced its Kelly and she is trying to come back so enlists the help of a witch doctor to free Kelly’s spirit and no one was ready for what happened next….. 666 was burnt into in Kelly’s notebook.

Detective Shay is told to stop his obsession with Thorn and to drop it. The following morning Shay’s son Jacob is playing when a rottweiler get his attention, he goes outside to see the dog. Shay call’s him for breakfast but when he doesn’t come, he goes outside looking for him and see the corner of the pool cover open, he frantically is looking for Jacob in the pool, he finds him his unconscious and not breathing, he suddenly starts to cough after a few seconds. Maybe now Detective Shay will heed the warning’s and leave Damien Thorn alone, although I have a feeling this will just make him want to pursue Damien now more than ever.

This week’s episode deserves: 🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬

Bates Motel SN4 EP4 – ‘ Lights of Winter ‘

Firstly WOW what an episode….. It just gets better and better and better each episode! Bates Motel totally has me as we say in Aus ” hook, line & sinker”.  But before we get into episode 4 here is a quick recap of episode 3…..

‘Till Death Do You Part’ SN4 EP3
Norma and Romero tie the knot, Norman tries to except his new circumstances and Dylan tries to shed old business. Ok moving on to the latest Bates episode…

‘Lights of Winter’ SN4 EP4
So the episode open with Norman in his room, he begins to have visions of his mother hitting his father over the head and visions of Blaire Watson, Norman snaps out of it when one of the staff bring his morning meds. Norman wants to leave Pineview but he is told he cannot leave without taking his medication, he takes his meds but as soon as the staff member leaves Norman makes himself throw up. Julian help Norman break into the night staff’s office so he can make a phone call, Norman gets a hold of Dylan and tell him that Norma is in danger, he also tells Dylan he is being released from Pineview today but when Dylan questions Norman, it angers him and he then hangs up.

Meanwhile Norma is acting odd with Romero, he suggests that they open a joint account to make the marriage look more real, he goes on to invite Norma to the towns winter festival. You can see she wants to say yes, but declines as she is visiting Emma and may not be back in time. Norma leaves the house and sits in the car for a minute with a smile like that she is thinking of her new husband no doubt, Norm is smitten and perhaps falling for the handsome Sheriff, the only man who has treated her with kindness. Norman is being difficult and won’t attend his group therapy session, his reasons for not attending is he believes he is being released today, but it seems no one at Pineview got that memo. Dr Edwards steps in and assures him he has reported Norman suspicious to authorities but urges Norman to continue his session, a pissed off Norman has had enough and tries to walk out the front door although his attempt is unsuccessful, but Julian tells him he can get him out if he want to.

Emma tells Dylan she and her father are moving to Seattle so she can attend the best respiratory rehabilitation center and to start university and she asks Dylan if he would want go to Seattle with them and Dylan takes the leap and decides to go to Seattle with them. He would be stupid not to, this is his chance to do something better with his life. Norma visits with Emma and she tell Norma that Dylan keeps her updated on Norman, She told Norma that she is doing the right thing for Norman and maybe its time for her to let go a little and start looking after herself for a change. Norma needed to hear that and she knows it’s time for her to cut the cord from Norman and focus on herself and her new husband. Rebecca asks Romero point-blank if he killed Bob Paris, Romero brushes the question off, she goes on the tell him that Paris had $3 million stashed in a safe deposit box but you need two keys to open it, the bank has one and she bets his killer has the other. Romero cuts open the stash of money he has and finds the second key in a passport. Norma home from visiting Emma decides to take her advise and as she is changing, the photo of her beloved Norman catches her eye and she picks it up, then put it’s in the draw and closes it. She’s starting to embrace her new freedom!

Romero spots his new bride at the winter festival and he is taken with just how beautiful she looks, he tell her she looks beautiful and he’s glad she made it. While Romero is pulled away for a photo, Rebecca approaches Norma and introduces herself. Rebecca is clearly jealousy of Norma and thinks is should be her that married Romero. The Bates home has been broken into and trashed and Romero know why but don’t voice it. Julian and Norman decided tonight they will have freedom and break out of Pineview, they hitch a ride to the local strip club and it doesn’t take long before Julian is lead to the VIP lounge. Norman is feeling out-of-place when a cute stripper Athena gets his attention and leads him to the VIP lounge, Norman takes the screwdriver from his back pocket and places it on the table, while Athena tries to seduce him and in the blink of any eye he turns into Norma, seducing the stripper! Julian gets attacked but Norman can’t do anything but watch on helplessly, Dr Edwards finds Norman in the ambulance cuffed, he and Norman sit in the car and Norman breaks down and admitting he blackouts, Norman sobs and tell Dr Edwards he doesn’t know what real or not anymore and can he please help him.

We are starting to see the beginning of Norman’s split personality emerge and it makes for very interesting episodes, but i tell you my heart was breaking for him as he sat sobbing in the car asking for help. Rebecca is definitely one not to trust, she wants Romero for herself and hell have no fury like a woman scorned!! What did you guys think of this episode?
I rate this weeks episode: 🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬

Lucifer SN1-EP10 – ‘ Pop’s ‘

Hello little Devils! Lets kick off  with a quick recap of last weeks episode “A Priest Walks into a Bar” incase you missed it.

RECAP of ‘A Priest Walks into a Bar ‘ SN1-EP9

Our dynamic duo Lucifer & Decker investigate when a priest asks for Lucifer’s help in stopping a drug ring he believes is headed by a counsellor at the local youth centre. When the counsellor is found dead at his office the suspicion quickly fall on the priest. Amenadiel meets with Malcom to discuss the reason he brought him back from hell. Can you believe Amenadiel ordered a hit on his own brother? Who knew the good angel would go that far!
On to last nights episode…

“Pop’s” SN1-EP10

Lucifer and Decker are investigating the suspected poisoning death of a well-known chef/owner of an upscale Mexican restaurant, whilst investigating Decker get a surprise visit from her Mother who has just arrived back in LA and seem Lucifer is clearly a little taken by Mrs Decker as they flirt with each other and he gets an invite to a “family dinner”. Decker and Lucifer start interviewing the staff including the chefs son (Manny Montana) and Lucifer is convinced that the son killed his father given their past relationship. Sous-chef Anne (Tara Summers) who would assume control of the restaurant if the son was out of the picture, tells Lucifer &Decker she would never hurt her boss, then suddenly she coughs up blood and collapses, meanwhile Maze turns up to see Dr Martin for help to make her “Normal” but well all know that’s a tall order!

We see Maze make her first friend but she’s not quite in the same age group of Maze. The family dinner doesn’t go to plain as Lucifer manages to piss everyone off including douchebag Dan. Decker and Lucifer realizes that the sous-chef Anne is the one who poisoned her boss but the poison was ment for his son, she worked hard for that restaurant and he was just going to give it to his son, she couldn’t let that happen, so she poisoned the son’s meal but, what she didn’t know is that he had become a vegetarian. Malcom reveals to Dan his plan’s to kill Lucifer, ordered by his own brother Amenadiel, as much as Dan dislikes Lucifer he tells Malcom he can’t let him kill Lucifer? Well didn’t see that on the cards, douchebag Dan looking out for Lucifer? Chole get’s a break up text from Dan, but they weren’t really back together so she drowns her sorrows with wine and ends up at Lucifer’s place sad, drunk, and flirty but to my surprise Lucifer says no??? Definitely not the ending I thought was going to happen that’s for sure!! Are you as surprised as I am or is it just me?

Well little devils that’s it for another week, make sure you check back next week for the crime fighting duo’s next case ‘St . Lucifer’ SN1-EP11

This weeks episode deserves: 🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬