Season 2 episode 2 – The Justice Society of America
At the end of the previous episode, Out of Time, the team had just ensured the safety of the Einsteins and New York City in one tiny little change to the timeline. As they try to skedaddle out of 1942, they are stopped in their tracks by the JSA, Rex Tyler’s hardcore old school team. [Read more…]
Rumors are abounding when it comes to possible love interests for Legends of Tomorrow’s crew in Season 2. Showrunner Marc Guggenheim teases us in TV Line that romantic seeds will be planted. Since Martin Stein (Victor Garber) is married, Rip (Arthur Darvill) is more or less in mourning, and the Hawks would be a dead end even if they were still part of the regular cast, that leaves Ray Palmer (Brandon Routh), Mick Rory (Dominic Purcell), Jax (Franz Drameh) or Sara Lance (Caity Lotz) to be the focus of a romantic entanglement. [Read more…]
River of Time
HOLEE!! What a RIP-snorter of an episode ending! Did NOT see that coming! Read on for details of the latest episode of Legends, and prepare to have your socks knocked off!
Flashback to Egypt, where Rip as Gareeb is in jail being taunted by Savage (Caspar Crump) as Hath-Set.
Mick Rory enters the bridge of the WaveRider, knocking back some Scotch that was given to Rip in 1689. He is toasting “Mission almost accomplished”. Martin Stein is sickened by the thought of possibly celebrating a murder, and is reminded by Leonard Snart that murdering Savage has always been part of the plan. Len goes on to note that “as long as he is on board, living and breathing, Savage is a threat to everyone on this ship”. Kendra Saunders asks “So what, we just kill Savage and leave Carter a brainless drone?”. Rory says “Yes”, Snart and Sara Lance seem to agree. Ray Palmer and Jax Jackson enter the bridge in a state of excitement. They have found evidence that Savage has been manipulating the time line while they were analyzing the data collected by the Atom suit during the fight with the giant robot. Sara thinks the Time Masters will now have to sign off on undoing the damage Savage has caused, and the decision is made that they will transport Savage to the Vanishing Point to face justice for his crimes.
Savage is very firmly trapped in the brig. What threat could he possibly pose? Savage is quite curious as to how Rip managed to escape the Egyptian jail cell. Rip brushes that off, and wants to know how Savage attained the ability to travel through time. Savage explains that when he saw Rip for the second time, in 1975, he realized that time travel was the only explanation. “You showed a caveman fire, and I had almost 200 years to figure out how to strike the flame”. He goes on to tell Rip that he will come to learn that this is just one of many things they have in common. Rip retorts that “subjugating the world to your rule is not saving it. You would create a wasteland and call it peace”. Savage is annoyed at the misquote of Tacitus. He goes on to sneer “You might be a time master, but I am a master of time, and I play a far deeper game than you could ever hope to comprehend”. Sounds like some surprise is coming. Rip leaves the brig and instructs Gideon to up their speed to maximum. Gideon objects, but Rip overrides his objections, saying that they need to get to the Vanishing Point as fast as possible.
Ray and Kendra visit Carter Hall, who is handcuffed in the cargo bay. Kendra tries to tell him who he is, but Carter only promises that if they release him he will show them mercy by killing them quickly.
Sara notes that the ship is laboring hard, and questions Rip’s decision to push it. In spite of Rip’s confidence in the WaveRider, the time drive fails. Sara goes to check on Savage’s cell. Rip tells Jax that his help is required to repair the time drive. Stein worries what will happen if they end up stranded in the time stream, so Rip tells him that the jumpship can make a one-time only trip back to 2016.
In the brig, Savage tries to engage Sara in conversation. She wonders how he knows so much about her family, so he points out that he has only had 191 years to research his enemies. She says that he should know that she doesn’t scare that easily. He tells her that she should be scared of Captain Hunter. “He has lied to you all so often, and yet you persist in believing him. Do you know why he selected all of you for this endeavour?” Sara quips “Great bone structure”. Savage continues “Because he chose people who could be manipulated. People who would believe his lies”. She notes that the lies she doesn’t believe are Savage’s. But it is easy to see that Savages’ particular brand of poison is already at work.
Jax has meanwhile found a large crack in the time drive. Gideon informs Rip the level of contamination in the engine room is 3 percent above maximum. Stein says that they need to get him out of there, but Rip assures him that Jax will be done quickly enough that he won’t suffer any adverse effects. Jax gets the time drive back online, but it surges. Jax flashes back to his mother giving him his Father’s watch. Stein and Rip hustle Jax to the med bay, but Gideon informs them that his organs are aging at a rapid rate, a condition that Gideon cannot reverse. So much for not suffering adverse effects! Now that the time drive is operational a total reboot is required.
Snart watches Rory make a mess while eating, and asks if he remembers Alexa. Rory asks why, and Snart tells him he has the same feeling now as he did then. It was obviously not a warm, fuzzy feeling!
Sara returns to the bridge, having ensured that Savage is secure, and tells Rip that Savage has told her that Rip would sell them all out to save his family. Rip agrees that Savage is not wrong, and tells her what has happened to Jax. He’s vexed by the possibility that he subconsciously chose to send Jax to do the job because of the possible danger. Sara is vexed by the possibility that they have thrown in with a Captain who cares more about himself than his crew.
Kendra, still trying to jog Carter’s memory while being guarded by Ray, gets too close to Carter. He strikes at Kendra, choking her with his legs. Ray clobbers him and pulls Kendra away, then goes back to Carter and delivers such a punch to Carter’s head that he is knocked out. Ray, now determined to find another way to get Carter’s mind back, visits Savage, and demands that Savage tells him how to free Carter’s mind. Savage agrees that he could do this, but wants to know if Ray is really sure that is what he wants. Savage points out that if he does, Ray will lose Kendra, very much as he himself lost her to Carter on her second life. It transpires that Kendra and Savage had been very much in love during her second life according to him, as Kendra had no recollection of her death at his hands in Egypt. Then Carter came along, and took Kendra and their love and happiness. Savage blatantly draws parallels between himself and Ray. Ray denies that they are even remotely the same. Savage says that nevertheless, if Carter is free, Ray will lose Kendra. But then, he notes “she would hardly be the first woman you’d lost would she?”. Flashback to Ray’s conversation with Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards) before he joined up with Rip.
Ray returns to the cargo hold where much to his shock and dismay, he overhears Kendra reciting a love poem to Carter. He spins on his heel, Kendra runs after him, and the conversation that follows leads to Ray breaking it off with Kendra. They both look unhappy about it, but at the same time I suspect that both are relieved.
In the med bay, Jax’s outward appearance now matches the aging of his innards. Snart says that this is all Rip’s fault, because this is what happens when Rip goes with Plan B. Rory notes that Plan A was to take Savage’s head in with the mace. Stein is still aghast at the thought of murder, and points out that they are trying to resolve the situation without bloodshed. With a look at Jax, Rory enquires “and how’s that working for you, Ghandi?” Jax notes that won’t help him now. Snart tells Stein and Jax that they are not waiting around for the other shoe to drop, and that they deserve better.
Snart and Rory join Rip and Sara on the bridge, where Snart drawls “We saw what you did to Jax.” Rory is worried that this is just the beginning. Snart continues “like I said, Rip, as long as Savage is alive and on this ship he is dangerous.” Rip tells them that the time drive is rebooting and that they will soon be on their way. He asks Snart for a little faith, to which Snart responds “Sorry, fresh out”. Rip asks Rory if he is of the same mind, and asks Sara what her feelings are. Sara points out that he is the one who said he would sell them out for his family. Rip tells them about the jumpship, and reminds them that the mission has always been a voluntary enterprise. Len and Mick leave the bridge, Snart saying it has been a blast, and Rory telling Rip to tell his pals that “Chronos says to kiss my ass”. Sara stays. Flashback to Sara visiting Nyssa al Gul (Katrina Law) in her Nanda Parbat cell.
Stein visits Savage. Savage says “Finally, an intellect approximate to my own.” Stein tells him he is not there to play mind games. He reminds Savage of the ritual performed in October of 1975 at the Greyhill building. He wants to know if Savage can share his immortality with Jax. Savage informs him that he would need Carter’s blood to do that, and suggests that he go ask Carter for it, or better yet, enlist Ray’s help to spill it. Stein notes that he is sure Savage would enjoy that, having all of them at each other’s throats while stranded in the time stream. Martin then realizes that they are not stranded and thanks Savage for providing the solution to the problem. We next see Martin helping Jax into the jumpship, where he explains to Jax that he has made adjustments. If his math is correct, the trip through the time stream should correct Jax’s condition. Jax refuses, knowing that without him Stein will die, but Stein once again drugs him, and explains that this time he is thinking of Jax. He asks Jax to tell Clarissa he is sorry, she deserved a proper goodbye. He straps Jax in and leaves, launching the jumpship. Flashback to Clarissa (Isabella Hofmann) and Martin at Star Labs, where Martin tells her that he loves her, and that he will be back before she knows it.
Snart and Rory arrive at the launch bay to find the jumpship gone. Stein tells them that he has done what was necessary to save Jax’s life, and now they all need to do what’s necessary to save the ship and themselves.
Ray, clearly not thinking very clearly, re-enters the brig, to tell Savage that Kendra is free to do as she wants. Savage taunts him into entering the brig, where the two fight. Savage wins, and uses Ray’s palm to open the brig door.
As the time drive reinitialization completes, Ray rushes onto the bridge to tell them that Savage has escaped. Gideon informs them that Savage has released Carter, and then is disengaged by Savage. Rory threatens Ray “If we live through this you bumbling idiot I might just kill you.” Rip sends Rory, Snart, Ray and Kendra to recapture Savage and Carter, and pulls out the navigation maps. They must navigate the river that is the time stream manually, in order to reach the Vanishing Point. Sara plots the safest course, while Martin calculates when to put on a burst of speed and for how long, and Rip pilots.
Snart, Rory, Atom and Kendra catch up with Savage, where he grandiosely demands ”Who are you to stand up against me, Vandal Savage, destroyer of Empires?” Snart retorts “Leonard Snart, Robber of ATMs”. Carter approaches from behind, armed with his mace, so Ray and Kendra take him on. Kendra tells the Atom she can take care of Carter. He goes to help Snart and Rory only to be knocked out, again, in pretty short order. Am I the only one who has noticed that the guy has a glass jaw, even in his suit? Thought not! The three on the bridge maneuver the ship through the most difficult bit, Rip gives control to Sara, and goes to the aid of the four attempting to recapture Savage. Ray, Snart and Rory are now all down for the count, and Carter is putting the beats on Kendra. Rip knocks Carter down, Savage fires at Kendra and Rip jumps in front of her. Carter then grabs Kendra and gives her to Savage. Savage begins to choke her, and while Carter is watching, his memories return like a bolt out of the blue. He hawks out and goes after Savage. Savage stabs Carter, Carter falls, and Kendra goes mediaeval on Savages’ ass. Savage is recaptured, and Rip gets Carter to the medbay as he is still alive.
The WaveRider appears at the Vanishing Point. Sara notices that Rip is injured, so Rip tells her that he might have jumped in front of a laser blast intended for Kendra. He can’t have his crew thinking that he cares more for himself than for them. The Vanishing Point takes over control of the WaveRider. They are told to disable weapons and prepare to be boarded. Rip demands an immediate assembly of the Time Council, as he is here not to answer for his crimes, but to justify them. As Rip marches Savage off the WaveRider, he finally tells Savage how he got out of the cell so many years ago. He bribed the guard with a novelty pen, the type with a woman on the side. When the pen turns upside down, her top comes off. Rip tells Savage that the guards at the Vanishing Point will not be so easily swayed.
In the medbay, Ray monitors Carter. When Kendra enters, he tells her it is because Carter not only has saved her life, he is also a part of the team. He thanks Kendra for breaking his heart, because the experience has taught him that he can find someone to spend the rest of his life with.
At the meeting of the Time Council, Rip produces both incontrovertible proof, and Savages’ confession, that Savage has been messing with the time line. Time Master Zaman Druse (Martin Donovan) congratulates Rip and promptly announces that they will be returning Vandal Savage to Earth immediately. He is needed in 2166. Rip cannot believe what he is hearing. The Time Masters are working in collusion with Savage! The guards take Rip away, and are told to search the ship and arrest the rest of the team.
Snart’s Alexa senses are still working. He tells Sara they need to hide, now. Stein, on the bridge is taken into custody. Rory, who has finished off that aged bottle of scotch, is taken into custody. Both Kendra and Ray, bewildered, are taken into custody. In the Vanishing Point cells, Savage tells Rip that Druse’s men have taken the ship, his friends are under arrest and Rip is once again his prisoner. And this time, he doesn’t plan to lose him. Savage pulls out the novelty pen and shows it to Rip, saying “yes, I do remember the guard. He died. Now if you will excuse me, I better be getting back to 2166. I’ve been waiting so very long to meet your family; I wouldn’t miss it for the world”.
Fade to Black
WHAT the FUDGE?? You could have knocked me over with a feather at the end of this episode. Seriously. The Time Masters working with Savage? How? More importantly, WHY? Looking forward to the answers to these questions!
Favorite Moments:
Sara to Savage “I would tell you to go to Hell, but you’d probably feel right at home there”
The Kendra/Ray breakup. It was inevitable, really, as Ray realized that he would never be “anything more than Carter’s placeholder”.
Stein’s conversation with Savage. Martin was the only one who escaped unscathed by the interaction.
Jax to Martin “You rufied me again?”
The terminology. Is the Theory of Quantum Retro Causality a thing? Anyone?
Snart to Savage “Leonard Snart, Robber of ATMs!” lolz
Sara in charge of piloting the ship. She’s not just another pretty assassin!
Kendra going mediaeval on Savage. Again. You go girl! Maybe next time you’ll actually follow through? Please?
The Magnificent Eight
When last we left our heroes, Rory was advising them to “Run!”. And for very good reason. He knows that the Time-Masters have now sent a trio of mercenaries called the Hunters after them, himself included. These Hunters will stop at nothing to erase them from the face of history.
The WaveRider lands at the town of Salvation in 1871, an attempt to hide from the Hunters in what Rip calls a “fragmentation”. Even the geek twins (Martin Stein and Ray Palmer) are stumped by the terminology. Much to my delight, only Rory understands the reference. A fragmentation, as explained by Rory, is a temporal blind spot, a place and time where the Time-Masters cannot see. Pretty smart for a guy with “the IQ of meat”!
The team want to go see the Old West, but Rip won’t go with them, saying that he wants to plot their next move against Savage. Rory promises that he will behave, and the rest promise to stay out of trouble. Sure. Since when has that ever happened??
In the Last Salvation Saloon, Rory, Sara and Kendra belly up to the bar for shots. Kendra notes that the alcohol tastes like gasoline and walks away, bumping into an older woman, which prompts a glimpse of memory. Rory tells Sara that time is different in the Vanishing Point, and that it has been years since he saw the bottom of a glass. She wants to know what happened to him there, because he is different, but she is not sure if that is good or bad. Rory notes that she can hold her liquor. She reminisces about other bars, where guys had tried to get her drunk, but laughs that they all ended up under the table. Rory challenges her. Meanwhile, Professor Stein is winning at a card table, surprising Len. Martin tells him that he had watched his father, a degenerate gambler, and had picked up a few things, but then chose a different path. He tells Len that “like father, like son” is not inevitable. Meanwhile, a sore loser takes his anger at losing out on one of the saloon girls. Martin objects, the loser draws, and Snart shoots him. A man at a different table stands up, causing the patrons to scatter. Stein tries to defuse the situation, but is interrupted by Snart. “Your friend drew first, got put down, it was a clean shot.” To which some smart ass asks “Do we look like we care about clean?” Too funny! And it’s on like Donkey Kong! Rory doesn’t get to participate as he is asleep face down at the bar. Sara wins!! Lol.
A shadowy figure in the corner decides playtime is over and fires into the air. He introduces himself as Jonah Hex (Johnathon Schaech). Hex tells them they stick out like a sore thumb, so why don’t they tell him where they are really from, or rather WHEN they are from. The shock on the teams’ faces is priceless, as they realize that they are not the first time travelers he has run across. And there is more shock when Jonah wants to know where Rip is.
The team brings Hex to the ship, making Rip wonder what it is about them that they need to pick up strays everywhen they go. Then he realizes who it is. Hex compliments Rip on the look of the coat he had given Rip last time they met.
He tells Rip that he got the team out of trouble when one of them shot a member of the Stillwater Gang, which has been terrorizing Salvation for the last 3 months. He thinks this will bring a whole lot of hell on the town. Ray doesn’t aim to let that happen. Rip says they’ve already done too much, and they have probably already alerted the Hunters. Ray argues that they signed on to be heroes.
Kendra wants to find the woman who prompted the memory flash, and so Sara goes with her. They have some much needed girl time on the way. Kendra is being drawn to the woman’s home, but is not sure why.
At the Sheriff’s office, the sheriff is hastily packing to get out of Salvation. As he leaves, he makes Ray the new sheriff.
Stein has gone back to the saloon to buy information on the Stillwater Gang’s location. While he is waiting for a map, he sees a woman crying and asks why she is drinking alone. She tells him it is tonic water that she has bought for her dying son, Bertie (Glen Gordon). He has consumption, and they came west in the hope that the change would help him, but the local doctor says that he has a day at most. Martin goes with her to see the boy.
The Stillwater Gang rides into town and starts shooting it up. They rein up in front of Ray, who is standing in the middle of the street. He introduces himself as the new Sheriff, John Wayne. Jeb Stillwater (Brent Stait), leader of the gang, explains the arrangement they have with the town. Ray says the arrangement is over, so Stillwater draws. Snart is on a balcony with a rifle, and shoots the revolver out of Stillwaters’ hand. Ray tells him he has sharpshooters posted all around, and they had best get out of town, or the next one will go in his eye. The gang leaves, and the townsfolk cheer.
Back at the ship, Jax celebrates Ray’s badass actions. Hex notes that they keep poking at the hornet nest. He asks if they have thought about what happens when they leave and warns that Salvation will end up like Calvert, with a glance at Rip that speaks volumes. Rory wants to know about Calvert, Rip says it’s a closed matter, and takes Hex aside for a word. The team has Gideon show them Calvert, a town that was decimated in 1868.
Martin can’t stand the thought that a child is dying when he could so very easily be saved. He has Gideon manufacture streptomycin, which is 70 years in the future away from being invented. Rip points out that he is mucking with the time stream again, but Martin argues that Ray is doing the same. Rip agrees that he is, but that he is doing so with 19th century technology. Martin argues that Rip hasn’t a leg to stand on because of Calvert.
Rip explains that he had been on a mission for the time-masters and when the mission was done, had become so attached to the era that he had begun to suffer from time-drift. He had to tear himself away. Calvert had been terrorized by the Turnbull Gang, led by Quentin Turnbull, and Rip and Hex had done what Ray was doing with Salvation. The day after Rip left, Calvert was destroyed by the gang. Stein refuses to back down from helping Bertie, because he won’t live with the regret that he sees on Rip’s face. Hex has found where the gang is hiding, thanks to the information Martin bought. The team saddles up to go arrest Stillwater, but Rip still refuses to go.
Kendra and Sara find the mystery woman’s cabin. Kendra realizes that the woman is an earlier incarnation of herself. She advises Kendra against ever trying to love anyone except Carter, who was Hannibal Hawkes in this life. After Savage killed Hannibal, any other love she had never ended well. While they are looking at a sketch of the earlier Kendra and Hannibal, Kendra notices a bracelet in the sketch that she remembers, and asks about it. The bracelet was present in her first life, but is lost, having been taken by bandits. Kendra remembers that things present in her first life can be used to kill Savage.
Martin has given Bertie the medicine, and he is rapidly healing. Stein makes his mother, Sarah Neal (Anna Galvin), promise to burn all of the leftover medicine and the vials when Bertie is better.
At the gang’s campsite, bullets are flying everywhere but Ray arrests Stillwater (and Mirandizes him, lol). The gang regroups and captures Jax. However, the team is out of ammo so they beat a hasty retreat, leaving Jax behind but with the intent to use Stillwater as leverage.
Hex suggests a quick draw at high noon. If Ray wins, they get Jax back, but if he loses, they must release Stillwater, and Ray will be dead. Rory approves of the plan, since he still enjoys as much havoc as possible. Hex suggests using future tech to cheat, but Rip will not allow it. Hex wants to know if Rip would have stayed if he had known what would happen to Calvert, and then punches Rip when he finds out Rip did know. Rip explains that the reason he had to tear himself away was because the era presented too many opportunities to be a hero, he needed to get back to his soon to be wife before he forgot all about her, and if he had stayed he would no longer have been a time-master. But since he no longer is a time-master, he will be the one to face Stillwater in the quick draw.
At high noon the gang rides into town with Jax. Snart marches Stillwater out into the street, and gives him a revolver. Rip and Stillwater draw, and Rip wins. The gang releases Jax and rides off, just as the Hunters appear.
Rip did bring two new tech revolvers from the ship, the sneak! He gives Hex one. Ray puts his suit on, Martin and Jax merge, Kendra hawks out and the fight is on. Rory fistfights with one of the Hunters who calls him a traitor. Rory says not possible, as he was never on their side, he was always on his own side. Before Rory stabs him with his own knife, the Hunter tells Rory that the Omega Protocol has been initiated and the Pilgrim is on the way. When the Hunters have all been put down, Hex and Rip talk. Hex has to leave, but would be okay with meeting them again. Martin says goodbye to Bertie Neal, but Bertie corrects him. His last name is his father’s – his mother adds that his full name is Herbert George Wells. How about them apples?
Back at the ship, Kendra insists that she has told Ray everything, and that the rest is not important since it was just what the woman thought. I am not convinced she told Ray the woman was an earlier incarnation.
So what is the Omega Protocol and the Pilgrim? Rory and Rip tell the team that she is the time masters’ deadliest assassin. Snart thinks they can handle her and Rip agrees, but says this is why the Pilgrim will go after their younger selves.
The last scene in this week’s episode is of a young boy, sitting in a field watching a house burn. Although we don’t know for sure, it is probably Rory, given his penchant for fire. The boy doesn’t know there is a mysterious and menacing woman stood behind him, with her weapon trained on him. Fade to black as we hear a shot.
My Favorite Moments:
I didn’t see the Jonah Hex movie, so I can’t compare Johnathon Schaech’s performance to Josh Brolin’s, but I can say that this Jonah Hex is IMHO, perfect casting.. I am looking forward to future guest appearances. It seems to me that he could even become an addition to the team.
Rory!!! OMG!!! The man has definitely been changed by his time in the Vanishing Point, and it is a good change! Although it seems like he is still on no side but his own, he will be an asset for as long as their interests coincide. I have hopes that he will eventually become a whole-hearted member of the team.
Sara actually smiles!!!
Ray is a tall glass of water, togged up in Old West gear, and Len looks damn good too. Hey, a little eye candy never hurts!!
Discovering that Rip’s son Jonas is actually named after Jonah Hex.
Episode 10 ‘Progeny; examines the question “If you could go back in time and kill Hitler before he rose to power, should you?’
In the WaveRider our heroes are faced with a similar dilemma in the year 2147, in the Conglomerate of Kasnia. Their despot is young Per Degaton played by Cory Gruter-Andrew, who will in 5 years release the Armageddon Virus which provides the springboard Vandal Savage needs to achieve world domination. Once he has released the virus, Savage will kill him.
The episode opens with Rip apologizing to Mick for enlisting him under false pretenses and in denial of Mick’s true nature. He confesses that he was the one that asked Leonard to deal with him, and that Mick’s quarrel should be with him, not Len. Mick tells Rip he wants to kill them both. Rip feels that he has failed Mick. He mentions that they need Mick’s help, but what form that help will take is never really explained.
On the bridge, Rip explains that the only way to stop Savage in this time is to make Per Degaton useless to Savage. Snart catches on very quickly that Rip is talking about killing a child, and offers to do it. The rest of the team are aghast at the thought. Stein is especially eloquent, presenting the argument that if they do this, it makes them no better than Savage. They decide that perhaps taking Per Degaton from the timeline will be enough to disrupt Savage’s plans. Ray notes that they have gone from killing to kidnapping, and dryly comments that this is progress. Kendra must stay with the ship, as her presence could alert Savage that the team is about to interfere with his plans. The rest of the team leave the ship to scout the Conglomerate HQ. Ray is shocked to see that the Atom suit technology has been adapted to autonomous robots that are being used as the peacekeepers of the police state, and not in a good way. He needs to sabotage the robots, not wanting to be the Werner Von Braun of Robotics.
The team is split up into Team Kidnapping and Team Robot Sabotage. Team Kidnapping consists of Rip, Sara and Len; Team Robot Sabotage is made up of Ray, Stein and Jax.
The conglomerate tracks and monitors all of its citizens through bio metrics. Rip wears a pair of contacts that allows him to enter a shareholders only meeting at the Conglomerate headquarters. While in the meeting, he discovers that Savage is a shareholder who espouses culling the population outside of the Conglomerate’s borders. Tor Degaton, (Matthew Harrison), Per Degaton’s father and the CEO of the conglomerate flatly refuses to consider this plan.
Rip covertly follows Savage and discovers that Savage is also Per Degaton’s tutor. He overhears Savage telling Per Degaton that his father refuses to make the hard decisions. Per Degaton has the idea, actively fostered by Savage, that his father is weak. Team Kidnapping decides where and how to kidnap Per. When the child leaves HQ to go to his gymnastics lesson accompanied by a squad of very Nazi looking bodyguards, Sara snipes the rear guard, which gives Rip the opportunity to disguise himself and join the squad. Len hits the rest of the squad with his cold gun, and Rip grabs the child. Surprisingly enough, the gunplay does not attract the attention of the peacekeeper robots.
Meanwhile Ray, Stein and Jax have met with Dr. Bryce, the head of the Robotics Department at Conglomerate HQ. Dr. Bryce is played by Jewel Staite, the Canadian born actress (woot, woot!) whose previous works include The Killing, Firefly, Serenity, Supernatural and Warehouse 13. Dr. Bryce is giving them a tour of the department when they round a corner and Ray discovers to his shock that her many greats grandfather, is not only the father of the autonomous robots, but is also a dead ringer for him. Which leads him to the conclusion that he had a child that he didn’t know about when he left 2016. They return to the ship, not having accomplished any sabotage. Kendra senses that there is something wrong, but Ray is not ready to tell her about his descendants.
Kendra, having nothing else to do except stay on the ship, has been having flashbacks of her life with Carter and their son Aldus. Specifically of an instance where they are having to move again because she has sensed that Savage was close. These flashbacks serve to remind her that Carter is the only great love she has ever known, and make her feel that she is cheating on Carter with Ray. She struggles with the question of whether to share these memories with Ray. It occurred to me that this might be an opportune time for Carter to reappear and rejoin the team.
Per is sedated in the med bay. Sara is watching him, and wonders out loud what genocidal maniacs would dream about. Gideon tells her. Sara is surprised and chagrined to discover that Gideon can monitor their dreams. Rip asks Gideon if the kidnapping has had the desired effect on the future. Unfortunately not as Savage will still rise to power. Rip reconsiders Plan A. Stein questions Rip as to whether he thought he would be able to look his son in the eyes if he carries out Plan A. Jax suggests that just talking to Per might do the trick.
A troubled Sara goes to the brig to talk to Mick. She tells him that they are considering killing a child to save the future. She tells Mick that Len doesn’t think he can change, but she hopes that he can. Mick observes that Len doesn’t really care one way or the other about him. Sara tells him about the conversation she and Len had when they were trapped in the engine room and thought they were about to die. She says that she thought he ought to know that Len is loyal to him. As she leaves the brig, Mick tells her that killing a kid is not very heroic.
At the Conglomerate HQ, Tor Degaton is going over the video footage of the kidnapping. He remarks that for the past 50 years, everyone from the conglomerate has submitted bio samples so that they can be tracked and monitored, but that the three people who kidnapped him cannot be. Savage tells him that this is because they are not from the conglomerate, or even from the last 50 years. He knows that they will not kill Per Degaton because he knows them, and so he can get Per Degaton back.
Rip leaves the WaveRider in the jumpship, taking Per Degaton with him. He turns the jumpship’s transponder off so that the team will be unable to stop him from doing what he feels he must do.
Kendra finally tells Ray about the flashbacks she has been having. She says they are more than memories, they are feelings. She feels like she is cheating on Carter. Ray proves once more that he is her future with his understanding and that adorable puppy dog face. Ray tells Kendra it was his many times great granddaughter who created the robot army, which means that he had a child that he did not know about.
Sara advises Len that it is obvious to her that marooning Mick is weighing heavily on his mind, and that he should stop being an ass and go deal with it.
Rip and Per Degaton have landed at the river. Rip tells Per that his son never got the chance to learn to swim, because he was killed by Savage. Per Degaton asks Rip if he is going to kill him. Rip says he is not killing him but saving his son. Semantics! But Per Degaton has been an apt pupil. Savage has taught him what killers look like. He believes that Rip is weak like Tor Degaton, and is not a killer. Rip tells him that Savage will ultimately betray him. Per will not believe this. Rip goes on to say that his reticence to kill is not weakness, it is goodness. Since he has found that there are things he will not do to save his son, there is yet hope of a shred of goodness in Per Degaton. He urges Per to become the man that his father wants him to be, not the man Savage wants him to be.
Kendra senses Savages’ presence outside the ship, just as the ship comes under fire. Our heroes suit up and engage the enemy. Ray unsuccessfully tries to draw the robots away. Firestorm takes the robots on while Ray and Kendra head for the command centre at HQ. Dr. Bryce catches them in the act of trying to override the robots. Ray tells her that he is her grandfather. She is understandably surprised to find Sidney Palmer in her command centre. Ray realizes that it was his “stupid” brother who allowed the tech to be perverted, and that he is not a father after all. Kendra encourages Dr. Bryce to listen to her Palmer blood and do what is right. She shuts the robots down.
At the fight scene, Savage has Sara at knifepoint. HUH? Okay then. Rip proposes an exchange; Per Degaton for Sara and the safety of his team. Per tells his father not to do it, but Tor Degaton pulls the knife away from Sara’s neck and agrees.
Len goes to the brig and tells Mick that people think they should have a heart to heart. Mick points out that they don’t have hearts so where does that leave them? Len says that they each have reasons for killing the other, so the deal is he will open the cell, they will fight to the death and if Mick wins he can take the jumpship and go. If he loses, he dies, which Mick decides is ultimately better than being locked up. They have a bare knuckle fight in the cell which Mick handily wins, but cannot bring himself to finish Len off.
Savage tells Per Degaton the myth of Oedipus Rex, and gives Per his knife. Per Degaton, now convinced that his father is weak beyond redemption, kills Tor Degaton in his sleep.
Gideon breaks the news to the team that nothing has been accomplished by this venture. In fact, the virus that was to be released in 5 years will now be released within days. At an emergency shareholder’s meeting, Savage announces that he will be acting as Per Degaton’s proxy, and that population control will proceed.
Rip meanwhile is wondering if he did the right thing? Gideon assures him that not killing is generally considered the right thing.
Mick tells the team that nothing matters now anyway. The truth is that they are all dead, himself included. He failed to bring them in, so now the Time-Masters have sent mercenaries after them. They have even less humanity than Mick and they will not stop until the team has been wiped entirely from the face of history.
My Favorite Moments:
Professor Steins eloquent speech against killing Per Degaton. Some days the man could sell ice to the Inuit!
Sara’s discomfiture at being told what her dream last night was about. Naughty girl!
The fist fight between Mick and Len. A good brawl always clears the air.
Ray understands Kendra’s position, but he will not give up them, even though the math is against him. And that whipped puppy face! Have I mentioned that I would just like to squeeze it?
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?
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
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!
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!
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