The Legends Of Tomorrow skip some good stuff en route to a shocking reveal
If only we'd spent more time in Constantine's house, or with Amelia Earhart, or with Mick and Kayla, or in the sewers with Gary (maybe not that last one)
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Sometimes a great show stumbles, and it’s infuriating, or dispiriting, or both. (The North remembers.) This is not one of those times, though it’s not because “Bishop’s Gambit” is a stumble-free zone. It’s because of the final five minutes. If you choose to follow Behrad’s advice and live in the now, those last few beats might well wash the preceding missteps right out of your head, and if that’s the case for you, I get it. If I weren’t reviewing the show, I’d probably be in that camp, too. And it’s not as though the acts that precede the last are without highlights. Still, the stumbles here, some linked to issues carried over from weeks previous, are worth addressing.
But screw it, let’s start with the good stuff, and that ending in particular. It’s the one point at which most of the disparate threads in this episode come together. (John and Astra are basically just setting up future story stuff, so we’ll get to them another day.) First, Kayla tells Mick that stupid humans were always going to bring about their own destruction, and then asks him why he doesn’t defend humanity. He said he agrees, humans suck, but Sara’s different, and that’s why they have to find her. (There’s also some chat about fear and intelligence to go along with all the other chats about strength and fear and weakness and the past and the future. It’s one of those episodes.) Then Spooner, terrified she’s turning into an Amelia Alienhart, confronts the alien formerly known as Amelia herself for more weakness chat and the revelation that she killed Sara Lance. Ava is devastated, but we’re not, because we know Sara is alive and well and currently dragging Bishop’s recumbent form all over his swinging space station! Right?
Wrong. Well, sort of. Legends has always been very deliberate when addressing what makes us who we are. Take George Lucas out of the world and Ray and Nate change because they were never inspired by Indiana Jones and Star Wars. Rewrite Zari’s past and she becomes another version of herself—still intelligent, emotionally guarded, and funny, but with a completely different set of lived experiences which push her in entirely new directions. When Sara successfully wields the death totem, it’s because she accepts the dark chapters of her past as part of what makes her who she is, without defining who she is or limiting who she can become. And there’s of course Ava, whose struggles with self-acceptance and finding a place to belong were a focus for the character even before the C-word revelation.
So what does it mean when the Sara Lance with whom we spent the hour looks down at the corpse* of the Sara Lance with whom we started the season? No idea. But having spent a lot of time with this show, I can tell you this for free: It doesn’t mean that the current version is a “fake” Sara Lance and that the one on the table is “real.” It will, inevitably, be more complicated than that.
It’s a terrific final act, particularly on Planet Butthole; the physical comedy and Raffi Barsoumian’s deranged performance blends with the steely determination Caity Lotz always gives Sara Lance to create an element of satisfyingly weird and tense tonal dissonance, and the one-two punch of Ava learning Sara is “dead” with Sara learning Sara is “dead” is a hell of a kicker. (It’s made even better if you immediately watch the preview for next week, so here you go.)
Maybe I am in the ‘live-in-the-now’ boat after all, because that’s some ~600 words on the ending and only a few on the hiccups. Still, let’s dig into those, too, because at least one has bigger implications.
The first issue is a simple one, and it’s one I’m inclined to hand-wave away, since it’s a Covid season: “Bishop’s Gambit” is somehow both overstuffed and disappointingly thin in spots. Splitting the cast into smaller groups has always been the Legends m.o., but usually, they come together (like the chest-bump at Woodstock). With an episode like this one, which builds to a big revelation while setting up important future arcs, the coming together to chest-bump piece is important. Credited writers James Eagan and Emily Cheever do an admirable job of braiding all the individual strands together, and the pace is terrific—it just never stops! But because the gang is so divided, the ties that bind them—the chest-bumps, the thematic links, etc—become all the more important. It’s easy to see the attempts to reinforce those bonds, but there are only so many minutes and there’s a lot of ground to cover.
That’s the bigger problem—the number of storylines makes it all but impossible to settle into any of them. Sara and Spooner fare best, Sara because she’s largely on her own and we know her so well, and Spooner because we’re still learning about her and because the threat is so immediate. (It’s also the story most directly tied to Sara, so.) But Mick and Kayla basically just show up, get taken prisoner and/or get killed by the pink planet’s toxically pink atmosphere, and then do the old Titanic hand on the window gag with a tentacle. The last part is great, but the rest is just kind of… there. Mick flew across a galaxy with a hot alien and she drank him under the table and we saw none of it? They’ve developed a camaraderie how exactly? Of course Mick hooks up with Kayla. That’s just destiny. But it feels like the show skipped to the thing we all knew was going to happen, and in doing so makes it much less satisfying. (See also: The Legends have to camp out at John’s.)
Then there’s the last thing, which I’m going to mostly withhold judgment on until we see how the next few episodes play out. For now: Is it just me, or is Legends going darker than it seems to acknowledge? I know this episode ends with Sara’s dead body, so that’s pretty dark and very acknowledged—but don’t they also drug, torture, and ultimately murder Amelia Earhart?
* – I’m assuming for the moment that it really is her body, but Bishop did seem to be convinced to let Sara out of her cuffs a little too easily, so maybe the body is a startlingly realistic prop and her finding it was all a part of his plan.
Stray observations
- “Why?” “It’s heavy.”
- Does Nate use his extremely helpful superpower in this episode? He does not, but in Nate’s defense, he was busy wrecking John’s guitar.
- Episode MVP: I think I’m gonna have to give this one to Raffi Barsoumian, because Tom-Haverford-But-He’s-An-Evil-Tech-Bro is pretty goddamn entertaining, I must say. Appies. Appies.
- Why the fuck not?: Normally I’d say it’s that Gary radicalizes the Avas, but Amelia Earhart stole the Waverider and then they straight-up killed her when she turned into an alien.
- Line-reading of the week: “You ever seen an octopus squeeze through a hole? My body is like that!”
- Gideon, what’s the most meta moment?: They are really going for it with Gary-the-shipper, aren’t they? He’s going to have a lot of feelings about his OTP next week I suspect.
- Episode title ranking: 1. Meat: The Legends. 2. Ground Control To Sara Lance. 3. Bishop’s Gambit (lost points for lack of chess jokes, gained points because now Sara has “died” on both the Queen’s Gambit and in “Bishop’s Gambit” so that’s hilarious and awful) 4. Bay Of Squids. 5. The Satanist’s Apprentice. 6. The Ex-Factor.
- For Sara, for old time’s sake:
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*deep breaths*she’s not any deader than she was the first dozen times, she’s not any deader than she was the first dozen times…
Now her and Ava are even more compatible.
depends how the dead/clone stuff gets resolved/what Sara remembers. I keep thinking of Sara’s incredulous response to the clone that tried to trick her: “you think I don’t know my own Ava?” because it would be hard to go from that to arguing replacement-body Sara is the same. of course whatever Bishop did to preserve original-Sara’s mind must be different than whatever they do with the Ava clones.
Technically, the original Ava, Nate, Mick, and all the other non-Sara Legends from Earth-1? They all died during Crisis on Infinite Earths and got replaced by doppelgangers when the Paragons created Earth-Prime.So, really, Sara’s just in the same boat as the rest of the team, now.
sometimes I can’t think too hard about Crisis and its implications about who its characters really are- I never even liked Papa Lance but turning him into a daughter-murdering Nazi was extreme! and Supergirl/Overgirl is similarly nuts.
No love for Ava channeling Gideon into a CRT TV and Gideon basically being Max Headroom for the duration of the episode?
Starred because I was looking for that comment.
The dial up internet sound left her with ptsd like so many of us had to use it.
Oh I loved it but when I go over 1,200 words I start to feel a little nuts. Gotta cut something and Gideon didn’t ask to dissect anybody this week.
It seemed a little derivative of Agents of SHIELD’s final season, but I’m not mad about it.
Funny you should bring that up. ScreenRant just did an entire article about how AoS and LoT have been having a little fun back and forth. Looks like they missed this one.
I thought they were firing on all cylinders tonight. I did want more Rory and Kayla, but I think that was due to an expectation game where due to reading various synopsis(es?) it seemed like this ep was going to be Mick & Kayla focused … instead it was a team effort. The running gag of Gary being called out for eating “D-Squad” is funnier than the actual event. The guilty look on his face when the subject comes up is classic Gary.I’m holding out hope the Legends can still ”cure” Amelia Earhart. Like she’s alive in there somewhere. They saved Helen of Troy, after all. I mean, ok, if they killed her – that’s hardcore – I’ll get over it. But AE is one of those tragic real historic figures that deserves a better fictional ending – like Helen of Troy … and Sharon Tate.
Yeah, I actually thought this was a big improvement over the last two weeks. Partly because they didn’t wear the jokes too thin by dwelling on them. Also of course because there was genuine drama, with genuine stakes…
In Gary’s defense, “D-Squad” was delicious.
A “D” for delicious.
I didn’t feel that the Legends “killed” Amelia, since in the world of the show she was already considered dead when she disappeared decades ago. It’s like bringing someone back to life and then killing them – it’s still killing them, but before you brought them back you considered them “already dead”.
– Yea, I’ll believe Sara is dead-dead when the season ends and there isn’t some weird deus ex machina where they either go back in time and prevent Sara from dying or Clone!Sara somehow merges with Proper!Sara and revives her body.- While I can understand wanting more Mick/Kayla, I think we got enough without them being the focus of the episode.
– The other Legends trashing Constatine’s mansion, however, we got FAR too little of.- So, how exactly did the Legends travel to the 50’s to get Amelia Earhart without the Waverider? Aren’t they currently in 2020/2021?- Did they not re-install Gideon on the Waverider? She was noticeably silent during the second half.
– At least they addressed why the Totems still have their power after last week, though they don’t address why none of them notice that the totems still have power.- Batwoman corner: An overall fine episode, though I feel like the Luke subplot really needed to be an A-Plot and it kinda peters out halfway through. Was nice to see Diggle again, though, albeit a little annoyed that he didn’t go to the Batcave, since he obviously knows all about the Bat-gang. Wallis Day is actually looking and sounding a lot closer to Ruby Rose than I thought she would. Alice has actually gotten tolerable these past few episodes. I kinda had to laugh at Jacob having a DNA reader ready and able to go despite the Crows not being a thing anymore.
So, how exactly did the Legends travel to the 50’s to get Amelia Earhart without the Waverider? Aren’t they currently in 2020/2021?They still have the time courier wrist devices.
Batwoman corner: My eyes rolled so far back into my head when Safiyah appeared. I hope this is the last *last* we have to deal with her and her fancy warrior island.Peter Outerbridge is really great at Black Mask though. I like the idea of pitting Batwoman against traditionally hammy Batman villains.“Tough call. It’s a good zit cream.”
I’m really looking forward to how they reconcile Kate Kane. If she stays on, I hope they don’t sideline Ryan to do it. Javicia Leslie has been doing a bang-up job and everyone else has been stellar. Kinda wish they wouldn’t make Luke Batwing, but whatever. I know he takes the role in the comics.Also? If Wallis Day does retake the mantle and this site goes back to full coverage, I’m gonna be pissed.
Kate Kane’s brain is too fried to get back in the bat-suit any time soon. Maybe in a season cliffhanger. It’ll happen, I suppose, at some point – my guess would be in an arc leading into the series’ finale.
I laughed out loud at the zit cream line. Amazing.
Yeah, Safiyah can go away now. Ocean killed again?I wish they had kept Enigma/Riddler’s daughter around more. Her whole thing was more compelling than Safiyah. Plus… Riddler’s daughter?! Whose her mom? Who hooked up with Riddler? Questions (?) Need Answering.
“At least they addressed why the Totems still have their power after last week, though they don’t address why none of them notice that the totems still have power.”I got the sense that the song only actually affected John, which is why Astra can do magic and had to help him with the flaming finger thing. That still doesn’t explain why Crowley wasn’t freed from the painting, though, since that was John’s magic.
I feel like if Wallis Day had just played Kate in season 2, episode 1 and the show continued as normal I probably would’ve just accepted it? It’s hard to judge now that we’re a year out from actually seeing Rose play the character.
I’m a little concerned about Diggle. They played the whole neurologist visit up a little too much for there not to be some follow up.
Most Legends episodes have a defined mission but this episode was a lot of shuffling to put everyone into position for (what typically would be) the big mid-season climax next week. And why? There’s no winter break, no big crossover this year that you have to reset the status quo for by a certain date. We check in with Sara, Mick, Spooner, Astra, Gary, etc. in turn and there’s some good stuff but it’s rushed. The stuff with Spooner in the lab was genuinely creepy and probably my favourite sequence up until the reveal.I don’t see why Sara can’t remain a clone as nothing really changes, and it might open some dramatic opportunities for Ava to help her process the reveal. It just feels dirty that after cheating death twice and surviving a multiversal crisis Sara is done in on some backwater alien planet.Still can’t take Bishop seriously, though I appreciate this is the first time in years the show has tried to develop the Big Bad. Incidentally Sara’s “You could’ve used your genius for good” line felt so Adam West and I can’t believe it was written and delivered un-ironically.
You could’ve used your genius for good
Does Nate use his extremely helpful superpower in this episode? He does not, but in Nate’s defense, he was busy wrecking John’s guitar.How do you think he wrecked John’s guitar, hmmmm?But, more seriously, this bit? “Bishop’s Gambit” is somehow both overstuffed and disappointingly thin in spots.100% true. Also a thing that I feel like I’ve started to see more and more of this last year. Might be COVID, might be something else, but I keep seeing these episodes where I’m going “…yeah, this was originally written to be 2+ entirely separate episodes, wasn’t it?”It’s overstuffed because it hits major plot moments at very rapid paces, but is thin because it clearly doesn’t have enough time to marinate in those moments and really let them sink in.This episode? The main Legends plot could be cut in two fairly easily: Episode 1 being them getting Amelia from the Sanitarium, having an adventure in doing so, getting the info from her and finding the Waverider, and Episode 2 would be the stuff on the Waverider, with more focus on Spooner dealing with her weird alien-ness.Not sure how to split the Sara and Rory plots, but that might be part of what caused this: The two longest running actors, who probably have appearance clauses in their contracts, aren’t easy to have be missing from episodes, so they couldn’t drop Rory and Sara from a second straight episode, and it was easier to squish these two together than any other options.Just a theory, anyway. It definitely had the feel of a show that had too much plot for its runtime, and its always disappointing when you see that…
I liked the episode but Bishop isn’t doing it for me villain wise. The actor is good and works well off with Caity but as a villain I feel he needs a villain moment like personally killing someone or a clone or more backstory. I am just not feeling him.
The constant singing is a bit much. But the actor is having fun and he is very cute, so good for Tala Ashe, I guess.
Not even the way he bounces into rooms and is constantly gyrating even when still.
I do not love Bishop, but I do love Sara beating the absolute hell out of him, and then dragging him around like a sack of potatoes
Clone was a pretty easy guess, Bishop.Love Zari’s yellow eyeshadow.Snart was the planner of the two.Astra’s nail polish is fetch.Spooner doesn’t toke, Behrad doesn’t drink.Zari is wearing Keds. John must be rubbing off on her. (Take that as you will.)Come on, Sara. It’s a setup. (Apparently it wasn’t.)MICK AND KAYLA ARE SPOONER’S PARENTS!Continuing to lean into the Zari and Ava friendship.Shake it off, Sara. It’s just one more death that you’ll leave in the rear-view mirror.
ZARI’S YELLOW EYESHADOW
I’m glad I’m not the only one very onto that eyeshadow.
MICK AND KAYLA ARE SPOONER’S PARENTS!That seems too out there to be true. So, it’ll probably be true.
If true, I can’t wait for Lita to find out and her inevitable team-up with Spooner.
Shades of Galaxy Quest in Mick and Kayla’s hook-up too.
… that’s not right
It’s actually Titanic. What with the tentacle on the fogged up window, just like Rose’s arm.
Zari and Ava continue to be one of the show’s absolute best pairings, maybe my favorite right now, even over Ava and Mick
Crap, I think you just made fetch happen.
I didn’t know what shoes Zari wore, but they definitely weren’t her style. Behrad and Spooner are definitely pairing off.
I mean Sara’s died before and most of her scars are more metaphorical and mental than physical anyway. She’s not going to be thrown off by having a fresh new body – at least not for long.
Didn’t Bishop just refer to her as the unkillable woman last episode?
Here’s something that I’ve needed to say for a while.
Ava isn’t a clone. She’s not a copy of an “original”. She’s a made from scratch person, so she’s actually a manufactured being. Know who else is a manufactured being? Kara Zor-El. The way that Kryptonians are created, which we see in Man of Steel, means that Kara is simply a more sophisticated form of Ava.
The new Sara? Now she’s a clone.
Nah, the first Ava was manufactured. The rest are clones of that Ava.
No, they’re all created from the same template, not copies of the first Ava.
Since when? Advanced Variant Automation said they are genetically-engineered clones. They’re all clones from the first Ava, not created from the same template. Our Ava is from generation twelve.
Either way…Doc bot Ava had the cutest/saddest cry face when Bishop was being a prick and showing how much he does not care about the Ava’s.
Soooo…Kayla is Spooner’s mom and Mick just made a(nother) Time Baby that’s going to be Spooner, right?
Welcome to the party.
I don’t know, that feel’s awfully redundant given the Mick plot was just last year (which itself was a retread of the Stein plot). Plus Spooner’s alien tendencies seem to lean closer to the Amelia Earhart alien than the Kayla/Gary species.
I thought Gary and Kayla…But then Mick struck.
The moment he revealed his own clone last episode I guessed she would also be a clone. Because that is how most clone stories goes. Especially if you wake up in a bed. …And in the finale she is gonna need to fight hordes of herself brainwashed to trust clone guy.
it’s been a worrying possibility since Bishop revealed Sara had led him back to the DNA samples: what motivation did he have to keep Original Sara alive from then on?maybe it’ll be hordes of self-actualized Avas against hordes of brainwashed Saras lol
There should be at least one Sara vs. Sara a season.
It’s Covid-protocol friendly, I’ll give it that!
I’m shocked to read that some people thought this outing had stumbles. Well, enough stumbles to warrant pointing out. For me this was the best episode yet this season. -I think Legends has been secretly super dark for a while now, we just ignore it because funny. I mean, just last season Ray blew Rasputin up from the inside, Damien Dhark essentially completed s*icide on screen, and Atropos caused an apocalyptic level event in England. Them killing Amelia Earhart in self defense was low level. -Speaking of, I LOVED the scene beginning with Astra reading Amelia’s memories and culminating in Spooner roaring back at Alien!Amelia. Really nice atmosphere even if it didn’t make 100% sense as to why the lights were off. -It seems like on other platforms people are really pissed about Sara’s newest death? I don’t get it. We haven’t had the “original” Sara since she died the first time and this one clearly has all of her experiences so who cares if the body is 30+ years old or 30+ hours old.
Re: Legends being dark:Remember their first attempt at using the totems to create a champion? They made a horrifying thing-that-should-not-be, and Mick had to put it out of its misery.
Yes, exactly – but at those times the darkness was acknowledged. Some of it is here, but some of it isn’t.
I enjoyed this episode, but I’m just going to toss some nitpicks into the Greys.So as far as I can recall, Astra was also present when magic got expunged. So shouldn’t she and Constantine both be starting out at the bottom level? With his memories, he should be starting out at least as well as Astra with some beginner spells. And the clone idea has always bothered me. Unless you really believe in the spiritual and souls, a clone is just another human being. How they were born, whether their cells or memories happen to resemble someone else’s, are all incidental. They’re a separate, new being; like a twin. So this Sarah is as good as the original and can continue living her life, and might as well be the original to everyone else. But nothing changes the fact that the other Sarah got stung, died, and then never opened her eyes again. She didn’t magically hop over to the new body and wake back up; her thread ended (this time). That’s a point they got correct in the Invincible cartoon. It’s more like birthing another version of yourself; your Will continues on.
That’s the secret John’s keeping…he CAN’T use magic anymore. The song was written for him, so I have to assume that’s the reason his is “permanent” unlike Astra.
I hadn’t considered that. So the spell was specifically for his body? That makes sense.
I was just thinking last week about how I miss you picking Crazy Ex-Girlfriend songs to go with Legends of Tomorrow episodes! Thank you! I really needed that small joy today
I couldn’t resist
The standout moment of this episode for me was Mick’s speech about how yes, humans suck and deserve to go extinct, but Sara’s different and she can fix it and that’s why we have to find her. He got to the heart of the show in 2-3 sentences.Calling it now though that next week’s episode is going to be a top-5 Legends all-timer.
Given recent comic storylines like Spider-Man’s “Clone Conspiracy” and the “resurrection protocols” at the heart of the current X-Men line, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about whether a clone of a dead super-person should be considered the same person if they have all the right memories and whatnot (these stories seem to indicate that Marvel’s position, at least right now, is a firm “yes,” though my personal inclination is the opposite), so this Sara revelation is interesting to me for that reason. Probably just me, though. (Not that other people aren’t interested for their own reasons.)
After the first scene, I was worried that they were going all-in on the whole “Behrad is just a cartoon hippie now” portrayal from “Bay of Squids,” but he was definitely more on-point for the rest of the episode.
Also, I totally missed that Spooner was speaking the alien’s language the first time she did it; I thought she was just trying to freak it out by hissing and shrieking back at it because, y’know, Spooner. Crazy.
Cloning resurrections are a bit of both, especially in the X-Men’s current circumstances. There is never two copies of the same person at the same time so the uniqueness aspect of it makes it feel like they are “the same” person. In any sense of the person as an entity, they certainly are the same person. They act the same, have the same genes, and even have the same mind (something commonly overlooked in older cloning stories).Are they different people from a technical perspective though? Absolutely. They are all new matter, new bodies, and new minds in the sense that they are fresh imprints. There’s also the fact that modifications can and are made to the bodies and that technically speaking the process can be done without the original being dead or without placing a current copy of their mind in the body either.So, under their dictated process, there’s enough continuity of consciousness with no overlap that they are effectively the same person, but there’s certainly wiggle room around the outside of those processes that could allow you to make the case they are not the same person.
Re: Spooner – same. I thought she was just lashing out. That was a cool reveal.
“Resurrection” via cloning gets extra complicated when you live in a universe where souls are proven to be real and tangible; Astra keeps a bunch in her purse, for crying out loud. So asking whether this Sara counts as the same person as the Sara who died … a lot depends on if they can take a trip to Purgatory or wherever and chat with the spirit of original Sara.
“Resurrection” via cloning gets extra complicated when you live in a universe where souls are proven to be real and tangible Very much agree with this. I am weirdly obsessive over the idea that, in universes where both super-science and magic exist, the creators should go out of their way to differentiate the former from just a technobabble-heavy version of the latter, so I’d love to see if the show actually has any plans on actually dealing with this question. Because honestly, just hand-waving it the way Bishop does with his own “immortality” seems very out-of-tune with the way the show has handled Sara’s relationship with her own death up to now.
That’s a good point, but I think it actually makes things way less complicated. In our world, where souls either don’t exist or lack any empirically detectable qualities, questions about the philosophy of identity remain unresolved. Indeed, the average person will often give answers that imply contradictory beliefs depending on how you phrase the hypothetical.But in the Beeboverse, if the soul is in the clone, it’s Sara. If it isn’t, it’s not, right? And it seems like John and Astra should at least know somebody who can check that sort of thing.
Rebuttal: Spider-Man’s “Clone Conspiracy” is a garbage story that destroys the character of Ben Reilly.
Well, I don’t know if I should even do a Sara Is The Best this week, because apparently it wasn’t really her. I did enjoy her dragging and flopping Bishop around like a fish, though. And I guess it’s always possible that the dead body was a clone and this is still the real Sara, but that wouldn’t explain the lack of scars. This is the problem with genre shows that go to the “fake death and revival” well too many times. We’ve already seen Sara die like four or five times now, so when they showed her body at the end, it didn’t really affect me, because I’m not expecting it to last.I’m sad we didn’t get to see an episode of Mick and Kayla having wacky adventures in space.The way Bishop kept randomly singing stuff reminded me of Jean-Ralphio, and now I can’t stop imagining a version of the show with Ben Schwartz as Bishop.I was hoping we’d get Amy Louise Pemberton’s face on the screen as TV Gideon, but maybe they’re saving her for later in the season. Fingers crossed.
Anyone catch the two alien species namedropped?
The Amelia Earhart body horror was called “Zaguron”. And the squidshifters are “Necrians”.
Great twist, but I’m skeptical it’ll actually turn out the way it’s presented. Call it a hunch, I guess? This whole season has just felt weak to me. I recently rewatched Seasons 2-5, and this one isn’t holding up. I find the villain to be boring and over-acted, and the story just isn’t doing it for me either. There are crumbs of good–all the characters except for Spooner, and the Astra/John storyline is particularly interesting (now), but I dunno. Just not the show’s best work.
I have got a feeling Sara was saved but the clone was created later using the spit from that hilarious scene a few eps back. If this Sara was a clone why is she built outside of Bishops control. Also I think the drama is going to come from Sara’s resistance/indignation to being a clone even though Ava is one. Gotta have engagement conflict.
You want engagement conflict? Just wait until Gary finds out what Kayla’s been up to with Mick.
What can Gary really do.
I tend to think Gary will be relieved.
As is often the case, Mick did not have many scenes in this episode but he made them count & every one was a highlight I loved how his utter nonchalance at Kayla’s betrayal and dismissal of human potential–smart to have a backup plan, yeah humanity is the worst–but insistence that he needed to save Sara anyway somehow won her over
Well Kayla’s betrayal was sudden but inevitable.
Kayla double crossing Mick probably made him be even more into herI love Mick
How has no one mentioned the one-shot at the beginning of the episode. I wonder how many takes it to them to get John’s entire trip around the house in one long shot. Especially as it let us know exactly how long it took Behrad to rope in the pizza delivery guy as a disciple.
Oh wow, I forgot that was one long take. Very impressive.
I had to pause and check to see if I had missed an episode. Nope, just bad writing. Pretty terrible season so far.
Perfect song pick for this ep.
I thought the title was somehow an X-Men reference, to Bishop (because time travel) and Gambit (because . . . idk).
What I want to know is how they time-travelled back to the 50s without the waverider,
They have the wrist things Time Bureau agents use.
Missed it on first watch but I absolutely loved when Bishop removed Sara’s cuffs and she feigned to strangle him.
Yeah, I thought she was going to attack him right away, so I liked how she played it smart and went for the long con. I’m assuming Bishop suspected that Sara *might* do that, so it probably put him more at ease by her pretending to do the obvious thing and playing it off as a joke
I have been on board the Arrowverse for Arrow season 1. And in Arrow I was no fan of Sarah Lance and Caity Lotz. But Legends has easily become the BEST Arrowverse show to me. (Caveat I have not watched Superman and Lois or Black Lightning) And the reason Legends is so good is this amazing cast but more importantly how amazing Caity Lotz is as Sarah Lance. She is just super amazing here and that ending was yeah . . lets just forget the hiccups and live in the now!!