Legends of Tomorrow: Recap “Legendary”

This is the first episode without the oh-so-entertaining Captain Cold. How would the show fare without his coolness. Sadly, we had to find out.

The finale started off the way so many other episodes have started—the team separated as a left over from the previous episode.

Hawkgirl and Hawkman were held captive by Savage. And a part of me was saying, “Savage, you can keep them.” This trio were jumping back in time and ended up in Nazi Germany. Nothing like seeing a shootout with the Nazis on the wrong end of a weapon.

Hawkgirl crafted her own rescue. She slipped a note into the hat that Rip had. Jump to the future—or where the ship is—and Firestorm easily find the note in the hat. The note had her location. Now, this was a bit iffy. Would the note still be in there and not have fallen out? Plus, the hat just moved to a spot on the ship where Firestorm can easily knock it over. But… it’s a leave-your-brain-at-home show, so I’ll let that slide.

This is the finale, so I came in wondering what they were going to do with Savage. I had my finger’s crossed that they weren’t going to do one of those scenes where they have him cornered and for some inexplicable reason they let him live.

And I got my wish… But before I get there…

Savage’s Plan…

To destroy the world or create his own reality/world so that he can have absolute power. So how would he manage this? Easy… set off 3 meteors at the same time. Savage went back in time to give instructions to his other past selves.

The chosen moment was when Thanagar was in some astro-line with earth. 

Rip’s plan…

Separate the group into three to take out Savage, who would become mortal and completely killable

Outcome…

Teams of Heatwave, Hawkgirl and White Canary terminate their respective Savages.

“Savage is 3 times dead” - Heatwave

One of the cool things in this episode was when Heatwave and Ray went back 1958, the time where Ray and Hawkgirl lived for two years. On the side of the road, they got to Savage and the meteor and met up with one of those pesky human-animal hybrids created back at that past episode. I smiled. I love call backs like that.

The sad: White Canary learns about her sister’s death and we get a cameo from her father. Too bad they can’t figure a way to save her. Why can’t they? Because Rip says that no matter what they do to save her, it will make things worse and her father dies too. Not sure I really buy all that, but hey, if you want some Black Canary, check out this past Flash episode.

Conclusion…

The world is still in danger. They need to move the meteor far away for Rip takes it to the sun. It feels like a one way trip and so we get this from Heatwave…

“I don’t want to lose another friend” - Heatwave

He sure has come a long way.

But happily, we don’t lose another player with Rip making it back. And the team decides to stay together keep time intact.

But before that we get a Heatwave/Captain Cold scene. Back in the past, Heatwave talks to a Captain Cold who is still alive and in unaware of time travel.

Hawkgirl & Hawkman

They leave the team. I can’t say I’m upset about it. If only they had been written better. But what of the Ray/Hawkgirl romance… it seems like he’ll get over it.

Huge Reveal for next season…

The team is about to leave when a duplicate ship comes before them and out walks….

Who the heck is that? He knows them from the future. He reveals that Heatwave told him to meet them there and warn them not to go into their ship or they would all die.

His name… Rex Tyler, a member of the Justice society.

Oh Snap! Season 2 has just been saved.

Legends of Tomorrow: Recap “Destiny”

**Spoilers**

Rip will get a major answer to a question he never thought to ask.

“Destiny” begins where last week left off. The group is split up once again. Firestorm was sent off on a ship while Captain Cold and White Canary hide out, lucky enough to not get caught.

The other members of the team find themselves prisoners of the Time Masters.

Savage takes Hawkgirl and flies off. Heatwave is taken for reconditioning to be Kronos again. And Rip is told the painful truth.

And what truth is that?

That they have been pawns of the Time Masters this entire time. That everything they have done has not been to kill Savage. On the contrary, the Time Masters have manipulated them to inadvertently help Savage.

For example: If Savage was to get arrested, the team would be sent back to kill savage and end up getting in the way of Savage getting arrested; thereby, allowing Savage to get away.

And here’s the real kicker: to motivate Rip and get this whole thing working, the Time Masters hired Savage to murder Rip’s family. Which, by the way, is where Savage is presently headed now with Hawkgirl as his prisoner.

Why?

Well, it so happens that they actual need this psychotic evil Savage to rule the world because if he doesn’t exist something worse will destroy the world.

Wow, the future sure looks bleak no matter what they do. They might as well go back to their time and get drunk.

What does this mean to the team?

That every thing they do from here on in is not of their own making. This leads to a funny scene where they are trying to figure out what do… but everything they do may have been planed… so what should they do… and round and round they go.

In the end, they come up with a plan to destroy Oculus, the machine the Time Masters use to see time. If they can get rid of this machine, maybe they can be free of destiny and plan their own future.

But what if the Time Masters know they will do this and are waiting for the team to show up at the Oculus? Well, then they will need an element of surprise, something the Time Masters don’t see coming… enter Firestorm who went back to the past where they first met Rip on the roof and surprised an unsuspecting Dr. Stein, who helped Firestorm figure out a way to travel to the future, then showed up in the nick of time to save them all.

Now, just how Firestorm managed to show up at the Oculus there and then… hmm… I try not to think too hard. It was a fun episode.

The sad

This episode came with a cost. We lost one of the best members of the team… Captain Cold. Please, find a way to bring him back. I need my weekly dynamic duo of Heatwave and Captain Cold.

The Interesting

Rip was told they couldn’t change what is destined. Rip saw a future of Ray dying. But instead Captain Cold died. Could it be because they had foreknowledge? Once they knew Ray would tie, it affected the decisions made by others on Ray’s behalf.

What of the future?

With the Oculus gone, the Time Masters cannot see the future. They cannot help Savage, who is on his own. Will Rip still try to kill Savage even though he’s seen what could happen to the world without Savage?

Which leads to a lingering question: Why didn’t they kill Savage back when they had him as their prisoner? And I still don’t understand why Hawkgirl let Savage live all because he knew how to get Hawkman’s memories back. They live multiple lives. Let Hawkman die too, he’ll come back and remember in the next life.

Do she really need Hawkman to remember now?

Anyway, I digress…

Side Note

It was nice to have an episode where Hawkgirl isn’t preoccupied with her love life.

Legends of Tomorrow: Recap “Last Refuge”

(Season 1, Episode 12)
**Spoilers**

Last week’s cliffhanger promised an exciting episode to come and it didn’t disappoint.

The time masters sent a trio of hunters, who followed the team to the wild west last week. This trio was supposed to be really good at what they do according to Heatwave; but our heroes managed to dispatch of them with ease.

So the time masters have decided to send their big gun. A woman named Pilgrim, who doesn’t just go after her targets… She goes after them when they’re younger and have no idea what’s coming. Woah!

As so here we are, the episode starts and it’s exciting.

The team uses the computer to determine the probabilities of who Pilgrim will go after and “when” she will go after them.

Heatwave is the first target—a teenager, who just witnessed the death of his parents when the house burned down. This offers some good character insight when they save young Heatwave and bring him on board the ship.

Adult Heatwave doesn’t think too fondly of young Heatwave, which shows just how little he thinks of himself. But before it all ends he gives the boy advice to not be his adult self. See, the kid started the fire unable to stop it. Has blamed himself and dealt with the anger at himself for his entire life.

Next is a teenager Sara. It was nice to see Sara if for no other reason than we got a cameo of her father. I love these crossovers.

But then complications arise when they can’t determine who is next. But the answer comes quickly when Ray finds himself all bruised up and about to die with Hawkgirl by his side. That’s because his “not so much younger” self is being beaten by Pilgrim.

But the they manage to barely save him in time.

However, they can’t risk being unable to save the next person, so they decide to kidnap the rest of the group as infants.

This offers the funniest moments when Rip and Heatwave find Stein’s mom giving birth in a car. This scene dripped with irony as Heatwave is dressed as a doctor, his frame busting out of his doctor’s white coat. He claims to be a doctor and they take baby Stein.

All in all, there were some really nice connections in this episode. Teenagers Sara and Heatwave. Firestorm got to meet his father, who died when he was young. Rip and the team met Rip’s foster mom and boy Rip… we’ll get back to boy Rip later.

As fun as everything was, one little item managed to soil the episode, but only a tad. Sadly, the angst between Hawkgirl and Ray continued. Ray asks her to marry him and she said yes. But like so many love stories, there’s that moment when he overhears that she doesn’t want to marry. And this temporarily breaks them up.

As much as I enjoy the show, the weak spot is Hawkgirl’s love life. It seems to be her major plot point every week. But maybe that will end because at the end of the episode, she decided to marry him. Crosses fingers that the angst is over.

So, let’s return to Rip as a child…

With the team holding their younger selves, Pilgrim kidnaps their loved ones in hopes of making a trade—them for their loved ones.

This culminated in an awesome looking and tense finale to the episode. With all of them together in a room, they attack. But she has the ability to slow down time. Everything freezes, stops in its track leaving a beautiful display of characters and fight or flight mode and their discharged weapons is a petrified state.

Just when you think Pilgrim will win the unexpected happens and boy Rip saves the day.

I don’t know what will happen next, but this episode was fun to watch and Pilgrim was indeed formidable!

Legends of Tomorrow: Recap “Progeny”

(Season 1, Episode 10)
**Spoilers**

The team travels to the future where Savage is training the progeny, which is the title of the episode. The progeny is a boy Savage is training to essentially become the next Hitler. Because in the future of THIS future, the progeny will grow up to be a man who will be responsible for a dire future where a worldwide infection spreads and Rip’s family is murdered.

This poses a moral dilemma… if you had the chance to kill Hitler as a child would you?

The episode flirts with this. Most believe the kid can change. The future isn’t set. Captain Cold, being the “bad guy”, is all for murdering the child. Even Rip is down for it—after all the kid will be responsible for Rip’s family’s death. But talking about it is a whole lot different than actually doing it.

So they kidnap the boy and Rip is this close to ending it here and now. But he doesn’t. Instead he tells the kid to be like his father, who is the opposite of Savage.

But this makes the future worse. Initially a virus was going to spread in 5 years from now; but now it’s a matter of days before the future is destroyed. And why so soon? Because Savage can see the writing on the wall. He convinces the kid to murder his father; thereby, removing any doubts. And so the dominoes fall.

And now for the subplots:

Hawkgirl’s memories of her soul mate and their past life together with their son comes racing back. Feelings too. But her heart belongs to Ray and she admits that these memories make her feel like she’s cheating on Ray. Seems a bit odd that a couple years with Ray trumps several lifetimes with her soul mate. But, okay.

The other more interesting subplot is “what to do with Heatwave?” He’s in a holding cell. Sara and Rip try to talk to him but Heatwave holds to his hardened demeanor.

And then Capt. Cold has his own conversation and plays “let’s make a deal”. We fight… You kill me and you can escape. Or I kill you and well…. You die… wanna play?

The chose is easy, Heatwave plays the game. Capt. Cold enters the cell and gets a beat down. Look at Heatwave, he’s a big dude after all.

Heatwave’s about to deal the fatal blow. Kill Capt. Cold and you can run. But he doesn’t. He reneges on the deal and let’s Capt. Cold live. But there’s a catch…. He tells Capt. Cold that they’re all going to die.

Heatwave is let out of his cell… docile and ready to play with others. He tells them that since he didn’t kill them that the time masters will send a team of hunters after them all with one goal in mind… kill them all. And these hunters aren’t as rational as Heatwave, which tells its own story.

Rip asks what they should do.

“Run,” Heatwave replies.

Heatwave is the king of one liners. Nice to have him back.

Legends of Tomorrow: Recap “Left Behind”

 

(Season 1, Episode 9)
**Spoilers**

This was a second part of a 2-parter. Previously on Legends of Tomorrow, part of the team (Ray, Sara and Hawkgirl) were stranded in 1958 when the other members are attacked by Kronos and forced to flee in the ship.

At the start, the group is further divided when Capt. Cold is kidnapped by Kronos.

The earth bound team feels a sense of hopelessness regarding the return of their friends as time passes and the ship hasn’t returned.

Jump two years later and the ship returns to collect Hawkgirl and Ray, who have created a life. Ray seems content almost reluctant to leave it all behind. After all he’s a teacher and he has students. Hawkgirl, on the other hand, is all too eager to leave that behind. This causes some tension between the couple but that’s resolved quickly enough.

But where is Sara? She parted ways and went where she was most comfortable… the league of assassins. And of course, in her training, she’s ahead of the learning curve because she’s done it all before.

It was nice to see Ra's al Ghul again. And in 1960 his daughter, Sara’s ex-lover, isn’t born yet.

The group (sans Capt. Cold, who we will get back to) go to gather Sara but it’s not as easy as it would appear. She’s totally ingrained in her life, so much so that she rats them out to the league willing to watch them die.

I didn’t really like this part. Sara had made friends with them and now she’s back to her assassin status, ready to kill them. But she snaps out of that and returns with her ship mates.

So let’s get to Capt. Cold. He’s handcuffed to the bridge with Kronos standing there, looking all Darth Vadar. Capt. Cold wants to know why he was kidnapped and not Rip. The answer should be obvious to him but it isn’t.

And here comes the surprise. Kronos removes his helmet and there is Heatwave, who was supposed to be killed by Capt. Cold… OOPS!

In the world of TV, if you don’t see someone die, they probably aren’t. And I’m quite okay with that. Heatwave, along with Capt. Cold, is a fun character.

A flashback shows us that Capt. Cold didn’t kill Heatwave and was planning to return and get his friend. But time went by with Heatwave being saved by the time masters instead. They trained him, brainwashed him and now Heatwave has been the killer Kronos all along, traveling through time.

Kronos attacks the ship and a battle ensues. Meanwhile, Capt. Cold freezes his hand, cutting it off, to free himself.

The team traps Heatwave in jail and decide to try and unbrainwash him or maybe re-brainwash him to their advantage. Either way, they see value in him.

And what about Capt. Cold’s hand? Luckily they have some kind of cloning and gave him a fresh new one. 

Legends of Tomorrow: Review “Fail-Safe”

(Season 1, Episode 5)


**Spoilers**

This episode is the second half of a two parter that finds our heroes or “legends” separated.

We begin with Dr. Stein in Star Labs talking science with Cisco; though it’s quite evident to Dr. Stein and the audience that this isn’t Flash’s Cisco. Instead the room dematerializes in what could be described as something out of a Jordi La Forge hologram. It was a ruse to get Dr. Stein to reveal the formula for firestorm with Dr. Stein really in a Russian lab talking to a sexy scientist. A bit far fetched, but heck I’ll bite if it gives me a cameo of Cisco.

Ray and Heat Wave are new residents in an all but glamorous Russian prison. This couple were the interesting pair-up. Complete opposites: Heat Wave aware of his surroundings and avoided conflict, Ray acting like he’s in his first day at College trying to make friends and instead finding himself on the wrong end of a beating. One couldn’t help but speculate if this is the episode where Heat Wave learns a lesson… Let’s hold that thought.

Rip plans a rescue mission which has Hawkgirl and Firestorm sitting out. One has to wonder how many times Hawkgirl may have to sit out missions where Savage is close by.

The rescue mission does involve Cap. Cold, who’s just in it for Heat Wave, and Sara. However, Rip has given Sara a secret mission—if she can’t extract Dr. Stein then she must kill him to save future earth. And so as the mission goes on, she is left with this very choice with Cap. Cold as her voice of reason, which lends itself to the obvious irony. This was nice because we get to see these characters bonding and going out of their emotional tendencies. Sara, who would have taken Dr. Stein out in the past, finds herself with an internal struggle and the realization that Rip is not like her past boss.

Back to the odd couple: The Russians torture Heat Wave and Ray in the hopes of getting Dr. Stein to give up the scientific goods, though it looks like Heat Wave is getting the brunt. But just when Heat Wave is about to get the hammer treatment (literally), Ray interjects and ends up, as Heat Wave called it, being used as a pinata. So when Cap. Cold rushes in to the rescue, we have that internal dilemma we were hoping for. With a passed out Ray, does Heat Wave leave him behind and save himself as per Cap. Cold’s request OR risk his life to save Ray? He chooses to save Ray.

These are the moments that make Cap. Cold and Heat Wave the most fun characters. They’re bad guys who, not only have the coolest lines, but offer the most character growth. Two thieves who deep inside have a heart and we want to see it.

Meanwhile, the sexy Russian scientist merges with Dr. Stein. Firestorm and Hawkgirl refuse to remain behind and join the fight.

The good guys win. They celebrate with vodka with Ray thanking Heat Wave getting all sentimental. Heat Wave  responds with “less feeling, more drinking” and they do until Boba Fett zaps their ship, which ends up back in Sara’s home town—but in a different time and a whole new Arrow…