Spoilers DC's Legends of Tomorrow - Season 2

[FPAlpha]

Legends are getting ready to take Star Wars references to the next level.
(spoilers for an upcoming episode on the link)

Oooh.. that sounds awesome and fun.

You know as uneven and campy as the show can be (and is) sometimes it's just pure plain (and probably) brainless fun and i love it. Not everything has to be dark, grim, serious drama and it's good to have a flashy, old school adventure show on hand to lighten the mood once in a while.

I'm definitely looking forward to Legend's return.

 

[matthunter]

Not sure I've ever heard other scientists say they were inspired by Star Wars, since it's Sci-Fan not Sci-Fi. Trek, yes.

 

[dahj]

^^
Well these are Legends scientists, and science there is more Sci-Fan as well...

 

[Snaploud]

This premise reminds me of an episode of The Twilight Zone. An author traveled back in time and ended up becoming a ghost writer for William Shakespeare.

It reminded me of a more recent science fiction book called The Plagiarist by Hugh Howey. It doesn't involve time travel, but a sci-fi idea allows for the plagiarism.

Here is the description:

Adam Griffey is living two lives. By day, he teaches literature. At night, he steals it. Adam is a plagiarist, an expert reader with an eye for great works. He prowls simulated worlds perusing virtual texts, looking for the next big thing. And when he finds it, he memorizes it page by page, line by line, word for word. And then he brings it back to his world.

But what happens when these virtual worlds begin to seem more real than his own? What happens when the people within them mean more to him than flesh and blood? What happens when a living thing falls in love with someone who does not actually exist?

https://www.amazon.com/Plagiarist-Hugh-Howey-ebook/dp/B004ZUZT5W

 

[Nerys Myk]

Not sure I've ever heard other scientists say they were inspired by Star Wars, since it's Sci-Fan not Sci-Fi. Trek, yes.

Not quite the same thing but http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/12/151209-star-wars-science-movie-film/
Here's a woman who became an engineer because of Star Wars
http://www.starwars.com/news/how-star-wars-inspires-real-scientists-and-engineers

 

[Gryffindorian]

Actually it was the other way around: a 1960s TV writer brought Shakespeare forward to ghost-write for him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bard_(The_Twilight_Zone)

The episode I was referring was actually from the 1980s Twilight Zone series:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_Break

 

[Nerys Myk]

I'm actually wearing the same shirt Nate has on in this picture
http://cbr1.imgix.net/wp-content/up...o=format&lossless=1&q=90&w=864&h=576&fit=crop
I bought it in the late 90's

 

[Christopher]

I'm actually wearing the same shirt Nate has on in this picture
http://cbr1.imgix.net/wp-content/up...o=format&lossless=1&q=90&w=864&h=576&fit=crop
I bought it in the late 90's

Please tell me you don't have the same hairstyle...

 

[Nerys Myk]

Please tell me you don't have the same hairstyle...

I could never pull it off.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I recall seeing Sarah's jacket a lot back in the day

 

[Commander Richard]

The show has been moved to Tuesdays. A new episode airs tonight right after The Flash.

 

[Christopher]

The show has been moved to Tuesdays. A new episode airs tonight right after The Flash.

That bothers me. It throws off the rhythm. Can I stand the asymmetry??

 

[SAndrews10]

I will still be watching it on Thursday nights. Only really have time to watch one of my shows after the wife and baby call it a night.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Raise the baby as a nerd.

That way it's bonding time when they sit on your knee and watch junk about spaceships in years to come.

 

[The Old Mixer]

I'm thinking that it may be more convenient for me to half-watch this between The Flash and AoS than it was to half-watch it on its own night.

 

[The Old Mixer]

"I just can't seem to get Peter to bring any menace to the part....A film is only as good as its villain, and I have an antagonist who is as threatening as a...wiener dog."

An acknowledgment of last season's Savage casting?

 

[Guy Gardener]

They would never be that rude or unprofessional?

 

[Christopher]

"I just can't seem to get Peter to bring any menace to the part....A film is only as good as its villain, and I have an antagonist who is as threatening as a...wiener dog."

An acknowledgment of last season's Savage casting?

No doubt. Having a sense of humor about their own past mistakes.

The temporal logic here was, typically, nonsensical. If the original timeline had Lucas making Star Wars and the time travel erased that, then how come the effort to undo the erasure included "You're our only hope" and a trash-compactor scene? Those can't have been part of the original history, since the Legends wouldn't have been there in that version. Gags like that only really work if you're doing a time-loop story where the time travelers are part of the events as they originally happened.

Was the shot where Lucas left the dorm into the blinding light outside a THX 1138 reference?

 

[Guy Gardener]

There was no trash compactor scene in Star Wars before this bump.

 

[DigificWriter]

I was enjoying this episode a lot until the writers stuck some of the characters in a trash compactor and had them repeat lines from Star Wars. After that, it became hard for me to take the remainder of the events of the story seriously.

It's kind of sad and frustrating, as a fan of all of these shows, that Legends had the makings of a fantastic return episode on its hands until it killed its own momentum by going too far with the meta-references.