Spoilers DC's Legends of Tomorrow - Season 3

I thought it was kind of neat to see Stein as Firestorm. It was fun that Sara got to have a swashbuckling fight with Darhk as one might see in a 30s adventure film. Among the series, LoT seems to strive the most to just be entertaining.

 

Sarah Lance seems much more serious and professional now that she is team captain. Season 1 Sarah would have commented on how hot Helen was and probably found a way to kiss her. But this Sarah was focused, giving orders, and trying to keep the team on task.

 

The end fight scenes seemed a bit higher caliber than normal. The actual fight staging to the cross cutting of the different fights.

Mick is great as a character but his heat gun is mostly useless and visually uninteresting in fights. Especially compared to Firestorm.

 

So that was who Hedy LaMarr was ... For (straight) men to fall all over Helen of Troy, you would think she was emitting some kind of sex pheromone. And Themyscira on Earth-1. Nice!

 

She was a pretty big star for a while, but these days she's better known for her inventions, which helped the Allies in WWII and were the forerunner of modern cellular networks. Also, her Hollywood contract was with MGM, not Warner Bros. -- though it's understandable why a Warner Bros. production would change that.

The actress here, Celia Massingham, bore a decent resemblance to Lamarr, but she should've had a bit of an Austrian accent. Here's a clip of Lamarr from her American film debut, Algiers, which would've been made less than a year after this episode's time frame:

http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/354449/Algiers-Movie-Clip-I-Never-Break-A-Promise.html

Or just had a really compelling presence and personality. I've read that Cleopatra probably wasn't all that great-looking, but was extraordinarily seductive nonetheless. Or, since supernatural forces are a real thing in the Arrowverse, maybe Helen actually did have some divine glamour to her.

In any case, I do wonder why Sara wasn't as gaga over her as the men were. True, men are more prone to become violent idiots over a hot woman, but still.

So now we have reason to believe both Batman and Wonder Woman might exist on Earth-1, though presumably Superman doesn't.

 

We don't even know the status of Krypton in the Earth 1 universe. It may never have blown up, or it may not exist. Clark and Kara may have been sent to another planet closer to Krypton in technological development, or these Kryptonions may have listened to Jor-El and found a way to move the whole population before the planet blew up.

 

He's off to Broadway to star in Hello, Dolly!

Praise Zod, saviour of Krypton!

 

Well, yeah, that's why he's leaving, but I'm wondering if something is limiting his availability while he's still here, since he hasn't had a lot of screen time this season.

The irony is, Garber is the top-billed cast member on the show, yet he's the one with the smallest role, other than Amy Pemberton.

 

Broadway musicals require considerable rehearsal time—more so than most other forms of theatre. Perhaps that’s why he’s so little available.

 

They really need to incorporate that into an episode.

 

The clothes are a must, if not everything else

 

I like to think at some point the Earth-1 version of Kara will show up and in the absence of Clark becomes Power Girl. I also rather like the idea that Earth-1's Superman landed pre-1939 like in the very first comics, making him a contemporary of Amaya. He'd still be alive and well in present day (if a little grey) but has long since put away the cape.

Or perhaps in this universe Kal-El's ship was the one trapped in the phantom zone for a decade or two and didn't make it to Earth until much later than his Earth-38 counterpart. Another possibility is that both he and Kara are on Earth already, but keeping a low profile, just like Bruce Wayne.

That's not irony, it just means he has a better agent than anyone else.

 

Well, we know from that Brad Pitt documentary that the real Trojan War only lasted a week or two, but this Helen said it had lasted years... meaning that her story was the mythical one, which thus makes her a daughter of Zeus. So, I guess she got her blonde hair from her father.

I was a bit confused as to why Darkh needed resurrecting, seeing as we last saw him returned to the 80s after his stint in the Legion of Doom. Only realized after this episode that his current body was evidently collected after Oliver killed him in Arrow S4.

Oy. Age suits him!

 

Yeah, hence the plot point about the 2016 PalmerTech smart watch with Oliver's fingerprint on it.

Also, Darhk at this point in his personal timeline is far more dangerous, because -- as we saw -- he now has the full-on magic powers that he accumulated in the decades between the '80s and Arrow season 4. The only previous time the Legends faced him with those powers was in the Doomworld reality.

 

I wonder Darhk will ever work with a past version of himself on the show since the show does do time travel. In fact I wonder if we will ever see a future Flash who once left a message for them team up on a episode or them encounter future versions of themselves. What will the Legend team look like in 20 years for example.

Jason

 

Routh would make a good Jimmy Olsen.

 

Stein taking physicists out of history to consult on the Firestorm matrix was rather implausible. First off, how'd he assemble them without anyone noticing? Has he been sneaking out in the jumpship again? Second, why early physicists like Isaac Newton and Mme. Curie? Newton would be utterly useless in solving a problem pertaining to nuclear and quantum physics. He wouldn't have the basic conceptual foundations to understand the problem in the first place. He'd first have to accept that everything he thought he had proven about physics was wrong outside of a certain range of conditions, and Newton does not strike me as a guy who would react well to being told he was wrong. If anything, Stein should've at least consulted with people like Einstein, Heisenberg, Meitner, and Feynman, if not more modern folks like Hawking or Ed Witten. Heck, for that matter, wouldn't it be even better to consult with physicists from centuries in the future?

Also, the whole thing was a bit too reminiscent of last week's "Council of Wells" gimmick from The Flash.

As for the rest, it was okay. Grodd seemed more articulate than he's been in the past, making longer speeches, which is good. Amaya bonding with him and almost winning him over was a nice moment. And Mick's encounter with his father went to an interesting place -- it deepened Mick, let him be more than the growly comic relief.

And I'm so glad that the characters have started to notice all the unlikely coincidences connecting the anachronisms to the Legends' families. That means it is an actual plot point that will have an explanation, rather than just sloppy writing.

It looks like we're getting a Legion of Doom 2.0 here. Darhk pere and fille, Kuasa, and now Grodd, another gathering of established villains from other shows to battle the Legends.

 

I just started watching this episode. Wouldn't it make more sense to travel back to before the anachronism killed those soldiers?