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Spoilers DC's Legends of Tomorrow - Season 1

Yeah, it sucks, but I'm at least holding out till Snart outs himself as a homosexual.

Meanwhile Rory's fixation with fire, his psycho sexual obsession with fire... He might sideline any gender predilection to make love to the fricking burning man.

Um, whenever Hunter says "Rory" does your soul try to high five everyone else in the room?

Maybe he's not fond of women dying because it reminds Ray of his wife dying, but did he seem a little too emotional around Kendra? Does he have a little things for her, that will turn into a big thing for her, just as Carter comes back from the dead? Has Ray considered commandeering the ship and saving his wife? that's got to wreck the future less killing Vandal Savage.
 
The George Lucas defense: "Shut up old man, you had your childhood, I'm making these movies for the children of today.

Of course the problem with that argument, is that his original audience for Arrow is only four years older, and theoretically some of them, most of them are still children, depending on your definition of the word child.
 
I must've been distracted when that happened, I remember Rip stabbing Savage in the neck and cleverly telling Savage the name of his wife and child so he can hunt them down and kill them in the future.... and then he just left him there? Rather than throwing him into the sun? Or holding him prisoner on the ship until they get the magic knife for Hawkgirl to stab him with? Were the goons showing up or something?

I'm starting to think Rip has a second personality loyal to Savage... :brickwall:
 
Rip leaving Savage in 1975 is dumb, but hopefully Rip was smart enough to take the knife with him. Hopefully...
 
M.A.C.O. said:
Victor Garber who plays Professor Stein, also played Thomas Andrews (the Titanic's engineer) in James Cameron's 1997 movie.

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Ah, right. I tend to associate Garber with ALIAS (and the Broadway musical ASSASSINS) so I didn't make the Titanic connection. And I just assumed Stein was referencing the historical event, not the movie
 
Vandal Savage has Resurrection powers dissimilar to the Hawks Resurrection powers.

Even if they disintegrated him this week, his cult has cut off bits of his body stored all over the world that can quickly grow into a full sized Vandal Savage, and then his soul that's just floating around waiting for a new body sips in and sets up shop.

That's how Ras Al Ghul grew a new Vandal Savage from his cremated remains after Barry and Oliver disintegrated the Immortal Priest. :)
 
Yeah, I'm not a big one to rant when fictional characters don't do the perfectly practical thing, but the handling of the premise here is becoming nonsensical. It's a fun show, but it's making less and less sense.

Unless the idea in this case is that Vandal reincarnates like the Hawks, so taking his body wouldn't have mattered? Have they said or done anything to indicate that?
 
Yesterday I said that I thought the phrase "I highly doubt that" in last night's episode was anachronistic for 1975, but I couldn't find a way to check how recent the phrase might have been. As if by providence, I just now stumbled across a Facebook conversation asking how to track the frequency of a phrase over time, and it led me to Google Ngram, which searches the contents of Google Books for a given phrase and charts its frequency by year. Apparently the phrase "highly doubt" was not completely unheard of before 1975, but was quite rare until the 21st century. (Looking at some of the older hits, it seems as though it's a back-formation from "highly doubtful," which makes more sense to me.) So I suppose it's possible that someone in 1975 could've used the phrase, but not likely.

I also tried "knife to a gunfight" and "knife to a gun fight," and they both seem to have been vanishingly rare in print prior to the 1980s. So I still can't confirm the Elmer Keith attribution for that phrase.
 
This show doesn't always make sense but it's one of those shows which I don't expect to. If it was smart to begin with I might have. But this is just fun. Roll on the 80s.
 
By the 80s, Young Stein will have a massive Alpha particle detector since he knows alpha particle detection is going to get him back on the Waverider again, except this time around, he's not going to blow it, and leave empty handed.
 
Christopher said:
Yesterday I said that I thought the phrase "I highly doubt that" in last night's episode was anachronistic for 1975, but I couldn't find a way to check how recent the phrase might have been. As if by providence, I just now stumbled across a Facebook conversation asking how to track the frequency of a phrase over time, and it led me to Google Ngram, which searches the contents of Google Books for a given phrase and charts its frequency by year. Apparently the phrase "highly doubt" was not completely unheard of before 1975, but was quite rare until the 21st century. (Looking at some of the older hits, it seems as though it's a back-formation from "highly doubtful," which makes more sense to me.) So I suppose it's possible that someone in 1975 could've used the phrase, but not likely.

I also tried "knife to a gunfight" and "knife to a gun fight," and they both seem to have been vanishingly rare in print prior to the 1980s. So I still can't confirm the Elmer Keith attribution for that phrase.
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If only any of it mattered, given they're not from our Earth.
 
So is Hawkman/Carter ever coming back? I find it odd they would kill off one of the main characters this early in the series.

As far as Rip Hunter not taking Wandal Sawage's body (or destroying it), maybe he did it to prevent doing more damage to the timeline. Earlier on, I pointed out in the Flash thread that Harry Wells could have just siphoned off Eobard Thawne's speed when he ended up in present-day Central City. But Barry sent him back to the future anyway to preserve the timeline.
 
Gryffindorian said:
So is Hawkman/Carter ever coming back? I find it odd they would kill off one of the main characters this early in the series.

As far as Rip Hunter not taking Wandal Sawage's body (or destroying it), maybe he did it to prevent doing more damage to the timeline. Earlier on, I pointed out in the Flash thread that Harry Wells could have just siphoned off Eobard Thawne's speed when he ended up in present-day Central City. But Barry sent him back to the future anyway to preserve the timeline.
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That doesn't track though, they've already tried to kill Vandal in this time period and they weren't worried about timeline disruption on that attempt.
 
Since this is not a Hitler situation (if you kill Hitler when he was a baby, someone else, maybe worse may take his place), why not go back to before he became immortal? They have a friggin' time machine.OR would that prevent the creation of the Time Counsel and Rip(pin' Rory) Hunter? It's a decent price to pay if Savage was responsible for so many deaths. PLUS the people he either became or guided may be not so vicious.
 
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