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Spoilers DC's Legends of Tomorrow - Season 2

watching the scenes where Merlyn and Darkk are on screen together - seems like McDonough and Barrowman are having a great old time hamming it up.
 
watching the scenes where Merlyn and Darkk are on screen together - seems like McDonough and Barrowman are having a great old time hamming it up.
"A great old time hamming it up" could be the title of a Barrowman biography, it's so accurate. :)
 
I do not know why Thawn needs these two.

I assume it has something to do with having a time limit on being in any particular time period for very long (based upon that alarm on his watch that went off). He probably believes that his existence is tenuous until or unless he can get his hands on the Spear of Destiny.
 
I do not know why Thawn needs these two.
They really seem like hapless lackeys. I gather I'm in the minority that I enjoyed season 4 of Arrow. But a big part of that was that Darhk was legitimately frightening. And Merlin certainly has managed menace in the past. (He should have stayed Ra's al Ghul.)

Thrawn on the other hand owns every scene he's in.

So George Lucas has a momentary change of heart and Star Wars etc. are erased from time. But Damien Darhk goes gallivanting though time away from his own history and there are no repercussions to the Legends who had direct interaction with him? I know this is a goofy fun show (and it is) and I'm not supposed to pay attention to this. But come on.
 
Okay...if this Earth had a Super Friends cartoon doesn't that present some continuity issues??

It had a Hanna-Barbera cartoon whose villains were called the Legion of Doom. Presumably it was a different H-B cartoon than the one we had, using the name for different fictional characters.

I am thinking they did have a Super Friends cartoon...just based on Marvel Characters...like perhaps Squadron Supreme?

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.

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.

This story wasn't meant to be taken seriously (like a lot of the show in general) I for one LOVED the trash compactor scene, I was laughing my ass off. It was on the whole hilarious and entertaining. YMMV.
Exactly. When your basic plot is "We have to save the future by keeping George Lucas from dropping out of film school," you're already doing a cheeky lark, so you might as well dial it up to eleven and milk the gag for all it's worth. It was supposed to be silly.

Personally, I thought it was a hoot.

And, yes, I laughed out loud at the "Howard the Duck" gag, too.


There was no trash compactor scene in Star Wars before this bump.
I am with Greg & No Name Given (and others) -- this is supposed to be a fun episode...

Guy Gardner actually makes sense -- we all live in the "new" timeline, so we don't remember the "original" story. :shrug:

He probably wrote it, but couldn't get backing after similarly themed Rip Hunter - The Movie by Phil Gasmer failed at the box office. :D

Actually, I think Rip Hunter was a success....and it's what inspired Rip to take the name.... isn't Rip Hunter actually an alias to begin with? I thought they revealed it last season.
 
Interesting inside look for tonight's episode, "Legion of Doom". The episode will be told from the bad guys' perspective:
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Nah, a very obscure cult film at best.
That's why nobody knows where he got the name from. ;)

Ellen Ripley.

Ellen Ripley the Alien Hunter.

His dad was totally 80s.

:)

Rip Van Winkle?

Historical figure with super-sleeping super powers.

R.I.P. = death.

Death Hunter.

How very Metal.
 
If they want to figure out who the speedster is, maybe the expert from 2017 Central City they should go to is Barry.

I don't like this attitude that "aberrations" aren't real people. Not very becoming for time-traveling good guys.
 
If they want to figure out who the speedster is, maybe the expert from 2017 Central City they should go to is Barry.

I think they did, off-camera. That's how they got the photos of all the speedsters that they taped to the glass Person of Interest-style. (Hard to get a photo of Jesse Quick in costume otherwise.) But as Nate said, all the speedsters the Flash knew were either dead or his friends. Since Thawne was the first other speedster to die, they assumed he was already ruled out.

Although... on the other hand, Barry does know that this Thawne got away after Flashpoint, so maybe that doesn't work. Maybe they talked to Cisco instead of Barry. Cisco always seems to be the one the characters on other shows talk to off-camera.
 
No, the expert from 2017 Central City was Stein's daughter. No indication that they went to anyone else.
 
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