"A great old time hamming it up" could be the title of a Barrowman biography, it's so accurate.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.
I do not know why Thawn needs these two.
I see what you frakkin' did there!Or he can only ever stay 33 minutes at any place/time until reapers catch up to him.
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.)I do not know why Thawn needs these two.
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.
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.
I am with Greg & No Name Given (and others) -- this is supposed to be a fun episode...There was no trash compactor scene in Star Wars before this bump.
He probably wrote it, but couldn't get backing after similarly themed Rip Hunter - The Movie by Phil Gasmer failed at the box office.![]()
Actually, I think Rip Hunter was a success....and it's what inspired Rip to take the name....
Nah, a very obscure cult film at best.
That's why nobody knows where he got the name from.![]()
It ain't the Legion of Doom without Black Manta and Giganta.
It ain't the Legion of Doom without Black Manta and Giganta.
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.
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