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Spoilers DC's Legends of Tomorrow - Season 3

Are the shownrunners so bereft of imagination they keep bringing dead villains back to life? First Thawne, now Dahrk. There are plenty of DC villains to choose from.

Watching Kong Skull Island episode now ...
 
That's the thing about time traveling heroes and villains. Even if you kill someone, there's still the chance that they could return the favor.
 
I wonder, what could be the reason that the anachronisms keep overlapping with the Legends' own families or personal histories? Is it just that, since they're the ones who "broke time," the cracks are propagating along their individual worldlines? Or is Mallus actively manipulating the anachronisms to target them for some reason?


Snaploud said:
I just started watching this episode. Wouldn't it make more sense to travel back to before the anachronism killed those soldiers?
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Well, they only have news reports to go on for the specifics of the case, and it's hard to find something in the jungle if they don't know where it is. So it may not have been possible to find the site of the attack before it happened.


Gryffindorian said:
Are the shownrunners so bereft of imagination they keep bringing dead villains back to life? First Thawne, now Dahrk. There are plenty of DC villains to choose from.
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It's not about imagination, it's about popularity. Darhk was a popular villain, so they want to keep using him.

Heck, this whole series has always been a place for characters from the other Arrowverse shows to get a second life. Sara and Ray are Arrow characters, along with Darhk and Malcolm Merlyn. Stein, Jax, Rory, and Snart are Flash characters, along with Thawne and Grodd -- and Gideon, after a fashion. And Amaya and Kuasa are derived from the animated Vixen series. LoT is the equivalent of a comic book like the Justice League or Avengers -- a team-up title that brings together characters previously established in solo titles and lets them interact.
 
Will they ever have an episode that deals with Steins daughter being an anachronism? Now a woman who should not exist has had a child that should not exist. The ripples spread......
 
LOGICALLY the time agency took a snap shot of time, moments before the legends broke it, and said "this is normal, this is the restore point we want to roll back to" which was "time" after Lily was aberrantly created.
 
Icemizer said:
Will they ever have an episode that deals with Steins daughter being an anachronism? Now a woman who should not exist has had a child that should not exist. The ripples spread......
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I believe they did discuss this issue. The Legends basically decided to be hypocrites and ignore Stein's daughter because she's nice and they want to keep her.
 
Icemizer said:
Will they ever have an episode that deals with Steins daughter being an anachronism? Now a woman who should not exist has had a child that should not exist. The ripples spread......
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Lily is a temporal aberration (a result of a change to the timeline), not an anachronism (an entity from one era being displaced to another). And I think they addressed her aberrant state adequately last season. I think the conclusion was that her impact on the timeline was minor enough not to require correction. Indeed, the damage caused by the Legends "breaking time" and creating so many anachronisms probably makes such aberrations pale in comparison. She's not the last aberration the Legends' actions have caused -- Zari leaving Helen of Troy on Themyscira would count as an aberration, for example.
 
Icemizer said:
Will they ever have an episode that deals with Steins daughter being an anachronism? Now a woman who should not exist has had a child that should not exist. The ripples spread......
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They're waiting for Martin to retire from the Legends before they go correct that. :devil:
 
I'm wondering if Rory's family is still dead (and if the Time Bureau will then be responsible for killing them to "fix" the abberation).
 
Snaploud said:
I'm wondering if Rory's family is still dead (and if the Time Bureau will then be responsible for killing them to "fix" the abberation).
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I don't think Mick actually changed his father's past that much. After all, the act that Mick stopped his father from committing was in response to the events started by Grodd's intervention in the war, so it wouldn't have happened in the original timeline anyway. If the Time Bureau did intervene, it would just be to erase everyone's memories of these events and destroy the evidence, so that history could resume its normal course right after. And 1967 was pretty early in the war, so there's still plenty of time for it to take its toll on Sgt. Rory and lead to the same abusive future.

I think the only thing that really changed was Mick's perspective on his father -- and thus on himself, because he can no longer blame his old man for his own monstrous actions.
 
Changes to the time line, effect the legends semi-immediately, and then they forget that their lives used to ever be any different.

Often when they think they are making big changes, that eventually yield zero change, what's happened, from a perspective we hardly ever get to see, is that they have forgotten how different time used to be, before they nuked their own past.
 
Reverend said:
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. ;)
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Dean Cain would make a great Golden Age / Kingdom Come Superman.

A "Kingdom Come" world with Linda Carter, Dean Cain and Michael Keaton in a mechsuit reprising their roles would be pretty amazing IMO. Two of the Three already get paid by CW for their appearances. Hrmm.
 
I also want Welling or Cain to become the Eradicator on Supergirl. I was convinced for awhile that they were going to turn Dean Cain into the Cyborg and give him Hank Henshaw's spirit somehow, so the Eradicator is the next best thing. Welling as Eradicator would work well, since I can't imagine them making the girl's dad a permanent bad guy anymore. They've waited too long.
 
Possibly a big spoiler there in the trailer.

It occurred to me a while ago that one way the producers might deal with Firestorm's future given Victor Garber's departure would be to replace Garber with Graeme McComb as Stein's younger self, either through time travel or some sort of de-aging. And now we apparently get McComb's young Martin back again right after losing Garber. So is this setting him up to be a new regular? As if the Legends weren't already playing fast and loose with causality by keeping Amaya aboard...
 
As I recall, Dr. Doom was lost in space after his first or second appearance in the original FANTASTIC FOUR comics, way back in early sixties.

.Guess that took care of him for good! :)
 
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