Spoilers DC's Legends of Tomorrow - Season 4
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You know who else had a beautiful voice in hell?
[Church Lady] SATAN!? [/Church Lady]
Well, that was a convoluted way to get Maisie Richardson-Sellers back on the show. Step 1, introduce a shapeshifter; step 2, contrive for her to see a picture of Amaya and hear from Ray about how she was the team's moral compass; step 3, have her change into Amaya to remind them of their morals; step 4, have Constantine take away her shapeshifting power before she can change back.
I'm almost disappointed that Charlie the shapeshifter did get stuck with Amaya's face, since for most of the episode she was played by Anjli Mohindra of The Sarah Jane Adventures, and it was great to see her again. Although I find it a bit unlikely that a 1977 toothpaste ad in England would've featured an ethnically Indian model.
Also, if she mimicked Amaya's appearance based solely on a photograph, then how did she know what her voice sounded like?
We got a couple of split-second glimpses of the enemy that's coming after Constantine, which he said was his past catching up with him, and for a moment I thought it might be Manny (Harold Perrineau) from the NBC series. But after rewinding and freeze-framing, I think it's a different actor. Still, Legends has recast roles from peripheral Arrowverse productions before, specifically Kuasa and Chuck McCabe from Vixen. So it's possible.
I'm almost disappointed that Charlie the shapeshifter did get stuck with Amaya's face, since for most of the episode she was played by Anjli Mohindra of The Sarah Jane Adventures, and it was great to see her again. Although I find it a bit unlikely that a 1977 toothpaste ad in England would've featured an ethnically Indian model.
Also, if she mimicked Amaya's appearance based solely on a photograph, then how did she know what her voice sounded like?
We got a couple of split-second glimpses of the enemy that's coming after Constantine, which he said was his past catching up with him, and for a moment I thought it might be Manny (Harold Perrineau) from the NBC series. But after rewinding and freeze-framing, I think it's a different actor. Still, Legends has recast roles from peripheral Arrowverse productions before, specifically Kuasa and Chuck McCabe from Vixen. So it's possible.
I'm not sure if it's Space in Canada or my cable tv provider but I don't know what the hell they are putting into the EPG which is messing up my tivo. Missed the original broadcast of last week's ep and had to manually record last nights.
According to the program guide, last night's episode was the season 3 episode "Zari".
According to the program guide, last night's episode was the season 3 episode "Zari".
Except the whole "The universe won't let you alter your own past" notion contradicts all the prior LoT episodes where the Legends intervened in their own childhoods. This show follows whatever time-travel physics are convenient at any given moment.
It’s not your provider, unless you can get Vidéotron in the GTA. I had canceled the recording based on the guide description, only to see posts yesterday about a new episode. Was able to catch the 3AM rebroadcast on my PVR.
So Constantine has a sentimental side? Who knew?
The best thing about it is that it totally works.
And not just that it works, it Legends works, it's unexpected, absolutely crazy, hilarious and delivering social commentary and heart at the same time.
Maybe she found an LP by the Mystery Disco Group and listened to it off-screen...
As a side note, it's weird that they went through all this trouble and then still not let Maisie do her natural accent.
Yeah, it's certainty really fortuitous timing...
Anyways, it took quite a while, but they finally got a Canary into fishnets.
The team pairings were great as always, Ray with the Punks, Nate and Gary, and Zari and Constantine, proving they can make any combination of them interesting and fun. The episode also filled its educational quota by explaining the grandfather paradox with a kick to the groin.
This show... it's absolutely the dog's bollocks!
It's close to her natural accent, just more working-class.
I think that's where the fact that she's a magical shape shifter comes in, as opposed to a biological one like Odo.
It occurred to me that "clipping her wings" and leaving her in 1977 would be an adequate alternative to sending her to hell, one Ray determine she wasn't evil.
Except this whole thing was an excuse to keep Richardson-Sellers as a series regular, so Charlie will no doubt be joining the Legends permanently. I guess it makes sense that in a season where they're fighting magical creatures, they get a magical creature as a team member. Even with her powers suppressed, she might have knowledge or connections that would be useful to the team. Or they might be able to restore her shapeshifting on a limited basis, in a way that ensures she always returns to Amaya's appearance.
"Dare to defy." Their meta-textual references are on point this season.
They do just seem to change and make up their time travel rules as they go along.
This season they seem to be 100% immune to changes in the past affecting their present day memories. It was one thing if they were on the waverider outside the timeline and got an anomaly. But now they can just be in DC and look up historical information and recognize it as being changed. Like the whole thing with Nate's Dad having a changed memory of Woodstock, but the others not.
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Simply chalk it off to the new Time Bureau offices having upgraded protection against timeline changes.
Simply chalk it off to the new Time Bureau offices having upgraded protection against timeline changes.
Although Nate and Mick weren't in the Bureau offices when they learned about the Woodstock changes from Biff -- err, Hank. They're basically going with Doctor Who temporal logic where people who've traveled through time somehow gain an immunity from memory erasure due to timeline shifts.
^^^
So, exactly like Dr. Who and Star Trek eh? <---- Time Travel mechanics are always mutable to serve the story (or for a laugh in this case.) I haven't seen a show with 100% consistent Time Travel mechanics, ever.
Gargoyles. It stuck faithfully to a model where history was immutable, where everything that time travelers did had always been part of the timeline and everything was a self-consistent causal loop. (Harry Potter did so as well in the original books, but then contradicted it in the stage play.)
I realized I forgot to post my thoughts on this one.
Loved Ray, or uh, "Rage" with the punks.
The scene with Constantine and his parents was a nice bit of character development for him, and gave us some good laughs when couldn't beat up his father.
The stuff with Nate and Gary back at the Time Bureau headquarters was a lot fun.
Loved Ray, or uh, "Rage" with the punks.
The scene with Constantine and his parents was a nice bit of character development for him, and gave us some good laughs when couldn't beat up his father.
The stuff with Nate and Gary back at the Time Bureau headquarters was a lot fun.
The opening of "Dancing Queen" was absolutely hilarious. In terms of being an entertaining diversion, LoT is delivering.