Spoilers DC's Legends of Tomorrow Season 5

[Christopher]

I'm sure Greg Cox will appreciate the Richard Matheson nod in the title, "I Am Legends." And Shaun of the Dead fans will appreciate that the plan in the middle of a zombie apocalypse in London was to get to a tavern. (Was that set a redress of Al's Bar from Supergirl?)

It's really weird to have a character like Constantine thrown into a hokey sitcom I-hate-you-let's-make-out scene.

Nice to see that they included a George A. Romero lookalike in the junkyard seeing as he would cameo in every one of his pictures.

Oh, that's who the gray-haired guy with thick glasses was supposed to be. I didn't make the Romero connection -- I just noticed that there was a continuity error between shots, that he was behind Constantine and Zari in the close shot and still in front of them in the subsequent wide shot.

And who else figured out that Gary was talking to the rabbit as soon as Gideon showed up?

At first I thought Gideon was downloaded into his brain. It quickly became clear that she was a hallucination, but I didn't realize she was Gary Jr. II until she started hopping.

But if Gary hasn't seen Gideon's human appearance before, how did he hallucinate her looking exactly like she's looked in her previous appearances?

 

[Greg Cox]

I'm sure Greg Cox will appreciate the Richard Matheson nod in the title, "I Am Legends."

That was actually the title? Neat!

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Rewatched it again this morning and found another Easter Egg - The name on the fish 'n chips truck is 'Pilato's' as in Joe Pilato, who played Captain Rhodes in 'Day of the Dead'.

 

[JD]

This one was pretty fun, although I don't know a lot about zombie movies, so I missed most of those references.
I had just assumed Gideon was either a hologram, or somehow in his head, so I was surprised she was Gary Jr. II.
It seems like Amy Pemberton making a physical appearance once a season is a regular thing now. I wonder if that's something they're doing just for the hell of it, or if it's a contract thing?
I know it's going to be undone pretty quickly, but it was still a little surprising to see them end the episode with everyone except Charlie dead.

 

[Nerys Myk]

tvline has some pictures from the May 26th episode here

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the picture of Mick as Khan just cracked me up

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Downton Abbey?

 

[Mr. Adventure]

The pink haired zombie looks to be an homage to Linnea Quigley's punk character in Return of the Living Dead.

The one fate sister always makes me think of Illyria from Angel.

 

[Marc]

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Downton Abbey?

that was my first thought.

 

[Tuskin38]

I had just assumed Gideon was either a hologram, or somehow in his head, so I was surprised she was Gary Jr. II.

How did his brain know what Gideon look like as a human?

 

[Christopher]

How did his brain know what Gideon look like as a human?

I think Gideon's floaty Zordon-head hologram, at least the current version, is modeled on Pemberton's features.

https://arrow.fandom.com/wiki/File:Gideon's_second_projection.png
vs.
https://arrow.fandom.com/wiki/File:Gideon_as_Hard_Drive.png

 

[USS Firefly]

Latest episode was ok. I still miss Ray and the original Zari.
And can't they ditch Gary?

 

[JD]

EW has a clip from tomorrow's episode and interview with Marc Guggenheim, who makes his directorial debut with the episode.
I was really surprised to hear that the characters walking from the Ultimate Buds to Highcastle Abby sets was done in camera, I just assumed it was CGI when I saw it.
I love that they actually used models for the ships in Star Trip, that's going to go a long way towards helping to capture the

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Trek feel.

 

[Romulan_spy]

"The One Where We are Trapped in a TV Show" was an interesting episode. We got a Friends spoof, a Downtown Abbey spoof, a Star Trek spoof and a Mister Rogers' spoof, all set in a clearly Orwellian 1984 world.

I might be in the minority here but I have to say the Star Trek spoof felt a bit lazy and unoriginal to me. It was too on the nose. It was too much like a SNL skit spoof of Trek. Sarah Lance doing the obvious and exaggerated Shatner voice. Romulans were Gromulans. I did think Mick as Montalban's Khan was cute but again really obvious.

 

[Christopher]

The sitcom logo evoked Friends, but the set looked more like something out of the '80s. (I loved when they did the turnaround and revealed an actual studio audience that they never noticed before.)

And I think the Trek spoof being on the nose was the point -- the Fates copied it directly but inverted its morals to be about shooting first and destroying resistance.

It was the larger premise that bugged me. We saw at the opening that the Fates are watching everyone and Atropos will instantly kill anyone who voices a subversive thought... but then the Legends, Mona, and Gary are able to run rampant without anyone intervening to stop them. Was Charlie shielding them all from being noticed somehow?

So how long are we going to have two Zaris? I assume that by the end of the season, one or the other of them will go back to her life or sacrifice herself or something. I wouldn't put it past the writers of Legends to keep both Zaris around permanently, but the bean-counters might have a problem with all the extra split-screen shots they'd have to do.

 

[E-DUB]

Double your Zari.................

 

[thribs]

Does Shatner still watch these shows? I’ll be interested in what he thought of this

 

[CorporalClegg]

This completely lived up to the hype. It was the best non-crossover episode for the Arrowverse in years. It balanced the drama, the humor, and the batshit crazy perfectly. And it was just so much fun. I hope they keep Double impact Zari around for a while. There's so much they can do with it.

Also, Avalance.

 

[JD]

Does Shatner still watch these shows? I’ll be interested in what he thought of this

Has he talked about watching the Arrowverse shows in the past?
This one was a lot of fun.
We got all of the goofy TV show parodies, but a the same time they managed to work in some nice emotional moments.
I was nice to see pre-Heyworld Zari again, and I was a bit surprised they actual split the two off at the end. I was thinking maybe we were going to end up with a situation similar to what The Flash has done with Kaitlin and Frost, with them switching back and forth who was in control of the body.
Kaity Lotz Shatner was a bit too over the top for me, but Jes Macallan's Spock was pretty good. Now I kind of want to see her play an actual Vulcan on one of the current or upcoming Trek shows.
It didn't even occur to me that each of the shows was giving the characters what they were after until Charlie explained it at the end.
Constantine offering to stay in Highcastle Abbey with Astra was a nice emotional moment for those two.
Entertainment Weekly has posted a new post-episode interview with the episode's director, Marc Guggenheim.

 

[Ovation]

It’s the only non crossover Arrowverse episode I’ve ever kept on my PVR for a rewatch. It was highly entertaining. Loved it.

 

[CorporalClegg]

And screw trying to find a Kirk for SNW. Hire Caity!

 

[Caretaker]

TV Insider has a preview look at the season finale, plus an interview with the show runner, including information about a guest star. Minor spoilers.