Spoilers Legends of Tomorrow season 7

[Kamen Rider Blade]

I hope Gideon gets to be the Ships Computer and maintain a Corporeal form.

That would be nice =D

 

[E-DUB]

Cute idea, but it seems that if you're trying to game ways to alter a point in history, there are far more imaginative options than what anyone seemed to be considering here. I mean, why do all the time travelers focus only on the actual moment of the assassination? Why not stop the assassins days earlier? Why not, say, fix the Archduke's car that morning so it didn't stall at that moment? Or block the road so the Archduke takes a different route? Or go back years further and alter the web of alliances that compelled the nations of Europe to go to war over the assassination in the first place? If Thawne was only concentrating on that exact moment, then there were countless ways to get around him by making sure that moment never arrived in the first place.

Still, they only had 40 minutes and were focusing more on the character stories, so of course they didn't have room to get into all those options. The assassination was just a MacGuffin, a goal Sara had to strive for and Thawne had to stop her from. And I liked how they worked it out, negotiating a compromise.

If this incarnation of Thawne has come around on the wrongness of changing time, he must be a different time remnant (or variant, to crib an MCU term) than the Tom Cavanaugh Thawne that screwed up Barry Allen's life in the recent Flash miniseries. I doubt we'll ever get an explanation for where they respectively came from and how they relate to each other. It's just wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff.

All good points, but looking at things "big picture", it should be remembered that while the assassination of AF was the proximate cause of WWI, it wasn't the underlying cause. Preventing said assassination might merely have postponed the war causing different people to have died, resulting in a totally random outcome with totally unpredictable ramifications.

 

[Christopher]

All good points, but looking at things "big picture", it should be remembered that while the assassination of AF was the proximate cause of WWI, it wasn't the underlying cause. Preventing said assassination might merely have postponed the war causing different people to have died, resulting in a totally random outcome with totally unpredictable ramifications.

Of course -- the same as how the rise of the Nazis would probably still have happened without Hitler, and might have been worse if someone saner than Hitler had filled that niche in history. But that's the other end of the topic. I'm not talking about the consequences, I'm talking about gaming how to prevent that specific assassination. It just seems like a failure of imagination to concentrate solely on the exact moment that it happens, when you can go back to any time before it.

And the big picture was just what I was talking about when I mentioned altering the web of alliances. Europe was already teetering on the brink, and the assassination was just the nudge that toppled it over. If you could change the circumstances so that matters weren't so tense and volatile, then that one assassination wouldn't have had such wide-ranging consequences.

 

[StCoop]

Wow that has to be the most violent episode of this fun-loving light-hearted show.

 

[Caretaker]

So only two more episodes this season. I lost track and didn't realize we were already so close to the end.

 

[Commander Troi]

I was SO pleased that Gwyn both pulled himself out of his panic attack *and* came up with a good plan (and figured out how to tweak it)! Matt Ryan continues to impress me. I LOLd at Nate's Arnold impersonation!

 

[Guy Gardener]

Oh. Thawn opened the bar, so he'd only have to kill each time traveler one at a time.

Which means...

The Bartender is Old Thawn?

 

[StCoop]

On the Scrubs podcast that they do together Zach Braff said he wants to play Blue Beetle alongside Donald Faison's Booster Gold. (They actually beeped out the character names but you don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to work out who they're talking about.)

 

[Commander Troi]

On the Scrubs podcast that they do together Zach Braff said he wants to play Blue Beetle alongside Donald Faison's Booster Gold. (They actually beeped out the character names but you don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to work out who they're talking about.)

*SQUEEEEEEE!* That would make me VERY happy!

 

[The Habs Fan]

Well… in a season that so far has been very good, this might be the best episode of season 7 yet. It feels a little series finale-ish but I’m still pretty confident that Legends will be renewed for what probably will be an 8th and final season.

 

[Tuskin38]

There's also one more episode left.

 

[The Habs Fan]

There's also one more episode left.

Yes, but that doesn’t change the fact that this episode feels like a setup for a series finale as the legends could seemingly retire at the end.

 

[Captain Crow]

I've got a feeling they've hedged their bets and made the last episode of the season so it can serve as both a season and a series ender. It'll have just enough closure so it'll work as a final episode if they don't get another season. While open ended enough that they can easily carry on if they do get another season.

 

[Christopher]

I've got a feeling they've hedged their bets and made the last episode of the season so it can serve as both a season and a series ender. It'll have just enough closure so it'll work as a final episode if they don't get another season. While open ended enough that they can easily carry on if they do get another season.

I think that's a good approach in general, but I'm not sure it's the case here.

Spoiler: Spoiler for finale

Reportedly, the finale will introduce Donald Faison as a character whose description sounds like Booster Gold. I'm guessing that will happen at the end as a cliffhanger for next season, like most LoT season finales.

 

[Commander Troi]

Gary! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

 

[Christopher]

Gary! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Didn't another member of his species get jettisoned into space and survive last season?

 

[Commander Troi]

Didn't another member of his species get jettisoned into space and survive last season?

I've been trying to remember. I haven't had a chance to look it up.

 

[Morpheus 02]

Considering he got bumped on the way out, expect him to complain about it when we see him next.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Booster Gold!

=D

I hope Donald Faison got fit for the role.

 

[The Habs Fan]

Overall a good episode but felt rushed, especially

Spoiler

Nate’s exit

. Booster Gold is an excellent addition to the cast and next season, if it’s renewed, should be a fun return to the time bureau.

I think season 7 might be my favourite season of the entire series. They hit it out of the park this season and found a way to perfectly balance the silliness with the serious.