Legends of Tomorrow ends its first season with the appropriately titled “Legendary.” There were a lot of surprises, and I’ll do my best to keep the spoilers out of the review until the very end and I’ll mark them beforehand. But I will say the final reveal made the old-school DC Comics fan in me very happy.
Picking up precisely where last week’s episode left off, “Lost in the Flood” opens with Green Arrow and Spartan facing off against a newly repowered Damian Darhk. Darhk effortlessly turns both arrows and bullets to dust after stopping them in mid-air. Even he seems to be surprised by this trick. He then claims he’s going to pull all the oxygen from their bodies and then leaves. For whatever reason, his anti-oxygen power evidently fails, since both heroes survive. Darhk says he’s going to go get Rubicon under his control again.
Flash’s season is almost done, and there’s a lot going on in “Invincible.” Zoom has unleashed his horde of evil metas on Central City, and the police are hopelessly outgunned. The group shot doesn’t allow us to pick who most of them are (I’m not quite geeky/obsessive enough to go back and watch it on frame by frame), but two of them appear to be versions of Hawkman and Hawkgirl at least.
You want the good or the bad news first? Well, we’re going with bad.
Last episode, we finally learned what Darhk was up to with his “Genesis” scheme. In “Monument Point,” things get much worse for the heroes, and the rest of the world for that matter. Destruction looms on the horizon, and the good guys seem to be out of tricks. Things are looking bad for Team Arrow.
The Flash gets a bit surreal this week, but then, with the title of “The Runaway Dinosaur,” it wasn’t going to be one of their more normal episodes. The STAR team is trying to figure out what happened when Barry suddenly disappeared when they get another surprise. After Jessie and Wally don’t answer the intercom, Wells and the Wests find Wally and Jessie on the floor of the hallway. Wally comes around, but Jessie is out cold and initially even her heart seems to have stopped. Henry, after he’s shaken off the shock of Barry’s vanishing, agrees to use his medical training to check her out. Cisco uses his powers to figure out Barry is still alive, but trapped in some weird energy vortex.
“River of Time” is the next installment of Legends of Tomorrow, and the team is having more than their share of problems. They have captured Vandal Savage, and he’s on the ship, which is both good and bad. Rip has decided the best way to proceed is to bring Savage to the Time Council, which is probably not a good idea. And the team itself is fragmenting, several of them thinking that anywhere but Vanishing Point, home of the Time Masters, is a good destination.
Star City is looking at some dark days (or Darhk days if you like puns). Laurel is dead and her secret as Black Canary revealed. Damian Darhk is on the loose. HIVE’s Genesis plan is moving forward. And Team Arrow is short on powers, especially ones to counter Damian’s magical abilities.
The STAR crew is trying desperately to cover for Barry losing his powers in “Rupture.” Cisco has come up with a pretty clever toy to let the Flash seem like he’s back in action throughout the city. It’s a little rough on Barry, but since he already feels so guilty about giving up his powers, he’s not complaining. Wells is his usual cheerful and supportive self, dismissing their efforts as “Hoodlums and Holograms,” and trying to convince everyone to try his plan- recreating the accident that gave Barry his powers in the first place.
One thing I’ll give the writers of Gotham: they’ve taken one of Batman’s most obscure foes (I’d lay money no one that doesn’t read the comics had heard of Hugo Strange before this season, and even some that do might not have) and made him not only a menacing threat, but possibly the source of many of Batman’s later foes. The series has definitely had its problems, but I think this was one of their better episodes, and they even tried to address some of those flaws. If the rest of the series can hold at this level of quality, I’d be a lot more of a fan of the show.
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