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Legends of Tomorrow- Weird, while looking for something else, I saw this week's ep was available, so got a hold of it and watched it. Fun ep, and some interest things here. Heh, interesting take on the Wild West. So apparently in the timeline exists "fragmentations", portions of time that for some reason the time masters can't see, and Rip decides to hide the team out in one of them, an old west town named Salvation. One that we discover contains Jonah Hex.
Rip wants them all to just hide in the ship, but there's no way the gang lands in the wild west and not want to see it for themselves. So, he lets them go, but chooses to remain. Why? As we find out later, he had been to this era before, and had befriended Jonah Hex. (And that's why he named his son Jonas)And like I said, the show had a neat idea about the Wild West. Because it was such tumultuous times, rife with adventure, there were ample opportunities to be a hero if one wanted to. And Rip was succumbing to this desire to be a hero. Finally, he forced himself to leave, else he'd prolly just stay there and never see his wife again.
Unfortunately, in leaving, the town he had been protecting was destroyed since he was no longer around. Jonah asks Rip if he knew that was going to happen, and Rip confirms yes, and gets a punch in the face for it. Jonah is mad, but Rip explains he couldn't be a Time Master anymore if he had stayed. Heh, just as I was thinking, "Well, he's not a time master anymore!" Rip says as such, vowing to leave the ship to help the gang get out of the mess they're in.
And what mess is that? So the gang hangs out at the local saloon, having some fun. Stein is taking some local ruffians at poker, when one of the thugs is being ungentlemanly towards a waitress. Stein tries to get the guy to back off, and Snart ends up quickly killing the guy when he tries to draw on the professor. So of course the gang gets into a big brawl, which is when Jonah shows his face and the gang runs out of town.
Jonah tells them that they just messed with the Stillwater gang, and they're going to make the town pain for killing one of their men. Ray, do-gooder he is, wants to save the town, and ends up becoming the new sheriff. So he confronts the gang when they ride back into town, and when the leader tries to draw on Ray, Snart snipes the gun out of his hand from the shadows. Ray bluffs that he has sharpshooters all over the town, and that seems to send the gang off running again.
Of course, Rip tells them, okay, cool for now, but what happens when we leave? So Ray wants to end things with the gang with finality. He and the boys sans Rip but with Hex (the girls are busy with another subplot) raid the enemy camp. They capture the gang's leader, but Jax gets captured in the process. And so, they decide to have this settled with one final duel- if the team's representative beats the gang's leader, they get Jax back and the gang leaves Stillwater alone (heh, that implies the gang has honor and will comply, but it looks like they do)
As I mentioned earlier, this is when Rip is all, "I'm not a time master anymore!" and is the one who ends up in the quick draw. He easily kills the gang's leader, and they're no longer a problem.
Of course, with all their dicking around in town, they eventually draw the attention of the three guys hunting them, who show up. Since they're using future tech, there's no reason the gang has to hide their identity anymore. And so they fight it out, and kill their foes. Which was really weird. Like Ray literally flew through one of them like a human bullet! I know he's fighting for his life, but using his powers in that way seems way OOC.
Anyways, before Rory kills the last one, he says Omega protocols have been issued. And so he and Rip tell them what that means. They're sending the Pilgrim after them, their best hunter. The gang is all, they can take her on, their bad-ass. Sure, now. But she's not coming after them now, she's going to kill their past selves. And so the ep ends with her sneaking behind a young Mick, about to shoot him, with the screen fading to black and a gunshot going off. Wait, is Mick dead again? Will the next ep be them interacting and Mick just being gone, having no idea who he was? Though given that he's also Kronos, you'd think that will cause all sorts of paradoxes.
Other stuff. As I said, the girls weren't available for the camp raid because Kendra was checking out something else. She had bumped into an old woman in the bar and got a flash. Heh, since she looked part black, it was pretty obvious that was the older Kendra of this time period. But it wasn't until she and Sara found her that she realized that.
Anyways, older past her gives her a lecture. This one had lost Carter also. And the reason she's hiding out is because its too painful to try and interact with others, possibly falling in love with someone else. Why? Because older past Kendra says she's fated to be with Carter, he's her soul mate. Kendra is young and doesn't have full access to past memories yet, but older her is all, does she think she's never loved other men before? The thing with Ray is nothing new. But fate has a way of messing with these things. She tells her future self to end it, because it will just end in tragedy.
Sara encourages her later, saying that lady doesn't know what she's talking about. She's bitter and thinks it won't work because she's never met Ray. Which is a nice sentiment, but c'mon, I get the whole not wanting to be defined by what her original self did, wanting to be with whoever she wants. But even though she hasn't met Ray, she clearly indicated she's been with someone who might be to herself what Ray is to Kendra. I mean, I think she should still fight like hell for this current relationship, but past her's warnings have merit.
And in the C-plot, Stein can't sit around and let some kid die of TB, so he has Gideon formulate an appropriate treatment and saves him despite Rip being all, "You're messing with the timeline!" But, Stein won't be dissuaded, he doesn't want to always be full of regrets like Rip is. Because for all Rip's talk, you know he wishes he hadn't been a cold observer and interfered, damn the consequences. (After all, isn't that what they're doing right now on this mission?!)
And the kid ends up being young HG Wells! Which I guess the age meshes sort of (HG would've been 14 in 1880, but the kid seemed younger than that) Though I get they wanted it to be a twist where Stein ends up saving someone (I was going to be amused if it was a famous bad figure from history), but could they have at least picked someone appropriate to the area? I mean, he and his mom did have English accents, but looking it up, HG Wells wasn't in the American West in the 1880s! If you're gonna use someone real, at least get it somewhat right!
Legends of Tomorrow- Weird, while looking for something else, I saw this week's ep was available, so got a hold of it and watched it. Fun ep, and some interest things here. Heh, interesting take on the Wild West. So apparently in the timeline exists "fragmentations", portions of time that for some reason the time masters can't see, and Rip decides to hide the team out in one of them, an old west town named Salvation. One that we discover contains Jonah Hex.
Rip wants them all to just hide in the ship, but there's no way the gang lands in the wild west and not want to see it for themselves. So, he lets them go, but chooses to remain. Why? As we find out later, he had been to this era before, and had befriended Jonah Hex. (And that's why he named his son Jonas)And like I said, the show had a neat idea about the Wild West. Because it was such tumultuous times, rife with adventure, there were ample opportunities to be a hero if one wanted to. And Rip was succumbing to this desire to be a hero. Finally, he forced himself to leave, else he'd prolly just stay there and never see his wife again.
Unfortunately, in leaving, the town he had been protecting was destroyed since he was no longer around. Jonah asks Rip if he knew that was going to happen, and Rip confirms yes, and gets a punch in the face for it. Jonah is mad, but Rip explains he couldn't be a Time Master anymore if he had stayed. Heh, just as I was thinking, "Well, he's not a time master anymore!" Rip says as such, vowing to leave the ship to help the gang get out of the mess they're in.
And what mess is that? So the gang hangs out at the local saloon, having some fun. Stein is taking some local ruffians at poker, when one of the thugs is being ungentlemanly towards a waitress. Stein tries to get the guy to back off, and Snart ends up quickly killing the guy when he tries to draw on the professor. So of course the gang gets into a big brawl, which is when Jonah shows his face and the gang runs out of town.
Jonah tells them that they just messed with the Stillwater gang, and they're going to make the town pain for killing one of their men. Ray, do-gooder he is, wants to save the town, and ends up becoming the new sheriff. So he confronts the gang when they ride back into town, and when the leader tries to draw on Ray, Snart snipes the gun out of his hand from the shadows. Ray bluffs that he has sharpshooters all over the town, and that seems to send the gang off running again.
Of course, Rip tells them, okay, cool for now, but what happens when we leave? So Ray wants to end things with the gang with finality. He and the boys sans Rip but with Hex (the girls are busy with another subplot) raid the enemy camp. They capture the gang's leader, but Jax gets captured in the process. And so, they decide to have this settled with one final duel- if the team's representative beats the gang's leader, they get Jax back and the gang leaves Stillwater alone (heh, that implies the gang has honor and will comply, but it looks like they do)
As I mentioned earlier, this is when Rip is all, "I'm not a time master anymore!" and is the one who ends up in the quick draw. He easily kills the gang's leader, and they're no longer a problem.
Of course, with all their dicking around in town, they eventually draw the attention of the three guys hunting them, who show up. Since they're using future tech, there's no reason the gang has to hide their identity anymore. And so they fight it out, and kill their foes. Which was really weird. Like Ray literally flew through one of them like a human bullet! I know he's fighting for his life, but using his powers in that way seems way OOC.
Anyways, before Rory kills the last one, he says Omega protocols have been issued. And so he and Rip tell them what that means. They're sending the Pilgrim after them, their best hunter. The gang is all, they can take her on, their bad-ass. Sure, now. But she's not coming after them now, she's going to kill their past selves. And so the ep ends with her sneaking behind a young Mick, about to shoot him, with the screen fading to black and a gunshot going off. Wait, is Mick dead again? Will the next ep be them interacting and Mick just being gone, having no idea who he was? Though given that he's also Kronos, you'd think that will cause all sorts of paradoxes.
Other stuff. As I said, the girls weren't available for the camp raid because Kendra was checking out something else. She had bumped into an old woman in the bar and got a flash. Heh, since she looked part black, it was pretty obvious that was the older Kendra of this time period. But it wasn't until she and Sara found her that she realized that.
Anyways, older past her gives her a lecture. This one had lost Carter also. And the reason she's hiding out is because its too painful to try and interact with others, possibly falling in love with someone else. Why? Because older past Kendra says she's fated to be with Carter, he's her soul mate. Kendra is young and doesn't have full access to past memories yet, but older her is all, does she think she's never loved other men before? The thing with Ray is nothing new. But fate has a way of messing with these things. She tells her future self to end it, because it will just end in tragedy.
Sara encourages her later, saying that lady doesn't know what she's talking about. She's bitter and thinks it won't work because she's never met Ray. Which is a nice sentiment, but c'mon, I get the whole not wanting to be defined by what her original self did, wanting to be with whoever she wants. But even though she hasn't met Ray, she clearly indicated she's been with someone who might be to herself what Ray is to Kendra. I mean, I think she should still fight like hell for this current relationship, but past her's warnings have merit.
And in the C-plot, Stein can't sit around and let some kid die of TB, so he has Gideon formulate an appropriate treatment and saves him despite Rip being all, "You're messing with the timeline!" But, Stein won't be dissuaded, he doesn't want to always be full of regrets like Rip is. Because for all Rip's talk, you know he wishes he hadn't been a cold observer and interfered, damn the consequences. (After all, isn't that what they're doing right now on this mission?!)
And the kid ends up being young HG Wells! Which I guess the age meshes sort of (HG would've been 14 in 1880, but the kid seemed younger than that) Though I get they wanted it to be a twist where Stein ends up saving someone (I was going to be amused if it was a famous bad figure from history), but could they have at least picked someone appropriate to the area? I mean, he and his mom did have English accents, but looking it up, HG Wells wasn't in the American West in the 1880s! If you're gonna use someone real, at least get it somewhat right!
