A bright idea about Legends

I have been thinking more about Legends of Tomorrow and the 'rules' of time travel
... and also having imaginary conversations with Eobard Thawne, as you do.

So I got frustrated at the end of season one because the Time Masters perceived history as ending in the war in 2175 and so from their point of view had to make Hard Choices about what to do... but as soon as the Legends blew them up that was no longer an issue.

Because things work out when you're good guys?
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Okay, but what if the kind of space travel that gets you there in a human lifetime is also time travel?

If restricting invention on one restricts what you can do in the other...

2175 becomes the end of the road for humanity
because we were all still here.


Eggbasket.
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So it's not just that the laws of time vary according to the needs of the plot
it's that making that true and embracing it can be what Legends are actually about.



All of which feels like a pretty bright idea right now.

But it spun out of me imaginging that Eobard with the spear actually closed the loopholes the Legends used by creating a reality without time travel, though Eo in specific is the last person who'd limit himself that way, but then I had to figure out physics and philosophy of what Time even is, let alone Time Travel, and then I figured it would screw up space travel and... all that stuff I just wrote clicked together.

I feel smart but also slow.



Also I feel like the writers are just doing their thing and will not, in fact, be building up to return Snart, because grief and guilt and not being able to undo your own life is what the story is About
but there's a bunch more story I haven't seen yet
so who knows.


I like this, there's ideas to work with.

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I just watched Legends of Tomorrow as far as Seance and Sensibility.
... this show keeps making me have Feelings by doing things that should be completely ridiculous. It swings between hilarious and horror in the same five minutes. Big feels workout.

... weirdly, that is more realistic. I mean, real life doesnt have a genre. Stuff happens on top of other stuff in the middle of more stuff. Like trying to figure out how to react to a media feed. It's all smushed together.

But on LoT it has a theme and a satisfying and cathartic emotional payoff, so, you know, that's a very good trick.