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I watched a couple more episodes of Legends of Tomorrow
and the villains (Legion of Doom, Eobard and his boy band) were doing a heist in the years away future of
January 2025.

... I had a bunch of feelings about it but they are mostly represented by
staring at the wall for a bit.

Now I'm thinking
about how much damage
a retired time traveller could do
just by keeping track of all the days they could stir things up again
by waiting, say, nine years.


... very mess.



Ace and Hex did a time travel from the 2020s and Ace has caught up the long way around by now.
You wonder all the things she'd want to tell herself, even if it's just confined to better control of the nitro nine.



I was not exactly caught up in Legends because the guys were being very playground about whose sword is bigger and kind of embarrassingly bad at, like, crime. The basics of. Leverage this was not.

Also it feels like there is a much more elegant solution that they cannot conceive of or pursue by virtue of being
massive dicks who hate each other a lot.

Kind of like the speedster was not going to think up
try standing still
on his own.

The assassins are just... not well suited to potentially cooperative solutions.

The mind control stuff is epic creepy though.


I stopped after two episodes because if all I'm thinking is how there's a way to speed run the whole season if you start out knowing how it ends then I am not, you know, watching.

I like the bit about Lily and temporal aberrations but I don't like the way they treat timelines as real and unreal based on absolute nothing. I mean post crisis the multiverse exists because of time travel, they need a better theoretical basis than 'unnatural'. But the Lily argument is kind of them discovering that? Maybe.

I can start with the word chronodynamics and spin some technobabble about currents in time and how some are destructive and some are sustaining and some are legit transformational to the whole pattern but they all have to contend with the whole rest of time still doing its thing.

Or you can start with a distinction based around free will and personal choice, and how much of a rug pull it is if the chosen few can make everyone do all their choices over again. That's more satisfying.

But no. Not so much so far.



I do not get Nate and Amaya. Rescue mission first, whatever all that was after. Plus for a historian Nate is not great at causes and consequences.


Mick was great though.
It's satisfying watching the story give him chances to shine but the other characters are... challenging, this year.
Great set up for next disc.


I need more sleep but I have been neither sleeping nor doing much of anything else, outside of those two episodes.

I don't know what I would be looking for in a story.

... possibly I am trying to fill my fun meter when it is my social meter empty.

Shall have to think of something for next year.

Wherein I talk myself into a new xover ship apparently

I have read a bunch of crossovers in a row now
that were just
intro outro.

Everyone meets, gets introduced, hits a bunch of stuff, goes away again.

And the hitting tends to take like a paragraph?

I feel like the hook to a crossover needs to be a bit more than just
look they all hit things real good
even with a common theme like magic or angels or demons.


The story of two or more people meeting needs to be something like
what need do these people fill for each other?

and 'need to hit things real good' doesn't really cover it when they are in hit things real good shows.

It's just a bit frustrating when I can see how each would offer a perspective that could get the other unjammed at some points in their canon
but they are just
gonna hit a demo about it.

And don't get me wrong, there are many ways to write hitting a demon about it that are *also* about confronting your emotions and getting a character arc unjammed, it's just not always what happen.


Like, say Sara Lance meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Key things to talk about: Did We Come Back Wrong? Bloodlust and the fashionable blonde! The Burden Of Command (that you didn't ask for but look at these guys when you don't do it). Ex Boyfriends with a whole angsty vigilante thing going on, possibly dying to save the world edition. Sapphic crushes and how much the crime parts don't make the crush go away. Or, sapphic crushes, and how much Sara hasn't met Ava yet. Give Buffy a holiday, Sara's good for it.

That's so many themes! You could pick one theme and get so many words out of it!

... I just read a fic that only had them fight and decided Sara would epic lose to Slayer strength, as if she doesn't fight superpowered beings for a living.

At least have them fight and do the thing where they each have a signature move that ends with a knife at Buffy's throat and a stake to Sara's torso, Sara would be into that. Buffy would be into that. Throwing each other around would work for both of them, the story should know this.

Or pick one of the more superpowered eras of Sara Lance and have Buffy mistake her for the source of the threat and they have to clear up the misunderstanding through angsty mutual personal revelations and then have sex about it.


... I did not start typing this with some kind of Sara/Buffy agenda but now I'm talking myself into it.


It's just like you can do a crossover to be all Look at these two great tastes that taste great together
but then like
if it do click there will be so many more things to do with it.


Time travelling demons! Say there's a demon nobody can figure out how to defeat and they have to Bill and Ted it by going back to the demon's Ascension and, like, rescuing the food crowd or smashing the box of pointy food or something, removing a key part of Ascension so when they get back they know the pure demon is actually vulnerable. A reason to go over the mythology of both shows.

But! Legends is the resolving things with a sing along or the power of Beebo show. Like sure in season one they fixed things by blowing stuff up and a spot of murder, but things evolved from there. So how would the Legends react to Buffy's general Slay Them All theme after the seasons where they met a bunch of supernatural beings and it was clearly Hell organising the capture and torture of them?

So many ways to smush the shows together and have new story fall out.



But if you don't need to smush the shows to get that exact same story, I shall end the page kind of vaguely sad, and apparently full of plot bunnies.