Legends of Tomorrow 2-01 DVDs
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beccaelizabethThe episode was pretty okay, though it bounced along a bit too fast to have much heart.
Ray getting told he's nothing without the suit sounds like a story arc even if I didn't know spoilers, as does Sara going after Darhk.
And I'm pretty excited to see the JSA, even if that particular set being in 1942 is a little weird.
The way Reverse Flash gets introduced is pretty cool. Red lightning everywhere, ship full of dead nazis. But Darhk being all "Hello Eobard" is somehow way shippier than I was expecting. First names on their own shouldn't be. And yet.
... Eobard helping Nazis nuke New York does make him a way less appealing guy. I mean, where he left off in The Flash he was not playing on that scale or with those partners. Being one of those alt history guys who think nazis are any interesting at all is just... he's like a billion times less interesting now.
But definitely a bad guy.
Things with Mick were weird because Mick was being competent, smart, accurate, and then called the smart one... in a way that made that a punchline. And then he started getting his words wrong at the end? With the difference being before and after he was in stasis for many decades? That... makes it a different story than I think it wants to be. That makes it look like he was injured in stasis. Which isn't funny.
Also I do not ship atomwave but I'm starting to think they do. The deleted scene was Mick, with his shirt off, being tended to in medical by Ray, who asked for and was given emotional reassurance, in Mick's way. Of note is this is the first time Gideon's version of medical required anyone to get their kit off, which changes the read a little. Mick's scars were fully in evidence, in close up, in the episode where he was introduced as 'arsonist'. He's interesting textures all over both arms and more. In a not shippy sense it reminds of last time we saw those two and Mick's scars, in the Russian prison, where they went through a lot together. Mick is reassuring that Ray is more than the suit by saying he's also the luckiest man alive, cause he should be many times dead by now.
... shirtless hot guy tells you you're the luckiest man alive, I don't know, my mind goes places...
But it's a deleted scene, meaning it strictly speaking never happened. it's that liminal space of near canon.
... glad they put it on here though, is pretty.
Pretty is Mick's nickname for the new guy. Time detective, and more drama than practical. Gets knocked down and throws up a lot, so at this point we're not meant to take him seriously. But my knowledge of narrative causality says that means he'll be badass by the end of the season. Meh.
I'm going to stay distracted by the whole not Len factor on many things on this show. Mick's new volunteer partner? Not Len, even if I can see where the atomwave people are getting it from. Also, Ray is a relentless sunshine puppy whose reason for not saving his fiancee is that it's against the rules. As if rules, specific, were the important part, rather than potential impact on the timeline etc. Blind adherence to rules is just... no. And being set up to contrast Sara 'there are no rules' and Mick 'stealing isn't screwing up'.
New guy is also not Len. With Rip leaving and a new time expert arriving I'm thinking he's closer to a replacement for Rip, just with changing up the hierarchy.
He hasn't been interesting yet. Plus, it makes no sense with the established laws of time that someone in the timeline can notice time changing, on account of, that is how they'd always remember it being. He ought to be that weird fortean dude who believes a wild conspiracy theory, at best, but since we know he's right and we aren't shown him being wrong sometimes, it don't come across that way. And he says he has a physics friend who can something something detect? So they made a new rule that's like proto aberration detection. Still shouldn't work without being in the temporal zone.
... we have to pay much less attention to the rules to make this story work, but the ethics depend on the rules, which may or may not exist in universe...
*sigh*
One thing that did amuse about the new sets - who put a TARDIS console on the bridge? That is a very familiar design and Jax should cite his sources.
The whole interior of the shop seemed to get bigger. They said Jax was building stuff but it kind of doesn't explain the changed proportions. Which made me vaguely wonder about temporal anomalies already having changed the Waverider and how much what we've seen is still what happened.
But that's a plot bunny that's not going anywhere.
I shall watch a second episode and see what happens...
Ray getting told he's nothing without the suit sounds like a story arc even if I didn't know spoilers, as does Sara going after Darhk.
And I'm pretty excited to see the JSA, even if that particular set being in 1942 is a little weird.
The way Reverse Flash gets introduced is pretty cool. Red lightning everywhere, ship full of dead nazis. But Darhk being all "Hello Eobard" is somehow way shippier than I was expecting. First names on their own shouldn't be. And yet.
... Eobard helping Nazis nuke New York does make him a way less appealing guy. I mean, where he left off in The Flash he was not playing on that scale or with those partners. Being one of those alt history guys who think nazis are any interesting at all is just... he's like a billion times less interesting now.
But definitely a bad guy.
Things with Mick were weird because Mick was being competent, smart, accurate, and then called the smart one... in a way that made that a punchline. And then he started getting his words wrong at the end? With the difference being before and after he was in stasis for many decades? That... makes it a different story than I think it wants to be. That makes it look like he was injured in stasis. Which isn't funny.
Also I do not ship atomwave but I'm starting to think they do. The deleted scene was Mick, with his shirt off, being tended to in medical by Ray, who asked for and was given emotional reassurance, in Mick's way. Of note is this is the first time Gideon's version of medical required anyone to get their kit off, which changes the read a little. Mick's scars were fully in evidence, in close up, in the episode where he was introduced as 'arsonist'. He's interesting textures all over both arms and more. In a not shippy sense it reminds of last time we saw those two and Mick's scars, in the Russian prison, where they went through a lot together. Mick is reassuring that Ray is more than the suit by saying he's also the luckiest man alive, cause he should be many times dead by now.
... shirtless hot guy tells you you're the luckiest man alive, I don't know, my mind goes places...
But it's a deleted scene, meaning it strictly speaking never happened. it's that liminal space of near canon.
... glad they put it on here though, is pretty.
Pretty is Mick's nickname for the new guy. Time detective, and more drama than practical. Gets knocked down and throws up a lot, so at this point we're not meant to take him seriously. But my knowledge of narrative causality says that means he'll be badass by the end of the season. Meh.
I'm going to stay distracted by the whole not Len factor on many things on this show. Mick's new volunteer partner? Not Len, even if I can see where the atomwave people are getting it from. Also, Ray is a relentless sunshine puppy whose reason for not saving his fiancee is that it's against the rules. As if rules, specific, were the important part, rather than potential impact on the timeline etc. Blind adherence to rules is just... no. And being set up to contrast Sara 'there are no rules' and Mick 'stealing isn't screwing up'.
New guy is also not Len. With Rip leaving and a new time expert arriving I'm thinking he's closer to a replacement for Rip, just with changing up the hierarchy.
He hasn't been interesting yet. Plus, it makes no sense with the established laws of time that someone in the timeline can notice time changing, on account of, that is how they'd always remember it being. He ought to be that weird fortean dude who believes a wild conspiracy theory, at best, but since we know he's right and we aren't shown him being wrong sometimes, it don't come across that way. And he says he has a physics friend who can something something detect? So they made a new rule that's like proto aberration detection. Still shouldn't work without being in the temporal zone.
... we have to pay much less attention to the rules to make this story work, but the ethics depend on the rules, which may or may not exist in universe...
*sigh*
One thing that did amuse about the new sets - who put a TARDIS console on the bridge? That is a very familiar design and Jax should cite his sources.
The whole interior of the shop seemed to get bigger. They said Jax was building stuff but it kind of doesn't explain the changed proportions. Which made me vaguely wonder about temporal anomalies already having changed the Waverider and how much what we've seen is still what happened.
But that's a plot bunny that's not going anywhere.
I shall watch a second episode and see what happens...
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Date: 2017-08-27 07:03 pm (UTC)... if it's just the idea of being replaced, that's one thing, but it's as if it's a ridiculous idea
and it shouldn't be
because Chronos had his own timeship
and a sterling reputation in his way
so Mick ought to know ... perhaps not as much as Rip if there's a class divide between Captains and Hunters, but still
enough.
Mocking Mick doesn't even make sense.