Legends of Tomorrow 2-12 Camelot 3000
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beccaelizabethSo
On the one hand, Doctor Midnite is a speaking role this time
on the other they cured his blondness (did they not notice his superpower?)
and killed him in the first few minutes.
Black guy dies is immensely tedious.
I'm also not keen on what they did to Camelot, compared to either legend or DC.
I mean, having the Legends crew charge around history crashing into things being the cause of them is supposed to be the problem?
And why is it only in the missing scene that the address that thing where Camelot is a giant aberration?
Also, it continues to annoy me that the story on a meta level thinks Sara trying to step up and replace Rip is fundamentally about a woman trying to take over from a man.
See Guinevere.
That is seriously not the story unless they're being really annoying.
But.
Sara's continued struggles with figuring out the just and moral thing to do makes plenty good story though.
And Mick... I loved basically everything about Mick's story in this one. Figuring out Martin, resisting mind control, refusing to abandon Ray, and then not taking over those knights but giving them all the stuff he has to deal with daily, impulses and trauma, and it just totally incapacitates them. Excellent story values Mick and his struggles with mental health.
Martin needs slapped though. His arrogant assumptions are entirely consistent with his character, but his refusal to modify them in the face of experimental evidence is anti scientific and indefensible.
Jax was much better.
Story actually respecting Mick and giving him good stuff to do, and acknowledging his past of trauma and mind control while giving him a chance to turn it around, ten out of ten.
... Martin continuing to use him as a test subject even after saying the tech was clearly... well Jax interrupted him, but if it's a receiver that resembles something Martin and Mick have seen recently, it's the chip in Mick's brain.
Time Masters made their hunters into remote controlled puppets.
Calling them bounty hunters is just foul. They were slaves.
Mick didn't get broken free by one too many hits on the head, not so simple as that, he fought back, both times same. And this episode says that too. Focus, and all the work he always does to deal with his own brain.
"Poor babies" heh.
Basically want to draw little hearts around that whole side of the plot.
I guess I liked almost all the bits, I just find it clunky when Legends make history.
Also I kind of like the work around where Camelot looks all renfaire because a time traveler did it, but the episode weren't kidding that some of that stuff was literally centuries ahead of its time, so it's not just a dream that brought Arthur to power, it's arms and armour from eight hundred years ahead. Like 3000 to 21st century, big leap. Ought to have made messes of history. If it don't, time travel has no rules.
I think I liked all the episodes Camelot parts if I don't think about them too hard.
And I love the bits with Mick.
On the one hand, Doctor Midnite is a speaking role this time
on the other they cured his blondness (did they not notice his superpower?)
and killed him in the first few minutes.
Black guy dies is immensely tedious.
I'm also not keen on what they did to Camelot, compared to either legend or DC.
I mean, having the Legends crew charge around history crashing into things being the cause of them is supposed to be the problem?
And why is it only in the missing scene that the address that thing where Camelot is a giant aberration?
Also, it continues to annoy me that the story on a meta level thinks Sara trying to step up and replace Rip is fundamentally about a woman trying to take over from a man.
See Guinevere.
That is seriously not the story unless they're being really annoying.
But.
Sara's continued struggles with figuring out the just and moral thing to do makes plenty good story though.
And Mick... I loved basically everything about Mick's story in this one. Figuring out Martin, resisting mind control, refusing to abandon Ray, and then not taking over those knights but giving them all the stuff he has to deal with daily, impulses and trauma, and it just totally incapacitates them. Excellent story values Mick and his struggles with mental health.
Martin needs slapped though. His arrogant assumptions are entirely consistent with his character, but his refusal to modify them in the face of experimental evidence is anti scientific and indefensible.
Jax was much better.
Story actually respecting Mick and giving him good stuff to do, and acknowledging his past of trauma and mind control while giving him a chance to turn it around, ten out of ten.
... Martin continuing to use him as a test subject even after saying the tech was clearly... well Jax interrupted him, but if it's a receiver that resembles something Martin and Mick have seen recently, it's the chip in Mick's brain.
Time Masters made their hunters into remote controlled puppets.
Calling them bounty hunters is just foul. They were slaves.
Mick didn't get broken free by one too many hits on the head, not so simple as that, he fought back, both times same. And this episode says that too. Focus, and all the work he always does to deal with his own brain.
"Poor babies" heh.
Basically want to draw little hearts around that whole side of the plot.
I guess I liked almost all the bits, I just find it clunky when Legends make history.
Also I kind of like the work around where Camelot looks all renfaire because a time traveler did it, but the episode weren't kidding that some of that stuff was literally centuries ahead of its time, so it's not just a dream that brought Arthur to power, it's arms and armour from eight hundred years ahead. Like 3000 to 21st century, big leap. Ought to have made messes of history. If it don't, time travel has no rules.
I think I liked all the episodes Camelot parts if I don't think about them too hard.
And I love the bits with Mick.