Legends of Tomorrow 2-14 Moonshot
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beccaelizabethThat was ridiculous.
And not in a way I personally can roll with and find funny.
Humans doing those jobs do not work like that, so the whole thing is just... no.
The Heywood strands of the story are obviously emotionally affecting, but any noble sacrifice that could be fixed with a basic safety precaution like seatbelt or safety line is on I can't feel the way the writers meant me to.
Also, whoever wrote this understands physics even less than comic books usually do. Including comic book physics.
The bit in Flash season one where freefall takes away the speed advantage obviously inspired this bit where Reverse Flash has no powers without gravity, but that's just... not why it worked. They were still moving at super speed, to hit each other, still channelling the lightning. Same like Eo's calculation trick can only work if he's *thinking* at super speed, if they're comparing genius to genius.
If they want Eo to be unable the move that fast in that environment, *use* the lightning. One electrical spark in the wrong place and the whole thing could have any malfunction you care to name. Weird atmospheric mix and it could kaboom the module. Make it so he could, but he wouldn't survive the results, so he has to restrain himself.
... which is a reasonable reason if we just assume Ray jumped to a wrong conclusion. Eo was restraining himself for some reason. Like needing a lift back to Earth before his personal timer ran down.
Similarly the continuity thing I can't get my head around - this version of Eo can't have had time to work with Cisco and Caitlin, unless I've wildly misunderstood which minute he's a remnant of - could just be him lying to form a connection and put Ray at ease.
The engine problem that shouldn't have worked is very comic book, so whatever.
Same with rocks that size just happening to be there.
So that gets back to people stuff.
... mission control would not be distracted. their work is important. singing is stupid. also, how does one guy pull a wire to cut them off and not get caught when they check for obvious errors?
*sigh*
Okay, ignore.
I liked Eobard. Manipulative and stabby but his victims woke up for once. Also when Ray said he did it to help people Eo didn't answer directly, which leaves room to fill in. Maybe he did too. And then he said some interesting stuff about Ray and how superhero tech could save the world, which, yes. Iron Man has the excuse he *also* does the power tech change the world stuff, but Palmer in this timeline does not.
But yeah, Ray's list of dead people is pretty important, and Eo's claim he's not one of history's monsters is... difficult to sell.
... though counting the second murder or the same woman, when that put history back on track, isn't very time traveller. I haven't seen the relevant Flash episodes though. DVDs are slow.
There's a way to read Eobard that's very flat and not very interesting, but I like much better when there's more angles.
Even at his best though, he's got a real problem seeing the world as real, since with time travel he can change it all again later, and everyone's dead eventually. A reality you can put your foot through without really trying, filled with people who can't think at a tenth your speed, has to be weird to connect with. Yet Barry et al manage. So Eo should.
What else... Nate gave Amaya her choice in a stupidly lashing out kind of way, but at least noticed and apologised. Amaya pushed the time traveller integrity of time line pretty hard and it killed a friend. So now she has story, because choices to make. Should be interesting.
Episode was made of interesting parts that just didn't grab me.
... I like Legends of Tomorrow, but I'm thinking I increasingly like it as a lego kit.
... not least because I know which parts I'm not going to like at all...
And not in a way I personally can roll with and find funny.
Humans doing those jobs do not work like that, so the whole thing is just... no.
The Heywood strands of the story are obviously emotionally affecting, but any noble sacrifice that could be fixed with a basic safety precaution like seatbelt or safety line is on I can't feel the way the writers meant me to.
Also, whoever wrote this understands physics even less than comic books usually do. Including comic book physics.
The bit in Flash season one where freefall takes away the speed advantage obviously inspired this bit where Reverse Flash has no powers without gravity, but that's just... not why it worked. They were still moving at super speed, to hit each other, still channelling the lightning. Same like Eo's calculation trick can only work if he's *thinking* at super speed, if they're comparing genius to genius.
If they want Eo to be unable the move that fast in that environment, *use* the lightning. One electrical spark in the wrong place and the whole thing could have any malfunction you care to name. Weird atmospheric mix and it could kaboom the module. Make it so he could, but he wouldn't survive the results, so he has to restrain himself.
... which is a reasonable reason if we just assume Ray jumped to a wrong conclusion. Eo was restraining himself for some reason. Like needing a lift back to Earth before his personal timer ran down.
Similarly the continuity thing I can't get my head around - this version of Eo can't have had time to work with Cisco and Caitlin, unless I've wildly misunderstood which minute he's a remnant of - could just be him lying to form a connection and put Ray at ease.
The engine problem that shouldn't have worked is very comic book, so whatever.
Same with rocks that size just happening to be there.
So that gets back to people stuff.
... mission control would not be distracted. their work is important. singing is stupid. also, how does one guy pull a wire to cut them off and not get caught when they check for obvious errors?
*sigh*
Okay, ignore.
I liked Eobard. Manipulative and stabby but his victims woke up for once. Also when Ray said he did it to help people Eo didn't answer directly, which leaves room to fill in. Maybe he did too. And then he said some interesting stuff about Ray and how superhero tech could save the world, which, yes. Iron Man has the excuse he *also* does the power tech change the world stuff, but Palmer in this timeline does not.
But yeah, Ray's list of dead people is pretty important, and Eo's claim he's not one of history's monsters is... difficult to sell.
... though counting the second murder or the same woman, when that put history back on track, isn't very time traveller. I haven't seen the relevant Flash episodes though. DVDs are slow.
There's a way to read Eobard that's very flat and not very interesting, but I like much better when there's more angles.
Even at his best though, he's got a real problem seeing the world as real, since with time travel he can change it all again later, and everyone's dead eventually. A reality you can put your foot through without really trying, filled with people who can't think at a tenth your speed, has to be weird to connect with. Yet Barry et al manage. So Eo should.
What else... Nate gave Amaya her choice in a stupidly lashing out kind of way, but at least noticed and apologised. Amaya pushed the time traveller integrity of time line pretty hard and it killed a friend. So now she has story, because choices to make. Should be interesting.
Episode was made of interesting parts that just didn't grab me.
... I like Legends of Tomorrow, but I'm thinking I increasingly like it as a lego kit.
... not least because I know which parts I'm not going to like at all...