Legends of Tomorrow 2-16 Doomworld
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beccaelizabethThat was not Leonard Snart. The 'good boy' stuff sucked and seemed ooc compared to all else we've seen, but it wasn't the most fundamental part. Captain Cold is, in this episode, scared of going up against a speedster.
What do the writers think he does for a living?
Only available conclusion is Eobard edited him. I mean seriously, Cold vs speedster is what Snart lives for, there is no plausible way he'd be acting like this from fear of speed. Of the Spear, maybe, but that wasn't how they said it.
He said he had a plan and Mick told him off for not sharing. Plausible. That was the arc that Mick lived through and Snart missed. They've already renegotiated those terms. Snart doesn't know, so he missed.
And as for owning Central but keeping on doing crime for the fun... lets call it his 2046 moment and move on. The Snart we knew was motivated by wanting to up his game, but maybe a few months of boredom here are the holiday before the boredom. Even if Mick is bored already...
If Snart is meant to represent the temptation of Mick's criminal past this is a weird way to do that. Like, tada, it's not crime any more cause it's ours, do you like it? And no, Mick does not like it.
... kind of want to see what would happen if they'd memory shot Snart.
Of course Eobard is also problematic in the characterisation department. Solely because it's Dark who has Barry's mask in his trophy cabinet. Everything else seems plausible enough. If and only if he'd want to settle in 2017 for some reason, which again, why? His whole arc for fifteen years was trying to get the freedom of time and go home, why does this version not want that? Possibly it's that he doesn't want it yet. Maybe he'd get bored.
... this guy seems way less interesting than Eo!Wells in many ways.
And I know the Doylist reasons, but what's the Watsonian for him not having accumulated talent like Eo!Wells did?
Boring.
Doomworld is pretty boring. Gilded cage for thieves, exactly what Merlym wanted without involving actual power, a lot of petty revenge, and Dark being mayor.
Mayor.
Wasn't his goal global annihilation?
It's still the younger Dark though.
So we're back to: what are they all doing in 2017?
Last but by no means least
if the new plan is to go time travel to before the Spear was broken
what exactly was the point of chasing around after broken pieces all season?
All they'd need to do is get the Spear from slightly before it was broken, use it for whatever, and put it back where Rip was going to find it, and time wouldn't even notice you'd been there.
If the Spear doesn't have some special power to write protect its own history then the entire season plot is a bust.
OTOH I can see the Spear still being indestructible, just all its component atoms are either streaming in the atmosphere or hanging in the middle of a super hot reactor.
... but Mick's gun reaches absolute hot, so should have been able to do the exact same thing to it.
... I hate it when comics can't keep track of their own made up physics.
Didn't like the episode, don't see how it told us much interesting about the characters, mind controlled into humiliating situations isn't exactly revealing, Snart was so far out of character and Mick either didn't wish for anything or
only wished for Leonard.
... :(
... okay, that's pretty sad.
And then he couldn't kill him even after he'd seen him kill.
But that goes both ways, Len tied himself to serving Eobard just to keep Mick alive, and he didn't ice him or even threaten him back after stopping Amaya.
Even ooc they're a tragedy.
What do the writers think he does for a living?
Only available conclusion is Eobard edited him. I mean seriously, Cold vs speedster is what Snart lives for, there is no plausible way he'd be acting like this from fear of speed. Of the Spear, maybe, but that wasn't how they said it.
He said he had a plan and Mick told him off for not sharing. Plausible. That was the arc that Mick lived through and Snart missed. They've already renegotiated those terms. Snart doesn't know, so he missed.
And as for owning Central but keeping on doing crime for the fun... lets call it his 2046 moment and move on. The Snart we knew was motivated by wanting to up his game, but maybe a few months of boredom here are the holiday before the boredom. Even if Mick is bored already...
If Snart is meant to represent the temptation of Mick's criminal past this is a weird way to do that. Like, tada, it's not crime any more cause it's ours, do you like it? And no, Mick does not like it.
... kind of want to see what would happen if they'd memory shot Snart.
Of course Eobard is also problematic in the characterisation department. Solely because it's Dark who has Barry's mask in his trophy cabinet. Everything else seems plausible enough. If and only if he'd want to settle in 2017 for some reason, which again, why? His whole arc for fifteen years was trying to get the freedom of time and go home, why does this version not want that? Possibly it's that he doesn't want it yet. Maybe he'd get bored.
... this guy seems way less interesting than Eo!Wells in many ways.
And I know the Doylist reasons, but what's the Watsonian for him not having accumulated talent like Eo!Wells did?
Boring.
Doomworld is pretty boring. Gilded cage for thieves, exactly what Merlym wanted without involving actual power, a lot of petty revenge, and Dark being mayor.
Mayor.
Wasn't his goal global annihilation?
It's still the younger Dark though.
So we're back to: what are they all doing in 2017?
Last but by no means least
if the new plan is to go time travel to before the Spear was broken
what exactly was the point of chasing around after broken pieces all season?
All they'd need to do is get the Spear from slightly before it was broken, use it for whatever, and put it back where Rip was going to find it, and time wouldn't even notice you'd been there.
If the Spear doesn't have some special power to write protect its own history then the entire season plot is a bust.
OTOH I can see the Spear still being indestructible, just all its component atoms are either streaming in the atmosphere or hanging in the middle of a super hot reactor.
... but Mick's gun reaches absolute hot, so should have been able to do the exact same thing to it.
... I hate it when comics can't keep track of their own made up physics.
Didn't like the episode, don't see how it told us much interesting about the characters, mind controlled into humiliating situations isn't exactly revealing, Snart was so far out of character and Mick either didn't wish for anything or
only wished for Leonard.
... :(
... okay, that's pretty sad.
And then he couldn't kill him even after he'd seen him kill.
But that goes both ways, Len tied himself to serving Eobard just to keep Mick alive, and he didn't ice him or even threaten him back after stopping Amaya.
Even ooc they're a tragedy.