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beccaelizabeth) wrote2020-08-09 07:17 pm
beccaelizabeth) wrote2020-08-09 07:17 pm
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Leo Snart
Leo just left the Waverider on my Legends of Tomorrow rewatch
and this time I am less pleased about him than I remember.
It is still great that he got to play a gay superhero. He gets to kiss the guy and go home to marry him and say he's gay. That's all great.
I just am not so keen on how he was mostly there for a joke, with the puppet, or raising an important thing just to dismiss it, with Mick drinking, or getting assaulted and threatened with Very Bad Things in the asylum run by demon worshippers.
He doesnt get to change things for the better. He did save Mick's life and show how to hurt the Darks, but he hands his gun off so easily kind of like to demonstrate they dont need the wielder?
It's like he's there to show us we wouldnt want that version of Snart after all. Which is boo.
I realise we weren't getting to keep him, but I still like this less well than I recall.
... also today is Too Warm and I am grumpy. Not sure how much that's making my opinion.
I did like Amaya reaching out to her family and how the show remains emotionally complex about grief and guilt at the same time as being all... Beebo.
Lots of good stuff and lots of stuff only Legends would do.
But Leo could have been better thought through, imho.
and this time I am less pleased about him than I remember.
It is still great that he got to play a gay superhero. He gets to kiss the guy and go home to marry him and say he's gay. That's all great.
I just am not so keen on how he was mostly there for a joke, with the puppet, or raising an important thing just to dismiss it, with Mick drinking, or getting assaulted and threatened with Very Bad Things in the asylum run by demon worshippers.
He doesnt get to change things for the better. He did save Mick's life and show how to hurt the Darks, but he hands his gun off so easily kind of like to demonstrate they dont need the wielder?
It's like he's there to show us we wouldnt want that version of Snart after all. Which is boo.
I realise we weren't getting to keep him, but I still like this less well than I recall.
... also today is Too Warm and I am grumpy. Not sure how much that's making my opinion.
I did like Amaya reaching out to her family and how the show remains emotionally complex about grief and guilt at the same time as being all... Beebo.
Lots of good stuff and lots of stuff only Legends would do.
But Leo could have been better thought through, imho.