by Thom Yee

Legends of Tomorrow images courtesy of Warner Bros. Television Distribution

1×14: “River of Time”

I just realized that — in Rip Hunter, Carter Hall, and Kendra Saunders — Vandal Savage has three mortal enemies. That’s kind of a lot, even for an immortal dictator. And it fractures the story.

Like it or lump it, if you’ve stuck with this show this long, you should be able to overlook the flaws in Kendra and Ray’s romance, but with the way they just keep throwing it in our faces, it’s impossible not to keep picking it apart. And that’s a bad thing. The Kendra-Ray relationship is underdeveloped, oversimplified, boring, and unconvincing, and in thinking about it for as long as we’ve had to, I think finally I realized what the writing on Legends of Tomorrow reminds me of: Fanfiction written by an average thirteen year old. If you view “River of Time” through that lens, it doesn’t make the episode good, but it does help to make it slightly more acceptable. Continue reading →