by Thom Yee

Legends of Tomorrow images courtesy of Warner Bros. Television Distribution

1×11: “The Magnificent Eight”

Temporal blindspots, eh?

At the end of last week’s episode, we learned that the Time Masters had intensified their hunt, sending the mysterious (and non-creatively named) Hunters to find our legends after Chronos (nee Heatwave) had failed to capture them, a development that prompted many of us to think to ourselves, “Huh? Oh yeah, the Time Masters. Those are the guys who are chasing our guys, right?” To say that Legends of Tomorrow has lacked urgency in its first ten episodes would be an understatement, and for most of this week’s episode, that’s very much a trend that’s continued. Continue reading →

by Thom Yee

Legends of Tomorrow images courtesy of Warner Bros. Television Distribution

1×10: “Progeny”

Time travel’s always an intriguing concept for any story, but it’s also a tricky-wicky thing to stick the landing on, and the more it plays a central role in the story, the more the whole thing tends to fall apart under the stress of underlying logic. Even putting aside some of the basic, cause-and-effect and what-happens-to-that-cause-after-changing-the-effect questions, a lot of time-travel stories just don’t make that much sense when you think about them too much.

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by Thom Yee

Legends of Tomorrow images courtesy of Warner Bros. Television Distribution

1×09: “Left Behind”

It’s been a few weeks since we last saw our heroes, weeks where some of the truly legendary figures of the DC Universe have made their onscreen debuts, and I have to say I’ve enjoyed my time off from this show. It’s not that I had gotten sick of Legends of Tomorrow, but I was certainly growing bored with it. It turns out the time off was good for the show too.

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