Jessie Robertson reviews the sixth episode of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow season 3…
The opening scene tonight is indicative of what Legends does so well: they perpetuate and use the myth of history to give them their story; now, one could argue, these anachronisms wouldn’t always be the most well-known historical figures and events being mixed up; surely small changes out of their element would be out there, but that wouldn’t make for very good TV. Instead, we get Helen of Troy invading Hollywood and turning every single man’s head and causing wars just like in Troy. One great scene later on, when the gang go to a legit Hollywood 30’s party, all the boys become drawn into her looks and Rory decks Haircut. Again, Rory’s use this week, simple, effective, hilarious.
The mission is seemingly not that difficult; Sara even remarks something like ‘let’s go fix this easy one and get our mojo back’. Ray switching Jax and Martin’s bodies, ala Freaky Friday, complicates the matter somewhat. There’s a whole weird sub-plot where Martin’s “hall pass” with his wife is Hedy Lamarr (who apparently was a genius) and when she doesn’t fulfil her destiny as a movie star / inventor, the Waverider starts breaking down. Also, Damien Dahrk is back and who knew this episode would break out into two major fight scenes towards the end. One where Sara bests Darhk (sans powers) – which I believe she’s done before – and Amaya takes on her future great granddaughter Kuasa (I was not a fan of the choreography of that fight inside the Waverider). Her totem (water) power is pretty cool and gives the CG experts on these shows lots of fun toys they can play with now. But, all these totems are getting a big confusing. We’ll see where all this goes.
Legends continues on its course of being hilarious and goofy while trying to build towards a story. All the Amaya stuff is working towards something big, I feel – we just don’t know when and where it gets there. I didn’t think this was its strongest episode of the season but it had some really fun moments (was that producer telling Ray he could be the next Clark Gable, some inside joke of something a producer told the actual actor, Brandon Routh? Am I reading too much into that?) The discussion of whether Helen’s beautiful looks and men’s reactions to it and where fault lies within was a good moral lesson Legends sometimes sneaks in and feel very timely with what’s going on in Hollywood, even under the CW’s own doors and I loved the ending where Zari drops Helen off in Themiscyra, a nice nod to Wonder Woman.
Rating: 8/10
Jessie Robertson
