Jessie Robertson reviews the tenth episode of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, ‘Legion of Doom’…
Please Legends….Please give us the creepy octopus base hidden in the swamp…..I’ve never wanted anything more…
This looked like it was going to be a very bad episode; the crew of the ship literally had nothing to do, no time to travel to, they were just sitting around trying to figure out who the speedster was. Where’s the action? It’s with the bad guys this time. And it was a wickedly fun episode due to that fact (cementing the idea that a Merlyn/Dahrk show would be so watchable). As the Legion continue to search for pieces of the Macguffin – I mean Spear – without the Amulet, they get creative. Who knew Rip had bank account information embedded into his tooth? Those Time Masters are a strange bunch. But, it leads them to Switzerland in 2025 where they use Rip to access his safety deposit box located there that will surely have pieces of the Spear. This is where hilarity ensues. It’s a buddy comedy for serial killers. It’s classic villain stuff too; these guys turn on each other and Thawne right out of the gate, and when the insults start being tossed around, the episode stays in that arena for probably longer than usual; either it’s that good, of they had nothing else going on.
Our two former League members notice Thawne treats them as lackies, and since they both ran their own criminal organizations, this doesn’t fly with them. They also notice he can’t stay put for very long; after a fun skirmish with very big swords, they decide to hole up with Thawne and get the truth. At this point, we find out Thawne’s been chased ever since Barry pulled him from the timeline by….The Black Flash! Who is Zoom but mutated into a seething speedster monster. He’s there to permanently kill Thawne and remove him from the timeline like he should be when Eddie shot himself. I give Legends credit; I thought they simply wouldn’t deal with the reason Thawne was there because, well, you know….time travel. But, they totally did and it made for a fun sequence of them trapping the Black Flash and re-cementing the League.
Martin also has “the talk” with his daughter Lily, you know, the one where you reveal your child is a Time Aberration? (not a Time Asphyxiation, as Mick almost called her). The fact that he brings Lily on board the Waverider in the first place and she just accepts it as if her Dad’s taken her to Disneyword is already a little absurd. It gets a sweet moment or two but there is literally nothing going on at this ship.
8/10- The Legion take center stage in an otherwise empty episode
Jessie Robertson
Originally published February 1, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.
