I think I'll just have to accept that this series is one whose story I don't care about beyond its capacity to bring together underrepresented bits of the DC universe.
And don't tell me they named it in the episode and I missed it...(https://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y38/eabrace/CoH%20boards/askaran_amulet_zpslgrhjda3.jpg)
I was pleasantly surprised that their version of the JSA wasn't a complete dumpster fire.
Thinking they said something like the JSA was a secret organization. Not well known at the time, and not hidden from history but mostly just a footnote. Steel's grandson mentions there are pictures of his grandfather online if you know where to look. Stargirl and Obsidian are the only ones with noticable super powers. Vixen and Mid-Nite's powers are subtle and would just come across as highly trained humans, as would all the non-powered members (not sure if that version of Steel had the metal skeleton but it's not obvious either way).
The break for me was that they were all the modern versions of the characters in 1942 rather than the originals from the 40s (for the characters who existed in the 40s or later creations officially retconned into the JSA of the 40s)
A little hypocritical of Vixen telling Ray he's not a superhero because he relies on gadgets. She relies on an artifact, same thing. As soon as the Nazi's take away the totem, she's sitting in a chair until someone saves her. Ray doesn't stop when someone takes the suit.
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(I still can't stop thinking of him as Superman though)
I'm sure the actor would be glad to hear that seeing as almost no one could think of him as Superman in the movie where he played Superman.
Ok time anomalies be damned, how do you live with yourself if you miss the opportunity to tell George that the fate of the world depends on him retiring in 1990 and never making another movie under any circumstances?That would have been hilarious. :D
Seriously - they majorly mess up history every week and there are almost no consequences.
Regardless whether Lucas makes his films or not, his life has totally changed and all those people that Dum Dum and Captain Jack killed in 1967 has to add up to some kind of changes.
Barry can knock over a garbage can in the past and totally alter the timeline.
Time is like water. You create a change and you create ripples. But reality is also like a series of discrete pools. The death of somebody in some town half way across the country may affect those around them drastically but unless they were very important it's like dropping a small pebble into a pool. The ripples will disturb the pool but never affect the pools all around it. If the change is big enough it's like throwing a huge boulder into a pool. The water can splash into adjacent pools which can surge over their banks to affect other pools and so on but a lesser effect each step away.
But the speed force permeates everything. So creating a ripple using the speed force is like sending a surge into the spring that feeds all the pools. Even if the pools seem to have no visible connection they still wind up being disturbed. That's why the Dominators and time wraiths get so upset with Barry. The Legends time alterations are only affecting Earth. Barry is messing things up across the multiverse.
Legion of Doom
I have to agree with the "we're not calling them that" comment in the show. There's only three of them. They're hardly legion. I propose Doom Stooges.
Does it seem like the writers and the network had a completely different production schedule? The star wars and holiday episodes would have made a lot more sense in december.
not sure if serious.
Oh but also that episode would have fit better in December so when Arrow repeated the same "I'm not doing this to save them, I'm doing it to save you" schlock it would have at least not been the very next day.
The cosmic staff is cool and all but if you really want to be top wizard in 500ad you have to get a crimping iron to work without electricity.
Also: Sara Lance-a-lot... there's not a dramatic enough eyeroll for that one.
Really liked the "Evil me and evil Ray and evil Mick, well I guess that's just regular Mick" line
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Professor Stein Beetlejuice-ing it up at Mission Control was one of the most awkward moments I've witnessed on television...
A genius, physics professor with a high IQ I am sure, and you say 'create a distraction', and that's all he can think of. LOL.
So... Rip had a spaceship at his disposal... why didn't he throw all or part of the spear into the sun? It's unlikely to be found, much less retrieved from there.
I get the feeling that the villains will rewrite reality, but Mick's part in that will allow the Legends to persevere.
Too bad they didn't have a time machine so they could have gone after the blood when it wasn't the middle of a battle.
Too bad they didn't have a time machine so they could have gone after the blood when it wasn't the middle of a battle.
And miss out on all the lame Tolkien references?
Not any lamer then the Lucas ones.
I guess next on the list is probably Rowling or Spielberg.
If nothing else, the Legion of Doom HQ was cool.
Not sure how I feel about that finale - assuming it was the finale. The very end with broken Time was a very comic book moment, though.
And I don't get Rip leaving. He is a Timemaster, an authority on time and time travel. Why leave them without someone with that knowledge and experience?IIRC, the actor has a gig on another show and they're making room for him to be gone at the start of the season.
IIRC, the actor has a gig on another show and they're making room for him to be gone at the start of the season.
Well, yeah. Just saying story wise its kind of an odd move. But I guess they have no choice.
I don't know, I agreed with him he was a terrible leader.
I don't know, I agreed with him he was a terrible leader.
Yeah he sucked as a leader. But he was a Time Master. Leaving a time ship in the hands of people with like zero experience in time travel theory and understanding how time works doesn't seem like a good idea. Of course they still have Gideon.
And Mick spent goodness knows how long as Chronos so he should be up on basic time travel too. (Which they seem to have forgotten about this year in favor of making Mick dumb muscle.)