Legends of Tomorrow is back

[sholio]

... and during the hiatus, I appear to have forgotten how utterly, utterly terrible this show is. I swear watching it is the weirdest mix of cringing because the writing is so, so indefensibly bad, and being completely riveted by the characters.

Wait, whaaaat, did Rip just ... die? (Channeling Ember Island Players from AtLA: "It was really unclear ...")

I am massively bored by the new guy so far. Every time he's on the screen I can feel my interest plummeting. Also, I am really missing Snart and Kendra, especially if Rip is also gone now, which leaves the team dynamics really sparse.

Mick being the one to get the team back together, though. ♥ (And Rip touching Mick's arm right before he ... dies ... or whatever exactly happened to him. MY HEART.)

The cognitive dissonance of the entire episode being about the characters trying to stop the atomic bomb from being dropped on New York so that the US can develop the technology first and drop it on a different city was ... really a lot. On the other hand, it's not like it was the only thing about this episode that was anvilliciously terrible. (And the first Captain America movie did that one, too.)

It delivered nicely on the Mick/Ray dynamic, though! And I could happily watch a whole season of Sara getting all the time-travel lesbian action.

Everyone is adorable, and I really miss Rip if he's gone*, and it's so nice to have a sci-fi show that's light and funny and just ridiculous fun without being super heavy, but oh god the writing is so bad.

*Considering that no one who's died so far on the show has actually stayed dead, aside from bad guys, I have a lot of hope he'll be back eventually.

Comments

[muccamukk]

I feel like binge watching is the way to go. Then the terrible sort of takes you hostage and makes you love it. I'm wondering how it's going to do weekly.

[sholio]

This is kinda what I'm thinking too. I remember that it took watching several episodes in a row to really hook me before -- I think when you watch a bunch of them back to back, you get hooked on the character arcs (which the show really does do well!) and stop noticing the terrible plots so much. Plus, every once in a while you'll hit an episode that's genuinely good; there was some genuinely decent writing in the middle episodes last season (either that or by that point, my brain had just given up, but I really do think it got stronger on the mid-season episodes).

The show tends to collapse into a hot mess anytime they start dealing with time-travel metaphysics, which was just about EVERYTHING this episode was about, so I'm going to cross my fingers that they manage to get to a comparatively strong bottle episode or sci-fi episode in the near future. Otherwise I may give up on watching week-to-week and just binge once they've piled up enough.

[sheron]

So bad it wraps back around into good? XD