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Odessa, TX 1925
Super fun way to do the previously on recap, with townspeople giving reports to the uninterested sheriff
*** Life, it’s gonna start going our way
So obviously the mystery of the season is when does that other Waverider come from and why did it blow up this version of their ship?
SUCH a good idea to shake up the formula and strand them in one time and place for a bit.
I also kind of like that they didn’t just say ‘uh oh, we don’t have time couriers on us’
It’s a little weird that they’re so immediately into killing the crew of the other waverider and never considering that the other crew might be them.
Astra with an Ax is a mood.
Ava sets out from the beginning that they need to avoid unwanted attention. She’s always the voice of reason on temporal issues.
At some point Spooner’s mom is going to come back
Pastor Hanson
Of course people heard the explosion
They don’t have the flasher either. Love that they’ve lost all their crutches
John wasn’t the only one with useful abilities. But it is a nice way to remind us that John left
Ava had an emergency kit installed in the Waverider that should give them back all of their easy out tech.
This episode is like waves of ‘here’s an easy fix to stop us being trapped in one time and place! Nope, didn’t work. Here’s another… nope. Another… nope.
Behrad: To be fair, when he left we still had a working time machine
Zari: Defending him is not listening.
Behrad: Right. Sorry. Continue
Ah right, the mysterious key John left
Zari responds to stress by having a makeover. Like Madonna
Ava’s comfort zone is lists and rules.
Why didn’t it occur to them right away to use magic to track the box?
They really pair up organically these days
Nosy pastor found the emergency kit and gave it to the Sheriff,
The concern is that all the attention they’re drawing could make Gloria’s position in the community even harder.
Ava: Specifically, Rule 44 states that our cover story must be a circus.
Zari: That is oddly specific
That’s actually a really good plan to cover any oddness people might see.
Sara: Time to use your superpower.
Nate: So you want me to turn to steel and knock around some skulls?
Sara: No. Your other superpower. You are a white man in 1925.
How much do I love the montage of them sewing period costumes.
Convenient that Spooner’s mom has a suit that fits Nate
Sara look AMAZING in the ringmaster costume
Spooner and Astra kind of separate themselves from the main p,lot right from the onset. Echoes later developments.
Ava’s sad that she looks like a grandma
Nate, why pretend to be somebody that well known??
They’re dancing as fast as they can to explain things people might have seen the night before. Clever
Gary doing John’s hand fire trick.
Nate: People always get their interwar presidents mixed up.
How were they not prepped at all to be asked when the circus was actually performing?
Mick took everything but the time bureau manual and a bag of pot gummies
See Nate, the whole problem could have been avoided if you’d pretended to be someone less famous.
Would it really have been that easy to call up and summon the FBI in 1925?
So now they’re finally accepting that they’re going to be stuck in 1925 for awhile.
Ava is keeping the plot focused on not polluting the timeline
And enter Spooner’s mom
Astra’s being strangely obtuse about why they’re distracting everyone
The fake circus plot is kind of a bait and switch
Have we ever seen Nate only steel up part of his body before?
It is kind of refreshing for the team to respond to ‘this is dangerous to my family;’ with ‘You know, you’re right, sorry, we won’t do it.
Astra’s trying to resurrect the Waverider with a resurrection spell meant for humans
J. Edger Hoover got there awfully quickly. Where’s midland?
So now Hoover is investigating the Legends. See Nate, this is why you pick low level people to imitate
The effect of the Waverider being magiced back together is pretty cool.
Ah Hoover was investigating Midland Bank robbers, who the Legends then pretend to be. Got it.
I can’t decide if Astra is acting out of character or not.
And there’s another big explosion for people to notice.
Which drew Hoover’s attention to their location after Nate put them on his radar. Nicely structured
So sweet the way Spooner is sitting with Astra
Astra, Spooner’s mad because she cares about you.
Zari: It’s too open concept in here to hide!
Those curtains got replaced awfully quickly.
So where did the empty safe actually go?
The key makes any door lead to John’s house. That’s awesome. Love that.
OMG, I want that magic door key
What a great way to keep the set for John’s house in the mix
In the mansion isn’t in any year at all, it’s a pocket dimension in hell where there’s a copy of John’s house.
Zari: Is it possible that man is so conceited that he thinks I need an entire other dimension to get over him?
Way to underline the ‘stripped of all their resources’ theme, Ava.
God Sara is so understanding and supportive.
They’re handling Zari getting over John really nicely.
Spooner: How did Hoover not see you guys?
Nate: Oh, we just hopped over to another plane of existence where space and time don’t function normally. No big whoop.
Gary’s suggestion of just hiding in the mansion isn’t a bad one
The guide sends them to NYC to find Dr. Gwynn Davies. That’s the new Matt Ryan character
Why are they splitting off parts of the team?
Becoming bank robbers to lure away J. Edgar Hoover is a very Legends plan
So the season setup is the inverse of previous years. Instead of one big inciting incident and then cleaning up a piece of it each week, they’re causing a new piece of timeline damage each week while Ava keeps a list to go back and clean things up later. I like it.
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