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Bishop has been working on a mystery project and pouring billions into it.

No Bishop, don’t start singing.

Bishop’s built his own waverider from the blueprints he got from copy of Gideon

Ava:  Waverider.  Are you married to that name, or can we still pitch on it?

So Bishop did end up with a factory reset Gideon at the end of episode 100

Section A2 is the only bathroom.  It is creepy that Gideon has cameras there.

So Bishop now sort of remembers what happened in the finale.

Gideon is apparently authorized to administer the time masters oath

Hmm.  Still using the 1925 opening credits.  I wonder if they will all season or if we’re going to go back there.

Davies thinks the time ship was damaged by the extra weight

Gary thinks they’re in the prehistoric era just by the plants.  They shouldn’t have spoiled that in the trailer.

He needs to repair the directional compass.

We’ve still got techie Zari and also B to help with the repairs.

Zari and Nate are being super adult about such a big decision.

Spooner can read minds.  They’ve been pretty vague on her exact power set.

Good plan on Nate’s part to separate them so they stop stressing one another out.

Sara:  Yeah, let’s go stab something.

Gary is being super supportive

Gary and Gideon are bonding on strawberry rhubarb

I get why having Bishop the villain for two back to back seasons looked good on paper for COVID

And now we’re getting the ship;s destruction from Bishop’s point of view.  And as expected he’s the cause of everything.

It’s nice how the balance of power with Bishop and Gideon is slowly shifting and he hasn’t noticed.

Davies believes that he’s always meant to fail,

He thinks his attempt to save his friend are going against gods will and therefore doomed to fail and he should be punished for trying.

End of the first act before we get the hint about radiation showing that we’re not in the prehistoric

The food is fabricated, but from what.

Bishop is still giddy about being a time-fixer.

Ah, this is him being alerted that J. Edgar Hoover was just killed by the legends.

Using the problem as the solution is good strategy.

And this is the origin of the Hoover robot, which will totally  fix the problem the Legends created.

Or would if he didn’t include the part about killing the Legends.

Astra’s cool spell magiced a stick into an axe.  That was fun.  We never saw that kind of thing with John, did we?

Gideon’s meal keeps getting interrupted by The Legends mistakes we saw earlier in the season, which is a nice structure.

Gideon’s right.  J. Edgar Hoover’s determination on hunting the legends is what causes problems.  Bishop is deliberately ignoring the only one who understands what’s going on.

The tight zooms on gideons robot parts are very sinister,

And now Gideon, programmed to do whatever necessary to preserve the timeline, is being shown that Bishop and Assistant Ava are a threat to the timeline.

Gary:  Did I miss your epiphany? You better not have one without me.

It’s kind of nice showing Nate taking the time to emotionally process the situation

And here’s a quick peek at the secret origin of Behrad steaking the wind totem.

Man Matt Ryan is selling emotional breakdown well.

I’m loving having Behrad spend time with Zari 1.0

The sinister throbbing as Gideon lures Ava to the cargo bay is a nice touch.

Very 2001

Gideon:  I’m sorry Ava, I’m afraid I can’t do that.

Man, seeing Gideon straight up murder Ava is stone cold.  Even with them both being alternate versions.

Gwyn’s panic attacks still really resonate

Cue Qwyn’s tragic backstory

Gwyn:  Talk?  What do you want to talk about, then?

Zari:  … About what happened to you… Oh right, you’re from the olden times.

She’s actually really understanding about giving Gwyn some slack for being from a time when you didn’t talk about feelings or trauma

I kind of groove on Spooner and Sara as hunting buddies.

Ava really is long overdue to vent her frustration

Astra:  That was a phenomenal scream.  Trust me, I know.  I’ve caused a lot of them.

Man Olivia Swan can rock a pantsuit

Gideon and Gary being equally socially awkward really works in an unexpected way

OK, they’ve finally clarified, Gary really turns human, it is not just an illusion field or something.

Very David Tennant ‘Yah’ out of Gary

Gideon:  You’ve been living as a human for quite a while now.  So you must have so many wonderful experiences.

Gary:  Yah.  But there are so many more things I’d do if we weren’t so busy saving the world.

Gideon:  Like what else?  Would you swim in the ocean?

Gary: Oh, as soon as I get the chance.

Gideon:  Mm.  Would you skydive?

Gary: No.  I’m… uh… afraid of heights.

Gideon:  Would you like to have sexual intercourse with me?

Gary: …

I wonder if the protocol of one captain one AI is true, or Gideon justifying what she did.

1916 – Gwyn was in the Great War and was supposed to deliver a message about reinforcements, but then his love was gunned down and he froze.

Great slow burn in this about revealing that Gwyn was in love with his friend and believes he’s being punished.  Being punished for being gay is lurking just underneath the surface.

What a delightful surprise that Gwyn speaks Russian.  His accent sounds pretty good to me

The reveal of where and when they actually are is 2/3s into the run time,

So it’s really evil Gideon that’s doing all the robot work

Evil Alt-Gideon really is quite chilling

Nice shioe drop that Gideon had replaced Bishop with a robot.

They’re even making fun of how stupid his plan was as part of the reveal that he was the bad guy.

Bishop:  Tell me I don’t become a bad guy.

The causality loop of whether Bishop’s plan was ever really his could go for quite some time.

OMG, they’re selling me on Gary and Gideon as a couple

I want someone to love me the way Gwyn loved Alan

Oo, ,really nice connection Behrad/Alan  that ties these two together nicely

Tala Ashe is just so good.

And just like that, Gwyn is a Legend.  I wonder if they’ll give him powers

I couldn’t have told you the date of Chernobyl

1986 – April 26.  Big twist reveal, but it’s gotten really buried in the mix and feels like it comes too late in the episode.

April is in English on the Russian calendar

Behrad must have watched that miniseries.

Zari and Behrad should really know better that to make this big a change in history.

And they just don’t have enough time to deal with the repercussions of such a big thing

And now the power dynamic has completely flipped

It totally makes sense he’d have learned Russian in WWI

I really love Gwyn Davies

They’re almost treating Spooner and Astra as a romantic couple.  I kind of hope they keep them as friends.

And now Bishop is totally trapped by alt-Gideon.  Of course he’d take an opportunity to escape, and they already set up that the bathroom doesn’t have surveillance

*** Are you ready to save the timeline from the Legends, Captain?

Nate’s agreed to go live in the totem.  I hope they aren’t writing him out.

Have we ever seen the bathroom before?

The slow burn race of descending toilet v. powering up time machine is… I’m going to go with epic.

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