Paranoid Android notes
We haven’t had a saga sell in a really long time. What a nice usage of it to explain what the duplicate legends think is going on. They believe that they’re the real superheroes and that our team are robots created by Bishop to destroy history
Great usage of clips that seem to back up the alt-Legends version of events, making all the fuckups look like deliberate attempts to destroy history.
Not entirely sure why duplicates of the Legends would all have slight variations from the way they actually look, but it’s worth it for Nate’s arms.
Seattle 1943
We start exactly where last episode left off with the interrupted party
Nick Zano is clearly having a ball playing Nate, but Wolverine.
Alt-Behrad: “These dicks are having a party.
Alt- Zari: Idiots.
Fun detail that the alt Legends are all eager to kill their alternate versions.
Again they reinforce that the Alt Legends think the real ones are droids
So, do they think the team members that just got killed are dead, but can be ‘brought back’, or something? They’re really not questioning their own reality.
Seriously, the gag about Nate’s arms will never get old.
Is there a hairstyle that Olivia Swann doesn’t look amazing in?
Such fun alternative titles. Like the Jonathan episode of Buffy
I love the alternative credits
Ooo, Alt Sara and Alt Dr. Sharpe are a mood.
So they DO think Zari and Astra are dead
Alt-Nate: One thing I do know. Red ain’t good.
Alt-Sara: It’s that kind of insight that makes you my right hand man.
Alt-Nate: I thought it was ‘cause I’m strong as steel. And always hard.
Are Nate’s arm’s prosthetic?
Alt-Sara is at least starting to question the logic of what’s going on.
Oh, they’re going to deal with the un-dealt with fallout from Chernobyl people surviving.
A destiny restoration device? That’s handy
Dr. Sharpe knows more about what’s really going on then she lets on
So Doctor Sharpe just made new versions of Zari and Astra, salvaged a few bits from the old ones, and then incinerated them. OK, she knows the real situation and is deceiving the others into thinking they’re real. That’s a nice reveal.
Alt-Spooner: The Robo-Legends caused a meltdown?
Alt-Zari: Worse. They tried to save the people from it.
Alt-Behrad: Those monsters!
I’m glad that they’re cleaning up all those people that shouldn’t have survived Chernobyl
The evil alt-legends are actually being more responsible than the real ones. That makes sense given Alt-Gideon;’s sterner attitude toward the job.
Oh right, Gideon couldn’t actually give Nate super Powers could she. She can only approximate his being steel by making him steel
Behrad and Spooner competing for revenge.
Alt-Zari: They know we’re still alive, right?
Alt-Astra: I think it’s best to just let them get it out of their systems.
So this is what Alt-Gideon thinks the Legends are. That’s interesting
Funny callback to the old cement metaphor
Alt Sara is shocked that restoring destinies mean killing people
The general just planted the seed of doubt in Alt-Sara by questioning the distorted remnant of the old Legends tropes
***Guys! If we don’t stop this, all of these people… They’re gonna live!
Fake news broadcast. Very timely
This is such a weird combination of hero plot and villain plot. Jesus, they threatened to kill his children?
Alt-Sara is the only one who has an issue with killing his kids?
Doctor Sharpe has the authority to order Alt-Sara around. Interesting
Alt Sara is really the only one who sees the moral problems with what they’re doing. And the ends are important
Sinister medical procedure with Doctor Sharpe
Sara’s gradual realization that they’re the androids is being handled really well. The bosdy horror of seeing robotic parts being pulled out of her body is suitably creepy and really well shot
Really great creepy incidental music. So Sara IS the paranoid android
Reasonable first assumption that the computer drives are controlling them.
Also reasonable assumption that it’s Dr. Sharpe who’s in charge of Gideon and not vice versa
Gideon really made them all mean spirited
This mission feels like a trap for Alt-Sara
Just noticed that there is no Gwyn Davies in this team. That makes sense.
Zari and Sara are making really rational and understandable choices for alt-Robots.
Oslo, Norway 1992
Irina Petrov
The incidental music is killing it in this one. So well plotted the way they led Zari to discovering the truth about them being androids.
Wouldn’t Alt-Gideon be able to hear their coms still?
The aberration that Gideon has sent Sara to correct is a process to get rid of radioactive waste. Gideon ahs to stop it to protect history, but it’s objectively evil
Dr. Sharpe’s slow realization that Sara is missing on purpose. Well handled.
They’re still making the mistake of assuming that Dr. Sharpe is in control
Nice how they handled the gradual understanding that Gideon was the one really behind it all
It’s just occurred to me tha Alt Zari Terazi is acting a lot more like Alt Zari Tomaz
Zari sold out to Gideon to get a better brain
Alt-Sara: No, listen to me. We are the bad guys!
Alt-Nate: Or, are we the better guys?
So was that just a replacement Sara-bot that killed Irina?
The one to grow on PSA about bullying was pretty funny, but I wonder how it read if you’re not from the GI Joe cartoon era.
Sad that the rest of the team all gave in to Gideon’s temptations.
So is the Alt-Sara that figured it out destroyed, or was that her reprogrammed to just be an assassin at the end?
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