The Fixed Point notes
Nice jumping right in to Sara trying to stop the
assassination and then pausing. Is it a
flash forward? Are they imagining what
might happen? Sets up nicely the gamification
of the assassination stoppage later on
They’re lifting the ‘fixed point’ verbiage from Doctor Who,
but explaining it better. Time travel
‘isn’t allowed’ Allowed by whom?
It’s a clever plan to lure in Evil Gideon and her crew of
robots. But wouldn’t any old change in
history do it? They justify it by it
having been so chaotic, and cleaning it up would be so big that it will take
all the robots attention
The gag about them not recognizing Nate’s drawing is
cute. They’re trying so hard to be
supportive of his work.
Sarajevo 1914
Their plan to drug the assassins is a pretty good one
actually.
Great job making fixed point guy very threatening at
first. It’s clear that he knows they
plan to drug the assassins and is going to stop them
The Proprietor: You
clearly don’t belong here
Nate and Sara simultaneously: We’re on our Honeymoon/ We’re
backpackers.
Sara and Nate simultaneously: What he said/What she said.
Nate: We really
should be better at this by now.
And a great reveal that the Proprietor knows that they’re
time travellers.
They literally just went through the looking glass.
The Fixed Point is the name of the bar. Very cute.
Such a great setup – so many people have come back to try to
stop0 the assassination that they’ve started a bar for them
The 1920s credits are back!
Why did they go to the effort to transform the time machine
into a cassette tape? Cute gag about ELO
though
The Proprietor refers to them as competitors and the whole
thing has basically become American Ninja Warrior which is just such a great
story hook.
And they can watch him in real time through archive
footage. Very clever time travel
gimmick. The film updates every time an
attempt is made
Very American ninja warrior style music during the
competitors attempts.
Clearly not everyone in the bar is in line to try to save
the archduke. There’s just too many of
them. Most of them must just be hanging
out.
Ava stayed behind to help Gwyn figure out how to save his
feller. Very sweet and practical
Gary: Astra said it
should change back soon.
Gwyn: Well, I’ll just
assume that that makes sense then.
Ava: No, that makes
absolutely no sense. What happened with
the Archduke?
Gary: Oh, we’re still
waiting our turn in a sort of time travel Cheers meets Thunderdome
Good on Ava for giving Gwyn credit for getting time travel
started. And thank God they finally
pointed out the inherent paradox in saving Alan. And wonderful that Gwyn had already thought
of that and chosen the most pragmatic way around it. He just has to let his younger self believe
it still happened and be miserable forever.
Which of course Ava isn’t down for.
Gideon is seriously bothered by the idea that Time itself
can actively kill people
Zari and Spooner are getting ditched by their usual
companions due to their whole new love thing.
Nicely observed that Zari and Gideon don’t have any history of being
solo together.
Are we going to get a twist reveal of who the Proprietor is?
Gideon: All these
years and I never even knew the fixed point had a bar.
I like the way the script is really digging into there being
no obvious common ground between Zari and Spooner, and even though neither of
them is being a dick about it they still just can’t come up with any overlap
between themselves.
And it’s sweet that they both make overtures to try to talk
about things they know the other one likes.
The punk kids know the Legends by reputation
I suppose they were do a joke about how all the Legends are
getting older.
I’d totally forgotten that Sara is invulnerable now and was
afraid for her well being. That allows
for more comedy even if it lowers the threat level a bit.
Nice setup of the eerie noise Sara hears which they explain
later on. Nicely structured
*** At least her comedic timing is impeccable
It’s not really clear how they received their tickets. Did I miss something?
I suppose they can laugh at Sara’s footage because she didn’t
die, so it doesn’t have to be sad
The running joke about the mean alien teen speaking alien
and only Gary understanding it is cute.
Ava is understandably upset at how resigned Gwyn is to
living his life heartbroken. He thinks
he deserves it for being gay
They handled his understandably 1920s views on being gay
very respectfully. They’re not sneering
at how people used to think that way and they’re treating his views about hod
God views his sexuality very respectfully
Zari: Wait… I can
talk about people I don’t like literally all day.
Spooner: Right?
They’re right, they did both get abducted initially, didn’t
they.
Zari thought Spooner didn’t like her and Spooner that Zari
thought she was better than her. Lovely
little moment between them.
Nate’s really become Sara’s go to for emotional support. That’s nice
Behrad and Astra are a little irritating in their new couple
phase
*** We’ve got something those hotshots don’t have, and that’s
experience. Experience at failing.
Live/Die/Repeat. I’ve
never heard of that.
I don’t evcen want to check if the number of attempts they get
tracks. The montage is too much fun
Where have I seen this ‘repeated death getting further each
time’ gimmick? It feels familiar. Tons of fun though
Random Crocodile Dundee reference
The poison death is funny.
So many cute sight gags in this
The finite number of tickets thing could have been seeded a
little better
Smash/Marry/Kill – Nate/Gwyn/Gary. She didn’t include Behrad, understandably
LOVE how unphjased Zari is when Spooner tells her she isn’t into
guys and then follows it up by being totally cool with asexuality too.
A lot of this episode is people from decades in the relative
future reassuring people from their relative past about their sexuality.
Spooner: What about
you, Z? Besides broody wizards, what’s
your type?
EXPERTLY handled transition from the character moments to
the plot reveal.
Nice realization that they’d all been seeing him and clever
usage of the film footage to find him
Good reveal that it’s a person, not time itself, doing the
fixing
Gideon is so happy that it’s a person not time
All of this really tracks well with its own internal logic,
even though the anti time manipulator is a bit of a rabbit out of the hat
I love that they’re not sneering at Gwyn’s religious beliefs
Ava’s speech about love is sweet and still respectful of
Gwyn’s beliefs
It’s Ava’s faith that there’sd always a way that really brings Gwyn around.
Matt Ryan is so good as this new character. I literally never think of him as John Constantine
anymore.
The rules about number of tickets are a little convenient,
but it is a nice way of unexpectedly redeeming the mean kids.
Everyone: Take a
chance on Sara Lance!
The music cues in this are really on point.
The rules about the time stopper thing are a little muddy,
but it’s such a great reveal of Thawne that who cares
Jaw dropping reveal of Thawne, and I don’t even like Thawne
Sara asks about his not having speed at the exact moment the
audience is wondering it as well.
Caity Lotz is a goddamn treasure.
Thawne looks great in those period clothes.
LOVE that they did the thing the show is best at – give up
pointlessly fighting and just sit down and talk.
Porridge?
I don’t remember any of this backstory that Thawne is catching
us up on.
June 28th, 1914
I’ve never liked Thawne this much. He’s charming, self effacing, appreciates a
joke and the value of having a conversation over drinks.
Is 40 minutes a random number on Thawne’s part? Ooo, nice stakes with Sara promising to take
his place if things go wrong, and of course they’re going to go wrong.
Gideon dipping Gary made me so happy. It’s weird how well they work as a couple.
SUCH A GREAT SET UP FOR NEXT EPISODE!
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