Knocked down, Knocked up notes
Good that they didn’t even pretend that Gary wasa in Danger,
and just showed him land
Unknown Location, 30,000 BC
Cavemen. Does that time
out right?
Also great scripting to set up that Gary has his key and
just needs to find a door in an era that has no doors, which is a funny conceit
First weekly meetup for the retired Legends. Still not sure hoe Wednesday evenings link up
across the timelines, but who cares.
I like visually that they’re all coming un through different
doors
Awww, other Zari sent a hug.
Nice that they all noticed Gwyn wasn’t there right away.
Mametz Wood, France 1916
Wouldn’t Gwyn finding z more tolerant time be technically
breaking the terms of their retirement?
Having the robot Alun really does make a nice contrivance to
saving the real one. Gwyn is smart
Gideon is drinking wine alone and is hoping that the aberration
is Gary. Plus gets to wear fun
outfits. I kind of want her life right
now.
Real Gideon gets that the time ‘criminals’ she’s stopping
are
*** You haven’t
written a word yet, have you.
Nate’s not ready to start writing because that would mean
acknowledging his time with them is done.
Gideon is starting to lose her compassion for the time
alterers. Nicely handled montage
Ava and Sara are always the first ones to dinner
I like that they’re exploring the ways two women can have a
child. There are options.
It’s very in character for Ava to be this methodical about narrowing
down sperm doners
It makes sense that they’d decide for Ava to carry the baby. Pregnancy and ninja fighting don’t work well
together.
And now Sara isn’t healing for some reason
Clever solution for Gary to build a door. I wonder how long he’s been with the
cavemen? Long enough to bond a
little. How perfect a ‘door’ would he
have had to build? Would it need a real
locking mechanism, or just a hole? Doesn’t
matter a bit, but I’m curious.
They do include the lock tumblers noise
Is it the same number of weeks for everybody? Hads the key synched them?
Aww, Astra was hoping it was Gideon.
Astra: Where’s Gideon? Is she OK?
Gary: Which one, the human
one, or the computer one that tried to murder me?
Good plot breakout that Gary shows up at this point to tell
them about the problems with Gideon
And now that they know about the robot, the real meaning of
the note clicks
Nice that Zari is willing to be optimistic about whether
Gwyn might have worked out just fine.
BUT – Gary knows and tells them that Alun’s death is a fixed
point. Which totally makes sense since his
death directly creates time travel.
Brutal seeing Gwyn die, even though we know it won’t stick.
Also clever that the Legends can jiust look it up in a book.
Zari stole a time courier.
Convenient, AND makes sense in context
Gary can sense that Sara is pregnant with his Nacrian
olfactory glands.
What kind of pregnant is Sara? Didn’t we see Kayla impregnant - Oh wait – Gary now conveniently mantions
that she’s a cribilix, totally different.
All she has to do is want to have a child and she can be fertile for
anyone with a kiss. I really like that
Back to Mametz Wood, France 1916
At this point I’m really starting to wonder who the fixer
is. AAnd feeling validated by my
wonderings about whether every fixed point had their own separate one
Behrad: I appreciated
the positivity
Zari: OK, thank you
so much, you can both shut up.
The Legends were trying extra hard to not get detected and
Gideon found them in no time at all.
Human Gideon has gotten way cold and way severe
Astra is equal parts angry at Gideon for the beliefes she’s
espousing and for having abandoned her with no contact. That’s a nice intersection of plot and
character
This is all nicely morally complicated. Gideon’s not wrong, she did sacrifice her own
future to save all their lives, but she’s sacrificed her humanity along with
it.
Gary thinks for one moment that the revelatiuon that AI
Gideon tried to kill him will get through to human Gideon, but she just
immediately justifies it which is as bad or worse as if she had know all along.
God, they’re saying so much with the way Gideon is reacting
to the looks in her friends eyes when they look at her.
Sweet that Spooner is the one to talk Astra into not giving
up on her ‘daughter’. Although the part
about ‘I could sense he conflict’ was clumsy and unnecessary. And I liked that Ava followed it up with the
practical observation that they weren’t going to succeed without Gideon on
their side.
It’s a little clumsy that we never saw human Gideon return
to the Waverider
Being alone with the AI poisoning her humanity has been really
bad for Gideon
Gideon: The way they
all looked at me tonight, with such revulsion…
That was unbearable. And I understand their disappointment. I… I set up Gwyn’s death. The man who’s given up everything to help us.
I don’t even recognize myself anymore.
Who am I, Gideon?
Human Gideon is being offered the classic choice to give up
her humanity in order to get rid of pain.
Also nice setup for having a spare Gideon body shell around.
Nice job building tension here, the race to save Gideon from
destroying her own humanity.
Nice organic way to reveal that Sara has lost her healing
powers. Temporarily? Or will they all go to the baby?
Gwyn is still looking at this as punishment for his cowardice
The Gideon Astra reunion is beautiful. Who hasn’t had that moment of being forgiven
by a friend you thought you’d driven away for good
Evil Gideon: Don’t
listen to them. This is the sort of treacly
drivel that polluted your mind in the first place.
Spooner: I can’t
believe you’ve been stuck on the ship with this bitch.
Evil Gideon: We don’t
use that word on this ship.
She made the mistake of having the human learn from the AI
instead of the other way around.
Gideon: You’re a big
blue head, what the hell are you going to do about it.
I love that they’re back to the same essential concept of
let’s skip the fighting and just sit down and talk. Love that their first instinct is to just reach
the fixer and talk instead of trying to con him/her
The star on the golf ball should have told me who this is,
but I totally missed it
Also his color scheme.
How did I miss it
Gideon on Gideon action!
Nice setup for that body existing
AI Gideon is kind of making up rules to suit herself at this
point
I really like the flipping through the floor effect
The time protector recognizes Gwyn. Which makes sense, since he’s the only time
traveller to ever show up.
In hindsight, the Fixer clearly makes up the name ‘Mike’ on
the spot.
Sara: You didn’t kill
us!
Fixer: Well, you said
please.
‘Mike’ is from the future and knows all about the Legends,
and demonstrates by knowing all their names.
But he doesn’t know Gwyn.
Interesting. What does that mean?
It’s specifically Alun’s death that’s being protected
The reveal that nobody ever comes here because it’s a
paradox is so well done
Fixer: Those dicks
put me here as a joke!
Spooner can sense Gideon.
Man her powers are vague and malleable
Super nice Gideon as Terminator skull moment, if a little on
the nose.
Oooo! Forcing Evil
Gideon’s presence here to be the anomaly she has to fix is SUPER clever
plotting.
But… it’s forcing evil Gideon to self destruct, taking
Spooner, Astra and human Gideon with her.
I really thought they’d stop her before the explosion. That was shocking
Is Astra saving and fixing the ship a little deus ex
machina-y, or is it a nice resolution to the season opener failure to do same.
Sudden and inevitable betrayal by Mike to steal the
Waverider
Surprisingly sad, seeing Gwyn’s time machine blown up.
Nate: Nice,
Mike. Real Nice.
So they’ve resolved the main villain of the season with
twenty minutes left in the episode.
OK, so the battle started early, so Zari and Behrad have to
go take the fake robot to it’s assigned place.
Sara’s breakdown makes sense, but feels sudden in context.
Loved Ava’s surprise that Sara’s baby is hers
Nate is super thrilled about Sara and Ava’s baby and Gary
basically says, ‘don’t worry about the logistics, ,just roll with it. Which is the shows attitude in a nutshell.
So Sara’s sudden and abrupt breakdown reveals that her powers
are gone, which triggers Nate to take the dangerous mission, which causes him
to lose his powers, which resolves his leaving.
That all tracks, but this is happening at lightening speed.
Gwyn really is consumed with self loathing
Nate is the last invulnerable one, so he takes the mission
to go rescue the real Alun from the middle of the battle which has started
early.
Zari just totally killed those soldiers
The addition of Private Reece is an unnecessary confusion,
and is added just to illustrate that Gwyn is capable of being braver and making
better choices, which helps redeem his
self loathing in his present self. I
thought Reece was Alun for a bit of this
Matt Ryan can really rock a moustache
Apparently fighting in WWI really was this awful
Does Mustard gas really react to steel? I always thought that Nate turned entirely to
metal, not just developed a steel exoskeleton
Losing his powers in the middle really does make his final run
out with Alun more heroic.
So in universe, is Nate going to be mustard gas scarred
forever?
Nate’s Sara’s oldest friend at this point. That’s easy to forget.
He’s ‘used it up’?
How would Gwyn be able to diagnose that?
Ah well, it only exists to facilitate his exit.
Apparently this is basically what things were like behind
the scenes as well.
Wait, does Zari not have powers anymore then either?
Nate just took the totem into the totem… How does that work?
It bothers me that this isn’t the original Waverider
**** I hope you don’t have any plans for the near future.
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