Contains spoilers!

2022/09/03

When I continued the first watch of season 3, 10 months had passed! As I explained somewhat on the homepage, due to personal circumstances I was unable to update the website for 10 months and also I couldn’t bring myself for a long period of time to watch my SCI-FI shows. So 3 weeks ago or so I restarted my first watch of Legends with episode 14 I believe. Luckily I did take notes so I am not entirely loss of what happened the previous 13 episodes but I must say, although Legends of Tomorrow is certainly not a bad show it is rather fun at times, it is not really my cup of tea! If I had loads of time to (re) watch all my favorite shows it wouldn’t be a problem but time is scarce, I have only an hour a day, perhaps two, to watch stuff when I have the TV for myself….yes I still watch my shows on TV!

So I am a bit in doubt whether or not I should continue with season 4 which I already have on Blu-ray, as also season 5, or stop again with this show till I am more open to it, or have more time somehow for it. With those few extra hours I have, I much rather rewatch shows like “Dark Matter”, “The Expanse” and such, than watch new episodes of Legends of Tomorrow. So while still debating this…with myself, I am going to try and write this season 3 blog, hopefully it will be something coherent.

The new season starts with “Aruba-Con” where Rip has founded a Time Bureau, meaning that the Legends are out of a job! Months go by where are doing insignificant things but when Rory finds Julias Ceasar in Aruba, the team contacts Rip but doesn’t believe them, Sara takes matters into her own hands and steals the Waverider to bring Ceasar back to his own time, but when Nate makes a rookie mistake, there is no home to go to.

“Freakshow” was a weak show! Pun intended! 😊, part of the team is captured to play in a circus, Sara asks Amaya to return, she accepts but has her own reasons to do so. There is a new enemy coming of which the Time Bureau is afraid of. In episode 3 “Zari”, the character Zari is introduced and will become a member of the legends, Kuasa, at first seems the new villain and is after Zari but escapes. Ava is hunting for the Legends. Rory (Dominic Purcell) makes another “Prison Break” reference where he replies: "Prison break" and makes a funny face before saying "I'm in". The last scene we see a young version of Ray being chased after by other kids because he is a nerd. But where he hides he is not alone!

“Phone Home”, a definite reference to ET of course, where the Legends learn Ray Palmer will die because the Legends broke time! They go back to 1988 to try and save him but to their surprise he has befriended a time-displaced baby Dominator putting him in harm's way with the government and the Dominator's mother. Zari is finding her way on the ship, Stein’s daughter is expecting a baby hence his mysterious behavior. Nate kisses Ray’s mom in 1988! Jax thinks when Stein has become a granddad, that the Waverider will no longer be his home and Jax suggests to Ray to break-up Firestorm!

“Return of the Mack” where Nate thinks he has found a pattern to the anachronisms, which leads them to London 1895 to hunt a time-traveling vampire. They run into Rip and he is not welcomed back by everyone. Stein figures out what Jax and Ray are planning and he is not happy with it. Zari is still struggling and Rip again betrays Sara which leads her to call the Time Masters on him.

“Helen Hunt”, 1937, Helena of Troy, an anachronism, appears in 1937 and because she comes from a terrible place for her, she plays along. Prof. Stein and Jax get their bodies switched in an attempt to give Jax all the firestorm power. Darhk is there too as is his daughter, Zari returns Helen in another place, where there are no men, only women warriors.

“Welcome to the Jungle” I thought was a fairly mediocre episode, Vietnam war, Grodd wants to steal the time machine, Darhk gets to control Grodd and Mick meets his father in Vietnam.

In regard to the “Crisis on Earth-X” episodes, all 4 parts, I really hated these episodes, I watched them all and was only annoyed by all 4. I thought the first part was just average but the other parts were way below average, at least that is how I feel about it. Don’t know how to explain it but I thought it was a bit childish! Nothing more to say about it. Make it worse, Victor Garber leaves the show with these episode.

In “Beebo the God of War” Rattled by recent events, the Legends dive into work which finds them investigating an Anachronism in a Viking settlement in the New World. The Legends realize that the Norsemen are worshipping an artifact as their god and are surprised by the artifact's origin. For the first time, Sara is worried that they might need back up when Damien Darhk shows up. Meanwhile, Jax finds a loophole that could potentially change history, but it is a risk he is willing to take. This is the last episode where Jax is a lead character. (IMDb) I didn’t remember much from this episode, didn’t make notes that made sense so I took this from the IMDb website.

“Daddy Darhkest” Sara has an encounter with Mallus, John Constantine pays our legends a visit. They agree to go with him to a psychiatric hospital in the present day where the team is surprised who Constantine is trying to help. Sara and Constantine go missing during the exorcism, leaving Zari and Ray to take care of Constantine’s client. Nate and Amaya have another confrontation with Kuasa.

“Hero I go Again” is the first episode I watched this year after the 10 month stop. I have to say I found this episode quite enjoyable. It is essentially a Groundhog Day episode. These Groundhog Day episodes can quickly become stale and boring but this one definitely is not. Zari is playing a detective, Mick is secretly writing a SCI-FI romance novel. In the final moments we see Rip Hunter again, trying to save the universe. It is a well-executed and very funny and exciting episode. I didn’t really like the Blackbeard episode “The Curse of the Earth Totem” but perhaps in part because that time period I usually don’t really find very interesting. I remember being tired also, so I will have to be sure I rewatch this one in the future when I am not so tired!

“No Country for Old Dads” is one of my favorite episodes of the season I think, with “Here I Go Again” and one or two others. Darhk meets himself in 1962 as he must kill a scientist who has invented cold fusion. But at first Nora convinces her father that she can do this particular job also. Damien Darhk reluctantly agrees and Nora takes Ray with her to 1962. Because Damien Darhk thinks they take too long, he goes after them. Rip asks Gideon to delete the file about Ava because he believes that Sara must never find out about her secret. Nora gets Jiwe’s powers.

An episode about the King of Rock and Roll called “Amazing Grace”. Elvis wants to buy a guitar, the store owner tries to convince him otherwise because it is supposed to be cursed. Elvis however wants it and gets it for free. The guitar summons the sixth totem. His father, reverent, believes he is playing the devil’s music, but when playing the guitar Elvis is in touch with his twin brother how died at birth. An okay episode.

Title of the next episode “Necromancing the Stone” is, I believe, a reference to the movie “Romancing the Stone” with Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. In this episode Sara is taken over by Mallus, she unwittingly becomes the bearer of one of the Totems. They get Constantine to try and help exorcise Mallus again from Sara who by this time is almost unbeatable. Mick Rory who doesn’t want to be a hero ultimately becomes the hero. In the end Sara breaks up with Ava because of how unstable her life is, a relationship does not fit her at the moment.

In “I Ava” we learn what Rip meant a few episodes back, Ava is a clone in the year 2218 and she is not the only one, there are lots and lots of Ava clones. When Ava is gone missing Gary, Ava’s colleague at the Time Bureau asks Sara for help. When they go by Ava’s parents, Sara quickly finds out they are not Ava’s parents! Apparently they are actors who have been hired for the job! Kuasa dies after freeing Nate, she is killed by Mallus. Amaya goes back into the past, 1992, to try and save her granddaughter.

The last two episodes are strong ones, strange title “Guest Starring John Noble”. We know he is Mallus’ voice, but still. Darhk has remorse about getting his daughter in the middle of this, he wants to stop the process of her being consumed by Mallus and proposes an alliance with the Legends to kill Mallus and in the process save his daughter Nora. But when he learns that perhaps she still is inside her own body, he decides to betray the Legends. Ava tells Rip that she knows she is a clone.

The last episode “The Good, the Bad and the Cuddly” we find out that Mallus is actually Malice! A return of a former lead cast member, Rip sacrifices himself for the team, delaying Mallus or Malice, so that the Legends can escape. Darhk sacrifices himself for his daughter, Ray gives Nora the timestone, Amaya leaves the team, so it seems, to go and stay with her other family, she saved Kuasa. We see Peebo in a slightly different size (bit over the top)! Constantine is showing up at the end saying that with releasing Malice, they released a lot more scary beings. As I said, the last episodes were quite entertaining.

Final Word:

So after 12 months I finally concluded season 3, overall I think I would grade the 3^rd season with a 7/10 score. Where the villain in season one was awful, in season 3 you see some different sides of Darhk, which makes him way more interesting than in season two. It is not my best blog I have to say, at least I am not really happy with it, I still hope it is an okay read. As I said, not sure if I should continue with watching with season 4, or if I should wait a while longer till I am more open to it. If you can help with that, please let me know in the comments, if I should really get excited about season four!