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There's enough going on that even when one storyline is bumpy, I'm usually invested enough in the other storylines that the episode as a whole leaves a positive impression.

I like that their encounters with Savage now regularly involve countering his attempts to counter them. It's something that time travel shows don't always get right, the butterfly effect.

Loved seeing Stephanie Corneliussen (Tyrell Wellick's Lady Macbeth-esque wife on "Mr. Robot") pop up as the Soviet scientist.
 

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Continue to love how they are using Captain Cold. Wentworth Miller been excellent here and on Flash.
Wish they would give a bit more depth to Heatwave.
 

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Enjoyed last night's episode - however, I would hardly call 1986 "the height of the Cold War," as Stein did. By 1986, Mikhail Gorbachev was in charge and tensions with the USSR were much calmer than they had been 3 or 4 years earlier. I do wonder if Legends will work the Chernobyl disaster, which happened in April 1986, into the show, especially since they're dealing with nuclear energy.

I like Rip Hunter, but I do sometimes feel his enunciation is over the top - like when he says in the intro his companions will be "legends."
 

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"This isn't my first prison break."

Hell of an ending, with the gang crash landing in Star City circa 2046. I wonder if:
we're going to get a take on the one-armed old man Oliver from The Dark Knight Returns?
 

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"This isn't my first prison break."

Hell of an ending, with the gang crash landing in Star City circa 2046. I wonder if:
we're going to get a take on the one-armed old man Oliver from The Dark Knight Returns?

Oh yeah. Here's an article posted above:

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/2...-amell-oliver-queen-arrow-goatee?iid=sr-link2

Stephen Amell is guest-starring in next week's episode. If you ask me, Amell is the MVP of the whole Flash/Arrow/Legends universe.
 

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Tib-Bit: You can see Ma Hunkle's Red Tornado Helmet sitting on a shelf behind Sarah as she is talking to Rip, near the end of the episode.

Glad to see Heatwave has his own thoughts and desires then what Captain Cold has. Growing tension.
Was amuse by Prof Stein trying to play matchmaker for Jax.
Wish we would have seen a one-arm Ollie go into actio as Green Arrow, instead he was given an robotic arm.
 

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I am SO glad Hawkgirl shot down any talk of romance. Having the two guys sneering at each other over who had her favors was not a show I wanted to see very much. Now they can concentrate on being team members and supporting each others as brothers and sisters.

Yes, a very interesting development between Heat and Cold, and I'll follow that with great interest.

Oliver may have grown older in the face and lost an arm, but he hadn't "thickened" up with age as so many of us do.
 

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I thought this was the best episode yet; not perfect by any means, but very good. Nice to see the old Oliver (who still moves like a 30 year old for someone in his 60s), and the interaction between the characters is nice to see, although the Ray/Kendra/Firestorm thing was silly, like high school silly.
 

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I thought this was the best episode yet; not perfect by any means, but very good. Nice to see the old Oliver (who still moves like a 30 year old for someone in his 60s), and the interaction between the characters is nice to see, although the Ray/Kendra/Firestorm thing was silly, like high school silly.

Yeah, I thought that was a bit silly and totally unnecessary. I mean, there was no such tension prior to this, so this just kind of came out of nowhere. It seemed like a resolution in search of an issue that wasn't there. Obvious padding of the script that really could have been used more effectively to fill in some other general back-story for the characters involved. They didn't need to manufacture some kind of puppy-love crush this early in.
 

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Exciting episode with some unexpected twists. I am not happy about the Palmer/Hawkgirl romance, but when she was sobbing over him crying for him not to leave her, I knew it was coming.
 

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The Space Pirate Leader was named Jon Valor.
There is a "Jon Valor" in DC comics. He is a 16th century Privateer named "Black Pirate".
1st appearance in ACTION COMICS #40.
Later appear as a ghost to Jack Knight in James Robinson 90's STARMAN Series.
 

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The little kid in me that loved saturday morning cartoons is gleeful that there's a primetime drama with "time pirates" as the villains.

I agree with Matt about the unnecessary romance, but I do give the show credit for not backing away from the Snart/Mick conflict.
 

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It felt like an episode of Star Trek, so it's good they acknowledged that with all the Star Trek references (and BTW, Star Wars Rebels feels a lot like Star Trek these days too).

This episode really showed that they can go anywhere with this show, although there is a danger that it can lose focus if it veers off it too many directions. I had trouble figuring out if the captain they were rescuing was in fact Rip's former lover from his training days. It eventually sorted itself out, but I was confused for a minute there.
 

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I had trouble figuring out if the captain they were rescuing was in fact Rip's former lover from his training days. It eventually sorted itself out, but I was confused for a minute there.

I assume (and I need to verify from the pilot/opening) that Rip's lover is his deceased wife.
 

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Finally watched the latest episode. One big hole I saw was Gideon guiding the shuttle back to the Waverider. If she is intelligent enough to do so why did she when she must have known he was not alone? Or at least warn the Waverider team? Doesn't seem to make sense.
 

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