DC'S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW 6.1

RECAP - DC'S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW  6.1:  "Ground Control to Sarah Lance"  

 

Well lookie who's back!   That's right, kids!  Our merry band of misfits have returned for yet another season of time travelling hijinks.  And this season, they have a goal:  To save their Captain from the clutches of aliens, as well as the usual time-bopping misadventures.  So, let's get to the juicy stuff, and dive into the Season 6 premiere...

This episode pretty much picked up where the season finale left off with Mick working through the ship after the team and some of the punk rockers from the show had major rager, and left the place a mess.  He manages to find Ava, who was smashed and hung over, and they find no sign of Sarah.  They manage to locate the rest of the team at the Skiemont Hotel.  All of them have not seen sight or sound of Sarah, and Nate is the only one missing, but he's busy having a chat with David Bowie.  After a chat with Ziggy Stardust, he lets them see the film he shot of Sarah talking to him, and showed him an engagement ring she planned on proposing to Ava with.  Ava's at a loss for words, but then they see that she was abducted by aliens.  Mick tells the team to get their act together...they have to find Sarah.  Ava tries contacting the DEO on the alien matter, but she finds out that the DEO was destroyed in the paper.  So, they're on their own. 

As for our White Canary herself, we see her trapped in a pod, but manages to escape.  She then opens up another cryopod, and she sees Spartacus.  He's a little TOO gung ho, and opens another pod where there was an alien monster.  After beating it back, Sarah takes charge, and she says they're going to find out who runs the ship, and take it over, and get back home.  Sadly, Spartacus does not practice the art of stealth in warfare, as he charges head on against the aliens, whereas one of them devours him, and that's the end of Spartacus.  Sarah now realizes she's got to find an alternate way to get control of the ship.  So, when one of the aliens goes to search for the missing Captain Lance, Sarah bumps into the alien, and starts to fight it, but it cowers....and when they take out a pair of glasses, it turns out to be Gary.  

It's around this time that the team has split to do ANYTHING other than helping Ava find Sarah.  John, Zari, and Astra wind back up at his house, where Zari asks Astra about using her influences in the underworld to see if there was a way to find an alien spell to allow John to mentally connect withCruz Sarah.  The spellbook was based on Aleister Crowley's theories, whom John regards as a psychotic quack.  But when they realize the book is missing, they assume Gary took it.  Turns out, they see a chrysalis in Gary's room, and deduce that Gary is, in fact, an alien. 

This brings us back to Sarah and Gary, where they plan to take the ship, and open up a wormhole in order to get back home.  We find out the other passenger was Gary's fiance', and she and Sarah battle, but Sarah loses, and is thrown into the cryo-pod. The team needs to get some assistance with this spell, and they stumble upon a woman named Esperanza "Scooter" Cruz, who was abducted and experimented on by aliens.  They find her in Texas, but she's not exactly willing to go.  It takes having to fight with Mick and Behrad, and Ava's plea to get her to come aboard the Waverider.  The spell is cast, and John manages to connect with Sarah, but he's growing weak and dying, so Ava steps in, and tells Sarah to hang in there, and that she accepts her proposal of marriage.  Zari saves John, breaks the spell, and they know Sarah is still alive, and with Gary.  

Back on the spaceship, Sarah breaks free of the cryo-pod, and faces off with Gary's fiance' again.  She ends up opening the hatch of the ship, and as pods begin to fly out into the wormhole Gary opened up, Sarah manages to kick Gary's fiance' off the ship and into space.  The team sees all these pods falling into the time stream, as well as watching Gary's fiance' go splat against the window of the Waverider. They know that these aliens or whatever they are are now littering the timeline.  And since the DEO is no longer in existence....they're the alien experts now, and it'll be up to them to clean up the time stream of them.  

Zari and John have a somewhat romantic moment, and Astra says that she just wants to stay out of Legends business, because she wants to live life as a mortal now...now that she IS one.  As for Sarah and Gary---sadly, they missed the wormhole as it closed, banged up against the closure, and are now hurdling towards an alien planet. 

This was a fun opening act to Season 6, and it gave us the usual lighthearted moments, such as Mick admonishing everyone after seeing the raging party that happened on the Waverider, as he was busy being a responsible dad.  Ava still adjusting to having to be Captain while Sarah is missing.  It's going to take some getting used to having Zari 2.0 and John being an item.  Nate is now like the odd-man out, because Zari 1.0 is in the stone, and not coming back.  So, this is going to have to be the season Nate gets on with life, and go into a new direction.  Astra I feel will stick around here and there, and Behrad's going to continue being the pothead that he is...but an effective one.   And Mick....he'll be Mick.  I have no idea whether or not Mona will return, but we FINALLY got the straight dope on Gary---and THAT was something of a shocker.  

And....I LOVE that Sarah got to talk to Bowie...as did Nate.  But GOOD GRIEF, man!  Couldn't they have gotten ANYONE who at least came CLOSE to looking like the man....and somewhat SOUNDING like him?  We deserved better than THAT guy playing The Thin White Duke.  And as far as Esperanza goes....she'll be an interesting one to watch....see how the new girl fits into the team.  I DO enjoy that the main goal is to get Sarah back, and for Sarah herself to find her way home.  But we KNOW the team is going to have to make a few pit stops along the way:  namely stop those creatures that were in the pods from jacking up history.  The Legends are now the alien experts, as well as the time experts.

Shoutout to the writers on this one to drop a DEO mention from Supergirl, AND give us continuity by ensuring that they read about the fact the DEO got destroyed.  This new season got off to its usual rowdy start, and I'm dying to know where they go from here, as the quest to find Sarah continues.  And I'm also curious to see the adventures Sarah and Gary have as they try to get back home themselves.  

So, gang....how did YOU like the season premiere?  Like it?  Hate it?  Did you spot the references?  Subscribe and leave me a comment below.  

Until next time....Time is on our side!