DC'S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW 6.5

RECAP - DC'S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW  6.5:  "The Satanist's Apprentice"  

Our team took a bit of a backseat this week, as we focused on the ONE member of the Legends who has been trying to adjust to life on Earth---Astra Logue.  Astra didn't feel like being a part of the whole time travelling hero deal after helping the Legends defeat the Fates and destroy the Loom.  She wanted to see how she could go it alone as a mere mortal, and try to stay out of trouble.  So, it was time to check in on our fair lady, and see how she was handling things chillin' at the Constantine House.  

Astra has spent most of her life in the bowels of Hell, learning how to climb her way to the top of the food chain down there when she was taken from her mother as a child.  She was used to power, and wielding it, and gaining more.  She spends the first few minutes of the episode trying to get a job, integrate into society, and try to get along with the neighbor, who's nosey, and quite racist to boot.  Things start breaking down around the house, such as the sink, finds out there's no laundry room, and....worst of all...no wifi.  It doesn't help Astra much when she tries to get John to help her out, only to be distracted by Zari, or popping into the house to grab things for spells to do whatever Legend stuff that he's doing with the team.  This leads Astra to become increasingly frustrated.  It's then she pops into the attic, where she discovers a painting of Aleister Crowley.  Though, we find out it's actually Crowley himself, and John had trapped him into that painting before he carried out whatever diabolical plan he had in store.  

It doesn't take long for Crowley to sink his teeth into Astra's insecurities and hardships, and ensuring he lays the blame on John for it.  Not that John isn't 100% without fault....he's kind of brought Astra back, only to kind of cast her aside in a way, not realizing her adjustment into the mortal realm would be hard for her at best.  He begins to teach her a few basic spells that would improve her station in life, but they're only temporary.  He then teaches her a spell to break him out of the painting for a short period of time, and she says that if he screws her over, she'll put him back into the painting.  Of course, someone HAD to go back into the painting, and that's when John showed up.  He warned her that he was up to no good, but Crowley managed to convince her that he could help her gain power.  She sticks John into the painting, and he begins to teach her the dark arts.  However, unbeknownst to her, Crowley has is own agenda, and convinces her that she needs to build an amulet that will help her gain more power...but it requires a human soul.  Not wanting to go back to nothing, Astra plans on getting the nosey old neighbor over to steal his soul.  

As Astra plans to get back at the old man, the team shows up, having made the trek to John's, considering they don't have the Waverider at the moment, since Mick took off with the alien last week in search of Sara....and more on Sara's day as well a little bit later.  As for Astra, to get the Legends out of the way, she casts a spell that changes them into inanimate objects.  She squirrels them away, so that she can enact her plan.  But at the last moment----she can't do it.   Despite the gruff old man...she can't bring herself to kill him.  But Crowley manages to ensure that the amulet is activated as he touches the old man with it, and he's out.  Crowley now has the amulet, and Astra sics the Legends on him...as objects to attack Crowley, who is in John's body.  However, Crowley subdues them, and says that all Astra can be is a princess....and not a God.  So, he zaps her and the team, and we're in an animated "Beauty & The Beast" style setting, as Astra is singing her way through stopping Crowley, who, in turn, puts her into the attic with John in the painting.  He apologizes for not realizing how hard it was for Astra to adjust, and promises to help her out.  They have to figure out a way to stop Crowley before he goes to take over the world.  Earlier on, Astra had come across a few objects she thought she'd use for magic, which included a notebook that had music written in it by her mother.  John says that her mother created a spell to banish magic within a certain radius....it was meant for John should he ever had gone rogue.  So...with his help, Astra begins to sing the spell, as Crowley has the team down in a spell, ready to claim their souls as well.  He begins to grow in size, and getting stronger.  But Astra's singing manages to do enough to break Crowley's spell, break the animated world, and bring them back to reality.  Crowley is put back into the painting, and John tapes his mouth shut, as he puts the evil sorcerer back into the attic.  The spell worked....but at a price.  John doesn't have his magic anymore.  While Astra gets rid of the old man, who complains about the team being there, Astra says they're her friends, and ushers him out of the house.  John later on says that they can learn magic together.  She likes that idea.  

Then, we can't forget our dear Captain Lance.  Sara finally comes face to face with the stranger named Bishop.  It appears Bishop was a geneticist from Earth, who had begun to feel that Earth was no long a viable place to live for humanity, so he began to experiment on humans with alien DNA.  The nurse treating Sara is another Ava, who is loyal to Bishop.  We discover that Bishop was the one who created Ava to begin with.  And while Sara says that HER Ava is independent and acts of her own free will, Bishop says that ALL Ava's have it in their genetic makeup to obey him.  Sara, however, tries to convince Nurse Ava to work with her, and get out of there.  She has a ship, and they just need a power source to get away.  Ava later on comes back, and says that she wants to help Sara escape.  They make it to the ship, and when she asks for the power source, Bishop shows up with his alien goons, and Ava says she obeys Bishop.  Feeling betrayed, Sara takes out Bishop's goons.  And he's the one who had the ship set up with the pods.  While Sara says that she dumped his precious cargo into the time stream, he reveals to her that all the pods not only were cryogenically freezing his cargo, but was also getting DNA samples from them....that includes Sara.  So, now, he says, they're much closer than they realize.  

This episode allowed us a little fun, with Caity Lotz in the director's chair (hence why we had limited Sara this episode), we got some Disney-like animation, where Astra got to be a princess for a brief period of time...and gave a chance for actress Olivia Swann a chance to stretch her vocal chords.  The team was there in a limited capacity, save for the fact they needed to be there to give Astra someone to save, and to realize she DOES have friends that care about her.  We see a lost woman this episode trying to cope with her new reality....and suck at it.  And wishing to go back to what she was before.  But with Crowley manipulating her, she saw the troubles that came with that.  It was good to visit Astra again, and ensure that we didn't forget about her.  She still a very much big part of the team, and while she didn't want to join our time travelling heroes, there's still a bond with them.  Whether or not this forces Astra back with the team is another matter.  But for now, we see that Astra made a BIG mistake...nearly cost her dearly with the loss of her friends and herself.  Now, let's see whether or not her and John can mend fences, and try to regain the magic back.  

On the other spectrum, we see that Sara met the creator of Ava this week, which explains the various clones of her roaming about the planet.  Bishop apparently is one of those crazy whack job mad scientists that wants to use the fighting ability of Sara's DNA to help his new species survive out in the universe.  He's a bit eccentric, but he does have big villain plans, and it will take a collective Legends to be able to stop him.  He's got the right level of cheesiness for this show.  Noticeably absent  was Mick and his alien travelling companion this week.  Guess they've not been able to get a lock onto Sara yet.  

Well, kids, that wraps up THIS take on the Legends this week.  What did YOU like or dislike about this week's show?  Subscribe and leave a comment below.

And until next time, kids.....Time is on our side.