DC'S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW 7.3

 

RECAP - DC'S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW  7.3:  "wvrdr_100_error not found"

As the rest of the Legends are en route to New York to meet up with Dr. Gwyn Davies---Astra, Spooner, and a human-esque Gideon are on their trail to catch up to them before they meet the good doctor, and their lives get put at stake.  But along the way...in typical Legends fashion...they hit a snag, and we take a detour through Gideon's mind in order to get her straightened out.  Meanwhile, in the future (but not current time), Bishop is prepared to give his keynote speech, but he keeps having this nasty flashbacks of incidents involving the Legends.  So, what did we see in Gideon's mind?  Let's take that journey, and see what happened. 

As the trio start their trek to finding their teammates, things go south quickly, as they come across a farm, and notice...of all things...a pie.  Spooner and Astra argue about getting it, and Gideon is forced to make a decision, but it causes her to pass out.  So, in a sense, Gideon has "shut down", and is in serious need of a reboot.  So, Spooner asks Astra if there's a spell she can cast to get into Gideon's mind, and wake her up, so that they can get going.  So, the spell is cast, and they wind up in her mind, where they meet our old friend Jax....complete with British accent (the actor's ACTUAL accent, BTW), and he talks about how Gideon needs to have her memories recovered before they are lost forever, because there's a virus that's in there disrupting things, and they need to save Gideon's memories before she's lost forever.  So, Jax helps get them to the first memory, which is when Spooner was taken aboard the Waverider, and the trio see Gideon interact with Ava to gain that memory back.  Having succeeded, they work towards the next memory and so on, because these memories were important to her---it's what made her who she is.  

While Astra and Spooner help Gideon reclaim her long-term memory, we check in on Bishop who is ready for his keynote speech, but is starting to have flashbacks of when the Legends plucked him out of his time period, and he recalls the aliens that tried to attack him.  He's also got this hard drive that he's had trouble accessing.  And it's driving him crazy throughout the episode.  And you can say this about him....he's persistent.  But as the episode lingers on, he starts getting his recall back, and finally realizes what he has.

As Ava's memory of using Spooner to help find Sara last year, it taught Gideon love or logic.  We see more of Gideon's memories, as she remembers all of the old teammates at various points in her memory, of which Spooner and Astra are audience to.  We see Prof. Martin Stein, Hawkman, Captain Cold, Atom, and even Rip Hunter.  The virus, however, is trying to work overtime to erase these memories, and get Gideon back to her factory resets---accomplish the mission:  protecting the timeline at all costs.  She pilots the "ship" through her memories.  The virus is still working it's way through her memories, and uses the early memory of Rip Hunter to capture Gideon.  The virus says it's not the bad guy....the Legends are.  They changed her programming.  We then see the virus show Gideon memories of Rip changing her programming to protect the Legends, and then have her show various memories of when some of the Legends die or get hurt, and Gideon could do nothing to help or stop them.  The virus says that if she allows it to take over, they can fix everything, and continue on with the original programming.  Gideon was corrupted by the Legends.  

Bishop manages to hack the hard drive, and we see that it is Gideon.  He realizes what he has, and plans on making the Legends pay for wiping his memories, by resetting Gideon's programming back to the factory settings.  And as much as she tries to resist, Bishop then begins on working on Gideon's reset.  Back in Gideon's mind, Jax and the girls manage to find the virus is in Gideon's subconscious, and now the ladies have to fight through the corrupted memories of Gideons...which are the members of the team---new and old---and Spooner's gun blasts them, thus restoring the memories to normal.  They manage to find Gideon, and they escape.  The virus says that they will not care for her, but she will.  Gideon doesn't want to be human, but Astra and Spooner show her all the fun times that the team had, where they involved her in.  They tell her that life is hard, and there's always going to be bad times....but there's also a lot of good times to be shared as well...it's what makes it all worth it, and Sara is the one that welcomes her to the team as an "official" Legend.  Gideon then goes and faces the virus...and says that she won't destroy her---they're going to co-exist...but SHE is in charge.  So, they merge, and Gideon wakes up, having been "reset", and she and the ladies continue on their journey.  

Bishop has finally manage to hack into Gideon's hard drive, and now plans on destroying the Legends, as her rest has no been complete by him.

This episode was the 100th episode of the series, and was wonderfully directed by Caity Lotz.  It was so cool to be able to do a profile, of sorts, on Gideon, and finally get around to making her OFFICIALLY a Legend---something that---I think we can ALL agree---she has been the lynchpin of this team since its inception.  But to be able to tap into her memories...and see her access memories, bringing back some members of the old team through the years, gave us a nice touch of nostalgia, and gave us some feels, as well as honored the show through it's 100 episode run.  But Mary Louise Pemberton has been our vision of Gideon that we've been used to all these years, and not so much the original version that was created by Barry Allen.  HIS version (complete with American accent), is still functional on his show, but I'm curious as when she went from being Barry Allen's creation, to the Waverider's A.I. on Legends.  I'd like to hear that story. 

My ONE BIG disappointment about this episode----Bishop.  Look...we JUST GOT DONE with this guy LAST SEASON, so he's still fresh in our heads....but they're bringing him back to be a continued thorn in the side of the Legends.  I just don't get what is so special about him.  We got what we got from him last season, and quite frankly, I really wasn't interested in seeing him again....but here we are.  And, well, after seeing him and what he did to Gideon in HIS timeline....we now have a pretty damn good idea as to who blew up the Waverider, trapping the team in 1925.  Because, if it's ONE THING Bishop can care LESS about---it's the timeline.  So, now that THAT predictable scenario seems to have been laid out, it's taken out A LOT of the luster of this season for me....because this is going to drag out through this season...which is only 13 episodes for this year. But I just was hoping for something different....and while I'm interested in seeing this new character Matt Ryan is playing, I'm just burnt out on Bishop.  The guy was annoying the first time around...and not in a good way...and he's even MORE insufferable now.  It's the one letdown  I already have this season.

What about all of you?  How did YOU feel about this 100th installment of our time travelling heroes?  Did you get some waves of nostalgia?  Do you like this current direction with Gideon?  Are you as annoyed as hell that Bishop is back like I am?  Subscribe and lemme know YOUR thoughts below.

Until then....time is on our side.