DC'S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW 7.5

 

RECAP - DC'S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW  7.5:  "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Scientist"  

It looks like the team has finally made the journey to New York in order to find Dr. Gwyn Davies, and finally get back to 2021.  But you KNOW that it's NEVER going to be quite that easy with this team. And this week, it definitely proved to be true to form.  Meanwhile, the trio of Astra, Gideon, and Spooner continued to try and catch up to their friends before they made their voyage, and get themselves killed.  So, the race was on to catch them before it was too late.

Among the many SNAFU's the Legends have had to endure, this is one that has had more long range ramifications...especially for Sara.  For awhile, the team has kind of played with house money when it came to walking the fine line of messing up history by leaving larger footprints than what they can afford.  This week, it caught up to them. Also, what does the future lie for Nate and Zari?  We had a brief moment with them trying to address their future this week.  

The team made it to New York, and immediately got into some trouble, as a paper vendor took a shot at Sara as he recognized her as a member of the Bullet Blondes.  Sara obviously recovers, but they make their way to where Dr. Gwyn Davies does his work, and Sara bumps into him and manages to grab a bit of his designs for the time machine.  They bring the plans back to Behrad and Zari, where they said it would take years to build the time machine at this rate.  They also have to ensure they leave small footprints as to not disrupt the timeline even more.  Sara tries to reassure Ava about the whole deal

Meanwhile---Astra, Spooner, and Gideon are still trying to reach New York, but they have no money nor transportation.  Astra casts a spell on a rock and says it will bring them good luck.  Spooner believes it works, as they manage to catch a ride with a cross country driver who's nickname is "Cannonball", who's trying to beat his cross country racing record (hence you now get the idea for The Cannonball).  They got their luck to hold up for awhile until they came across a young man on a bike, who then stole the car when they were out of it.  Problem is...Gideon was in the car with the thief.  As for Cannonball himself...he took the bike and bailed on the duo.  

The team then realizes that the problem is that Davies invented a time machine...NOT necessarily time travel.  Especially since now that Sara had to return his original documents, and found his time machine, they needed to get an essential part to make the damn thing work.  So, they go scavenger hunting for this part.  Meanwhile, Sara has to find a way to keep Davies occupied while they find what they need to use his machine.  Gary finds what they're looking for, but bumps into Thomas Edison, whom Davies is working for.  Things go from bad to worse, when Edison finds them all in violation of his rules, and has Davies fired, and committed to Bellvue when he finds out about Davies' time machine.  He also takes the notes Davies had on the subject.  

Back in the pocket universe, Nate and Zari are trying to figure out the Hooverbot, and who it was that sent him.  They also finally have that talk.  Nate says he wants them to live in the pocket realm, since it will allow her to be out of the totem without having Behrad be killed.  She kind of agrees with it, but even the Hooverbot knows she's lying.  They also figure out his programming protocols...one of which is to kill the Legends.  

Sara and the team try to see if the time machine works, and Behrad inserts the part and it starts working...but in all the wrong ways.  Ava disappears and is nowhere to be found.  Sara is freaked out, and realizes that all the little dents they've made in the timeline have no had HUGE consequences.  They need to get the notes back for Davies, because THOSE are the notes they derive the Time book from, and it's Davies that has to activate the time machine in order to keep accordance with history.  So, they have to program the Hooverbot to get the notes from Edison, and Sara must go rescue Davies from Bellvue.  Trailing the team, Astra tells Spooner that she didn't give any good luck to the rock, she just made it look like they had good luck.  They made their own.  Gideon wakes up, and gets rid of the thief, and goes to get her friends.  

Davies takes some convincing, saying that her life wouldn't be as good as it is without Ava, and if he doesn't invent time, she'll have never met her.  So, Davies and her make their escape, whereas the Hooverbot malfunctions and blows up, as Nate and Zari try to get the notes from Edison, but Edison has a heart attack.  But a new Hoover and Edison appear to clean up the real Edison's dead body, and more of history is getting altered further.  They take what parts of the Hooverbot they can and make a hasty retreat with Davies' notes.  

Back at his lab they hit a snag when they find out that the part they need is years away from being built.  But then Zari finds out that part is in the busted Hooverbot.  So, they're ready to travel, while our trio of ladies is still giving chase.  They figure that if they can cause a blackout in the city, it'll cut the electrical power, and they won't be able to travel.  Astra works her magic, and they manage to cut the power out.  Gideon races into the city and she manages to catch up to the team, with Astra and Spooner in tow.  So, with Ava back after fixing what went wrong the first time, the entire team, with Davies, initiate the time machine, and they do make the time travel leap as another Waverider is hot on their heels.  But where they wind up---does NOT look like 2021. 

Well, it took a few episodes, but now the entire team is back together, and they managed to find Davies.  But there's still the issue with the constant Hooverbots on their tail, and the protocol to kill them has been installed.  Now, you have an Edison bot as well, thus complicating matters.  It looks as though Bishop--with current Gideon's reset programming, is there to protect the timeline, but the destruction of the Legends is one of the primary protocols.  And it took some time, but Sara now realizes what Ava was trying to say about leaving smaller footprints in the timeline to prevent disaster.  Once Ava disappeared from time, Sara saw that life without her wouldn't be acceptable.  So, this could be the wake up call the team needs to get serious about resolving their situation.  They need to act fast, because Bishop is hell bent on destroying them.  And I gotta be honest---I'm tired of Bishop.  It's like they couldn't find another villain to develop or bring back that would've provided more of a threat, but let's drag the guy we got rid of at the end of LAST season to be the main villain THIS season.  It tells me they're starting to run out of ideas for these shows.  You run the risk of the show being LESS entertaining, when the same villain they just vanquished is right back to annoying them the following season.  It's frustrating to watch.  

Now, with Nate and Zari---this is couple I want to see.  And, if it's true that she and Nate will spend their time in the totem, what's that due to Nate's contributions to the team?  Is he eventually going to just live with Zari full time, and he's going to take a sabbatical from the team?  Where are they going with this?  Guess we'll find out before the season is out.

It was a decent show, and it's moving along....but I soooooo wish Bishop was a memory.  I'm done with him as a villain, and I didn't want to see him this season, yet here we are.  Either way, we'll see how this all plays out, and hopefully it will be entertaining.  So, that begs the question:  What did all of YOU think about what transpired this episode?  Drop your comments and questions below.

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