DC'S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW 7.6

 

RECAP - DC'S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW  7.6:  "Deus Ex Latrina"  

The Legends look to be on their way back to 2021...so they believe.  As they manage to escape 1925, we find them out in a forest as we began this week's installment, and it didn't take long before things broke down for the team, as Ava and Sara argue, and everyone thinking they're in the Stone Age, and then there's Gwyn Davies---the guy with the time machine---freaked out enough about the time travel, and figuring out that this didn't work quite they way they planned, and that they're stuck where they're at unless they can fix the time machine....but doesn't have the equipment in this time to fix it, therefore, he's given up hope already.  It's at this point where Nate takes the lead, and has everyone assigned tasks, and splits up the Captains in order to let them get it out of their systems, as they go and hunt for things for survival in the woods.  Gary wants to be around when Nate makes his great epiphany about his relationship with Zari, and Nate tells him NOW is not the time, as they need to think about shelter and survival first. 

Meanwhile, we finally check in on Bishop, who shows the AvaClone the Waverider he build...thus blowing millions of dollars on the project...and has had Gideon installed aboard.  Everything is monitored by Gideon through onboard cameras, except the bathroom.  Either way, she makes Bishop take the Time Keeper Oath, and therefore, he is now Captain of the ship.  His first goal is to kill the Legends, but Gideon reminds him that his main focus is to preserve the timeline.  Gideon informs him of an anomaly in 1925, and that's where they find the Legends.  They destroy the old Waverider, and Bishop feels that his mission is accomplished----only to have Gideon remind him of yet ANOTHER anomaly in the same year---and he sees that the Legends have survived, and that they killed Hoover.  So, he decides to make a Hoover robot to replace him, take care of the Legends, and be done with it....but it gets further complicated when Edison winds up dead...as well as having to replace the Hoover robot a couple of times.  He's finding this saving the timeline thing rather tedious, and AvaClone is trying to be helpful, and tells Gideon to bug off.  Gideon then goes all H.A.L. aboard the ship, by luring the AvaClone into one of the empty bays on the ship, and says that she's a distraction to Bishop's mission, and therefore, she must go, as Gideon opens up one of the docking bay doors, and sends her off the ship into the time stream.  Bishop soon comes to realize that the Legends were only trying to protect him and give him a chance to be a better person, and avoid being the villain, because all he is doing is making things worse.  Gideon then tells him that they have pinpointed the Legends again, and that he now has a chance to finally destroy them, but Bishop instead heads to the bathroom, and ejects himself off the ship.  

Back to the Legends, we see Astra helping Ava work through her issues by getting a little aggression out by chopping wood, saying how she hates leading sometimes, but she would never leave Sara's side.  She does feel better.  As for Sara, her and Spooner hunt, and she vents as well.  Gideon and Gary hunt for berries, and somehow, it turns into something intimate as Gideon offers herself up to Gary for sex.  Nate is busy trying to build shelter, while Zari, Behrad, and Davies trying to fix the time machine, but Davies is tired of B's positivity, and that doesn't sit well with Zari, who goes after him.  But before she goes after him, Nate finally tells Zari that he's had time to think about their situation, and he'd love to live in the totem with her.  After she goes after Davies and tries to give him a piece of her mind, he feels he was supposed to die with this time machine, and that it was his fate.  They don't get too much further in conversation, as they're captured by soldiers who turn out to be Russian.  What Zari and Davies find out is that it's 1986, and they're in Chernobyl...right around the time of the nuclear meltdown.  Davies has a PTSD attack, and Zari calms him down, and he recalls his story about how he lost his unit in 1916 during World War I, and he was a coward because he couldn't save the man he loved, as he clutches his pendant.  Behrad shows up to rescue them, and Davies decides to commit one act of heroism, using his knowledge of Russian to  warn the people within the city and the plant that there will be a nuclear meltdown, and to escape. 

As the team has made camp, the trio return to let them know where they're at, and what Davies did.  Ava and Sara tell them about creating more ripples in the timeline, and they have to make their escape before the Waverider shows up.  Just as they pile into the time machine, and Davies activates it, we see Bishop floating down with a parachute as the Waverider is overhead, and the time machine activates, and disappears. 

This was a good pause episode, in a sense, as it allowed us to catch up, and see how things got to where they were at....it also gave us some more backstory on Dr. Gwyn Davies, and how and why he created a time machine---which was supposed to be him going back in time and save the man he loved (apparently, ALL the characters Matt Ryan plays seem to either play both sides of the fence, or just one).  But we also know he served in World War I.  We find out the team landed in 1986 Russia...sight of one of the worst events in human history with the meltdown of the Chernobyl plant.  We also witnessed Ava and Sara having their first real fight as a married couple, and it was great to see Nate just step up and take charge of this team, and help get this team back on track, all the while having to cope with HIS own feelings about Zari's request to live with him in the totem.  I was glad to find out that he agreed to it, because if it's ONE relationship I DO NOT want to see wrecked, it's this one.  

Why does it NOT surprise me that, because of what Bishop did---resetting her back to her factory settings---that Gideon would go H.A.L. on him and AvaClone, and take over the ship completely, as well as the mission?  AvaClone got exiled into the timeline, and as for Bishop...he realized his hubris was his downfall, and had to escape his own nefarious plan in order to not do what he had originally set out to do:  destroy the Legends.  What makes me wonder now, is what happens now that HE is off the ship, AvaClone is floating through the timestream, that Gideon....now in full control of the Waverider, is going to do?  Is she going to continue her programming and kill the Legends?  Could they get aboard the ship and try to override her programming?  It's going to be interesting to see what happens out from here.  

What do YOU all think of this episode?  Did you enjoy the character development?  What do you think Bishop does now?  Will he help the Legends?  And what will a renegade Gideon do with the Waverider?  Drop me your comments and theories below.  

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