DC'S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW 7.8

 

RECAP - DC'S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW  7.8:  "Paranoid Android"

I dunno, folks.....I had such high hopes for this season when it came out....but I gotta tell you---the more it's dragged on, the more I realize that it's becoming a borefest.  This installment of our time travelling bunch as we returned from the holiday break saw us take a peek at what's going on with the Robo Legends as we give the REAL team a time-out.  And....not impressed.  I just couldn't really get into this epsiode...it was just mere filler.  Though it DID push the story along, it did so in a way that just couldn't make me give a damn.  We know we have a renegade Gideon controlling the new Waverider, and she's brought back another Ava android to serve as the ship's doctor, and now we have a complete android crew of Legends that are there to reset the timeline AND kill our OG's at the same time.  So, when we pick up on this installment, we go back to the last time both parties met---back in the hanger where the old team was trying to get the parts to fix Davies' time machine.  They had barely escaped, and managed to time jump before they were captured by their robo counterparts.  Two of the robos were destroyed or "killed" in the process, and Bishop sacrificed himself in the process to allow the Legends to escape.  Where THEY are, we have no idea, but we pick up on our robo team, and we see what THEY do this week---which is, essentially, fixing the whole Chernobyl disaster from 1986 that the OG's apparently screwed up. 

The android versions of this team are something of an aggressive, overexaggerated version of the originals.  With Sara being this head-strong leader hell bent on carrying out the credo of the mission.  With the Zari and Astra bots seemingly killed, they're taken to the medbay to be reset by the Avabot.  Meanwhile, the rest of the team has to fix what the old team did in Chernobyl in 1986, so they head there to get the General that helped the originals get people to safety, and save lives.  So, the team captures him, and they plan on making him fake a news broadcast to order people back to their homes instead of evacuating them, and allow history to run its course:  meaning that several will die in the fallout from the plant's radiation leak.  However, in the process of getting the broadcast set up, Sara gets injured as she's shot in the arm.  But she seems fine....but, when the General refuses to do the broadcast, the others contemplate killing his family in order to get him to comply.  This somehow doesn't sit well with the Sarabot, and Avabot notices this, and gets her to come to the ship to get fixed up.  When she gets there, Avabot digs into her arm to pull out the CPU chip implanted in her, and replaces it with a new one.  Sarabot also notices the CPU chips for Zari, and makes a mental note of it.  When she's fixed up, Sarabot breaks into the cabinet, and notices the other CPU's with the names of all the team on them.  It's then that she realizes that THEY are the androids---not the originals.

The rest of the team was able to repair the problem with the General, and got him to do the broadcast, but there was a scientist that managed to escape, and she's got scientific secrets with her, and looking to get out of Russia, and possibly sell them on the black market.  Sarabot is tasked with getting her back, or eliminating her, so she's going on the mission solo.  But before she does, she pulls the Zaribot aside, and informs her of what's really happening, and they find out that Gideon is the one behind it all, and they need to reset her, so that they can control their own futures. Zaribot goes to work on rebooting Gideon, while Sara goes to meet the scientist back in 1986.  She manages to convince the scientist to disappear and hide, while she takes the scientific info, and tries to hide her true intentions to the rest of the team.  With the rest of the team watching, and Avabot especially keeping close tabs, she completes the mission, and fools everyone.  

Once back aboard the renegade Waverider, she ends up exposing the plot by Gideon, and telling them they're all androids, and that the Avabot has been helping Gideon all this time.  That how they're handling things isn't the right way, and they can make their own choices.  However, what Sarabot did NOT plan on, was Gideon managing to manipulate the Zaribot into NOT rebooting her, by upgrading her CPU and making her smarter and more powerful. So, with that in mind, Sarabot is then captured and reprogrammed to carry out her mission without any emotional aspect.  She meets up with the scientist again, and ends up killing her on the park bench where they first met.  Thus, their mission continues...now with Sara as nothing more as a killing machine.  

What can I say?  As I stated at the beginning, this was just filler, and proves that the Gideon on the Waverider is willing to make the ends justify the means in order to maintain the timeline----even if it costs lives.  This is a ship of androids, and there is no emotional thought now.  Whether they believe in the Sarabot's original claim that they're androids is a moot point now.  The mission will go on, and now it means that the showdown between the androids and the real McCoy's is going to happen soon.  We're only a few episodes out from the season finale, so I hope this gets wrapped up soon.  This was something of a boring episode, and I HOPE things pick up from here.  

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