DC'S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW 7.11

 

RECAP - DC'S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW  7.11:  "Rage Against the Machines"  

With the season finale close at hand, the Legends are up against the wall to try and get back home, as well as repair any and all damage they've done to the timeline.  Right now, they're stuck in 1914, where they just tried to stop the assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand, and thus stop World War I happening, and with the help of Eobard Thawne, who's there to keep that fixed point in time in place, has allowed her and the team 40 minutes to draw the robo Legends to them, and for them to try and take the Waverider over, and stop Evil Gideon from destroying them.  But...as we all know...things don't ALWAYS go as they plan.  After all...what do you expect from our time travelling misfits?  It wouldn't be THEM without some sort of mishap on their caper.

At the time bar, Gideon and Davies are discussing the issue the Legends are facing, and it makes the rest of the bar patrons want to assist the team, but that's just going to create more problems than they need.  The rest of the team is outside, awaiting the robo Legends, and they realize that they're dopplegangers of themselves, and while they try to see if they can distract their counterparts, the Legends' plan to overtake the ship backfires, as Evil Gideon catches onto their plan.  Sara tells them to scatter, but Ava gets shot in the process by robo Behrad, and he trails her, as she's leaving a trail of blood behind her, as they get her back to the mansion in the pocket dimension. He manages to trail them there, but Astra conks him out.  And as for Thawne, who had been keeping the fixed point in place, Evil Sara puts and end to him by stabbing him.  As they take off to find the other Legends, and the real Sara catches up to him, and he hands her his watch, meaning that SHE is now in charge of protecting the fixed point.  

She later gathers the team, and she says she's going to try and appeal to the evil Legends, despite her teammates thinking it's a bad idea.  She tries to go an appeal to evil Nate, but they fight, and he ends up snapping her neck.  Davies, who had followed her, freaks out a little bit when he sees her dead, and drags her off. She recovers back at the mansion, but doesn't feel they can beat their robo counterparts.  She asks Davies, who was a soldier, what he would do.  He says that it's time for them to fight dirty, and create a distraction, so that one of them can sneak aboard the ship.  Since they have the robo Behrad, it means that Behrad himself to sneak aboard, and try to disconnect Gideon, allowing them to take over the ship.  So, he disguises himself as his doppleganger, and manages to get aboard the Waverider, where he's got to put on the act for evil Spooner, and then get his "upgrades" with Dr. Sharpe.  Before he does, he heads to the bathroom, and uses the key to get back to the mansion, where he says that his sister's counterpart is the one who's taking care of Gideon, and that she needs to sneak aboard and then disconnect Gideon.  Behrad goes back with Zari, and Gideon wants to help, but Astra is insistent that she stay behind.  

Meanwhile, the rest of the team is out in public, doing everything the can to create a distraction to keep the rest of the evil Legends occupied, while B, Zari, and Astra are aboard the Waverider to take out evil Gideon.  So, for every distraction they create to disrupt the timeline, the evil Legends are coming from behind them to correct the timeline.  While B is aboard the ship, he manages to use a concoction created by Gary to make evil Astra and evil Ava preoccupied, which it works.  Evil Ava and Astra are led into the mansion, where they are pushed into hell.  Meanwhile, Spooner meets up with Evil Gary and she convinces him that her counterpart is the real Spooner, and she hides as the two evil versions argue with each other, which then evil Gary eats evil Spooner, but he soon gets destroyed from the inside, taking the both of them out. 

Gary tries to comfort Gideon, who feels left out, but she's not in the mood to talk. Gary asks Astra why she was so hard on Gideon, and it seems as though Astra doesn't want Gideon to get hurt---mostly because she brought Gideon back, and it's like a parent protecting a child...which Astra tries to deny, but we can see differently. Zari is ready to sneak aboard, but she is met by her evil twin, and they begin to fight with each other.  Astra says Gary should eat both of them, but he refuses. But the real Zari unplugs robo Zari's CPU.  She gets aboard to try and disconnect evil Gideon, but evil Gideon is on to her, and will extract all of the oxygen on the ship for any human caught on board.  Zari then rips all the wires out, and it allows Astra and Behrad to gain control of the ship, and they go out of their way to land it, which they do.  And Behrad FINALLY kisses Astra after the incident.  

Evil Sara and Nate are still on the hunt for the rest of the team, while they're getting the rest of the team aboard the Waverider.  Sara says that she has to stay behind because she made a promise to Thawne to stay and protect the fixed point from were on out.  However, in a stroke of genius, Gideon tells the robo team that they accomplished their mission, and to unplug their CPU's.  Nate has an idea, and tricks the robo Nate in taking Thawne's watch, thus making him the new protector of the fixed point, and taking him out of the equation altogether.  Sara is spared, and the team heads to the ship.  Astra is proud of Gideon for her idea, and she only was hard on her, because she brought her here, and she didn't want her hurt.  Gideon hugs her and says "Thanks, Mom", and goes to tell the rest of the team that they need to get aboard the Waverider, but she's stabbed from behind by the robo Astra, who managed to make it back from Hell.

With a couple of episodes left, we're getting a bit more steam picked up in getting this team back home.  Taking care of their android counterparts was a good coup by them in their own typical way, by using distractions like the singing fish, and giving away movie spoilers in order to keep the rest of the android group occupied, while Behrad did his thing aboard the Waverider.  Everything worked out, as they now have some control of the ship, but there's still the matter of saving Davies' boyfriend, and putting things back properly in the timeline through the messes they've made on their way back, since Bishop disrupted everything.  So, there's still some work left to be done, and we'll see how the last two episodes to play out.  

Sara has experienced some serious doubt this season as Captain of this motley crew, and it's a vulnerability we've really not seen much.  But with the circumstances having been what they are, she's been feeling like she's at a loss.  Thankfully, the rest of the team has been able to step up and lead in the wake of her inability to lead at times.  Davies' experience in the military was the huge key in winning the day for them this installment.  It was also great that Behrad, Zari, and Astra to get the Waverider back.  And we FINALLY see Behrad and Astra secure the moment with THEIR long-awaited kiss.  Speaking of Astra---she's been VERY overprotective of Gideon since she brought her back.  And, as much as she's never wanted to admit it, she's come off like an overprotective mother---something Gary had to point out to her, but she refused to believe it.  But, they day also would NOT have been won, had Gideon not been able to use her idea of tricking the androids to disconnect their CPU's.  So, Astra finally admitting to not only Gideon, but herself that she's that important to her, and with Gideon acknowledging her as "mother", it was a sweet moment.  But now with Gideon stabbed by Astra's evil robot twin, I am curious as to how she gets saved.  

We got a couple of adventures to go before we seal up Season 7.  How do YOU see it playing out?  What happens to Gideon?  And will this team FINALLY get back home, and fix all the mess they've made?  And does that mess in the timeline effect anything ELSE going on in the Arrowverse?  We DO know that when The Flash comes back, we're focusing on Bart & Nora, and the timeline being in flux---does the Legends' messing up things have ANY correlation?  Let us now by subscribing and dropping a theory or comment on our comments section.

Until next time....time is on our side.