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DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (Netflix, Season 7)
The Legends saw the Waverider blown up at the end of last season, stranding them in 1925. The first big arc was them stumbling through a single time period causing shenanigans, while the back half of the season was them using more primitive time-travel to bounce around trying to get their ship back from evil duplicates. The usual sort of mayhem ensued. As of this writing, this was the final season of Legends of Tomorrow.
They apparently pulled out that last episode and introduced Booster Gold specifically as a bid for another season, but it didn’t pan out. But ending with the team back together, most of the major character arcs resolved, and then all of them caught by a previously-unseen Time Police and groaning about it in unison is pretty much an in-character ending. It’s nice when shows end happily ever after, but this was very much a team that thrives on “and then the bullshit continued;” and the fact that they did an episode of “and this is what would happen in your future if you retired now” before having them active reject that made it all the more salient.
I will miss the queer crack-fic superhero show that had barely any superheroes anymore, but I’m also okay with letting it go. This felt like the last season of Brooklyn-99: At only 13 episodes it was really only a half-season, a chance to go around the block once more and resolve a bunch of lingering character issues, but also an acknowledgement that we’re all tired and it’s okay to stop now. They did the big reunion episode where they got back most of the characters who left. They resolved Nate and Zari 1.0’s romance arc. They got Astra, Spooner, Behrad and Zari 2.0 some of the real development you can end on. They established the next phase of Sarah and Ava’s relationship and that they’re going to be A+ okay. They even snuck in some real meaty worldbuilding lore, that history’s “fixed points” are that way because there’s a “fixer” who prevents them from being tampered with.
The stretched-out death of this as Batwoman is also cancelled and The Flash enters its final season says that the handoff from the first generation of the Arrowverse to a second generation has just failed. Superman & Lois isn’t interested in the existing lore or in doing crossovers; Stargirl was never the same universe. I don’t think that’s terrible—I like a lot of the actors and wish they could keep going with these characters, but they’re also bogged down by everything that’s come before and all the stories that have already been told. And while I admire them managing to put the Crisis on Infinite Earths into a TV crossover with a fantastic set of cameos, the world-merging fallout of it never really made sense and only served to further limit their options.
Overall: This show found its footing in its second season and it ran with the nutty, not-taking-itself-seriously, costumes-and-crazy-plans nonsense for a wonderful six years. There were missteps and clunky bits and it wasn’t for everybody, but they understood the show they were making and gave the audience what we wanted. I hope that the Waverider crash-lands into some other show’s universe in a few years for a delightful one-episode cameo.
They apparently pulled out that last episode and introduced Booster Gold specifically as a bid for another season, but it didn’t pan out. But ending with the team back together, most of the major character arcs resolved, and then all of them caught by a previously-unseen Time Police and groaning about it in unison is pretty much an in-character ending. It’s nice when shows end happily ever after, but this was very much a team that thrives on “and then the bullshit continued;” and the fact that they did an episode of “and this is what would happen in your future if you retired now” before having them active reject that made it all the more salient.
I will miss the queer crack-fic superhero show that had barely any superheroes anymore, but I’m also okay with letting it go. This felt like the last season of Brooklyn-99: At only 13 episodes it was really only a half-season, a chance to go around the block once more and resolve a bunch of lingering character issues, but also an acknowledgement that we’re all tired and it’s okay to stop now. They did the big reunion episode where they got back most of the characters who left. They resolved Nate and Zari 1.0’s romance arc. They got Astra, Spooner, Behrad and Zari 2.0 some of the real development you can end on. They established the next phase of Sarah and Ava’s relationship and that they’re going to be A+ okay. They even snuck in some real meaty worldbuilding lore, that history’s “fixed points” are that way because there’s a “fixer” who prevents them from being tampered with.
The stretched-out death of this as Batwoman is also cancelled and The Flash enters its final season says that the handoff from the first generation of the Arrowverse to a second generation has just failed. Superman & Lois isn’t interested in the existing lore or in doing crossovers; Stargirl was never the same universe. I don’t think that’s terrible—I like a lot of the actors and wish they could keep going with these characters, but they’re also bogged down by everything that’s come before and all the stories that have already been told. And while I admire them managing to put the Crisis on Infinite Earths into a TV crossover with a fantastic set of cameos, the world-merging fallout of it never really made sense and only served to further limit their options.
Overall: This show found its footing in its second season and it ran with the nutty, not-taking-itself-seriously, costumes-and-crazy-plans nonsense for a wonderful six years. There were missteps and clunky bits and it wasn’t for everybody, but they understood the show they were making and gave the audience what we wanted. I hope that the Waverider crash-lands into some other show’s universe in a few years for a delightful one-episode cameo.