Author: Ed Sum

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What I like to know in last week’s DC’s Legends of Tomorrow “Progeny” is what happened to Kendra and Carter’s son? Saunders is having flashbacks to a time when both she and Carter are very happy together. Their love blossomed over the successive reincarnations, and they have to stay one step ahead of Vandal Savage otherwise all they have built can get ripped away. Perhaps with the fact they have a child, to keep running is all they can do. As any superhero story can tell you, to let your enemy know you have loved ones only means trouble. In what’s revealed from the flashback foreshadow  what’s to come in the present. Hopefully, more of what Kendra is starting to remember will reveal what the child they raised has become and what befell them in the 1930’s.

This episode, however, is set in the 2100’s. The story nicely explores a timeless debate: if given the opportunity to kill the child who would later be Hitler, would you? The main plot looks at the team arriving to change a pivotal point in history when Savage is mentoring the young Per Degaton to become the next despot. The casting for this lad is spot-on. There’s a cold heart being nurtured in Cory Grüter-Andrew’s performance and I can’t help but wonder how much crueller he will become as time passes by. Although revealed by Rip that he pales in comparison to Savage, just how nasty the series villain can be has yet to be revealed. The problem with messing with the timeline is sometimes the events that lead to the downfall of human civilization can get advanced. Hunter is not the type to say oops.

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By Ed Sum (The Vintage Tempest)

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You have to love Ray’s optimism and technical genius in “Left Behind.” He believes DC’s Legends of Tomorrow will return to pick him, Kendra and Sara up after the time ship seemingly took off. They had no idea in what happened (inside, there was a fight going on). His tenacity for keeping hope alive is what makes him charming. But he does not know when rescue will happen and, in the meantime, he uses ancient technology (by his standards) to build a beacon for that day to come. I’m wondering if he needed vacuum tubes since they were the precursor to memory chips.

Chronos sabotaged the Waverider and the amount of damage incurred can leave this ship lost in space and time forever. Rip, Stein and Jackson are in for a wild ride until Gideon’s self-repair mechanisms can reverse the damage and until they can stop to think, nobody immediately wonders why Chronos took Snart. The reason is obvious although it does not jive with his earlier efforts where he’s after Rip more. I still think there is more than one. This Rory version of the bounty hunter did say he’s been remade more than a few times, so perhaps the versions bouncing about include a past and future version with different memories.

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