Is Legends Of Tomorrow For Real With That Big Betrayal?
Don't call them heroes; they're Legends. We're given that exact advice week after week whenever we watch Legends of Tomorrow,
and tonight proved that we should finally start taking that advice.
These guys really aren't heroes. Just when the team thought everything
would go their way, everything turned to crap. The Spear of Destiny has
officially fallen into the hands of the Legion of Doom, and Mick Rory decided to switch sides upon seeing his newly resurrected buddy, Leonard Snart. It's a major betrayal, and a huge setback for the team, but has Mick really switched sides?
On tonight's episode of Legends of Tomorrow (you read that in a Super Friends-esque
narrator's voice, right?) the Legends made their way to the
battlefields of WWI. As is typically expected from a show like this,
things took an incredibly bizarre turn as the team met up with a young J.R.R. Tolkien,
found the blood of Jesus Christ, and finally managed to assemble the
Spear of Destiny -- even in the face of Leonard Snart joining the Legion
of Doom. However, things took a dark turn in the final minutes of the
episode when Mick Rory decided to abandon his friends to side with his
old partner in crime to become a fifth member of the Legion. Now the
Legion of Doom has the Spear, as well as two of Central City's best
street-level criminals.
This twist was insanely unbelievable, and by
that, I mean I don't believe it. Heatwave has come farther than any
other character in the series (with the possible exception of Sara Lance) since his initial introduction, and it would feel odd for Legends of Tomorrow
to abandon all of it after so much progress. After all, Mick Rory is a
guy with far more mental fortitude than he gets credit for; he managed
to come back from his time as Chronos, AND he has regularly been the
member of the team to come up with meaningful solutions to more complex
problems. Beyond that, he is the one "member" of the Legion of Doom who
doesn't seem particularly happy to have the Spear of Destiny during the
final moments of the episode. He's not happy about where he is, and he
may soon do something about it.
What we know about next week's episode will
likely only serve to amplify Mick Rory's sense of remorse over what he
has just done. Titled "Doomsworld,"
the upcoming episode will quite literally put the team through hell, as
the Spear of Destiny will be used to create a custom torture for each
of them -- such as Ray working as a janitor at S.T.A.R. Labs, and
Professor Stein working for Jax in a laboratory. Mick has already shown
that he has a fully functional regret gland (based on how he feels about
what he did to his family as a child) so seeing the fruits of his
villainous labor might ultimately prove too much to keep him as a member
of the Legion for long.
This situation is further complicated by the trailer for "Doomsworld" that just debuted online. Check it out below:
Comments