Legends of Tomorrow - Finale Review

No other DC Shows this week, so I guess we've got a Legends of Tomorrow solo review for the finale. In this episode we see the team come back together and decide in order to restore the timeline, they have to break every rule in the book, by travelling back into their own timeline, teaming up with themselves and taking on the Legion of Doom. In my last review I said that the prior episode felt like it could have been the finale all on its own, but without seeing both parts I couldn't be sure. Now that I have seen both parts...I still think I was right, but I also see the pros of giving it an extra episode. The biggest pro for the second part is that it means the finale ends on a grander scale, two sets of Legends, dozens of Reverse-Flashes, multiple deaths and even setting it in WW1 just for the extra level of grandness. However the argument for the one parter is that being on a smaller scale also made it more intimate. The heroes had already lost and had to work their way to victory from nothing, plus having only one death made the impact more effective. The drama and tension would have been higher, so having that last minute victory would have felt all the sweeter.

Then again, expanding on it means we also get a lot more character development, we see Mick & Leonard's story arcs come to a close, Rip finally bids his farewell to the team, Nate & Amaya stop cockteasing, Sara finally moves on from Laurel's death, we get a lot of closure. Plus the action scenes are made all the better considering there's two of everyone. In the end, everyone got the endings I feel they deserved, especially the final scene between Mick and Leonard, betrayed by the only person he thought he could trust completely, someone who had manipulated him into hurting those that actually do better him as a person. The old Mick would have torn Leonard to pieces for this, but this Mick, more saddened that his oldest friend is not who he remembers him as, ends it with a simple sentence "You know what your punishment is Leonard? You end up being a better man." And you know something? That was actually really touching, especially for Mick.

Despite my debating whether this finale would have worked better as a one parter or a two parter, the main thing is that it works. It was a well done finale to an overall huge step-up from season one. Though I overall gave season one a positive review, I honestly have very little interesting in returning to it. Season two however, I'd be more than happy to go back and rewatch this. The entire season was filled with fun, wacky adventures of a misfit group of time travelling superheroes with dinosaurs, George Lucas and racist zombies. But at its core the characters all started to connect more and feel like a family.

The finale I give a 7/10.

The season overall I give an 8/10.

-Danny