Legends of Tomorrow Season 4 Episode 13: Egg MacGuffin

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Legends of Tomorrow Season 4 – Episode 13: Egg Macguffin

I do not know exactly where that happened, but at a time of last season and a half Legends of tomorrow, he mostly gave up being a superhero show and became a sitcom at the workplace / dorm. Overall, this has been a wonderful decision for the show. His really funny and packed full of talented comic actors. But from time to time this decision has negative consequences, and in tonight's episode titled "Egg MacGuffin", the series paid a small price to choose the path of comedy.

We're going back to where we left last week. Neron owned Ray and left Nora in a coma with Constantine in search of a way to heal her. Zari and Nate flirt a lot. Ava and Sara are back in their collective badkicker version of domestic bliss, and Charlie, Mick and Mona are setting up another C-plot.

This is actually another interesting structural aspect that the series has developed: we rather have the impression that the series gives priority to intrigues and rather than each episode corresponds to three or four C-graphs reconstituted around the arc. of the season. This week, Ray is trying to fight Neron's possession with limited effectiveness, as well as Gary. Sara, Ava and Mona have a reading club at Nora's bedside; Charlie presents himself as a novelist and novelist alter ego of Mick who will win $ 20,000 at a romance convention in Seattle; and Zari and Nate develop their relationship by claiming to be Indiana Jones and Marion Ravenwood in an adventurers' club in 1933. The reason "this is that a bunch of conspiracies in C" n & # 39; 39 is not a criticism, it's because the actors are collectively so charming and fun to watch, and the writing has historically historically elevated the B and C intrigues so that they are as important to them. characters that plot A for the narrative arc.

Each of these character groups is joyfully entertaining.

Last week's episode was quiet and intense for Ava and Sara. The writers' decision to give them a break and become the parents of the team was therefore welcome. Jess Macallan and Caity Lotz are having such good fun together that it's great to see their characters have an excuse to hang out, and that's what they got here with their typical sitcom story of "pretending to be in the interest of the other ".

The week of Charlie and Mick is quite absurd, but in this particular way that they are often on legends it's a lot more charming than it's irritating. There is absolutely no reason for one or the other of them to want a "holdup" to get that money. Mick is legally entitled as an erotic pseudonym Rebecca Silver, but they also live at the time of the machine and work for the government. There is no chance that they will combine their day-to-day work with their smart investment (they bring their time machine to 1803 and place it in a medium-yield savings account). But we have a real glimpse of Mick, just like Charlie, as their friendship grows. And Mona discovers that Mick is Rebecca Silver after eliminating her at Romanticon, which makes her deeper in the dynamics of the team.

The chemistry of Nate and Zari continues to grow. We finally got a kiss, but this comes after a lot of roleplaying in Indana Jones: they go to the Adventurer's Club in 1933 in New York under the pseudonym of Indy and Marion to capture the movie. magical anomaly and find a golden egg discovered in the Arctic. Naturally, they are approached by the Nazis who also want the egg, and we actually get a little super powers while they fight Jerry. And finally they kiss each other.

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This kiss comes once Nate got the better of his arm through Ray's possessed arm, and that's where I hear my little reproach with this episode. Brandon Routh is too funny to make it as horrible as it could have been. Slowly taking his body on Neron could have been scary, but it was fun, which was, I'm sure, the goal for most of the episode. But the scene with him slaying an unconscious Nate should have been darker for him to land better, and it was not because Routh was too friendly.

It's a minor complaint, of course, but as this show is almost unbadailable, I like to be on the lookout for things before they turn into a real problem. I have no problem with the hottest sitcom on television, and honestly, this show has been so good for so long that I do not particularly worry about the fact that they're developing a problem now.

DC UNIVERSE TIME BUBBLES

-In innumerable appearances during the history of DC, a character has always been described as an egg: Plastic Man. Making the egg a dragon egg is a huge missed opportunity that would probably have cost as much to animate as a dragon, but a thousand times more impressive. (Seriously, Plastic Man has been an egg in everything Dark Knights: Metal at Black knight strike Again and I hope you enjoy me because I went back to DksA to check and it's worse than you remember).

One of Mick's books is called "Heat Waves", his superhero name when they want to do superhero stuff. I confess that I laughed rewinding the show to make sure I understood it well.

-Line of the night's night: Nate "In the words of Ray and Mike Tyson," I think we found our man's myth "." I laughed a lot.

-There were so many objectively wrong lines that I think were entirely intentional. The book of the reading club Sara listens on board the treamill is almost entirely trash, with "A killer was with me" and "There is something I wanted to kill you." The slogan of Heat waves is "In space, no one can hear you moan", which, I'm sure, has already been used. And the Nazis who attack Nate and Zari for the egg release a beauty: "He'll kill you until you tell me where the real egg is."

-It's a ridiculous thing for the series, but when Nate was trying to sneak between the pbad leads and steal the egg at the adventurer's club, he was moving like Catherine Zeta Jones in Trapping.

-It's not new this episode, but did we talk about the Great friends the sound that Zari's amulet makes when she uses her power? It's pretty on the nose as the sound effects go away, but it's also pretty decent.

Mick's schick is basically that of Mr. Torgue.

–Next week captions: They have a dragon egg, so of course, Neron and Constantine will go to a glacier.

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