I feel like I have to pinch myself every few minutes knowing I'm writing a review for the 4th part of a 4-show 4-night crossover event pulled off by the CW. I get it, the Supergirl episode wasn't really a crossover, but all things considered, this is one impressive feat accomplished by the CW.
I think this Legends installment may be the weakest of the 3 Invasion episodes, but there was still plenty of awesomeness to go around. With scheduling being a nightmare, I'm sure it was difficult to get everyone in the same room every moment of the episode, but I constantly found myself questioning where at least one hero or character was at certain points. But if I'm able to push that aside, I think there was a nice balance of screen time between all of the characters.
Getting some expanded screen time tonight were Cisco and Felicity, who are effectively this universe's version of Marvel's science bros, as they traveled along with the Legends to 1951 to attempt to capture one of the Dominators to obtain intel. While this trip was rather uneventful, it set course the events of the rest of the episode. And I mean literally set the course for the Dominators presence on Earth. Cisco realized that because he decided to send the alien back to its ship, he was at fault because it was the same alien who attacked them in present day. I've been tired of the Cisco-Barry fight/guilt thing for a while now, so I'm glad it's all over. But Cisco ultimately making amends with Barry over this revelation felt a little cheap. Granted, the entire fight between Barry and Cisco to begin with was cheap, so I guess we should just call it even.
Back in 2016, the rest of the Justice League (because that's what we should call them now right?) had to meet with the new president. Speaking of which, I kind of wish at the end of the episode when the president is giving that speech, she would have just name dropped them all "The new Justice Society of America", but that's another conversation. The meeting turned for the worse when the agent from the past showed up instead of the president. Again, this all seemed to delay an actual "Invasion" from the Dominators, but it did make for a great action sequence where Barry went all Quicksilver from DOFP on the agents. Which wasn't the last great action sequence of the episode.
The other arc of the episode came from Stein as he came to grips with his own aberration, his daughter. Much like these scenes a few nights ago, I think it took away from the massive scope of the rest of the episode. Same goes for the notion that Oliver wanted to keep Supergirl out of the mix for most of the episode. Didn't this just feel a whole lot like Wild Dog hating on Supergirl last night? With that said, this conflict gave us a nice talk between Kara, Barry, and Oliver at the end, so I'll take it.
Which brings me to what I absolutely loved about tonight's episode, the last 15 minutes. I'm still not sure we got the full-fledged invasion we seemed to be promised, but watching almost all of the heroes beat the crap out of a bunch of aliens was about as cool as anything this network has ever done. Just a few more tidbits were; Ray saying Kara "looks like my cousin", nicely done, Heatwave's dialogue pretty much the entire night was classic Heatwave, Cisco giving Kara official communication between their earths, and the episode ending with Barry and Oliver having a nice cold one with each other. It's a been a fun 4 nights. Until next year
+Team-up fight on rooftop
+Everyone is recognized by government
+Cisco & Felicity
+A trip to the bar for Barry & Oliver
-Perhaps not the massive scope we thought
-Cisco guilt stuff
9.0/10
I think this Legends installment may be the weakest of the 3 Invasion episodes, but there was still plenty of awesomeness to go around. With scheduling being a nightmare, I'm sure it was difficult to get everyone in the same room every moment of the episode, but I constantly found myself questioning where at least one hero or character was at certain points. But if I'm able to push that aside, I think there was a nice balance of screen time between all of the characters.
Getting some expanded screen time tonight were Cisco and Felicity, who are effectively this universe's version of Marvel's science bros, as they traveled along with the Legends to 1951 to attempt to capture one of the Dominators to obtain intel. While this trip was rather uneventful, it set course the events of the rest of the episode. And I mean literally set the course for the Dominators presence on Earth. Cisco realized that because he decided to send the alien back to its ship, he was at fault because it was the same alien who attacked them in present day. I've been tired of the Cisco-Barry fight/guilt thing for a while now, so I'm glad it's all over. But Cisco ultimately making amends with Barry over this revelation felt a little cheap. Granted, the entire fight between Barry and Cisco to begin with was cheap, so I guess we should just call it even.
Back in 2016, the rest of the Justice League (because that's what we should call them now right?) had to meet with the new president. Speaking of which, I kind of wish at the end of the episode when the president is giving that speech, she would have just name dropped them all "The new Justice Society of America", but that's another conversation. The meeting turned for the worse when the agent from the past showed up instead of the president. Again, this all seemed to delay an actual "Invasion" from the Dominators, but it did make for a great action sequence where Barry went all Quicksilver from DOFP on the agents. Which wasn't the last great action sequence of the episode.
The other arc of the episode came from Stein as he came to grips with his own aberration, his daughter. Much like these scenes a few nights ago, I think it took away from the massive scope of the rest of the episode. Same goes for the notion that Oliver wanted to keep Supergirl out of the mix for most of the episode. Didn't this just feel a whole lot like Wild Dog hating on Supergirl last night? With that said, this conflict gave us a nice talk between Kara, Barry, and Oliver at the end, so I'll take it.
Which brings me to what I absolutely loved about tonight's episode, the last 15 minutes. I'm still not sure we got the full-fledged invasion we seemed to be promised, but watching almost all of the heroes beat the crap out of a bunch of aliens was about as cool as anything this network has ever done. Just a few more tidbits were; Ray saying Kara "looks like my cousin", nicely done, Heatwave's dialogue pretty much the entire night was classic Heatwave, Cisco giving Kara official communication between their earths, and the episode ending with Barry and Oliver having a nice cold one with each other. It's a been a fun 4 nights. Until next year
+Team-up fight on rooftop
+Everyone is recognized by government
+Cisco & Felicity
+A trip to the bar for Barry & Oliver
-Perhaps not the massive scope we thought
-Cisco guilt stuff
9.0/10