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Actually, I was referring to the Ritzy Party in Colonial Delaware in the episode with George Washington. But fair point on Ray and Kendra in Season One when they got time-stranded in the 1950s.

Segregation was pretty bad in Memphis. It wasn’t as violent as what was going on in Birmingham but if you look up things like the Sanitation Workers strike and MLK’s assassination in Memphis you get a good picture about how bad things were.

Having Nate — the historian — constantly claim that Elvis invented rock and roll was hard to take. I know this is a light hearted show, but I think it was possible to indicate the racial realities of 1950s Memphis (and America) without diminishing the importance of Elvis or making the episode too dour.

As always, I blame Barry Allen.

Is Dominic Purcell difficult to work with? It feels like he’s been given subplots that don’t require him to interact with the rest of the team.

I can’t believe “The Flash” wasted Wally West as a character for three years, and all it took was his first appearance on Legends a few weeks ago to make him fun. This show is winning the Arrowverse by a large margin at this point.

That wasn’t Nate and Amaya at the ritzy party, it was Ray and Kendra. I suspect you, like all of us, want to blot that character, if not season, out of your mind, so I find it funny that you managed to so successfully. I think part of the problem this season is that Amaya is used to an even worse period of racism than

The CW needs to go ahead and announce the renewal of this show (and, fine, the rest of the ArrowVerse shows, too). They are starting to piss me off with the foot-dragging.

It is sort of a missed opportunity. Unlike Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter for instance, Amaya never really had that 40s vibe or fashion sense.

They’ve never really done a good job of making Amaya seem like she’s from the ‘40s, which I’ve always felt was a real missed opportunity. Like, she moves onto the Waverider and immediately starts dressing like she’s from the 2016 and it would have been great if she kept dressing like it was the ‘40s.

Seriously, you didn’t put in when the Legends were waiting for Sarah get this mission started phrase. Come on how do you not love, “Ok, everyone put on your Sunday best because we are going to church.”

Was this episode shown out of order? Wasn’t Grodd going on a rampage at the end of last episode killing time bureau people, and this week they are all just like, meh, let’s go see Elvis?

I thought about the city of Memphis being abandoned in 1954 meaning that perhaps MLK doesn’t die in 1968 but I was so put off by the ridiculous notion that no Elvis meant no Rock & Roll and the black members of the team hanging out in a white church in the segregated South with no repercussions that I didn’t even

I said fuck this episode when Nate says if there’s no Elvis there would be no Little Richard and then had Zari, Wally and Amaya sitting up in a Memphis church in 1954 and the worst thing that happens is an old lady giving them sideeye? GTFO.

A minor point compared to the lack of systematic racism (which other commentators already noted), but this episode also did a terrible job in regards to historical accuracy. Shockingly, Legends is usually pretty good on this point, but not this time.

The episode seems to mix the recording of Elvis’ first record (July

When they suggested that Elvis was needed for rock and roll to exist, my first thought was “Wait, did an anomaly take out Chuck Berry?” I wish someone had at least mentioned him, as opposed to the throwaway line about “yeah, I guess black people contributed too.”

I really like it when “Legends” introduces and inhabits a little world for an episode, so I liked this one quite a bit more than the reviewer.

My biggest complaint was that, despite having thousands of Elvis impersonators to cast from, Luke Bilyk bore very little resemblance to Elvis Presley. If he hadn’t explicitly

I really liked Zari’s explanation to Wally about why his superspeed couldn’t be option number one when they were trying to fix anomalies, since that required patient investigation and communication, which I always thought was the obvious rebuttal to saying he was too “overpowered” to be on the team (goddam nerds).

Seems like a waste of the death amulet to not have Laurel Lance or Ray’s wife or any other dead character to show up. I suppose that could still happen, though.

This particular episode was unbelievably stupid. No way in 1954 Memphis do Nate and Amaya kiss, dance, or anything without putting the whole team at risk. (Not to mention Wally and Zari. Wally in particular would be in extreme danger.)