I love the Sara being a terrible liar gag, and I love that it’s something they’ve been consistent about since the first episode

I mean, I wouldn’t put it past them

If we’re talking influences, the plot (at least for the first two thirds) feels a lot like the Teen Titans episode Employee of the Month, which was also about a fast food restaurant becoming a craze for a menu item that turns out to be an alien product.

Also, Behrad’s ding ding eyebrow raise was a wonderful bit

That makes a lot of sense

I suspect it’s a price thing, at least in part. You’re probably absolutely right that the show is fairly confident in its original ideas (and they should be, they’ve nailed most of them), but I feel like there’s also a level where it costs some amount of money for the show to use properties from the comics (I believe…

I feel like Legends isn’t allowed to play around with the DC lore as much as the other shows, so I’m not sure how many canon alien species I’m expecting to show up this year, but I’m wondering if there was some influence on Kayla’s chestmouth from the plant people aliens in Far Sector

Ahem

If we have to say goodbye to Charly and Zari 1.0, please at least tell me that we get to keep Astra next year. Olivia Swann was an amazing addition this year and I would 100% love to see her in more of the show

Honestly, between the idea last week that she would eventually have to watch her mother die, and the idea this week that her mother wouldn’t want her to sacrifice her own happiness for hers, I feel like they’re setting up the idea of the Astra we know staying around somehow.  I wouldn’t be surprised, and I would be…

I got the idea that Sara saw enough to tell that they were on the right track to winning, but that it also included her death, so she went with it on faith that her death could lead to a solution and her friends could (probably) bring her back with the Loom

I was coming down to the comments just to mention that.  It felt like there was more than the usual stylish details like that this week.

I’ve been going back through the games with all Bug teams, and it’s one: pretty fun, and two: by Gen III, it’s really not that hard.  As they started branching out in the dual typing for Bugs, a lot of options have opened up.  Plus Sun and Moon were extremely kind to Bug types with the addition of Golisopod and…

The character was a recurring ally to Wally West in the 90's, so he definitely seems like a possible recurring role here.

I’ll admit the Nora being tempted by Neron bit should have been a predictable double cross, but really had me on the line due to its heavy similarities to Season One’s most frustrating episode, the one where they had Vandal Savage in the brig and you just knew someone was going to do something stupid and let him out.…

“I didn’t read the whole thing, but I understood where it was going.  I think it said [pointedly not what the article said].”

I used to work in a call center, and among the areas that we would receive calls from was Ohio. I am saying this from experience, the scariest people you will meet are white men from Ohio. I don’t mean intimidating or imposing, I mean “I am frightened for my life because I do not know what this certifiably insane,…

Honestly, I could easily see Underworld Unleashed being next year’s crossover event, assuming Legends doesn’t adapt the story this year.  But a whole seasonal arc would be a really interesting place to go with it.

While Neron’s role as a Constantine villain is the most pertinent of his background info now, I feel it worth mentioning that he was a Mark Waid creation and was the villain for my personal favorite Flash story, Hell to Pay. Considering Legends is already classifying him as the ‘soul buying, wish granting’ kind of…

I have consistently loved Sara from the beginning (of this show, and the beginning of her character on the CW, actually), but I’ll admit there’s been stretches where it felt like she was getting caged a little into the role of team mom. This season, and this episode in particular, seems to have remembered that she is…

Wii Fit Trainer main here; I feel your pain.