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Legends of Tomorrow celebrates 100 episodes with a trip through six years of changes and upgrades
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Season 7, Episode 3, “wvrdr_error_100 not found,” which aired Wednesday October 27th on The CW.
As the first fully original series to come out from the Arrowverse, Legends of Tomorrow started in a weird place. The show followed B to C list characters taken from Arrow and The Flash, as they traveled through time to stop Vandal Savage from taking over the world. And, at first, the show didn’t get the best reception, with Arrowverse fans noting that the show did not add anything to the existing universe. However, throughout the last six seasons, Legends of Tomorrow has found its own footing and evolved to be one of the Arrowverse’s best shows. This is what the 100th episode celebrated, with a journey through the last six years that explored how the show grew to become what it is now.
To achieve this, the Legends of Tomorrow team took the ship’s AI, Gideon, and gave her a human body and an identity crisis to match. While solving the crisis, audiences were taken back to prime moments that shaped not only Gideon’s personality, but the series as a whole.
A very nice touch to start with is a moment in Season 1, shortly after the events of the pilot. The team (Ray Palmer, Sara Lance, Carter Hall and Leonard Snart in this case) were angry and gritty, always on each other’s throats and needing an AI to stop them from killing each other. The early days were indeed filled with frustration, as the new environment caused tensions to run high.
Later on, audiences are taken to a Season 3 memory, shortly before the events of “Crisis on Earth X,” which saw the untimely death of Professor Martin Stein. This was a rough moment for the team as their typical adventures started to take stranger turns. Nothing makes that more clear than the episode that follows, “Beebo the God of War,” which was the biggest risk Legends of Tomorrow has taken. It was the moment the show didn’t just jump the shark, but land on its feet, introducing a new wave of weird and starting it on a path where anything and everything is possible.
The episode closed off by showing the more intimate moments of the recent years. Early on, the Legends of Tomorrow bonded and would share a drink if the occasion called for it, but as they grew closer and the atmosphere on the ship shifted from serious to playful, the team started having parties and spending more time together socially. They grew to be a family, making it easier for new members to join in, as there was an established comforting environment where a revolving door of members can come and go, but are never forgotten.
An important touch was that, throughout this episode, Astra and Spooner are brought along memory lane. They are the newest recruits, who have begun struggling with finding their place on the ship, a worry that every Legend that has embarked on this journey has faced. Seeing all the members that came before and the in-fighting that was inevitable with ever iteration of the team could inspire them to keep going and know that they belong, just as everyone does.
With six years, 100 episodes and a grand total of twenty five members of the Legends of Tomorrow, this series has the potential, time, and patience to continue on for many years to come, providing a great home for any Arrowverse members that feel lost and abandoned.
Legends of Tomorrow Season 7 airs Wednesday nights only on The CW.
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