'Legends of Tomorrow' S01E13 Review
Last night's episode FINALLY showed our heroes going up against Vandal Savage. In the year 2166, after Savage has seemingly conquered most of the planet, a small faction of resistance fighters are struggling for survival, and our team looks to join up to take down Savage.
During a recon mission, Snart, Rory and Sara encounter Savage's daughter and are able to take her captive. Snart is able to get through to her, using his own "daddy issues" to find common ground with Cassandra. He shows her video footage of Vandal's proposal of unleashing the virus that kills a large percentage of the world's population, making Cassandra turn on Savage and helping the team.
A giant robot, the Leviathan, is en route to destroy the resistance. When Ray upgrades his suit's technology, he now becomes Giant Man, growing to an equal size of the giant robot in order to fight it and ultimately defeat it.
Kendra, having more and more strong feeling for Carter, imbues Carter's mace with the bracelet Cassandra was wearing (it was Kendra's at the time of her initial battle with Savage), enabling her to defeat Savage with it. After Cassandra betrays Savage, he is left open for attack and is being handled by Kendra. Right before striking the killing blow, a reincarnated Carter is shown. Savage tells Kendra he locked away Carter's memories and holds the key to his mind, thus stopping Kendra from killing him.
A now captive Savage is brought aboard to Wave Rider, but in the scenes from next week's episode looks to have escaped imprisonment, creating havoc for our heroes.
I liked how this episode got back to the actual plot line of what the show was about. Kendra's decision to spare Savage will come back to haunt her and the team, as we await next week's episode.
*Note: I had thought this to be a full season like 'Arrow' and 'The Flash' but it is actually only 16 episodes. I like this because the plot of this season is coming to a head and I don;t want anymore "filler" episodes.
Solid episode.
My rating: 8 out of 10
