Legends of Tomorrow (Season 6)

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So, nobody made a thread about the sixth season of Legends of Tomorrow until I did, just now?
I'm not entirely surprised, given how unwatchable much of it is.

But I've been checking out most of the episodes, and currently we're halfway through at Episode 9, "This is Gus", in which they totally recycle the blue "Beebo" toy character from previous seasons, but turn him pink and make him into an alien baby that's part Grogu, part Gizmo, and part ALF.

The alien's name is Gus-Gus (which is either the fat mouse from Cinderella, or the 90s electronica band from Iceland who got their name from a mispronunciation of the word 'couscous'. not sure which is more likely)

Definitely running out of ideas.

But not out of ways to insert the Progressive Stack into the plot. In fact, this episode might be the most egregious champion of social justice since the final two seasons of Supergirl. Without even paraphrasing, here's what you'll find in S6 E9:

"intersectionality and gender studies"
"patriarchy"
"post-feminist empowerment lit[erature]"
marriage being declared as 'outdated'
"seeing yourself" represented in a TV character
"preventing capitalism from creating another monster"
TV sitcom with an all-Muslim cast who specifically look Middle-Eastern
several Persian foods and a Muslim holiday to make sure we can't miss the point of that
male pregnancy
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(Rory is knocked up with Kayla's alien brood)
One might wonder why there's so much extraneous sociopolitical content in shows which are supposed to be about amazing superpowers, alien planets, punching bad guys, and shooting laser guns.

Cute widdle baby alien.
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I used to watch every Arrowverse show.
But I stopped with season 6 of this show. It's just not entertaining anymore. Too much craziness. Too much weirdness. Too few interesting characters.
Now I just skip through the episodes of LoT in a minute or two and check if anything of interest happens.
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I still think this is the best of the Arrow'verse shows. They care about continuity and the writers always make references to past events in a show that literally goes back in forth in time. The characters recognized they are idiots and losers, but idiots and losers that get the job done Legend style. It's a silly show that does things none of the other shows would do.

Unlike Supergirl, they don't keep hammering a social agenda and they don't change the characters to fit the agenda of the week. Episode 1 had Ava planning how to find Sara Lance in her usual organized way with binders and a check off list that showed that she knew how each team member would act.

Episode 8, "Stressed Western," used the cowboy narrator like in "Cat Ballou" and mocked most Western themes and tropes while not repeating ones from their previous Western episodes. Nothing was expected and there were plenty of twists.
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I still think this is the best of the Arrow'verse shows.
Unlike Supergirl, they don't keep hammering a social agenda and they don't change the characters to fit the agenda of the week. There were plenty of twists.
We're in partial agreement but here's where we disagree:
Black Lightning (aka the Black Fantastic Four) is definitely better than Legends of Tomorrow.
Stargirl and Superman & Lois are also markedly better than LOT (although maybe not technically part of the Arrowverse).

Yes, LOT doesn't *constantly* hammer a social agenda but because of the way the show is structured ("goofy time/space-traveling premise of the week") they insert that agenda randomly when they feel like it - sometimes lightly, but a few times rather heavily.
S6 E9 is the heaviest insertion yet, and that's why I made note of it.

Still watching it, regardless: 1) It's free, and 2) it can be funny, and 3) there are tons of pop-culture and historical Easter Eggs (which they don't always get correct..for example, the writing on Zari's original totem which was supposed to parody Raiders of the Lost Ark, but it was in ancient Hebrew referencing the Jewish Old Testament, even though Zari is Muslim).
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Had to toss in my 2 cents on the latest episode.
First off, worst martial arts scene I had seen in a while beyond a porno.
And secondly
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Honestly, how poorly can genetics be used as a trope in a show? Hi, I took genetics in an Ivy League college, and know someone can't copy someone else's knowledge and skills from their genetics. This is the whole nature vs nurture problem for clones and identical twins. The two(or more)creatures/beings may share the same genome, but as they leave the womb, they will differ. They will be treated differently, and experience the world differently, so their behaviors, knowledges, and skills will be different!
In this ep, the baddie knows Sarah's security codes, and fighting style as he shares 6% of her genetics? First off, we all share more than that percentage with our neighbor, no matter relationship. It's just part of being human. Secondly, see above. When he was rattling off Sarah's security codes, I thought he had bugged her brain somehow, but nope, due to the "6%", he knew all her secrets.
Sorry. Just the scientist in me ignited by lame use of science!
And there's my 2 cents for today.
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Flawed science is generic in movies and television. These shows are written by people that avoided science classes all their lives.

I've seen a worse fight scene in the season 2, first episode of Psych, but it was intentional.
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Obviously this show is never going to win any Emmys, but I enjoy the series. I feel that it is an under the radar, underrated series. I have always found the series a refreshing change of pace and different from the other Arrowverse CW shows. I like how often they go for the laughs and jokes, it has a lighter tone which I enjoy, it's not all angst. The cast is likable also. The show is a light hearted one hour escapist fare program.
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