Hello everyone and welcome to another Legends of Tomorrow discussion post and we have reached the season three finale. The took you across the emotional range while proving that this is both the craziest and the best show in the Arrowverse. Let’s get the biggest (literally) thing out of the way first…Mallus was defeated by a massive Beebo summoned by the six totems. It was silly and stupid and I absolutely loved it. I couldn’t stop laughing and smiling all the way through! It was just so crazy and fun and it really is hard to think of another show that could actually get away with this kind of stuff. Did Mallus explode by being slammed from like 100ft due to being hugged? Why on earth not!

They kicked the episode off on a less happy note as they killed off original cast member Rip Hunter. If I’m being honest, he hadn’t been handled all that well this season. They have actually made him pretty unlikeable. This didn’t mean Gideon saying goodbye to him and the flashbacks of his time on the show didn’t make me sad. I just felt he didn’t truly get to redeem himself. He was at his best being the captain and leading the team yet the season he did that was the weakest one. He never really found a place on the show after that and I guess that this was the show’s way of resolving that.

We also (and I am pretty sure this happened) lost Damien Darhk who sacrificed himself to save his daughter. I was pretty sure we were going to lose him but he went out as much of a hero as he could have been. The writers did so well with Damien this season and they should be applauded for how layered and loveable they made the villain of Arrow’s most maligned season.

A lot of the history characters from throughout the season and it was a cool retrospective. While most were just used for the battle, seeing Romans, pirates and Vikings fighting it out in the Old West was almost surreal. Helen of Troy got a bit more to do and we got to see how she had developed into an Amazonian warrior since the last time we saw her. Jonah Hex showed up again too with little to really do. I did like the romantic tension between him and Zari though. It was unexpected but I hope it gets a chance to develop further at some point next season. Jax returned too but again with little really to offer as it was basically no more than a pleasant checking-in with him. That was my main issue I think: I do love it when old characters come back but they need something substantial to do. Not everyone did. Overall though it was a crazy end to a crazy season. Well done Legends.

DD Rating: 8/10