Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Legends of Tomorrow catchup, this time with the penultimate episode of season 3, Guest Starring John Noble. A hell of a lot happened in this episode but let’s start with the title: that joke they did to trick Mallus by going back in time to get the guy who does the voice of Mallus to record lines for Mallus as he sounds just like him was crazy. It was a big risk that could have backfired massively but of course Legends pulled it off. It takes a very special type of show to be able to do that but they did it. And all of this happened because Mick just so happened to be watching Lord of the Rings…

We finally got a Damien Darhk and Legends team up which was just as brilliant as you’d expect. The writers have write Darhk superbly with him even showing honest regret for his actions and killing Laurel all the way back in season 4. It was genuine as was his love for his daughter. That Is why the betrayal (if you can call it that) worked. It was all to save his daughter which up until that point he had thought he had lost the chance to do. He wasn’t just revealing an allegiance to Mallus all along which would have been really hollow and irritating.

Rip did not come across good in this episode as he was confronted by Ava about her past. I could see where he was coming from but he didn’t phrase it all that well. Finding out that she was actually Ava number twelve made it hard to side with Rip and you realise that he does what he has to and is willing to be more than a bit morally ambiguous. This season has actually made me like Rip a lot less. As Wally said in a previous episode, he is kind of a douche.

The Obama and Grodd stuff was fun, even if it felt like Legends testing how far they could push things. It will be hard however for me to ever not chuckle at Grodd wanting to make America Grodd again. Give whoever wrote that a raise. The episode ended with us getting a look at the true form of Mallus and I have to say he looked pretty good considering the budget. I was expecting it to be John Noble again but no, they went with a giant bat winged demon. How will they stop him? I guess I’ll just have to keep watching to find out.

DD Rating: 8.75/10