Legends of Tomorrow, the wackiest of Arrowverse offerings ever created, continues to bring the funny by completely messing up history. In A Head of Her Time, an episode that shows off Courtney Ford’s talents, the actress plays both Nora Dahrk and Marie Antoinette. It would have been interesting, something Ray Palmer (Brandon Routh) immediately commented on, seeing both Nora and Marie Antoinette in the same scene.

With Sara Lance (Caity Lotz) needing to leave the Waverider to attend to something in Star City, we see the captain hand over control to her girlfriend Ava Sharpe (Jes Macallan). For some reason, even though it’s 2020, Ava uses the terminology “pantsuit” like it’s the 1920s.

A disturbance at Paris’ Bastille, in 1793 France, causes the Legends to embark on their latest mission. Marie Antoinette, another encore Astra Logue (Olivia Swann) released from Hell, is partying like it’s New Year’s Eve 1799. No one party’s like the French. Zari Tomaz (Tala Ashe), despite Ava’s initial objections, is pivotal in the mission’s success.

In this episode, with the main plot, the Legends bring the funny to an entirely new level. The comedic content, whilst it is a trademark for the series, distracts from important revelations. It is these revelations we saw in John Constantine’s (Matt Ryan) subplot, rather than the comedy, that moves the season’s story arc forward.

Whilst the French Revolution provides the setting for the episode’s main plot, with it giving the instalment us a taste of things to come, we must focus more on Constantine’s subplot. Astra cuts a deal with the Coin Maker (Sarah Strange) to get Constantine’s demise moved ahead of schedule. The deal causes Constantine to die from lung cancer.

As DC Comics aficionados will know, given how integral Constantine’s lung cancer is to Ryan’s character, we’re talking about someone that will do almost anything to stave off the final death blow. Constantine, with his scandalous ways, was written that way. It reminds me of how Jessica Rabbit was merely drawn that way.

Before we get there, not that it isn’t horrifically entertaining, we see Natalie (Alice Hunter) let loose on Constantine, Gary Green (Adam Tsekhman), and Charlie (Maisie Richardson-Sellers). Speaking of Charlie, a character that has yet to be fleshed out, her identity has not been formally established. Who is Charlie?

Charlie destroyed the loom and scattered the pieces across the multiverse. If the destruction of the loom was pre-Crisis, all the pieces might now be on the same Earth. If it was post-Crisis, that’s a different story. It would indicate Charlie is the only person in the post-Crisis Arrowverse to know the multiverse still exists.

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The comment Charlie made about her scattering the pieces across the multiverse suggests she can move easily between alternate universes. The only individuals capable of traversing the multiverse with such ease are breachers, speedsters, and cosmic beings. So far, not that we’ve seen, Charlie hasn’t demonstrated any abilities indicative of the characters Barry Allen / The Flash (Grant Gustin), Cisco Ramon / Vibe (Carlos Valdes), or Mar Novu / The Monitor (LaMonica Garrett). Vibe, as Arrowverse fans know, is no more. Cisco took the metahuman cure.

Even though Charlie states she destroyed it, with the Waverider being a time machine, merely travel back to when it existed. Why not? It’s a possible solution we could see in a future episode.

The second subplot, not as important as what we see with Constantine, Garry, and Charlie, revolves around Zari having stolen Marie Antoinette’s perfume to maintain her influence over her followers.

Marie Antoinette’s perfume, no ordinary fragrance, has the added power of making the sprayer exceedingly popular. With it having worked for Marie Antoinette in Revolutionary France, Zari figures it will work for her in 2044. It works a little too well and Zari causes a mob to frantically want a piece of her. The Legends rescue Zari. Even though Zari screwed up, there are no repercussions. None of the Legends are without screwups.

We don’t see much of Mick Rory (Dominic Purcell). The fleeting moments where we do see Mick, in medical, he discovers from Ray and Gideon (Amy Louise Pemberton) that he isn’t as much ill as he is lovesick for Ali (Lisa Marie DiGiacinto). Will showrunners move forward with the Mick/Ali story or will they let it drop?

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