Consider, for example, how perfunctory Zari and Ava's plan to rescue Alan is, only to have even that undercut by Gideon suddenly showing up with him and saving them the trouble. Because it's in that one that the seams start to show a bit. That would have been a solid two-parter, and would have really benefited the second part in particular. Ultimately ending in the same way, with Gwyn angry at the substitution of fake-Alan and Evil-Gideon managing at last to separate human Gideon from her last link with the Legends, and by proxy 'irrational sentimentality,' Gary. Then we pick up the next episode with them having a party to celebrate retirement, during which Ava and Zari discover that Gwyn's future is without Alan and their determination to prevent that slowly unraveling the retirement truce. You can easily see how that would have played out with the big cliffhanger ending in which the Legends give in and agree, ostensibly for the sake of protecting the timeline, but clearly in at least half of the cases because they're justifying giving in to the temptation of the futures that they've been shown. Evil Gideon, as they attempt to destroy the ship while she attempts to tempt them into retirement by showing them desirable futures for themselves if they do. This is actually a clearer example than usual of the 'multiple episodes mashed together' phenomenon, which Legends tends to do at least once a season thanks to their shorter episode count. That said, welcome to The Last Temptation of Gideon, in which Gideon plays both Jesus and Satan. This was clearly intended to be two separate episodes that got combined together, etc., etc., etc. They'll break time before they break his heart."Īs is traditional at this point in the season, we've reached the episode where I say, 'This was clearly intended to be two separate episodes that got combined together because they didn't have a long enough season run time.'
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