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“Legends of Tomorrow” recap (1.16): A Song of Farewell

Previously on Legends of Tomorrow, Rip assembled a league of misfit toys to go after Vandal Savage, but mostly to save Rip’s family, the team found out the Time Masters were controlling everything the whole time, which is why they failed over and over and over, Snart gave his life to release the Time Masters’ hold on the timeline, and Savage kidnapped Kendra and Carter.

We begin back in Star City, 2016. Rip explains that they’re out of options, so he brought them home. The team is a little upset; they fought all this time for what? The mission isn’t over. But Rip is giving up. He doesn’t want to risk their lives anymore; he’s going to return their baby selves to their timelines so they can get on with their lives. Sara isn’t sure how they’re supposed to just pretend they weren’t just traveling through space.

Rip says that also they missed five months while they were traveling, which no one loves, but Rip doesn’t explain, he just reveals that he’s actually just a holograph and zips the Waverider away before anyone can get back on.

Sara goes to the Arrow cave, ready to see her friends, maybe do some salmon laddering for Felicity for old time’s sake, but only her father is there. She says that the went to Laurel’s apartment but no one was there, and when she sees the look on her father’s face, she asks if everything’s okay, but it is decidedly not.

Lance tells Sara that Darhk has been wreaking havoc all this time and that he killed Laurel. Sara is feeling the same way I did about it, which is very NOPE NOPE NOPE.

In Central City, Rory is trying to steal things with a new partner, but they don’t have the same chemistry that he and Snart had. Ray picks him up and says that maybe Snart would want THEM to pair up, and Rory pretends to hate that idea but doesn’t fight it.

Stein is winning at Trivial Pursuit, which can be pretty boring even when you HAVEN’T been time traveling. And his wife can tell that he does not love this change of pace.

So Team Legends all find themselves back where they left the Waverider, all for different reasons. Stein and Ray both have solutions they think will contact the Waverider, and Sara storms up decidedly less smiley than when she left.

Rip gets the transmission and goes back to the team, and his team explains that none of them felt comfortable giving up, so they’re going with him whether he likes it or not.

Once on the ship, Sara flips out, threatening to kill Rip if he doesn’t take her to save her sister right this instant.

Rip says they can’t do that, because of the timeline and blah blah blah, but Sara points out that he seems only to care about the timeline when it’s convenient for him, and that literally this whole show was about saving his family, so why can’t she save hers? Instead of answering, Rip knocks her out.

Meanwhile, Kendra is running through the woods in Nazi Germany and sends a message on paper through the helmet of a Nazi she runs into. Rip and the team notice a helmet in a different place than it was a minute ago and find Kendra’s note.

Kendra is recaptured by Savage, and he does the classic Villain move of telling his prisoner his plan, and says he’s going to use meteors like the ones that gave them their powers to go back to the beginning of time and become a godlike human.

On the Waverider, Rip risks his own life by going into the now-awake Sara’s room. But Sara’s not angry anymore. She’s just sad. She just wants to save her big sister.

Sara says that in all of this craziness, she never asked Rip for anything, not even more time making out with a hot nurse. Rip says they’ve tried to save his family and failed, and that the pain was too much to wish on Sara. Sara would rather regret trying than never try at all, but Rip says even if they did go back, the original outcome was supposed to be that all three Lances died. Sara feels helpless; she can’t do this without her sister.

But Rip says she’s the strongest, and she’s been doing just fine without Laurel. And even if Laurel can’t be saved, Kendra can be, but not for long.

Savage fights some Nazis for a box with a meteor in it, and Team Legends swoops in to fight them and almost save Kendra and Carter, but Kendra is shot out of the sky at the last minute and re-captured yet again.

Rip promises they’ll go back for Kendra, and they head back to the ship. Carter is still having a hard time with his memory, but he inherently trusts these people, so he tells them Vandal’s plan to use Carter and Kendra’s blood to unlock the alien technology in the meteors.

They realize that Vandal is going to set off all three meteors at different points in time and sort of reset the world. And sure enough, Savage finds himself in a timeline and gives himself a vial of blood to use on the meteor.

Side note: Is there a single show on TV right now that hasn’t had a double on it? Supergirl, Jane the Virgin, Quantico, The 100… and yet none of them even come close to touching Orphan Black. It’s cute that they’re trying, though.

Anyway, Team Legends deduces that soon they’ll have a ton of things to kill Savage with since he’s going to activate so many meteors, so they split up into three teams to take him down.

In St. Roch 2021, Savage is caressing Kendra and telling her that someday he’ll be her pharaoh, but she’s still feeling very, “Bleh, you’re the worst,” about it all.

Rip and Carter team up to take on this timeline, Ray and Rory take on 1958, and Firestorm and Sara go to 1975.

Savage starts the ritual in all three timelines, and while those blue flying monkeys attack Ray’s team, and soldiers attack Rip’s, Sara strolls right on up to Savage and starts kicking his ass.

In Rip’s timeline, Kendra uses the distraction to break free and fight, too.

Savage sees the White Canary approaching him with a murderous calm, and tells her that she’s too late, but she declares confidently, “Time masters are never late.”

Across the Timelines, Team Legends comes out on top. Kendra drives a knife into Savage’s heart, Rory burns him alive with his gun, and Sara snaps his neck with her bare hands. Glorious revenge, three times over.

Kendra’s Savage wasn’t quite dead, so Rip throws him into an electric box and fries him. They all lost so much because of him, and they all got a hand in destroying him.

Ray shrinks and poofs his meteorite, and Firestorm uses their new matter-melting power to turn theirs into a puddle. (Getting Sara’s boots wet in the process.)

But no one can quite get the last one to go away. So Rip hops in the Waverider, hops in it, and heads for the sun. Rip says his goodbyes, and his team is confused, but he just says it was an honor to be their captain and heads right into the great ball of fire.

Right before they burn into nothingness, Gideon admits to not being ready to die, and Rip realizes he isn’t either. So instead they release the meteor into the sun and time jump back to 20 minutes before he left.

On their way back to 2016, Rip tells his team that there’s still a lot to be done, still a timeline to protect, if anyone wants to join him.

But first, they have to go back to their lives. Sara goes to her sister’s grave, where “Black Canary” is proudly engraved on her tombstone, the moniker Sara herself carried for so long. Sara wants to stay and fight Darhk and get justice for Laurel, but Lance says there’s only one episode left in Arrow this season, so she should probably just go rest up before Season 2 of Legends of Tomorrow starts up. Besides, time travel sounds important. Sara says Laurel convinced her to go the first time, so she’ll take her father’s advice and decides to keep doing this. For Laurel.

Lance tells Sara that Laurel would be proud of her and that he already is.

Jax called Stein’s wife and explained everything to her, so they’re on board for Season 2 as well. Rory goes to find an early, alive version of Snart and calls him a hero before heading back to the Waverider with Ray and Rip. And when they get back to the ship, they’re surprised to see the whole team there. Though Kendra and Carter are just here to say goodbye. Kendra tells Sara to be safe, and I’m surprised Sara didn’t beg her not to leave her here alone with all this testosterone.

Especially after they fly away and Rory says that the Hawks make him crave chicken.

What’s left of the team is about to get back on the Waverider when another Waverider comes careening toward them. It crash lands and a dude comes out and tells them to stay off their own Waverider unless they all want to die. He seems to know them, and when they ask him who HE is, he says his name is Rex Tyler, and that he’s a member of the Justice Society of America.

What did you think of Legendary? What did you think of the Freshman season of Legends of Tomorrow as a whole? Do you think Kendra is really gone? Will you tune in again next year? (I personally will follow Sara Lance through time and space for all eternity.)

Let’s say goodbye for now together in the comments! Until next season, feel free to throw Sara Lance gifs at me on Twitter @PunkyStarshine.

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