Last week’s episode of DC’s Legends was filled with abominations, of the zombie kind, due to a time pirate recovering TX90, a bio-weapon, and accidentally unleashing it in 1863 Mississippi after his timeship capsizes. The time pirate was on a mission in the year 2025 and got derailed landing in the middle of the Civil War in Mississippi.

Timeship (Inside the Vortex)

Back on the timeship we finally heard Barry’s message to Rip. He warned Rip of a war coming. A very ambiguous message from the speedster. Is this a war with meta-humans? Is this a war like the one we saw with Vandal Savage back in season one or will it be much more destructive? World War III? Come on Barry we need more answers!

In the last episode Ray had to let Nate destroy his super suit. Therefore in “Abominations” Ray is benched as he can no longer protect himself on the field. However, Ray still has something to offer the team; his wits. His intellect in this episode was the one thing that stopped him and Martin from being devoured by zombie Mick. That was only one zombie though. Outside the timeship the rest of the Legends were dealing with a whole horde of zombie abominations.

Mississippi 1863

The team first encounters a pack of zombies when they hear Henry Scott call for help. Vixen (Amaya) jumps into action ignoring the fact that she could disrupt the timeline. Unfortunately she does disrupt the timeline as Henry Scott is killed via bayonet while the team is battling the zombies. Scott was attempting to get confederate war plans and bring them to General Ulysses S. Grant. Jax and Martin were unable to merge and Mick had to save Jax from being eaten. This act of valor got Mick bit. After discovering Henry is dead, Jax takes his papers and decides to complete the mission on his behalf.

Timeship (Mississippi 1863)

Back on the timeship the team discovers how important Henry Scott was to the Union’s win in the Civil War. Without those plans the confederate south succeeds in freeing itself from the north. Jax and Vixen go undercover as slaves in order to get intel and hopefully snag the confederate war plans. Sarah and Nate head out to find General Grant.

Mississippi 1863

Sarah and Nate are captured by Union soldiers and brought to General Grant while Jax and Amaya have to watch a female slave get beaten so that they don’t blow their cover.

Timeship (Mississippi 1863)

Back on the timeship Ray and Martin are dealing with zombie Mick who has become stronger and more hostile than usual. Ray makes a vaccine to help save Mick and injects it into him. Unfortunately for Martin and Ray this makes Mick’s condition worse; the virus spreads much faster and they are forced to put the ship in lockdown in order to contain Mick.

Mississippi 1863

Sarah tells General Grant about the zombies that are approaching his camp. Colonel Sanders (aka Nate) explains to Sarah that the term Zombie doesn’t exist for another 70 years and thus she heads out to get proof of the abominations headed their way. She returns a short while later with the head of a zombie and gets her point across to Grant.

Jax runs into some trouble during his undercover work. He talks back to the Master of the plantation and is brought down to a cellar where other slaves are being held. He is tied up and beaten. Jax can’t call Amaya for back up as his com has disappeared. He is left to his own devices as is the rest of the team; Martin and Ray can’t help Sarah and Nate because Mick has gone M.I.A. on the timeship.

Timeship (Mississippi 1863)

Martin senses Jax is in danger but quickly learns so is he. Ray and Martin are ambushed by Mick. They are able to escape and Ray realizes that the vaccine has to be made into a spray. The two set up a plan to use a fire extinguisher to administer the vaccination to Mick.

Mississippi 1863

After losing contact with Jax, Amaya decides to go into the plantation and find him. She is found by another Master of the plantation and is quickly escorted to where the other slaves are being held. Bad move on his part as Amaya beats up the Master and saves Jax and the rest of the slaves. The female slave from earlier recognizes Amaya’s amulet, her mother was from the same tribe, and gets the other slaves to agree to escape with her and Jax. Just in the nick of time as the zombies reach the plantation.

Amaya takes the group of slaves, minus one, and brings them to safety. Jax and the other young male slave head back into the plantation home to gather the confederate war plans. The young male slave flips over a painting and finds the papers. As the two head out of the home they are once again face to face with the Master of the home. The zombies have entered and are beginning to surround them. Jax offers to work together with the Master but he won’t have it. It ends up costing him his life. The two men escape the home as the Master is being devoured by the abominations but not before Jax sets the zombies on fire.

Back at the union camp Sarah notices a pile of nitroglycerin and comes up with a plan. She has the men on the camp kill all the lights and gives Nate a torch. Nate calls to the zombies and gets them to follow him to the pile of nitroglycerin. He ignites the pile of nitroglycerin and it sets everything ablaze, wiping out every abomination in site. Thankfully he was able to channel his Citizen Steel powers and survives the blast. He is however, covered in zombie guts.

Timeship (Mississippi 1863)

Ray and Martin are still dealing with their own zombie issue on the timeship. Mick reveals himself and attacks Ray thus leaving Martin to administer the vaccination to Mick and he is shaking in his boots; damn his irrational fear of zombies. Mick takes off after attacking Ray and Martin musters up the courage to go after him, fire extinguisher in hand. He is attacked by Mick but is able to spray him with the vaccination. Seconds before Mick is about to chomp on his face, the serum works and Mick returns to his natural state.

Mississippi 1863

Jax and the rest of the slaves are safely brought to General Grant’s camp. There Jax hands Grant the confederate’s war plans and the slaves are given refuge. When Grant asked what Jax’s name was he told him Henry Scott. History is restored.

Grant also dishes out some advice to Sarah. He tells her not to regret making the tough decisions if she believes in her mission and her team.

Timeship (Mississippi 1863)

The team gets back on the timeship and prep for their next mission. Before they take off Ray and Mick have a heart-to-heart. Ray tells Mick he is lost without his suit and Mick gives Ray Captain Cold’s (R.I.P. Leonard Snart) cold gun and tells Ray he wants him to be his partner. Right in the feels.

Martin also checks up on his partner (Jax) after what he witnessed on this mission. The one Martin was trying to shield him from. Jax tells Martin that he saw hope and dignity in the slave’s eyes despite the darkness they endured. It really inspired him. Martin then goes on to tell Jax that he embodies that hope. He is a light in the darkness.

Other notable moments in “Abominations”:

The scene where all the slaves are singing together brought tears to my eyes. It was a really powerful moment in the episode.

Next Week:

The team heads to 1987 (Mick’s favorite decade LOL) and learn that Rex’s killer aka Reverse Flash (Eobard Thawne) is there as well.

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Last season The Legends were left to take the place of the Time Masters that were destroyed. The season premiere of Legends started in Star City 2016 and uses flashbacks to tell the story of what happened to the Legends.

Star City 2016:

Dr. Nate Heywood comes to Oliver Queen to tell him that the Legends are in trouble. Heywood is a time detective/historian who found the Legend’s timeship in the bottom of the ocean. Queen and Heywood enter the ship and see that it is still keeping Mick in stasis. They wake Mick up and he begins to tell the story of what happened to the rest of the team.

France 1637:

The team is trying to save the King of France. Well most of the team. Sarah is busy fornicating with the Queen while the men are battling. They end up saving the King and restore a small portion of history.

Once the team heads back to the ship they experience a time quake; an unusually large aberration in NYC 1942. NYC was nuked by Nazi’s in 1942. The exact place Rex Tyler told them not to return to as this would be the year the team is killed. The team then discovers that WWII last two more years and Einstein goes missing. Putting two and two together the team realizes Einstein was kidnapped to create the atomic bomb.

NYC 1942:

The team kidnaps Einstein only to discover his ex-wife was the one who helped the Nazi’s create the atomic bomb. Mick’s love for “roasting Nazi’s” and Sarah’s quest to kill Damien Dhark costs the team greatly. They are unable to get the bomb and it makes its way onto a submarine.

Rip Hunter decides to take matters into his own hands. He has been secretly teaching Jefferson about the timeship and uses the time scatter he created to send the team into different parts of history. All except Mick of course who was too injured to travel. Mick is placed in stasis as Rip and the timeship make a collision course for the torpedo with the bomb and stop NYC from being nuked. Rip presumably goes down with his ship.

Star City 2016:

Mick and Heywood team up to find the other Legends.

South Dakota 70 Million Years Ago:

Ray is a caveman being chased by a T-Rex.

England 821:

Jefferson and Martin are Jesters that are about to have their heads taken off.

Salem 1693:

Sarah is corrupting women as usual and is deemed a witch to be burned at the stake.

After the team is reassembled they hear Rip’s final message. “History is yours now, my dear Legends.” The team is still unable to locate him.

Columbia 1942:

We then head to 1942 Columbia where Einstein acknowledges his ex-wife’s contributions and in turn restores history. We also learn that Damien Dhark and Eobard Thawne (Reverse Flash) are working together. The Legends are then confronted by the Justice Society of America (JSA).

The JSA is made up of Commander Steel, Dr. Mid-Nite, Hourman (Rex Tyler), Vixen, Stargirl and Obsidian.

JSA Headquarters 1942:

The Legends are held in a cell at the JSA headquarters while Thawne is out there giving a serum to Hitler that creates super soldiers. After pleading their case the Legends are let go and oddly enough Martin is appointed interim captain of the ship.

Both the JSA and Legends team up (well The Legends intrude on the JSA’s undercover operation…. same thing) to go after Krieger aka Captain Nazi to save the JSA members from dying. Martin sings for his life and Ray causes a fight after he won’t salute Hitler. Stargirl shuts down the fight with one blast from her staff.

The teams head back to the ship and that is where Sarah discovers Heywood is a hemophiliac; his blood doesn’t clot and he could die from a minor injury.

Fountainbleu Forest 1942:

Captain Nazi injects himself with the serum and becomes a hulk-like figure. The teams are forced to pull back and leave behind Vixen and Ray. However, Rex does recover the amulet.

Captain Nazi and tow capture The Atom (Ray) and Vixen. Rex is willing to sacrifice the two to end the war a day earlier, however Sarah (now the new captain of the ship) won’t allow that to happen.

Back in the bunker where Ray and Vixen are being kept Ray discovers the serum and tweaks it in order to give him superpowers. Unfortunately before he is able to inject himself he is stopped by the JSA and Legends rescue.

Outside the camp Commander Steel and Dr. Mid-Nite are being attacked by Captain Nazi. Heywood to the rescue! Nate rescues his grandfather via motorcycle and watches Captain Nazi be decimated by an airstrike. However, the celebration doesn’t last long as the grandson-grandfather team are also hit by the airstrike. Nate suffers severe internal bleeding and is basically dying until Ray sacrifices his chance at superpowers and gives the serum to Nate, saving his life. They return to NYC 1942.

NYC 1942:

Commander Steel’s dog tags return around Nate’s neck signifying the timeline has been restored.

JSA Headquarters 1942:

Rex meets Thawne face to face and learns that Thawne erased him from the timeline. Thawne then kills Rex and steals the amulet.

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The team heads to Japan and faces off with Shogun.

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Season 3 of The Flash premiered tonight [Tuesday, October 4^th] on The CW. Last season The Flash went back in time to save his mother from being murdered by The Reverse Flash (Eobard Thawne). This action altered the timeline and created an alternate universe, “Flashpoint”.

In the “Flashpoint” Barry and Iris no longer know one another, however she is still a reporter. Joe and Iris also don’t get along in this universe. Joe is an alcoholic on the verge of losing his job at the precinct. Barry is also no longer The Flash in this universe. Kid Flash has stepped into that role. Barry comes face to face with Kid Flash while Kid Flash is in a battle with The Rival, another speedster. Barry unmasks Kid Flash and discovers he is Wally, Iris’s kid brother.

Turns out Iris and Wally are running their own brother/sister crime team, taking out Meta-Humans invading Central City. Barry reveals himself as The Flash and offers to help the duo take down The Rival, however they decide to go another route first.

Meet alternate universe Cisco, billionaire tech mogul and richest man in the world. Far from his goof-ball counterpart in Barry’s original universe, Cisco isn’t as warm and welcoming in this alternate world. He doesn’t even want to help Kid Flash but Barry won’t have any of that. He shares a personal story he remembers about Cisco and peaks the billionaire’s interest. Barry then kidnaps Caitlin Snow, who is a pediatric ophthalmologist and not a bio-chemist. After bringing everyone together Barry really gets to see how badly he messed up the timeline. No one is the same. They all have different lives and barely know one another. Back in Barry’s world everyone worked together and were best friends.

Things only got worse for our speedster. The timeline begins to disappear and Barry starts losing his memories. Trying to get an idea of what is going on Barry visits The Reverse Flash in the cell he is keeping him in. Thawne lets him know that the more he uses his speed, the faster he loses his memory. Eventually Barry won’t remember he is The Flash and this alternate world will be set in concrete. Unfortunately for Barry, the only way to reset the timeline is to let The Reverse Flash travel back in time and kill his mother…. again.

Barry has to make this sacrifice in order to save Wally who was fatally stabbed by The Rival. Unlike Barry, Wally is not healing quickly. Something a speedster should be able to do. Barry must defeat The Rival in order to have a shot at saving Wally’s life. Luckily Joe arrives on the scene and shoots The Rival saving both Barry and Wally just in the nick of time. Barry then reveals himself and Wally to Joe as The Flash and Kid Flash.

Ridden by guilt Barry is forced to let The Reverse Flash go in order to correct the timeline. The two go back in time to the night when Thawne killed Barry’s mother, however this time Barry doesn’t stop him. He lets Reverse Flash kill his mother and they are both transported back to Barry’s universe. Everything checks out on Thawne’s end but not on Barry’s. He still managed to alter the timeline.

Did Barry do permanent damage? Where’s Iris? How come Joe and Iris don’t talk anymore? What else did Barry alter?

At the very end of “Flashpoint” The Rival, who has not yet emerged into his villainous character, is awoken by scratching of glass on a mirror and a demonic-like voice.  Etched into his mirror is the word “Alchemy”.

Ladies and gentleman Dr. Alchemy has arrived!

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It looks like a crossover is coming!!!! Barry heads over to Star City to enlist help from Felicity and possibly other members of Team Arrow.

Barry learns what other relationships he has altered back in his universe.

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