Crawling out of the pit of despair, briefly...
Just gonna hit the highlights. If I seem scattered and ramble a bit, it's just that I'm still just a tad boggled that somehow an angry Oompa-Loompa with the compassion and diplomatic skillset of Yertle the Turtle became President of the United States. ANYWAY....
Uh, this is probably going to lean heavily toward the Misadventures of Mick and Ray, since I'm finding them kind of hilarious and touching right now.
Mick is trying so hard to teach Ray to be good at being a bad guy. Unfortunately, Ray is really bad at being a bad guy...because he's Ray. His first time using Snart's cold gun didn't go well, he kind of obliterated his targets. (Mick: "You killed my beers.")
Ray blames the gun. Mick tells him it's not the weapon, he just has to be cool, like Snart. Ray leans moodily against the wall. Mick looks pained.
Mick: What are you doing?
Ray: [Looking rather myopically into the distance] Trying to be cool.
Mick: Maybe this was a bad idea.[drinks beer]
Oh, and they steal Reagan's jellybeans! And share them! Why is that so cute? And then nearly blow up a hallway when Ray's Cold Gun crossed the stream of Mick's Heat Gun. Result: BOOOOOM.
Mick: I told you not to cross the streams!
Ray: You said we don't follow the rules!
Mick: [Nearing apoplexy] That's the one rule! ONE RULE!
(Good thing Firestorm was there to save everyone's bacon. Nightly News Headling: FLAMING MAN ATTACKS WHITE HOUSE. Timeline still FUBAR. Go Team Legend, as always. And also, for once I wanted to shake Sara. She saw Damien Darhk (working for the Reagan Administration, of course, which explains a lot,) and went into vengeance mode, blowing the team's cover and nearly wrecking the White House AND really wrecking the timeline. As Gray points out, killing the man about thirty years before his actual death, uh, timewise, that might be bad. Butterfly Effect, y'all. )
Mick and Ray staking out Darhk's KGB meetup! Ray brought snacks (I love you, Ray,) and is wearing Snart's coat! Mick is unhappy. Ray says he's just trying to be like Snart. But Mick just needs him to be himself.
Ray: You told me I have to try to fill [Snart's] shoes!
Mick: [struggling for words] I was wrong! You keep reminding me of my dead friend. It's bringing up...bringing up...
Fe..feel...
Ray: Feelings?
Mick: [gasping] YES.
(Mick turns on the radio which blares OOOH IIIII I JUST DIED IN YOUR ARMS TONIGHT!)
Mick: RARRGH I HATE THE EIGHTIES! *Batters radio to death*
Gray meets his past self again! He's not quite the smooth (very high) dude they met in the seventies, but he's just as self-absorbed, having left his wife alone in a hotel room on her birthday so he could chase Damien Darhk down and talk to him about funding some science project...while Darhk's having that secret, late night meeting in the park with his KGB associate. D'oh. Guess who gets nearly stabbed to death? Yup. Dammit, Marty.
And hey, I'm dense. Amaya and Nate find out that by the Eighties, the JSA team are all dead, having been killed in Eastern Europe sometime early in the cold war. Except for a very old Obsidian(?) who wasn't allowed to go on that mission. (Old Man Obsidian is Lance Hendricksen! Who I was so happy to see, he has been in a million and one movies I've enjoyed.) I was thinking it was some 1950's Red Scare thing because he had been affiliated with the Communist Party in the thirties or something. (Which, face it, a lot of people in the Great Depression joined, many of them not because they were so dedicated to Bolshevism, but because they were jobless and hungry and if you went to the meetings that might at least get you a cup of coffee and sandwich.) But later when he tells Amaya how he lost his way after the war, when she disappeared and he lost his teammates, until late in his life he found love which healed him, he says, "And now I should get back to him." Ooooh, so that was why.
In conclusion: Darhk is working with a superfast (A la 'The Flash') time-traveler. Ray and Mick defuse a bomb at a state dinner (or rather Ray defuses it, while Mick calmly sits back and eats a chocolate dessert. "There are worse ways of dying.") Jax saves Clarissa, Gray's wife who was attending the dinner. The team does ruin all of Darhk's diabolical plot to derail the Reagan-Gorbachev Arms Summit and Sara snakes the mysterious doodad he was so happy with, but then Sara has to get all up in his face and TELLS HIM HIS FUTURE. Which of course, he can now change. Dammit Sara!
I shall ramble more about Supernatural, which I really enjoyed, tomorrow, (Dean finally gets that rocket-launcher out of the trunk!) God willin' and the crick don't rise, or you know, given certain recent events, meteor strike or locust swarm.
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Uh, this is probably going to lean heavily toward the Misadventures of Mick and Ray, since I'm finding them kind of hilarious and touching right now.
Mick is trying so hard to teach Ray to be good at being a bad guy. Unfortunately, Ray is really bad at being a bad guy...because he's Ray. His first time using Snart's cold gun didn't go well, he kind of obliterated his targets. (Mick: "You killed my beers.")
Ray blames the gun. Mick tells him it's not the weapon, he just has to be cool, like Snart. Ray leans moodily against the wall. Mick looks pained.
Mick: What are you doing?
Ray: [Looking rather myopically into the distance] Trying to be cool.
Mick: Maybe this was a bad idea.[drinks beer]
Oh, and they steal Reagan's jellybeans! And share them! Why is that so cute? And then nearly blow up a hallway when Ray's Cold Gun crossed the stream of Mick's Heat Gun. Result: BOOOOOM.
Mick: I told you not to cross the streams!
Ray: You said we don't follow the rules!
Mick: [Nearing apoplexy] That's the one rule! ONE RULE!
(Good thing Firestorm was there to save everyone's bacon. Nightly News Headling: FLAMING MAN ATTACKS WHITE HOUSE. Timeline still FUBAR. Go Team Legend, as always. And also, for once I wanted to shake Sara. She saw Damien Darhk (working for the Reagan Administration, of course, which explains a lot,) and went into vengeance mode, blowing the team's cover and nearly wrecking the White House AND really wrecking the timeline. As Gray points out, killing the man about thirty years before his actual death, uh, timewise, that might be bad. Butterfly Effect, y'all. )
Mick and Ray staking out Darhk's KGB meetup! Ray brought snacks (I love you, Ray,) and is wearing Snart's coat! Mick is unhappy. Ray says he's just trying to be like Snart. But Mick just needs him to be himself.
Ray: You told me I have to try to fill [Snart's] shoes!
Mick: [struggling for words] I was wrong! You keep reminding me of my dead friend. It's bringing up...bringing up...
Fe..feel...
Ray: Feelings?
Mick: [gasping] YES.
(Mick turns on the radio which blares OOOH IIIII I JUST DIED IN YOUR ARMS TONIGHT!)
Mick: RARRGH I HATE THE EIGHTIES! *Batters radio to death*
Gray meets his past self again! He's not quite the smooth (very high) dude they met in the seventies, but he's just as self-absorbed, having left his wife alone in a hotel room on her birthday so he could chase Damien Darhk down and talk to him about funding some science project...while Darhk's having that secret, late night meeting in the park with his KGB associate. D'oh. Guess who gets nearly stabbed to death? Yup. Dammit, Marty.
And hey, I'm dense. Amaya and Nate find out that by the Eighties, the JSA team are all dead, having been killed in Eastern Europe sometime early in the cold war. Except for a very old Obsidian(?) who wasn't allowed to go on that mission. (Old Man Obsidian is Lance Hendricksen! Who I was so happy to see, he has been in a million and one movies I've enjoyed.) I was thinking it was some 1950's Red Scare thing because he had been affiliated with the Communist Party in the thirties or something. (Which, face it, a lot of people in the Great Depression joined, many of them not because they were so dedicated to Bolshevism, but because they were jobless and hungry and if you went to the meetings that might at least get you a cup of coffee and sandwich.) But later when he tells Amaya how he lost his way after the war, when she disappeared and he lost his teammates, until late in his life he found love which healed him, he says, "And now I should get back to him." Ooooh, so that was why.
In conclusion: Darhk is working with a superfast (A la 'The Flash') time-traveler. Ray and Mick defuse a bomb at a state dinner (or rather Ray defuses it, while Mick calmly sits back and eats a chocolate dessert. "There are worse ways of dying.") Jax saves Clarissa, Gray's wife who was attending the dinner. The team does ruin all of Darhk's diabolical plot to derail the Reagan-Gorbachev Arms Summit and Sara snakes the mysterious doodad he was so happy with, but then Sara has to get all up in his face and TELLS HIM HIS FUTURE. Which of course, he can now change. Dammit Sara!
I shall ramble more about Supernatural, which I really enjoyed, tomorrow, (Dean finally gets that rocket-launcher out of the trunk!) God willin' and the crick don't rise, or you know, given certain recent events, meteor strike or locust swarm.
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