It’s pretty much a streamlined but straightforward rip of the Invasion comics, right down to the gene bomb the Dominators drop that would kill anyone with a proclivity for powers. Now that I’m done dropping a turd in the Invasion punchbowl, I have to ask the question: Do I even care? This crossover might be my favorite live action superhero thing ever, and I buy all the Marvel movies as they come out. But I think it speaks both to the strength of this season of Arrowand Flashthat they each just turned in the best episode of the year (or the entire show, in the case of Arrow), while Legends, a show that has been struggling with a lack of depth this season, just turned in a good chapter in the crossover. Maybe that’s not fair, since Sara got some closure last night on Arrow. So aside from pushing Stein’s story forward a little (he and Jax decide that they’re not going to tell the rest of the team that she’s an anomaly, because he doesn’t want to get rid of his daughter), we don’t really get any forward movement for anyone from Legends of Tomorrow. It’s nice, and it looks like it’s going to turn into something long term for the Legends to have to deal with, but it wasn’t the focus of the episode. We find out that she’s the product of Stein’s meddling in the past (and not Barry’s). The only meaningful development for the Legends is actually the C plot – Stein and his new daughter work with Caitlin on a doohickey to make the Dominators hurt. So in both the A and B plot of the episode, we get Flash developments. We find out that what triggered their return was actually…Flashpoint. Meanwhile, King Faraday “Agent Smith,” who gave Lyla a hard time back when the invasion first started, shows up to try and take down the big guns, and reveals that they cut a deal with the Dominators back in the ‘50s that Earth would be left alone as long as there weren’t metahumans threatening the rest of the universe. In the past, Cisco and Felicity hash out part of Cisco’s ongoing problems with Barry and Flashpoint. Unlike Flashor Arrow, though, the big plot beats in these two stories didn’t land with characters from this show. So they split up: one group (Steel, Vixen, Heat Wave, Cisco, and Felicity) goes back to 1951 to steal a Dominator from the last time they came to Earth, while the others (Flash, White Canary, Green Arrow, and Atom) go to meet “the President.” And at the same time the new President (oh hey nbd, the old President just got killed but it’s cool they’ve got it) wants a meeting with the team of heroes. Following the end of last night’s Arrow, the gang decides they need a Dominator captive to figure out what the plan is. The plot of the crossover finishes up very neatly.
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