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Legends Of Tomorrow's Love Letter To George Lucas

This article contains spoilers for the DC's Legends of Tomorrow episode – Raiders of the Lost Art.

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The first two things that come to mind about this episode are this: they could've just called it, "A Love Letter to George Lucas", and it may be one of the best episodes yet. Definitely one of the most fun.

As the second half of the season kicks off, we get Rip Hunter back. At least physically. He thinks he is a film student named Phil and that Rip Hunter and his crew are a movie idea he came up with. A movie he is making along side another film student named George Lucas. How did he end up in 1967 with a scrambled brain? When the Waverider was hit in the season premiere and he scattered the Legends, rip grabbed the piece of the Spear of Destiny that he had, shut off Gideon and grabbed the Time Core which rewrote his memory and cast him off into time. Now he's making a movie that he wrote that includes the Spear of Destiny.

Using the amulet, Malcolm Merlyn and Damien Darhk track down Rip / Phil and confront him. But along they way the stole a pair of motorcycles and killed he previous riders. One of those riders was about to design a new carburetor and his death caused an aberration in time coming to the attention of the Legends who head to check it out. They all meet and fight over a very confused Phil. The battle ends up a draw with the police ending up with Phil and George Lucas running off scared and deciding to quit film school.

Sara Lance, Martin Stein and Mick Rory go to the police station to retrieve Phil and get him out just before Merlyn and Darhk arrive… Nate Heywood has started calling them the Legion Of Doom after a Hanna-Barbera cartoon he saw as a kid. The name starts catching on. They discover about Phil / Rip's scrambled brain and how it happened… but Ray Palmer and Nate begin to lose some of their intelligence. With George Lucas quitting film school and never making his movies, a young Ray Palmer is never inspired by Star Wars to study science and a young Nate Heywood is never inspired by Raiders of the Lost Ark to study history. In this altered reality, Ray becomes a heart surgeon and Nate a yoga instructor.

So Nate, Ray and Amaya Jiwe head back to try and convince George Lucas to stay in school instead of heading back to Modesto and selling insurance. But it turns out that Phil had the piece of the Spear of Destiny and decided to use it as a prop in the movie, giving it to the prop master George Lucas. Which is when the Legion shows up. Since Ray isn't an inventor, there is no Atom suit, not serum to make Nate into Steel and when they attack, Merlyn is able to steal Amaya's necklace… leaving them all powerless. Since George Lucas tossed away the props, the Legion take him and the others to the dump where they are thrown into a trash compactor to find the piece of the spear. Darhk turns the trash compactor on to motivate them… giving us a nice parallel to the scene in Star Wars.

While in the compactor, they convince George Lucas to go back to school, there by restoring their intelligence and Ray's inventions. The rest of the Legends show up  at the same time and they make short work of the Merlyn and Darhk, getting not only Amaya's necklace back but also the amulet and the fragment of spear. But then the third member of the Legion, Eobard Thawne, shows up and the tide is about to turn when Phil pretends to be Rip to distract them long enough for Gideon to get into place and open fire. The Legends are able to escape but Thawne grabs Phil.

While all of this is going on, we have a subplot of Rory confiding in Stein about seeing Leonard Snart. They try the psychological approach but discover a device in Rory's head, left over from his time as Chronos, and Stein does brain surgery to remove it. But it turns out that the device hadn't worked in a while and they're back to thinking it's psychological. I'm guessing it's not and that a Snart from some timeline is helping the Legion screw with Rory's head to turn him against the Legends. But that's a guess.

Without the amulet, the Legion decides to torture Rip Hunter for the information on the rest of the Spear of Destiny… which is a bad thing for Rip since he's still Phil. Though his script may contain clues to the rest of the pieces. Which leads us to next weeks trailer called… Legion of Doom.

https://youtu.be/41zUEIifKEA

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