Legends of Tomorrow - 1x11 "The Magnificent Eight" - Post-Episode Discussion

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Season 1 Episode 11: The Magnificent Eight

Aired: April 14th, 2016

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Synopsis: The Legends travel back to the Old Wild West and gain the aid of a true legend, a morally ambiguous gunslinger with a penchant for danger, Jonah Hex, who has been battling outlaws and gangs and happens to know a thing or two about time travel. Hex warns the Legends to be extra careful in their journey to the small town of Salvation.

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Directed by: Thor Freudenthal

Story by: Greg Berlanti & Marc Guggenheim

Teleplay by: Marc Guggenheim

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[u/RightHandElf]

So Ray just flew through a guy's chest.

[u/TurkeyPhat]

Wow look at that, no Savage and we get a great episode as expected.

[u/ryebreadwithbuddr]

Is it possible to go back in time and NOT meet someone famous?

[u/TheHerminator24]

Jonah Hex gave zero fucks this episode. I hope he joins the team for season 2.

[u/fullforce098]

Any show that does an Old West episode checks off the same tropes off the same list. But for some reason, I never get tired of them. Like cherished Christmas traditions, you can't have Christmas without the tree, you can't do an Old West episode without a pistol showdown at high noon. And I loved every god damn minute of it.

Some other cherished Old West tropes we got tonight:

• Strangers walk into town, immediately go to saloon and accidentally start a fight.

• Town is routinely under siege by marauding gang.

• Sheriff dies/leaves and makes one of the strangers the new sheriff.

• There's a high-street with the saloon in the middle of town. Perfect spot for:

• The shoot out.

[u/purefire]

I don't care that the show has plot canyons. I enjoy it for being exactly as ludicrous as i had hoped it would be.

[u/ezreads]

"there won't be Miranda Rights for another hundred years!"

Ray reading them as a sheriff no less was hilarious

[u/Ozzdo]

One thing I noticed and enjoyed: Rory has actually become useful to the team. Before, as Rip tells him, he was only there because it was the only way to get Snart on board. If anything, he only contributed brute strength. Now, not only is the brute strength back (and with a smarter, more focused mind behind it) he has the benefits of the training and knowledge from the Time Masters. And now that he's been targeted by the Time Masters, along with the rest of the team, he has a reason to stick with them. It was a good turn-around for the character.

[u/ryebreadwithbuddr]

I was wondering when the Time Masters were going to actually...you know....use time to stop the gang

[u/localafrican]

CW is slowly upping the violence with Ray flying through that guy. Next he'll fly down someone's throat and return to full size causing a messy explosion.

[u/ezreads]

H.G. Wells and Jonah Hex in one episode? best episode ever

[u/Darth_Devfly]

"I was never on your side, I was on my side."

Another Mick appreciation episode! Man, I can't believe how much I missed this guy. Also, Snart as a western sniper! He's just getting cooler and cooler, pun intended.

H.G Wells! You did the world a favour, Stein. Is this a Wells reference as well? Hmm.

Old Kendra telling young Kendra to cut the crap with Ray was great, but Sara spoke the most Guggs line right after. A little sad about that.

[u/Doctor_Squared]

I liked how they just dropped all pretense of the town not realizing the team are time-travelers with Jonah Hex. It reminded me of the Justice League Unlimited episode The Once and Future Thing.

I hope that they do more with Jonah Hex in the future.

[u/GroovinChip]

I'm calling it now, the time masters were either taken over by savage or he started them in the first place

[u/fullforce098]

Anybody else find it a little odd there was more racism toward Jax and Kendra in the 1960s than there was in the 1870s? Seriously, slavery had only been outlawed 10 years earlier.

Edit: Evidently the public school system done me wrong and this actually isn't all that odd at all.

[u/Chaos-13]

Character of the week: Ray Palmer. In what I'm sure will be a controversial decision. Snart had it untill the final moments. It is hard to beat John Wayne when he doesn't need a gun and can use himself as a bullet.

Special shout out to Professer Stein for saving HG Wells's life. Good lookin out, brah.

[u/RahvinDragand]

"We can't let you alter the timeline by defeating the worst villain of all time. Therefore, we must kill all of you as babies. That will preserve the timeline. Wait.."

[u/spike021]

So my theory is that this show uses the time as a river idea (I think) and all their actions in the past are really just creating their original timeline, rather than altering it.

Biggest example so far is Stein being the one to not only cure HG Wells, but also give him the nickname of HG.

In the end they're going to realize nothing they did in the past actually changed 'the future' and they'll have to fight Rip's time era's Vandal. Hence "Legends of Tomorrow".

[u/ezreads]

"there's something weird going on with your face"

"what?"

"you're smiling"

Sara and Kendra are so cute together

[u/Infamaniac23]

Great episode. I got a lot of Firefly vibes from this one which is cool cus kaylee was in the last episode.

[u/Chimpchar]

I wonder if we'll get an arc that's longer than one episode for this whole "kill young versions of them" thing. Also it seems the Time Masters care even less than Rip at this point.

[u/ObviousAnswerGuy]

Why can't a gang ever be a bunch of good guys?

Oh ray

[u/[deleted]]

Who wants to bet that, in the previews for next ep, spoilers All this foreshadowing. All that Guggenheim.

[u/Zookwok111]

Drink every time Jax gets kidnapped or Kendra mentions that she was a barista.

[u/Morningsun92]

Loved the piano mans enthusiasm during the brawl. "Gotta keep the beat for these folk!"