Legends of Tomorrow Review: Meat: The Legends (Season 6 Episode 2)
Legends of Tomorrow Season 6 Episode 2, “Meat: The Legends,” investigates their first displaced alien, although it’s yet to come up with as snazzy a name as it has on previous seasons, such as the Encores last season.
For this foray into chaos, the Legends go back to the 50’s to search for their alien that has somehow found itself embroiled in a local fast-food burger restaurant called the Big Bang Burger (sound familiar?) and they have to find it before everyone in the town is mysteriously massacred a la Roanoke.
Legends of Tomorrow has never been one to really why away from the ludicrous or strange but it is downright admirable here how quickly it has gone into the weird. It has gone straight to absurdity right out of the gate and that’s deservign of nothing less than a slowclap.
A normal writer’s instinct would be to build up to alien goo being put into hamburgers and turning the townspeople into a ravenous mob but that kind of person has clearly never spent more than five minutes in this writers room. Instead, this is the show asking itself to come up with the most out-there idea regardign aliens and they came up with this episode.
For this, we should extend our most sincere round of kudos.
In other ways, it’s a very natural second episode for this season where it’s trying to assimilate Spooner onto the team as seamlessly as it can by having her bump heads with the strongest personality available: Ava. If Sara wasn’t the one that they were all trying to find, it would be her reigning Spooner in but here we are.
This brings up something that’s been swirling on the show for a while but Ava — apart from Mick — is the show’s most secret weapon where you can have her share a scene with practically anyone and it’s going to be golden. That goes against some logic and instincts because she’s designed to be the straight man of the group.
She’s a bit stiff, type-A, not conventionally humorous, but there ends up being so much to work with and bounce off against that all of those things end up being features, not bugs.
The episode also demonstrates jsut how easily Spooner slots into the team but her desire to kill aliens does bring up one crucial question. There isn’t a figure on the show anymore that would be able or particularly willing to temper that. Ava can to a certain degree but that’s not really her bag.
In the past, someone like Ray, Charlie, or Stein — maybe even Amaya — might have been able to push back against that for whatever reason but that person really doesn’t exist anymore, which is a bit strange conisdering the number of times that they’ve all met Kara Danvers.
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Legends of Tomorrow airs Sundays at 8/7c on The CW.
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Drew Koenig
Drew has an ongoing, borderline unhealthy obsession with pop culture, but with television in particular. When he's not aggressively trying to get out of a perpetual state of catching up, he can be found passionately defending the ending of Lost. More of his online work can be found at The Lost Cause and he also co-hosts The Lost Cause Pod.