Legends of Tomorrow Review: Bad Blood (Season 6 Episode 10)
The captains are away on Legends of Tomorrow Season 6 Episode 10, “Bad Blood,” and chaos ensues on the Waverider and elsewhere, resulting in one of the most lackluster episodes in quite some time.
Filler episodes, at least anymore, get a bad rap. There can be a lot of value inherent in them. They can give a season a much-needed breath, reestablish character dynamics, and be a generally fun hour of television. One of Lost‘s best episodes is “Tricia Tinaka is Dead” and that is fully a filler episode. Done right, they can be very satisfying.
That, unfortunately, is not true for “Bad Blood” and, more or less, feels like a waste of time for everyone involved. In the interest of fairness, let’s start with some good things about the episode.
First off, there is now a vampire lawyer and that is automatically a compelling concept. With everything good, though, there’s also a bad but we’ll get to that later. The next is that any time spent with Zari 1.0 is always going to feel at least a little bit good but there’s still not enough focus on her throughout this episode.
Now that the compulsory positivity is over, let’s move on.
The big problem with this episode is that it overwhelmingly feels like the show telling us to eat our vegetables. It’s simultaneously at battle with itself whether it wants to be a “the parents are away, now we play” kind of episode or a Constantine-centric one.
The show knows that it has to both deal with Constantine’s loss of magic and his attempt to get it back along with Mick’s impregnation by Kayla. In and of themselves, they’re not very interesting as plot points. These are things that we need to move past to potentially get to a more interesting thing.
So the episode has to deal with things now that will hopefully pay greater dividends in the future but it leaves us with a thoroughly underwhelming hour. The show is interested in the unraveling of John Constantine as a character and being there could be compelling but getting there isn’t.
This is the monkey’s paw of introducing a vampire. It’s cool in theory and even in practice but we also have to get stupid things like vampire blood. That brings us into Vampire Diaries territory that the show simply does not need. Matt Ryan is trying to do what he can with this but the material just isn’t there for this.
This entire episode feels like a miscalculation and as if the writers have an idea of how they want to end this season but they haven’t come up with any good ways of getting to that point so this episode is created.
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Legends of Tomorrow airs Sundays at 9/8c 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.