Legends of Tomorrow Review: Bored on Board Onboard (Season 6 Episode 12)
Legends of Tomorrow Season 6 Episode 12, “Bored on Board Onboard,” gets trapped inside of a murder mystery to avoid being stuck on the Waverider.
Conceptually, this is a bottle episode, except it’s true in spirit rather than the law of it. Bottle episodes entail locking characters in one specific place together, the purpose of which is to save money so they only have to use one set. While this episode utilizes two sets — the Waverider and Constantine’s house — the principle still remains.
When you have a budget of approximately fifty dollars, you have to cut corners where you can. For legal reasons, we can’t comment on whether or not The CW gives them more or less than fifty dollars per season. There’s a strong argument to be made for the under
“Bored on board Onboard” is an excellent episode of Legends of Tomorrow with only one thing really holding it back to being an all-time episode of the series. It’s a long-established fact that murder mystery dinner episodes are almost guaranteed to be winners and this is no different.
It’s a wonderful riff on Clue, which the show has almost certainly homaged before at some point but is no less effective here. Everyone on the cast, sans Gary and Mick, slides seamlessly into archetypes that both feels typical of the genre and utterly spot-on for everyone involved here.
Any opportunity for True Crime Ava to emerge will never not be a welcome one and Sara attempting a comically bad French accent is no slouch, either.
Where this episode goes wrong — and it isn’t substantially bad because the rest of the episode outweighs it so much — is centering all of this around Constantine’s blood magic addiction. It’s by far the least engaging part of this season so far and that’s saying something considering the shadow of Bishop is lingering off to the side here.
Characters dabbling with vampirism is rarely a fun development — see Doc on Wynonna Earp or that one bland boyfriend from Buffy the Vampire Slayer — and this isn’t really disproving that. It feels dumb in ways that Legends of Tomorrow isn’t usually guilty of.
This show is always in on the joke. If it’s being absurd, then it means to be so; It’s always done purposefully. In this case, however, they seem to think it’s cool or interesting and it just simply is not.
On the opposite side of things, the side plot with Mick and Gary is fine but it’s very clearly just setting up the final act of the season. That’s all well and good but you can only get so excited about the return of someone like Bishop and not feel that you’re already a little exhausted at the prospect.
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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.