Legends of Tomorrow Review: There Will Be Brood (Season 6 Episode 14)
Legends of Tomorrow Season 6 Episode 14, “There Will Be Brood,” allows Astra and Spooner to go on a frontier adventure as they chase after Constantine and Bishop.
With only the finale left after this, this is the point in the season where we really start to assess what has worked and what hasn’t. Luckily for “There Will Be Brood,” this all feeds in together rather nicely. This is an episode that ends up encapsulating all of the plots that this season has done — sans Sara’s abduction but Bishop fills that slot well enough.
Ultimately, it all leads back to the Fountain, which hasn’t had the best buildup to this point. It’s been referenced a lot and there was a failed attempt to harness its power by Constantine and now we’re right back to it. On the one hand, that’s given it a weird sense of narrative direction but it ends up working.
That’s because the Fountain the point in which a lot of the season comes together fully and makes it tied off quite neatly. It’s a really tidy way of answering both how Constantine is going to leave the show and what happened that led to Spooner getting abducted, but also what Bishop’s ultimate scheme is.
The latter isn’t quite as successful because it needs Bishop to assume that Constantine has been going after the Fountain and wants it desperately. It makes him more omniscient than it really needs to be. There’s also the minor detail that we know aliens have been visiting Earth for years.
This is the way that Legends of Tomorrow isn’t great at considering the rest of the Arrowverse in its plots, which is mostly a feature and not a bug. In this case, however, it needs you to forget that the Dominators came or, well, Supergirl entirely. It’s probably best not to overthink it, though.
There is a slight problem here with the end of the episode revolving around the possible deaths of Spooner and Constantine that can only really be resolved by the next episode but still feels particularly off the mark. It seems uncomfortably close to a “Bury-Your-Gays” trope.
If it is only Constantine — and that seems likely considering the character is leaving the show — then that would be one thing. It complicates matters greatly if Spooner is following him in an episode that hasn’t exactly shied away from having a subtextual and shippable dynamic with Astra.
Legends of Tomorrow has always been really smart about its representation and the ways that it does right by those but taking Spooner out, especially on her first season on the show, would only feel like a miscalculation.
We’ll have to wait and see for the next episode if that will pan out or not.
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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.