Legends of Tomorrow Review: wvrdr_error_100 not found (Season 7 Episode 3)
Legends of Tomorrow Season 7 Episode 3, “wvrdr_error_100 not found,” is a celebration of both Gideon and how far the show has come since its haphazard roots.
When we think about the characters on the Waverider that have lasted the longest, it’s all too easy to remember Mick or Sara and overlook Gideon, who has been one of the most consistent elements to the series since its inception. This episode works to remedy that while also being an outstanding love letter to the ethereal voice made flesh.
The series hasn’t always been perfect in making sure that Gideon feels like an integral part of the crew instead of being a very sophisticated version of Alexa. She has sometimes been a convenient plot tool that could be utilized at the show’s convenience but it’s also been clear for a long time that she’s so much more than that — at least to the characters.
Finally with the introduction of a corporeal body, we are able to see the inner workings of Gideon and the more emotional aspects to who she is and the way that she has grown over the last seven seasons.
Growth is a big part of this episode — both in showing the ways that Gideon has accommodated for the Legends and grown attached to them but also how the Legends themselves have changed over the years. A lot of this is done through the lens of the first season, specifically the first two episodes, and it really puts into stark contrast then and now.
A lot of us would probably like to pretend that the first season never happened or that it exists in some pocket dimension that we never have to think about. It’s sometimes difficult to reconcile the beginning of the show with where it would eventually end up. It’s hard to wrap our minds around the fact that the same show that gave us the Hawk people would also give us Beebo.
Here, however, Legends of Tomorrow goes well out of its way to remind us of that time and, in typical fashion, does it very best to lambast those early episodes and that version of the team. Hawkman, more or less, takes the form of this during the episode and it’s clear once more just how much he doesn’t work and the show is very aware of that.
Those bits of the episode is very much the show looking back and basically commenting on how far it’s come since the dark days of the first season but it’s also a Greatest Hits reel. It’s going back over its plentiful roster of past characters and waxing nostalgically on them.
Most of the former cast members end up making cameos throughout the episode but the most jarring absence is Amaya and Charlie, two characters played by Maisie Richardson-Sellers, who felt like such a mainstay of the series for a long time and it feels wrong to not have her included.
That aside, the appearances we do get are very welcome, including Ray, Nora, Jax, and Stein, and it all hits this primal emotioanl place that reminds us why we fell in love with the series. They always got into wacky hijinx, yes, but it has always been the strength of its roster that has been been Legends of Tomorrow ‘s greatest strength.
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Legends of Tomorrow airs Wednesdays 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.
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I would have liked to have seen Neal McDonough make an appearance. I’m not sure how it would have fit but he played a very important role for a good bit of the show. Good article Drew. Thank you. I’ve always found this show a little tacky but despite that I’ve seen all episodes. Weird.
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