DC's Legends of Political Correctness

Review of Legends of Tomorrow - S03E15 - Necromancing the Stone

Episode title is a play on words on the title of the 1984 movie starring Kurt Russel and Danny DaVitto(Romancing the Stone), added with the issue of the mystical totem which can raise the dead - necromancy. The title is also a direct name of a heavy metal band.

The episode opens with Sara having a nightmare. There's smoke/fog, there's poor lighting and a creepy girl whose head starts spinning. All major horror jump-scare cliches.. CHECK

Sara wakes up with Ava next to her. The two have a short discussion and declare that they are girlfriends. Mandatory lesbian self-reference...CHECK

Sara divides the team into smaller teams to take care of anachronism. And starts wigging out and hearing voices after they leave. She opens the death totem and sees herself as black canary tempting her. Bad guy obviously manipulating events...CHECK

We then see Zari and Amaya come back from their Mona Lisa mission commenting that the painting is a self-portrait of DaVinci in drag. Forcibly making a historic figure into a LGBT member to satisfy their agenda...CHECK.

Rory, the only character who's remotely like a normal man, is off course drunk and sleeping and stupefied, while Ray, another heterosexual white male who started off brilliant in Arrow, wanting to save lives has somehow gotten his ass kicked. Mandatory emasculation of heterosexual white men with purpose of making them look sub-par to LGBT women islamic refugees...CHECK

Big reveal, Sara Lance is now minion of death with a creepy voice, looking like the albino reject from Twilight. Big shocker!!

Wally goes to confront Sara, gets his ass kicked. Ava goes to Constantine who tells her that the death totem is linked to Molus. Constantine decides to contact Sara in the spirit world and Ava decides to butt in because Lesbian love and all. When Constantine asks he to take his hand, the look of disgust fills her face and she reluctantly places her index finger on his open palm. Feminism, man-hating and anti-male message...CHECK

Back on the Waverider, the crew are now characters in Gary's Dungeons and Dragons campaign who obviously make the same mistake that any 1980s horror movie teenagers do. They split up. Also.. Stranger Things, Netflix pop-culture reference...CHECK

Nate and Amaya of course decide to make out because Nate, a white man, needs Amaya, a woman of colour, to reassure him and tell him that he's almost as good as a woman.

Gary is revealed to be gay, cause of course everyone is gay, when he is kissed on the mouth by John Constantine (previously heterosexual, and a classical British warlock, akin to Buffy's Rupert Giles; who has now been co-opted by the LGBT Taskforce). Yet another forced gay moment...CHECK

For some unknown reason Ava is unable to locate the Waverider, yet just minutes prior, she was able to contact them via hologram. Previously established events are disregarded...CHECK

Sara beats the absolute crap out of Nate, the so-called citizen Steel, and is then interrupted by Constantine, Ava and Gary coming out of a time-window. I guess they decided they now know where the Waverider was but didn't think to share that information with the audience.

Rory assumes control of the Fire totem, instantly making him a magical firebender (with much better effects than that crappy M. Night Shamalan movie that must never be mentioned in which the main character's name is never spoken properly). Rory defeats Sara and knocks her out cold. Ava goes over to Sara and starts preaching gay love, and feminist bravery. Sara wakes up and is completely free of Molus' influence. Mandatory lesbian love saves the day moment...CHECK

Sara apologizes to her cremates for beating the crap out of them then breaks up with Ava. A decision she is likely to bitch over for the rest of the season, like Alex Danvers did about Maggie (Supergirl).

The episode ends with Gary and his DnD group who are now joined by John Constantine.

Overall, it was a fairly solid episode, though the LGBT-junk seems very forced and makes the characters very mono-dimensional. The part where John Constantine is running around the apartment chasing a chicken was very amusing and gives us a tiny glimpse into what he's up to when he's not helping the "legends" out.

Rating: 67%