DC's Legends Of Tomorrow: 16 WTF Moments From 'Pilot Part 2'

Changes in the timeline, Damien Darhk pops up in 1975, and young Martin Stein hits the bong.

by Andrew Pollard

After its debut, one of the main thoughts to take away from DC€™s Legends of Tomorrow was that the show is an awful lot of fun. Sure, it€™s a little tongue-in-cheek, a tad camp, and it€™s far from the serious tone of sister show Arrow or even at times The Flash. Legends was and is very much its own beast, and it benefits from that. With Pilot Part 2, the action picked up with Rip Hunter€™s team of Legends €“ The Atom, White Canary, Firestorm, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Captain Cold and Heat Wave €“ stuck in 1975 and still trying to locate the threat of immortal uber-rogue Vandal Savage. In a nice twist, the team have to pay a visit to a younger Martin Stein in a €˜70s landscape full of hazy stoned science. Of course, with an older self meeting a younger self, the potential consequences on the timeline are game-changing, and there€™s certainly a few moments here that see the Legends€™ actions have some serious ramifications. Much like the first episode, Pilot Part 2 delivered the goods once more, with a wide range of shocking, funny and hard-hitting WTF moments dotted throughout...

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