Legends of Tomorrow - 'Marooned'

Adorable.

Rip takes the Waverider to the rescue of the timeship Acheron, flagship of the Time Master fleet. It's probably a trap, but the computer core will contain the most up to date version of the Time Masters' Brief History of Everything (No Really, Exactly That) and thus potentially more clues to Savage's locations throughout time. Knowing it's likely a trap, Rip takes Stein, Jax and Roary, then leaves Stein on the jumpship, so when they get jumped by time pirates it's just Rip - who is way off his game - half of Firestorm and the unreliable arsonist.

They get captured. The captain of the Acheron sneers at Rip. Roary and Rip argue and Rip says he only brought Roary because Snart wouldn't have gone without him. Roary sells the team out to the pirates. Meanwhile the Waverider takes a hit to the life support system. Sara and Snart are trapped in an evacuating room until Ray can patch up the hull, almost dying as his oxygen runs out. All very dramatic and it gets him a snog from Kendra as well. It's a shame, because Kendra badly needs to get established as something other than someone's love interest and because the whole thing is less interesting as a relationship than this non-thing that Sara and Snart have going on.

Tension!

Stein busts the boarding team out of chokey and together the team defeat Roary and the pirates, Snart choosing to side with the crew. With no long-term holding facilities and no way to contain Roary if they leave him in 2016 with their families, Snart offers to 'take care of' his former partner, which he apparently does.

Seriously, could they not have added him to the pirate crew and left him on the Acheron? What does he know that they don't want him telling the Council? Did they just want more drama?

Also, Rip has some flashbacks of his wife, who was also a trainee Time Master, but took the rap for their affair so he could stay in, because he wanted it more despite the fact that she was better at it.

So, seven episodes in, two crew members down, impact on Savage's world conquest: Zero. LEGENDS!

Yeah, so... the problem we run into here is that the crew really only have the one goal, which means that week by week they have to fail; that their victories are basically just staying the course and a bad episode for them makes the whole thing pretty damned bleak. Also, why in the goddamn hell did Jax and Stein not combine in this episode? Ambush 101 - pirates can't grab you if you're on fire.