Legends of Tomorrow - 'Turncoat'

"I don't do costume drama."

And now, at last, it's Mick Roary's turn to introduce the show:

"Seriously, you idiots haven't figured this out by now? It all started when we blew up the time pigs; the Time Masters. Now history's all screwed up, and it's up to us to un-screw it up. Half the time we screw things up even worse. So don't call us heroes; we're something else. We're Legends. Who writes this crap anyway?"

Oh, right; and I forgot to mention last time that the reprogrammed Rip shot George Washington. Just a little thing.

As the Legends head back to Christmas Eve to prevent the assassination of Washington before he can cross the Delaware and enter the catacombs to retrieve the Eye of Providence... No, wait; that was Sleepy Hollow. Okay, too many time travel shows. In this instance, Washington is just leading a pivotal raid on British forces, or will be if he doesn't get killed, either by Rip Hunter or a unit of redcoats carrying M16 assault rifles provided by Thawne. As they move to protect Washington, Rip deploys an EMP device which traps Ray in miniaturised form with no working weapons or flight tech, disables the ship and even the genetic splicer which allows Stein and Jax to fuse. As a final fuck you to his former team, Rip captures Mick and Washington, and shoots Sara in the gut.

We never should have trusted that accent.

As Ray races a rat through the ducts to try to reset the Waverider's breakers and Stein struggles to keep Sara alive, Jax defends the ship from Rip and his redcoats. Nate and Amaya, as the only ones with working powers, head out to rescue Washington, but are sidetracked by Hessians and by sexy, sexy hypothermia, giving Roary time to school Washington - whom he considers a punk because he only got the one dollar bill - in the fine art of fighting like an American.

"We're misfits, outcasts, and we're proud of it. If they attack in formation, we pop 'em off from the trees, if they challenge you to a duel, you raid their camp at night and if they're gonna hang you, you fight dirty and you never, ever, give up. That's the American way."

The NHS approved treatment for near-fatal hypothermia.

Rip forces Jax to hand over the Spear fragment and kills Sara, but Ray is able to restore the power in time for Gideon to save her, and for Sara to prevent Jax murdering Rip in revenge. Nate and Amaya arrive to find Mick and Washington mid-escape, Washington crosses the Delaware after all builds a statue in Washington that looks like Mick. Bloodied, but not beaten, the Legends share Christmas dinner and Amaya and Nate basically both try to act all cool about what happened.

So, I could have done without more team boinking, but Nate and Amaya are desperately short of other points of interest. They lack the rough edges which define the other Legends. Currently I'm worried that their whole 'it's just chill' attitude is going to mutate into a festering envy/stupidity subplot. The main plot of the week was a lot of fun, the kind of mad historical scrapes that Legends does best, and it turns out that Arthur Darvill does play a very good bad guy. EvilRip is truly a piece of work, plumbing every Hollywood historical English stereotype as he dons the red coat of scumbaggery to go with the RP accent of darkness.