My Review of Legends Of Tomorrow's 6x12: "Bored On Board Onboard"

 

Written by Keto Shimizu And Leah Poulliot

Directed by Harry Jierjian

Beast (to Constantine): "You love this world. You love the power. You love me."

Of a list of things that Legends Of Tomorrow must have to do, I'm sure that a mystery murder was on that list. Thanks to this episode, it can now be crossed off.

With Gideon taking longer to get the Waverider back to Earth, Gary's suggestion of Beast Slayers suddenly became more appealing to a bored group of Legends and Constantine just had to up the ante by making the game all the more real.

Once the game took place outside of the ship and in John's home, it didn't take that long for each of the group to be bumped off with Ava, Nate and Sara being dispatched rather easily and then Astra and Spooner to also meet their fate at the hands of the Beast of the game.

The Beast bemg a darker version of Constantine made sense. His addiction has gotten worse and here he as puttng everyone's lives in danger, with only Behrad spotting that something was amiss while Zari 2 seemed n complete denial about.

However by the end of the episode just as Zari was about to profess her love for John, she realised that he was off the deep end. Going by the trailer for next week and with only three episodes left, things don't look good for John. I really do think he could be killed off.

As for Mick and Gary, well they spent a fair chunk of this episode reunited with Kayla. The latter not being too happy to see either of them before admitting that she was working with Bishop. After a four episode, Bishop's back to be a pain in the backside for the Legends as we finally get into the final part of the season.

- All the Legends were aptly given their respective roles in the game.

- I'm not surprised the male of Gary's species are subservient but Kayla did spare Mick's life and his new hairdo, so she must like him.

- It was nice to have the episode mention characters such as the Flash and Black Siren, even if Ava didn't want them at the wedding.

- Chronology: Present day, but something of a 1920's setting for the game.

Bored On Board Onboard definitely had a lot of fun with its main theme while also setting up Constantine's imminent exit. At this point, I'm convinced he's going to die and I'm not sure how I feel about that. Also with Bishop back in the fold, it'll be interesting to see how his story ends too.

Rating: 8 out of 10