​ "Legends of To-Meow-Meow" – DC's Legends of Tomorrow S04E08 Review

And the hits just keep on coming.

Everything that was promised in last week's preview was exactly what we got in this week's "Legends of To-Meow-Meow". Zari becomes a cat! Nate, Ray, and Sara become puppets! (although sadly, we don't get a puppet Mick).

And yet there's more. We get the "Champions of Chronology": Ray, Mick, and Nate (and Garima) on their own as magical creature hunters shooting everything in sight. Then we get the Sirens of Space-Time: Sara, Ava, and Gideon after the guys gets killed (and Hank as "Charlie"). Then we get the Puppets of Tomorrow. We also get a casual dismissal of the Elseworlds crossover, Gary being goofy, Mona wishing she was a cat, a unicorn exploding into rainbow-colored bits, Nate and Hank being killed (offscreen) by a garden gnome, Gary dying at Mt. Vesuvius (whoops!), Mick producing an apple out of nowhere, and Ava admiring Mick's novel which has his main characters making love on the surface of the sun ("It's a... a metaphor"). Not to mention some character development with Constantine, the establishment of the big bad for the last half of the season, and an ad for Constantine: City of Demons Season 1B, coming January 17 on the CWSeed!

So all in all, a busy episode. Let's see what happened. The timeline is fractured after Constantine saves Dez. Now Nate, Ray, and Mick (and Garima) are Rambo-style time hunters shooting up everything in sight. Charlie is the only one who remembers the original timeline, and she's stuck with Zari who is a cat due to temporal alteration. They go to the Time Bureau, and break Constantine out. They determine Sara was killed fighting the unicorn at Woodstock in "The Virgin Gary". So they blast it to rainbow-colored pieces. But that creates a new timeline where Mick, Nate, and Ray were killed by Fairy Godmother in "Witch Hunt". Charlie convinces Prudence to sever her link with Fairy Godmother, which saves the guys.

However, Fairy Godmother ends up magically bonding with Mick. We don't find out what that means for the universe at large, although we do get a shot of Mick's "new partner" It's off-screen described that Mick dismissed his teammates as puppets of the Time Bureau, so Fairy Godmother turns them into... puppets. And Matt Ryan seeing them and reacting is well worth the price of admission. Judging from Ryan's reaction, one gets the impression the director didn't warn him about what he was going to see.

We also get Jane Carr dressed up Terminator-style, so there's that.

Zari has gone through being a cat and a puppet. When she eventually becomes human again, she tells Constantine he's going to have to bite the bullet and not drive Dez away, so that Dez gets sent to Hell and Constantine joins the Legends. Constantine does so, which means there's three Constantines running around in New Orleans just missing each other.

Meanwhile, Charlie realizes she's the element that keeps altering time. Which... no, apparently she isn't. Granted, she never met the Legends, so Sara attacks her. While they're fighting, Mick and Ray open fire on the middle-past Constantine just as present-Constantine convinces Dez to stick around and reunite with further-past Constantine. They kiss, which restores the timeline and Sara ends up kicking the Victor Stein puppet (voice of Paul Reubens) rather than Charlie, and things go back to what passes as normal for the Legends.

In the end, we find out Hank is working with a mysterious superior who looks like Dez but is actually Neron, the demon out to collect Constantine's soul.

The whole thing is a riot of changing timelines, jokes, injokes, and goofy moments. Although last week's episode ended with Zari turning into a cat, that's probably the most normal thing about the episode. Add to the fun Charlie, a shapeshifter, has her powers back and takes on Marilyn Monroe's form, then Gary's , and then her own form to pass as Amaya. We also get Gideon, who presumably has had her hologram form reprogrammed by Mick (it's "dressed" as a barbarian woman). Amy Pemberton then shows up as an actual human later as part of the Sirens of Space-Time, although they never explain how she got a physical body.

And as noted, Garima is now part of the Champions. Which lets Dominic Purcell indulge in a brief John Belushi/Animal House impersonation.

Whether you like the episode depends on whether you like DC's Legends, and the creative team's particular brand of humor. Fortunately, I do or I wouldn't be watching it. The current team seems to have the same stuck-in-the-70s humor that I do, which is why they effortlessly toss in Animal House jokes, and Charlie's Angels jokes, and TV-action-70s TV credit jokes, and Fraggle Rock jokes, and what seems to be a joke on the Angel episode "Smile Time".

It's basically the same kind of fun the Legends have most weeks, turned up to 11. It's the kind of fun the actors and the creative team on the Elseworlds episodes of The Flash, Arrow, and Supergirl get to have once or twice a season.

On the other hand, if you don't like that kind of humor, why the heck are you watching and reading this? But regardless, if you don't, you're going to hate this episode: it encapsulates everything the series does every week, except worse.

But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. What do you think?