ROGUES GALLERY #43: Winter Finales and Stories Retrod

Were fully into midseason finales or winter finales or whatever the spin doctors decide to call it next Gotham and Supergirl had theirs last week so weve just got the other CW shows to cover this week And its hit and miss for thoseGOTHAM amp SUPERGIRL return January 16 2017THE FLASH The Present Teleplay by Lauren Certo Story by Aaron Helbing amp Todd Helbing Directed by Rachel TalalayBarry Grant Gustin figures out that he cant face Savitar alone so he bops over to Earth3 to recruit Jay Garrick John Wesley Shipp whos in the midst of capturing his Trickster Mark Hamill in a throwaway scene The two speedsters head back to Earth1 where we get a reveal that Savitar was trapped inside the Philosophers Stone until unearthed by Julian Tom Felton who started having blackouts every time he was possessed by Savitar becoming Alchemy in the processHaving captured Julian and put him in the pipeline Team Flash figures they can somehow tap into the technobabble energy of the stone and communicate with Savitar Hes only too willing to chat even if Julian has issues with the whole magic thing Savitar proves to be yet another enemy of the Flash from the futureBeen there done thatARROW What We Leave Behind Written by Wendy Mericle amp Beth Schwartz Directed by Antonio NegretThis week perhaps the best use of flashbacks all season as Oliver Stephen Amell has to come to grips with his past as a serial killer Prometheus lures him to the site of his kill involving a rich mucketymuck who was conspiring to make a bunch of lowincome people sick with weaponized tuberculosis in order to gouge everyone on the price for a cureTeam Flash has their own problems to deal with as Curtis Echo Kellum deals with Paul Chenier Hundal learning his secret and leaving him over his vigilante antics Also revealed the betrayal by Artemis Madison McLaughlin who teams up with a killer of good guys in order to stop a killer of bad guys makes total sense rightLEGENDS OF TOMORROW The Chicago Way Written by Sarah Nicole Jones amp Ray Utarnachitt Directed by Ralph HemeckerChicago 1927 Team Time Travel find themselves in the Prohibition Era where the Legion of Doom offers to do business with Al Capone Isaac Keoughan When they go back in time to rescue Ness they end up botching it Ness gets injured and spends the rest of the episode in sickbay So Nate Nick Zano pretends to be Ness in order to prevent Capone from becoming Mayor of ChicagoThe Legion of Doom is after the amulet currently in the hands of our intrepid heroes They torture Professor Stein Victor Garber with Eobard Thawn Matt Letscher taking his place during the rescue Sara Caity Lotz trades the amulet for Stein and it turns out to be a map to the Spear of Destiny so the show will copy The LibrariansThe panel Ann Laabs Kathryn Sanders Dave Margosian Timothy Harvey Jason Hunt