AVClub: Legends Of Tomorrow has a lot of fun winking at all the other genre shows its premise brushes up against and its stars have appeared in—Snart’s “This isn’t my first prison break” remains a series highlight, and Rip Hunter’s insistence on referring to Mick by his last name feels like some sort of quiet hat tip to Arthur Darvill’s other sci-fi show—but there’s always a risk of the show losing track of its own still nascent identity and just feeling derivative. Take tonight’s “Progeny,” whose vision of a corporate-controlled fascist future basically just is the premise of Continuum. (Which, for the record, I realize didn’t invent that particular kind of dystopia. But it’s another time travel show with a near-identical vision of the future and a similar aesthetic, so it’s hard to avoid the connection entirely if you’ve seen both shows.) There’s a lot here that feels vaguely familiar if you’ve watched enough shows like Legends Of Tomorrow: a central conflict that sets up a direct parallel to the old “kill baby Hitler” moral conundrum, a subplot in which Ray discovers his greatest invention has been turned into the primary tool of the police state—though that last one might feel familiar just because its resolution reminds me of Futurama’s great “Luck Of The Fryrish,” which I was thinking about the other day.
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