Last Refuge (Legends of Tomorrow)

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"Last Refuge"
Legends of Tomorrow episode
Episode no.Season 1
Episode 12
Directed by Rachel Talalay
Written by
  • Chris Fedak
  • Matthew Maala
Production code4X6362
Original air dateApril 21, 2016 (2016-04-21)
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"Last Refuge" is the twelfth episode of the first season of the American science fiction series Legends of Tomorrow . The episode was written by Chris Fedak and Matthew Maala and directed by Rachel Talalay.

Contents

The episode features the Legends fight an assassin known as "The Pilgrim" who travels through time trying to kill their younger selves. Faye Kingslee guest stars as the titular character.

"Last Refuge" aired on The CW on April 21, 2016, to an audience of 1.78 million viewers and was critically panned.

Plot

Due to the Legends disruption of the timeline, the Time Masters send an assassin named known as the Pilgrim after the Legends. She sets out to kill the team's younger selves to erase them from time.

In 1990, Central City the Legends protect Mick Rory's younger self managing to barely defeat the Pilgrim. Back on the Waverider Gideon uses the Pilgrim's temporal distortions to predict her next move. After they manage to successfully rescue Sara Lance's younger self, Gideon loses track of the Pilgrim, allowing her to take out any of the team members without them knowing. Rip Hunter reveals that she only has one chance to kill each Legend before Ray suddenly being bleeding internally. Kendra stays with Ray while the rest of the Legends travel to 2014 Star City. The dying Ray proposes to Kendra and she says yes. The Legends once again barely defeat the Pilgrim.

Afterwards Rip decides to abduct the rest of the team's infant selves to prevent the Pilgrim from killing any of them. They are successful, bringing the infants to Rip's adoptive mother for her to look after until they can stop the Pilgrim. The Pilgrim kidnaps the team members' loved ones, threatening to kill them unless the members give themselves up.

Rip agrees to give up his younger self from before he became a Time Master, thus preventing the team's formation, in exchange for everyone's safety. The Legends, the Pilgril ,and young Rip meet at an abandoned Time Master base to make the trade. The Legends hand over young Rip before attacking the Pilgrim directly. The Pilgrim freezes them all in time but the young Rip stabs her to death.

Running out of time, Rip reveals that the Legends only have one more opportunity to stop Savage, at the peak of his power in 2166.

Production

"Last Refuge" was written by Chris Fedak and Matthew Maala and directed by Rachel Talalay. [1] [2] It was the first episode of television that Maala ever wrote. [3]

The episode's plot takes inspiration from the plot of The Terminator (1984) with the movie directly referenced in the episode. [4] [5]

Casting

The episode stars Arthur Darvill, Caity Lotz, Wentworth Miller, Dominic Purcell, Victor Garber, Franz Drameh, and Ciara Renée as Rip Hunter, Sara Lance, Leonard Snart, Mick Rory, Ray Palmer, Martin Stein, Jefferson "Jax" Jackson, and Kendra Saunders, respectively. [1] [6] Faye Kingslee guest stars as the episode's villain, The Pilgrim. [7] Paul Blackthorne makes a guest appearance as his Arrow character Quentin Lance. [8]

Mitchell Kumman and Aiden Longworth appeared as younger versions of Mick and Rip. [2] [9] The young Sara was also portrayed by Lotz. [8] Eli Goree appeared as Jax's father, James Jackson. [10]

Release

"Last Refuge" first aired on The CW on April 21, 2016. The episode was viewed by an audience of 1.78 million viewers down around 200 thousand from the previous episode, "The Magnificat 8". [11] [12] The episode was viewed around four thousand less then the following episode, "Leviathan". [12] [13] When accounting for seven day DVR viewership the episode was seen by 3 million viewers. [14] "Last Refuge" was the second lowest viewed episode of the season overall. [15]

Critical reception

The episode was met with negative reviews from critics. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 57% of 14 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.92/10. The website's consensus reads: ""Last Refuge" finally presents the Legends with a formidable adversary, only to immediately disarm her and undermine the entire episode." [16] The romantic subplot of Kendra and Ray was heavily disliked. [5] [9] [17]

Comic Book Resources 's Dan Caffrey felt the main story had a good premise but the episodes subplots were boring. Caffery noted that the sole exception was Mick's as the audience was familiar with the character allowing the emotional beats to hit properly. [18] Nerdist 's Blair Marnell felt that while the Pilgrim was the best villain the series had so far, she was still very generic. Marnell felt the various subplots were poorly executed; singling out Jax's dad missing out on his birth as the worst. [10] Den of Geek 's Rob Leane rated the episode 2.5/5. Leane praised the acting feeling it was one of few redeeming factors. [5] Vulture Angelica Jade Bastién disliked the episode, noting that the logic of the episode did not work and the Time Master's plan made no sense. [19]

Writing for The A.V. Club , Oliver Sava rated the episode a "D+". Sava wrote, "The design is as lazy as the action staging". It is The A.V. Club lowest rated episode of the series. [3] [4] The review was later quoted to in the season four episode "Wet Hot American Bummer". In an interview with The A.V. Club, Ray Utarnachitt stated the review stuck with Maala and he would frequently quote it. [3]

IGN 's Jesse Schedeen offered a positive review rating the episode a 7.8/10. [9]

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