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Recently I did a count of episodes of each Legends season that were good (mainly 2 and 3) to compare it to 4. I'll probably do a review soon, but there is an abbreviated version of that. S4 is probably barely above S1 of Legends. S1 had some arcs and had an epic, albeit convoluted , finale. But the characters were melodramatic and it didn't really get a sense of what it wanted to be till the Western episode, but they didn't apply that formula till S2. Now, this is a rough and mostly subjective count, but both 2 and 3 had 10+ episodes that I can look to and enjoy. S2 has like one more than S3, and you have to take into account that S3 had one more episode. S2 was perfection, both in tone, comedy and arcs. S3 lacked the arc count of S2, a good villain and Vixen wore here welcome (but Zari balanced that ding out and Wally's redemption did too). I struggle to think of a negative for S2, outside of that the Doomworld was only an episode, and I wanted to see more of it.
Disclaimer- I wanna clarify that just cus an episode isn't counted into the "good episode" list, doesn't mean the rest were bad, it's just that they were average episodes. "Good Episodes" for me have to be memorable.
But how about S4? What's it's good episode count.... like 5... maybe? Which doesn't even include the finale. Outside of the cool Zari twist, it was probably less enjoyable than the *pukes in mouth* S1 finale. Now, this season is plum out of arcs for most of its crew, and the only one with a true arc this season was John. The rest were either relationships and Nate's strife with his father. It's still up to the writers to give their characters shit to do, but I do sympathize with the writing staff. I thought having John one would make the show have to meet in the middle and have the comedy of S3. be reeled back a bit to include the character of John, and it did.... for a minute. It just kinda falls apart later on. They handled him well at the start, but the zanyness won out.
This has gone on lone enough, and there will be a more official one down the line. I just wanna wrap this up by saying, I'm interested to see where we go from here. the Zari stuff should be interesting and the return to historical figures (and I believe they said time pieces) is a must. I don't know if I think the show ill ever recapture that magic of S2. It seems they keep going further and further into the wackyness. Maybe I'll accept it next season, and I'm hoping I will, we'll see.
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