'Legends of Tomorrow' Season 4, Episode 8: 'Legends of To-Meow-Meow'

 While the last episode was fairly weak and the title is...well, stupid, this episode is a blast.  

Not surprisingly, the episode focuses on Charlie's and John's efforts to restore the timeline after John broke it.  Interestingly enough, neither of these two characters really want to restore the status quo. As such, rather than just undo what they did, they try to "patch things" to a point where the Legends are restored to the way they were.

It turns out that the timeline change turned the somewhat idealistic team into stone cold killers of magical creatures and it is this, more than anything else, that sets Charlie on the path to restore things.  Yeah, she was willing to leave Zari as a cat (though to be fair, that turned out to be a surprisingly easy fix all things considered.)

The task turns out to be more difficult than one would think, as the butterfly effect kicks in hard here.  It was interesting to see how things could have gone very differently for the team with a slight change of circumstance.  Team members die at the hands (or horns) of previous foes and Mick even partners up with the fairy godmother.  It also gives the episode a chance to revisit some scenes from earlier in the season.  Combine this with some bizarre, but not out of place, TV show parodies, and you have a pretty bonkers episode to say the least.

After having several episodes try to juggle several subplots, it was nice to have an episode focus on just one.  There's a lot of crazy stuff going on, but keeping the narrative on Charlie and John keeps you engaged and grounded...for the most part.

The humor was on point.  The episode goes off the wall and revels in the craziness that the plot allows it to.  There are times when I miss this being a more straight forward super-hero team show, but this shows you why the later tone is so loved and revered.    

The big cliffhanger reveal is a bit lackluster. It does tie John's Neron big bad with the whole Time Bureau gathering magical creatures sub-plot that has been on the back-burner lately, but it didn't really have the sort of kick that a mid-season finale ending should theoretically have.

Still, though, the episode is on such a constant high that one small con is really not that much of a hindrance.  It's good to see the show rebound and regain its footing. It'll be interesting to see how the second half of the season plays out.

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