But majority rules, and they swear Human Gideon in as captain and throw themselves a retirement party, complete with a Beebo piñata.
I la-la-love the wardrobe department.
We even get a blurry champagne kiss.
I love these dorks!
Spooner senses her gal pal’s anger and goes to check in. Astra is indeed mad. What’s the point of having friends if she’s just going to lose them? She can’t imagine her timeline has a happily ever after without Spooner in it.
Maybe the real friendship is the friends we made along the–wait.
Spooner has an idea and has Astra do her multiplication trick she used on the nuts on the Magic Manor Key. Now they can all hang out in the pocket dimension, which isn’t against their contract since it exists outside of time.
Spooner hands out most of the keys, but Astra gives Gideon hers personally. Astra is sad to be saying goodbye to her pseudo-daughter, and Gideon just wants to make her sorta-mamma proud. And Astra promises she already does, and wraps her tiny human body in her arms.
This looks like such a good hug. Astra’s arms are wrapped so fully around Gideon it makes me want to sob.
Out in the hallway, Sara thinks fondly on the seven years she’s spent on this ship she’s called home. But she thinks she’s ready to put down roots with Ava. They can have a future together; and whatever it looks like, as long as they’re together, they’ll be happy.
“I heard Wildmoore is out-gaying us we have to step up our game.”
Then they get a little randy thinking about being domestic together and not having a sentient AI listening in on them at all times.
Kissing looks so awkward as a screenshot. It’s always so…smooshy…This was a good kiss though, I promise.
In his goodbye, Gary tells Gideon he loves her, and Gideon asks him to stay. He doesn’t technically have an Earth timeline to go “back” to, so he happily agrees.
Behrad wants to do long distance with Astra, and she’s hesitant at first but he charms her into it.
The only one who really isn’t finding the silver lining in all this is Zari. She thought she’d have more time to be a hero, to make her mark. She feels like she’s in Flannel Zari’s shadow, and Fancy Zari doesn’t feel like she matters, doesn’t feel like she helped anyone. Nate attempts a pep talk but frankly there’s a reason he’s not a captain.
:sings in Waitress the musical: Youuu matter to meee.
Ava asks Gwyn if he’s excited to live with Alun, but he tells her that the Gideons said that’s not possible. But he’s sure they’ll see each other in the afterlife. Ava isn’t comforted by this at all and her heart fully breaks for her little gay buddy.
Jes Macallan and Tala Ashe have been out here doing some Serious Acting on this goofy little show.
Ava decides to take matters into her own hands and asks Zari for help. Zari is thrilled to be useful, to maybe have one last chance to make a lasting impact on someone’s life.
Stop right now, thank you very much.
Human Gideon overhears this and becomes suspicious; she heads out to cut the Legends off at the pass while also ordering — yes ORDERING — AI Gideon to leave the Legends alone while she’s gone.
Ava and Zari concoct a plan to go back in time and save Alun while still making Gwyn think he’s dead for now, so that he’ll still invent time travel. Zari so desperately wants this hero moment, she’s willing to get dirty and crawl in the air ducts, but then she remembers where there’s another time courier charger: the bathroom.
Gwyn catches them while they’re charging the courier and is so moved that they would be willing to risk their own lives and futures to ensure he has a happy ending of his own. But before Ava and Zari can set out on their mission, Human Gideon strolls in with Alun in tow. The girls are thrilled; this plan worked so well they didn’t even have to execute it.
Fancy Zari said “gay rights!”
Gwyn gently explains to Alun about how he was so devastated that he lost him that he invented time travel, and it’s only really now that it strikes me how huge that is: in this universe, queer love birthed TIME TRAVEL. That’s huge! And then, decades later, queer love helped protect it. I love this for us!
When Gwyn tells Alun he loves him, Alun kisses him full on the mouth, which takes Gwyn aback. It seems a little bold for the Alun he knows. To test it, he starts a quote he shared with Ava earlier, something Alun used to say to him a lot. But this Alun doesn’t seem to recognize it. But for now, Gwyn just goes with the flow and rejoins the team.
Human Gideon says goodbye to the Legends, who promise that all she needs to do is call them, beep them, if she ever needs them.
Hey, Avalance? Hey, Legends? Hey, fam? I still need you, okay? Beep beep! Please don’t go.
They take a group photo and one by one disappear back into the time stream until it’s just Gary and the Gideons left. Gary surprises Human Gideon with a Parisian dinner, and she tries to act like a human woman instead of an AI-turned-human, which Gary promises she never has to do for him.
C’est magnifique!
When Gary makes her promise she won’t lie to him anymore, she blurts out another lie she told. The Alun she left with Gwyn was a robot. She realized that Alun’s death, being the catalyst for time travel, was a fixed point, and if Ava and Zari had tried to change it, they would have died. So she made the best choice she felt she could in the moment; she knew they’d “break time before they break his heart.” Gideon feels awful for lying, and Gary understands but still needs some time to wrap his head around this. Gary isn’t sure he’s cut out to be the captain’s second.
Quelle tristesse.
Now that they’re in different rooms. Evil Gideon tries to drive them apart. When all of her manipulation tactics only drive Gary TOWARD Human Gideon instead of away from her, she yeets him into the time stream, then tells Human Gideon that Gary left her. So Human Gideon tucks away some of those pesky emotions into Lena Luthor’s Little Boxes™ and steels herself for the road ahead. Just a captain and her AI, the way it was meant to be.
Conceal, don’t feel.
Once in the manor, Gwyn decides to take matters into his own hands and yanks the fake Alun’s CPU out of his neck. He’s going to use the tech to fuel his time machine one more time: to save the real Alun.
Next week is the Season 7 finale whose title is vaguely concerning, and I really hope that even though we have no idea, the creators of this show know whether or not they are getting an eighth season. Because this felt very penultimate episode; I’m hoping they realize they’re the only ones who can protect the timeline, TOGETHER, but I’m also hoping they realize it in a “and we have more adventures to go on” way, not in a “fade to black” way, because I know 8 seasons is uncommon for a CW show, and has only been done with Arrow for a Beeboverse show, but I’m just not quite ready to say goodbye!
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– Love how the Tarazi siblings fight over hacking/computer stuff.
– Is it possible that that girl was supposed to be Ava and Sara’s daughter’s girlfriend?
– That Nate pep talk to Zari was supposed to be inspiring, but all I could do was grit my teeth through it because I was afraid that she’d catch feelings.
– Zava teaming up. I love it.
– Love how Gary just supports, supports, supports Gideon.
– That shot of Human Gideon with AI Gideon in the back was such a great example of awesome cinematography.
PS – I have a theory about next episode, but I’ll put it in a reply as it might be spoilery.
Next episode is called “Knocked Down, Knocked Up.” In the episode synopsis it says that Sara is keeping a secret from Ava. Combine both of those facts with the two of them seeing a future message from their daughter, and I think that Sara is pregnant. In some alien way Ava impregnated Sara, and the girl they saw was their biological daughter.
The writers are giving us all the feels of a series finale without also letting us know that there will be an 8th season and it is NOT. OKAY.
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The saying “remember when you wanted what you have” can be interpret one of two ways.
For Fancy Zari, the tense is different, but the sentiment is there. Perhaps she wanted to become the Lena Luthor of Fashion. Perhaps she had a Lena Luthor poster in her bedroom growing up (remember, she’s from the future).
I hope the writers give her an arc she deserves next season.
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Here’s hoping a teenaged Little Lance steals a jump ship and gets in some trouble with her best friend Esme next season.
Their moms are going to be so mad at them.
“Spoons” ! I just about died.
Chavez miming Astra miming Spooner. A work of art.
This was one heck of an episode. This show can’t be ending this season, it hurts a lot to think about that.
Jes Macallan and Tala Ashe really are out here doing some acting!