Board Thread:DC's Legends of Tomorrow discussions/@comment-9346948-20161020212227/@comment-3221148-20161022183118

Eobard Thawne was awesomely evil and far more scarier than Zoozy this episode. Bravo Letscher.

JSA members were dicks, but mostly because the Legends members acted like total fanboys and pushovers. I mean, Ray Palmer taking this "you're not a superhero" bullshit with a straight face? This guy saved Star City from Ra's al Ghul, destroyed a gigantic Leviathan robot from the future in a fist fight, and was among those saving New York just in time, something the JSA have not foreseen. If that's not being a superhero, I don't know what is. Oh, Amaya can summon CGI Grodd, how cute. Good luck beating the Leviathan with that.

Son of Nemesis34 wrote: That was the time period and attitudes present. I don't know my history very well but I think the look he gave to Sara was because women didn't have the vote then. Women had the right to vote in USA since 1920.

Why would the JSA assume that Sara was the Legends' leader (especially when she wasn't, at that point)? Sara's pretty much always been Rip's first mate / battle commander (except for last episode, when she abandoned the plan and went on her own revenge plot), but JSA don't know that. All they saw was the Legends' posing as secret agents, fighting the JSA, then arguing among themselves in prison.

From these interactions, the JSA could pinpoint these people as unofficial leaders: 1) Ray Palmer: tried to initiate the parley with JSA 2) Nate Heywood: took part in OSS mission, entered the parley with JSA 3) Martin Stein: took part in OSS mission, entered the parley with JSA, appeared to be an old scientist rather than a battler, thus assumed to be the team's planner

Sara basically didn't show any decision-making initiatives until after the JSA released the Legends and talked to them for real, deducting that Stein must be the own behind the group's overall plans. As soon as Stein recognized Sara as the better decision-maker and gave his word of confidence, so did Rex Tyler recognize her authority in turn.