Board Thread:DC's Legends of Tomorrow discussions/@comment-3423279-20171011010335/@comment-3221148-20171011235005

It's not so much an "asshole move", as a fact that what he has created won't fair much better against stuff on the level of Savage and Thawne if friggin Romans were a problem for them.

Unlike the bureau, the Legends are sloppy, but they are also very powerful individuals able to serve as a small army and the only ones qualified to fight the threats on the level of the Reverse-Flash or the Leviathan. Heck, Rip was on the team when they fought some of the biggest threats in the universe - he knows this.

Which is why, I think, he ultimately decided to let the events proceed and allow the Legends to do all that stealing stuff without a reprimand - they are a "chainsaw" strong enough to defeat the big bad villains, like that "Mallus" seeded in this episode.