Old Oliver and Connor Hawke Join Forces on ‘Legends of Tomorrow’

Fans saw a different Oliver Queen in “Legends of Tomorrow” season 1 episode 6 while a pirate attack is expected in episode 7. When the two end up at a party in the gang’s hideout, Rory is especially excited by having chalices, fur coats and living like a king with this commandeered biker gang, but Snart, as the moral center of the two somehow, is looking to get back to the team. Able to take leadership of a local gang after easily wasting their leader, Heat Wave was treated like a king among thieves and wanted to stay in 2046 Star City. Unfortunately, the city also has its own Deathstroke, but its not Slade Wilson still wearing the mask. With a new Green Arrow running around, Sara confronts him only to learn that Oliver supposedly died a while ago.

The big draw of this week’s Legends of Tomorrow is the guest spot by everybody’s favorite Green Arrow – sorry, guy who played him on Smallville (Justin Hartley, for the record) and everyone who voiced him in cartoons – Stephen Amell.

Causing them trouble in the episode “Star City 2046” is none other than Deathstroke, the moniker used by the assassin and former ARGUS agent Slade Wilson (Manu Bennett) during the first three seasons of “Arrow”.

It is here that the fate of Oliver Queen is truly revealed. It’s a little jarring given that this is not necessarily the future of Star City if they can change it, so there’s no real guarantee that any of these people still exist. Basically this is a Star City that’s gone straight to hell.

Jax tells Dr. Stein that his flirts with Kendra “went well”, even though they didn’t, and Stein is happy to report that Ray has no romantic intentions with Kendra. They fight them off, and even get help from Mick and Snart, but they’re too much and they kidnap Connor.

Sara and Ray try to talk to the man, but they are shocked when he instead raises his bow toward White Canary while saying, “I’ve never heard of any Legends”.

While his origin story in DC Comics originally named Connor Hawke as Oliver Queen’s illegitimate son, his background story in the televised Arrowverse has him as the son of Queen’s friend and confidant, John Diggle.

Rip Hunter, all the while, continually reminds the team that what they are experiencing is merely a “possible” future for Star City. She gets to the Waverider, but she just feels worse. Given that they all left and are going on to the next point in time, we’re not sure how much was really done here that mattered. Then finally there is Rip and Sara who seem to be learning a lot more about Star City in 2046 than anyone could have imagined.