100 Days of Arrowverse 2017 Volume B: The Flash & Legends of Tomorrow

69 days until Supergirl - 70 days until Flash & Legends - 72 days until Arrow

"THE SPACE OF TIME"
(Legends of Tomorrow: Mick & Amaya, part 2 of 5)

Mick Rory may not have been anyone's first choice for pop culture knowledge aboard the Waverider. He might not have been second, third, fourth… maybe fifth. But seeing as Amaya herself would have been even lower by fault of her being in some way the oldest person in their team, he had little to do to prove his worth here.

After a minute of chewing on both the popcorn and the question, he still wasn't sure what to tell her. It shouldn't have been hard, but where did one even start when they had decades to choose from? He could give her a rundown of the best and worst heist movies; he could never resist those, if only to see where they went wrong… or to pick up some tips.

"Ninjas," he suddenly pointed at her. She frowned, unsure of what he was getting at. He'd seen about every movie there could be about those, though he couldn't name one in particular, and he guessed that wasn't what she was after here anyway. So he got to thinking again. "They make movies now, either the same ones as before except with new people and some changes, but they're the same. Special effects, those are popular. Came a long way since your time, even then there are some crap ones today, too. And sequels, because if you made a ton of money once, you can make another ton again by doing the same thing again."

Going through the list of things that went through his head, the picture he was painting revealed itself when he turned back to Amaya. She didn't look very encouraged. He pointed to the stack of movies and she passed them toward him. Picking them up, he started looking at each in turn, dropping each one on the ground again when they were anything he either didn't know or didn't care about.

"Who told you about this one?" he stopped at one box and held it up to show her.

"You did, just last week," she told him. "Not by title, but you mentioned some character, I didn't know it was a character until I looked it up."

He looked at the cover. He sort of remembered his telling her now in passing; he hadn't even thought about it. He must have had something else on his mind. That image though, there on the cover, it took him back. He saw a couple of boys in juvie, laughing at a television screen. He tossed the box with the others and let the rest of the stack join them as well.

"Maybe you're better off not knowing," he told her. "None of them knows more than you or me half the time, wherever we end up, so even if you've seen a few movies…"

"It's not for when we're out there," she admitted. "It's when we're in here." He wasn't sure what she was getting at, but then he understood. She wanted to fit in.

"I still don't see the point, but if you think there's something to learn from watching these, or listening to those, it's your choice," he shrugged.

"What about this one?" she asked, tapping a box with her foot. The movie had slid just within her reach. Again, he felt the pang of memory. "You've seen it…"

"Few times," he told her. Few hundred times might have been accurate, over more than two decades… She was looking at him now like she wanted to hear about it. Not much would make him uneasy, but this did, or at least the emotions that it called up did. As much as possible, he tried not to touch on anything that would take him down that road. Now here they were, and he was stuck. "I'm going to need a beer for this… A few of those…"

See you tomorrow in Volume A for Supergirl!