'LEGENDS OF TOMORROW'
"HELEN HUNT"
'Legends of Tomorrow' does not take place in Earth Prime-Time, the main Toobworld. It originated on Comix Toobworld-DC1 with 'Arrow' and 'The Flash'. But they have disrupted the timeline so much, they may be in some alternate Comix Toobworld now. (However, when they crossover with Flash and Arrow, I'm sure the Waverider will always find its way back to their original dimension.)
So when there are any Zonks in their episodes which would be a violation of what happened in the main Toobworld, let alone the Trueniverse, I let it slide. It has no bearing on Earth Prime-Time. But they're always fun to investigate.
Take for instance, the basic plot of this episode, "Helen Hunt" (a great title which is in the running for a Toobits Award): Helen of Troy arrives in 1937 Hollywood and bumps Hedy Lamarr from consideration for the lead role in a movie about Helen of Troy. Because her American movie career didn't take off, she was unable to pursue her scientific interests which led to her inventions in wireless communication. As a consequence, the Waverider was no longer able to function and they were stuck in 1937. The Legends had to "put right what once went wrong" and restore Miss Lamarr to her former glory.
In the timeline of the real world, Hedy Lamarr didn't make a movie about Helen of Troy until 1953, which was then released a year later. And it was made in Italy, not Hollywood.
From Wikipedia:
"Loves of Three Queens" (Italian: L'amante di Paride), also known as The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships, is a 1954 Italian anthology film. It was directed by Marc Allégret and Edgar G. Ulmer and stars Hedy Lamarr.
Hedy Lamarr's first Hollywood role was as Gaby in 1938's "Algiers".
But that discrepancy probably works out. Because of the temporal disruption, the studio probably scrapped their Helen of Troy biopic and chose the "Algiers" script to be Miss Lamarr's first Hollywood film. So it would have all worked out in the end.
Not that it mattered.
BCnU!
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