DC's Legends of Tomorrow (2016) [+]
Nov 01 2023
I finished watching the last couple of seasons of Legends of Tomorrow and I think overall this is my favorite of the Arrowverse shows. It started out serious with a ragtag band of superheroes traveling through time fixing things. Then it became a group of heroes traveling through time, breaking something, then having to run around trying to fix it. The last two or three seasons it was not just heroes who break time and patch up their mistakes but full bore each episode parodying something.
It's great that Sara Lance (Caity Lotz) went from girl who dies in Arrow #1.1 to coming back to life with ninja training then main cast on Legends then leader of the Legends from season 2 or 3 onwards. Her romance with Ava Sharpe (Jes Macallan) is cute but doesn't give you the feels as they don't really go hard on it.
Gideon (Amy Pemberton) goes from voice to a physical (or human holograph) appearance in s6 and full on robot girl in s7 and I kind of like the "trying to figure out being human" subplot though once again kind of minor and not pushed. Nate "Steel" Heywood (Nick Zano) was always this doesn't quite fit character who almost never uses his powers so what good is he. But it's kind of redeemed in the last couple of episodes.
John Constantine (Matt Ryan) is a regular for s4 to s6 then he leaves and Ryan plays Gwyn Davies, inventor of the first time machine, in s7. That was a bit weird character switch. Was it that they couldn't use the Constantine character anymore?
Gary Green (Adam Tsekhman) goes from recurring to main in s6 and s7. He's the bungling assistant for Sharpe and then for Constantine and learns a bit of magic. And then he's revealed to be an alien in disguise all along which does make him a bit more interesting.
Zari (Tala Ashe) changes from s4/s5 as a post-Crisis Zari, totally different, appears. Zari goes from bleak future Earth activist hacker to social media mogul. Behrad Tarazi (Shayan Sobhian) is introduced after Crisis (as he was dead before) as "he was there all along in Zari's place" and only later is the post-Crisis Zari brought into the team.
Esperanza "Spooner" Cruz (Lisseth Chavez) is introduced and added for s6 and s7. Kind of a weird paranoid Texan who believes in aliens which turns out to be true. I like that she comes out as asexual and this is very accepting by the other characters.
It's interesting how the team started with "name" stars (the Atom, Firestorm, Hawkgirl, Heatwave, Captain Cold) and ends with Sara Lance, John Constantine, Steel and half the crew sort of unknowns or new DC characters.
Anyway, later seasons it's much more of a comedic series and has a Justice League International vibe which I appreciate.
It's great that Sara Lance (Caity Lotz) went from girl who dies in Arrow #1.1 to coming back to life with ninja training then main cast on Legends then leader of the Legends from season 2 or 3 onwards. Her romance with Ava Sharpe (Jes Macallan) is cute but doesn't give you the feels as they don't really go hard on it.
Gideon (Amy Pemberton) goes from voice to a physical (or human holograph) appearance in s6 and full on robot girl in s7 and I kind of like the "trying to figure out being human" subplot though once again kind of minor and not pushed. Nate "Steel" Heywood (Nick Zano) was always this doesn't quite fit character who almost never uses his powers so what good is he. But it's kind of redeemed in the last couple of episodes.
John Constantine (Matt Ryan) is a regular for s4 to s6 then he leaves and Ryan plays Gwyn Davies, inventor of the first time machine, in s7. That was a bit weird character switch. Was it that they couldn't use the Constantine character anymore?
Gary Green (Adam Tsekhman) goes from recurring to main in s6 and s7. He's the bungling assistant for Sharpe and then for Constantine and learns a bit of magic. And then he's revealed to be an alien in disguise all along which does make him a bit more interesting.
Zari (Tala Ashe) changes from s4/s5 as a post-Crisis Zari, totally different, appears. Zari goes from bleak future Earth activist hacker to social media mogul. Behrad Tarazi (Shayan Sobhian) is introduced after Crisis (as he was dead before) as "he was there all along in Zari's place" and only later is the post-Crisis Zari brought into the team.
Esperanza "Spooner" Cruz (Lisseth Chavez) is introduced and added for s6 and s7. Kind of a weird paranoid Texan who believes in aliens which turns out to be true. I like that she comes out as asexual and this is very accepting by the other characters.
It's interesting how the team started with "name" stars (the Atom, Firestorm, Hawkgirl, Heatwave, Captain Cold) and ends with Sara Lance, John Constantine, Steel and half the crew sort of unknowns or new DC characters.
Anyway, later seasons it's much more of a comedic series and has a Justice League International vibe which I appreciate.