So in the Flash and Arrow, lots of metahumans and vigilantes were introduced and eventually, it came to a point where both shows were being too overcrowded with characters. So that's when we got Legends of Tomorrow. A show that puts some of these characters together to create a team of heroes and puts them in a scenario where they travel through time and space to protect the timeline from the forces of evil. Flash may be a time traveller of sorts himself, but the Legends of Tomorrow are the ones that protect it and make sure that history goes according to plan. Now some of you might think that this is basically DC doing their version of Doctor Who and you are right to have that impression. But recently the iconic BBC sci-fi drama has lacked in quality (and I am to expect some backlash for saying that, but its true) so its good that some studios are willing to do a better job of the time travel scenario. So let's travel through time and space and see where we end up:
Season 1 - Savage Times
A time traveller called Rip Hunter (played by Arthur Darvill, a man who knows time travel all too well) tasks himself with finding and taking down Vandal Savage (reprised by Casper Crump from the Flash and Arrow crossover "Heroes Join Forces") who killed his family in 2166 and took over the world. Using his ship the Waverider, he travels to 2016 to bring a group of heroes (and two criminals) together to help him stop Savage while also protecting the timeline. The team consists of Ray Palmer (reprised by Brendan Routh from Arrow), Sara Lance (reprised by Caity Lotz from Arrow), Firestorm (with both halves reprised by Franz Drameh and Victor Garber from The Flash), Mick Rory (reprised by Dominic Purcell from The Flash), Leonard Snart (reprised by Wentworth Miller from The Flash), Carter Hall (reprised by Falk Hentschel from the Heroes Join Forces crossover) and Kendra Saunders (reprised by Ciara Renee also from the Heroes Join Forces crossover) who while hesitant at first, all eventually agree to help Rip achieve his goals. But what they discover turns out to be far more difficult than they originally thought. As the first season, it spends no time with establishing many of these already well established characters and its great. Ray Palmer's suit gets bigger at one point, it answers the question about how far apart the two halves of Firestorm can be and gives the newly revived Sara Lance some purpose in the world aside from being just a simple sidekick. Its action packed, can be a bit confusing at times among other things. But for a time travelling show, there is a lot more going on here than there is with some other time travelling franchises going on at the moment and its great. 9/10
Season 2 - A Legion of Doom
The season begins in 2016 where a historian called Nate Heywood (played by Nick Zano) visits Oliver Queen (reprised by Stephen Amell from Arrow) at his mayoral office with evidence on the disappearance of the Legends. The pair then seek out the Waverider which was revealed to be hidden in the ocean and find only Mick who is in stasis. With him revived, Mick then tells them of what happened to his team and together with Nate (while Oliver goes back to his mayoral duties in Star City), they set out to find the team who have been scattered across time by Rip. Though successful in finding most of them, Rip is nowhere to be found and to make matters worse, they meet the Justice Society of America (whom a long dead family member of Nate is a part of) who consider them dangerous. But secretly, a team of super villains are working together to rewrite their fates which puts the timeline at risk once more. As complicated as the first few episodes are, everything else is made up with the rest of the season. We get a Legion of Doom at long last which comprises of old villains from both Arrow and the Flash which does in a way make sense as to give the Legends an evenly matched team of villains to fight and those villains are also fan favourites too. So overall a confusing season to start with, but it gets better over time so its good. 8/10
So as far as time travelling is concerned, this is a great series. It gives these former Arrow and Flash characters a new meaningful purpose in the Arrowverse while also being the first original team of heroes that didn't originally come from the comics. Sure the members themselves came from the comics, but the actual team Legends of Tomorrow until now, did not. And its important to allow for that sort of thing in the Arrowverse. So we've got a green hooded vigilante, the fastest man alive and these time travelling heroes (as well as Constantine which I reviewed previously a while ago). Next week, we finish this series of Arrowverse reviews with a review of a certain Kryptonian girl of steel so stay tuned. 9/10
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