DC's Legends of Tomorrow

[Flyn]

Sara Lance, White Canary, is back from the Arrow dead.

The Atom moves to a new series.

Firestorm, Hawkgirl, Heatwave, Capt. Cold, Reverse Flash, time traveler Rip Hunter, etc.

For the 2015 fall season, CW brings in a bunch of the DC "legends" and crams them all together in one time traveling, superhero show.

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[Flyn]

New trailer. Series premiere is Jan. 21 2016.

 

[FESTER665]

I think I'm getting comic book'ed out with all these shows and spin-offs....

Many of these characters were good in their side roles in the series they were in, I don't know if any of them are deserving of their own series..... Then to top it off they'll likely do even more crossovers so you'll have to watch this to see what's going on with the Flash and Arrow...

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

I'm not feeling it for Legends of Tomorrow.

 

[Mook]

DC should really just stick to Batman.

 

[Mook]

Oh fuck, is that Brandon Routh? Aside from Scott Pilgrim, that dude cant act for shit

 

[FESTER665]

Oh fuck, is that Brandon Routh? Aside from Scott Pilgrim, that dude cant act for shit

Yeah, they had him start as The Atom in Arrow... Not a fan of his acting in the least, and I have a feeling that now they'll have crossovers and force me to watch this show....

I don't mind the Flash/Arrow crossovers since I watch both anyway, but it's just getting to be too much.

 

[Flyn]

Watching the pilot now. See part 1 here: http://www.cwtv.com/shows/dcs-legen...-1/?play=61ca93c4-b351-436a-9e51-a823dd91c934

Starts out Bill and Ted then goes through a brief Doctor Who sequence. The premise is awesome for a time travel sci fi fan like me. I hope the show delivers.

EDIT: So far this show is hilarious. Rollicking comic book action. I laughed a couple times already. White Canary and Hawkgirl are hot. The 70s bar scene was great.

 

[Flyn]

I checked out Wikipedia and found Jewel Staite is going to be on the show. For Firefly fans, it's worth watching just to see her.

From Wikipedia:

Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gave the series a 58% approval rating, with an average rating of 6.2/10 based on 31 reviews. The website's consensus reads: "Fancy effects, comic-book nostalgia, and an alluring cast help keep it afloat, DC's Legends of Tomorrow suffers from an overloaded cast of characters that contribute to a distractingly crowded canvas."[65] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 59 out of 100 based on reviews from 18 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[66]

Russ Burlingame from ComicBook.com praised the pilot saying, "The series delivers a sharp, enjoyable pilot that's arguably the most attention-grabbing and entertaining from any of the current crop of superhero shows.... With so many movies and shows on the air, it would be easy for it all to become a kind of white noise... but DC's Legends of Tomorrow promises to give the year a suitably impressive kickoff, and fulfills the promise of being the most ambitious DC adaptation yet."[67] Jesse Schedeen of IGN gave the first part of the pilot episode a 7.7/10, praising the show's "epic scope", "fun character dynamics" and Arthur Darvill's performance;[68] and gave the second part of the pilot episode a 8.4/10 saying that "Legends of Tomorrow improved in its sophomore episode thanks to great character dynamics and superhero action" and praised the fun team ups and the "Terrific superhero spectacle".[69]

 

[Flyn]

Ha Ha! "Let's go spark a doobie and rap about physics".

EDIT: After watching the first two, I'm hooked. Tons of action and the characters are all known from their Arrow/Flash beginnings. It's cool to see 8 superheroes fighting at once.

 

[Flyn]

Few more episodes in and this show is really starting to take off. If you like action with some interesting superheroes, check it out.

 

[FrenchLicker]

Few more episodes in and this show is really starting to take off. If you like action with some interesting superheroes, check it out.

It seems overly cheesy at times and way too linear action, but I am still enjoying it. I would have hoped for a bit more but its solid.

 

[Flyn]

Renewed for Season 2 along with renewals for Arrow, Flash, iZombie and Jane the Virgin (threw in JTV because it's one of Amy's favorite shows).

I gotta add that the plot for this week's episode concerning meteorites and metamorphosis was weak. 1958 set props and clothes were interesting but the plot didn't stand up as anything special. To me, they tossed a hodgepodge of events together without developing any of them. If you're going to show lesbian sex, it has to go beyond mild kissing. Disappointing.

 

[Flyn]

Really? Legends killed off my favorite character? NOOOO!

Of course, being the comic book world and a time travel show, he will be back at times.

Legends is planning on bringing in two new "legends" for Season 2. I hope they are at least as interesting as the one(s) they lost.

Spoiler

R.I.P. Leonard Snart, Captain Cold. You were the most interesting character on the show.

 

[sickmint79]

marvel has overall done a pretty spectacular job.

DC, which i'll confess to never being a huge fan of anyway, has done a pretty sloppy job.

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

This trailer seems interesting. Maybe I need to watch LoT. I think I might watch a few episodes and see if my initial feeling is the same.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYgIqC2qfL4

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

Lol @ the 80s soundtrack on yesterday's episode. Danger zone entrance haha.

 

[Flyn]

This week's episode was set in Civil War America with slave beatings and degradation. Heroic black legends burn the white slaver's home down.

Great message there. Does everything have to be about race now? Is Hollywood pushing for race riots? Sure seems that way. Peace and love, people, not race baiting. The '70s hippie in me is ashamed at the way today's protesters do things. We wanted to bring people together, for real. They say they do but preach hate as much as love.

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

This week's episode was set in Civil War America with slave beatings and degradation. Heroic black legends burn the white slaver's home down.

Great message there. Does everything have to be about race now? Is Hollywood pushing for race riots? Sure seems that way. Peace and love, people, not race baiting. The '70s hippie in me is ashamed at the way today's protesters do things. We wanted to bring people together, for real. They say they do but preach hate as much as love.

That was last weeks episode, S2E04 Abominations.

This weeks episode was S2E05 - Compromised and takes place in 1987.

 

[Flyn]

Ah. Comcast doesn't have the most recent episode then. I'll have to get it on KODI or wait for Comcast to catch up.

I was looking for the '80s music and didn't see any in the Civil War episode. :smile:

 

[Flyn]

Whoa!

Spoiler

Damien Dark in time.

Should be interesting.

As a lonnnnggg time time travel reader/watcher, this show takes a lot of liberties with possibly changing history. Whoever is writing it should read some of the time travel scifi that's out there or, at least, watch Back to the Future.

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

Ah. Comcast doesn't have the most recent episode then. I'll have to get it on KODI or wait for Comcast to catch up.

I was looking for the '80s music and didn't see any in the Civil War episode. :smile:

xbox cwseed app. airs the following day. and its free. maybe on playstation too

 

[Flyn]

Thanks. I watched it on KODI.

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

So the CW Crossover starts next monday. Wonder how they will pull this off.

Part of me is thinking about not watching ANYTHING until next friday so I can watch them all in a row without having to wait a day.

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

I have waited, and it was mostly awesome. The LoL episode has some of the best in-jokes with the Star Trek references, and Ray saying that Kara reminded him of his cousin.