Hi All! I’m the new reviewer for Legends of Tomorrow, the newest addition to DC’s universe. As the show has not yet been reviewed at Skatronnixx.com since @mitch_rated wrote about it coming to Sky1 in Britain, I thought I would start with a catch-up of the story from pilot to episode 6. But first, the credits.
Legends debuted on The CW on January 21, 2016, in Canada also on CTV and airs on Thursdays. It was renewed for a second season on March 11.
The Characters:
Rip Hunter – Arthur Darvill
Atom – Brandon Routh
Firestorm (the brains)/Professor Martin Stein – Victor Garber
Firestorm (the brawn)/Jefferson Jackson – Franz Drameh
White Canary/Sara Lance – Caity Lotz
Hawkman/Khufu/Carter Hall – Falk Henschel
Hawkgirl/Chay-Ara/Kendra Saunders – Ciara Renée
Captain Cold/ Leonard Snart – Wentworth Miller
Heatwave/Mick Rory/Chronos- Dominic Purcell
Gideon – WaveRider’s AI voiced by Amy Pemberton
Vandal Savage/Hath-Set – Casper Crump
The Story So Far:
In the first episode, we meet Rip Hunter, Time-Master and Captain of the timeship Waverider, in the year 2166. The world has been basically laid waste to by the immortal baddie, Vandal Savage. Rip, a flawed Time-Master, wants to go back in time to stop Savage before he gets started: in effect to re-write the future.
Having had a personal run-in with Savage, he knows that he can’t go it alone. He presents his plan to the Time-Council, and it goes pretty much as expected, a big fat NO. He and Gideon get the hay out of Dodge and go back in time anyway to collect a team to help him.
The Waverider lands in Star City, in the Arrowverse, where all of his potential crew are currently in the middle of their own battles. Now Rip doesn’t much believe in explaining himself more than once, so he collects each member by zapping them with his space ray gun just as each of them triumph in their missions.
When they wake up he tells them who he is, what his mission is, and indulges in some ego stroking to get them to agree to join him. Some of the members don’t want to go, notably Rory, Jax and HawkGirl. Professor Stein hijacks Jax by means of drugging and kidnapping, because after all, heroes – nay, Legends – are required and Stein alone cannot be a hero, Snart convinces Rory by pointing out that they can steal the most valuable treasures in history, and Hawkman and Hawkgirl settle it like warriors.
The team assembles, and leaves 2016 to track down their first lead, Professor Boardman in 1975. Meanwhile, the bounty hunter Chronos arrives in Star City and informs his employers that he is closing in on Rip. Professor Boardman turns out to be not only an expert on Vandal Savage, but is also Kendra and Carter’s son from their just previous lives. Although he dies because of a stray bullet in a firefight between our heroes and Chronos, he provides them with their next clue contained within his journal. And now the truth begins to emerge.
Rip tells them that he has quit the Time-Masters because they did nothing about Savage killing his wife and child, but that he has not lied about the rest of it. He has allowed them to think that they are heroes in their futures, but that he took them because they are actually insignificant to the time-line.
They want to make their own fates, so they all agree to continue with the mission. In succeeding episodes, they romp through the time-line in hot pursuit of Vandal Savage, while being chased themselves by Chronos. Along the way, they lose and recover a piece of the Atom’s suit, stop Savage from selling a nuke – cameo by Damien Darhk (Neil McDonogh), discover the one weapon that can end Savage forever, get Hawkman killed, nearly lose Kendra and are captured by the Russians who are trying to build their own Firestorm.
And we get a little of Snart’s history, when he tries to change his father’s fate. In episode 6 they travel to a ravaged Star City in 2046 where they talk Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) out of retirement to join Diggle’s son Connor Hawke (Joseph David-Jones) who has taken up the Green Arrow mantle. DeathStroke (Jamie Andrew Cutler) makes a cameo appearance. Captain Cold and Heatwave have a “difference of opinion” when Heatwave realizes that he is losing Captain Cold to the team and wants to stay in 2046.
My Favorite Moments:
Pretty much anytime Snart opens his mouth. What comes out is always humorously dry, witty and sarcastic, and I am really enjoying this character’s development.
Jax tells Professor Stein that he thinks Stein still has plenty of adventure left in him, and that he wants to be part of the team because in his high school football days, when he felt safest was when his teammates were looking out for him.
Rip’s memories. They make him who he is – a “flawed” but very human time master- and are the driving force behind his self imposed mission to end Savage.
My reviews of Episodes 7, 8 and 9 will be coming at you in the next couple of days. Stay tuned and don’t forget to follow skatronixxx.com!
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