Prediction: Legends of Tomorrow

Shiri:

It’s always nice to see Arthur Darvill getting work. And a delicious irony to watch a man so frequently shafted by a Time Lord become a Time Master. Yes, i know the two have absolutely nothing to do with one another in REAL WORLD but these are my fandoms and I’ll mix if I want to.

DC needs to lighten up its properties a bit and this is a perfect opportuity. They have Brandon Rauch’s endearingly goofy Atom, Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell’s dastardly, scenery chewing duo, Captain Cold and Heat Wave to play with and those three alone can do that. I like Katy Lotz’s Canary a lot, though I do hope they don’t waste the opportunity to bring her and Katrina Law’s Nyssa back together. Victor Garber is always welcome, especially when he’s being a little bit of a douchebag and he and Franz Drameh’s Jax are certainly going to bicker wonderfully.

Still feeling out this Hawkgirl (Ciara Renee). I think I like her but I need her to not stand for any of Hawkman’s (Falk Hentschel) crap if she and I are going to continue to get along. I don’t really care that they’ve been lovers in multiple incarnations for four thousand years; he’s a dick and he needs to be put in his place.

I’m looking forward to this one relatively unreservedly, which is saying something for DC and me lately.

Luke:

I was a big promoter of Arrow and tried Flash, but they both have fallen off the radar for me. There is too much really, really good stuff being done to spend the time on mediocre shows, just because they happen to be genre-related.

And I am really having some big troubles with this one. Sure, the cast is not that huge, as compared to Game of Thrones, but it is way more than any other episodic weekly show I can think of. And right off, there is no space for getting us into each character before, future-expodey. So, unless they are going to have a huge, huge, body count, there are way too many people here. I mean two hawk-people? And two fire related members (Firestorm and Heatwave), two villains searching for redemption (three if you count White Canary), at least two scientist characters? Dunno feels really, really crowded.

Those were my thoughts going into this preview. And, at first, the preview delivered the really silly concept straight on. Then, the preview takes a twist, they don’t save the future, they have fucked it up. They can’t go home. And to get home, they might have to work restore the future where evil wins. All of a sudden, that is a series I could watch. As long as at least half the cast is dead in the first two episodes.

As a whole, they should have done this series Brave and the Bold style: two heroes teaming up each episode. Rip Hunter shows up, grabs some single hero for some very specific act and then returns them home. Mid-season and season finales, grab up a bunch of dudes and go to town. But, keep a smaller cast, instead of this sprawling one. Why would you do that as an actor? No one is going to get any screen time.

Plan for this one: record it. Then, watch the whole run it after it gets canceled midseason.