Legends of Tomorrow (2016)

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   Season 1: A lot of people had steered me away from DC's Legends of Tomorrow, or at least, its first season, but I don't think what's wrong with it that isn't also wrong with the rest of DC/CW's output - a lot of repetition (in case people are running to the bathroom during the show I guess), pretty but often limited actors, one step forward two steps back plots and subplots (the Hawks are a triple whammy on this front), and dumb plot holes (and with the show's iffy understanding of time travel, there are plenty) - but that's very much true of all the Berlanti stuff. If you can enjoy one, you can enjoy them all - for the cool hand to hand action, the fun comics references, and in this case, the program's ability to go to different eras and explore other parts of the DCU (case in point, there's a Jonah Hex western in Season 1). And I'm a sucker for time travel, so having Arthur Darville playing the Doctor - I mean Rip Hunter - is definitely in my wheelhouse. White Canary's great. Firestorm's constituent parts work well. Always good to see Brandon Routh's Atom. Captain Cold and Heat Wave are entertaining, though I'm at a loss when it comes to Snart's popularity... The niahhhhh sarcastic voice is repetitive camp to me. And I didn't mind the apparently loathed Hawkpeople, knowing full well they would go out with Vandal Savage given their inextricable link in the seasonal arc. Verdict: Fun and relatively varied fluff, perhaps better chugged in a couple days than on a weekly beat.
   
   With the Time Masters gone, Legends of Tomorrow Season 2 has the heroes act as time police, at least until the CW's greatest villains team up to quest for the Spear of Destiny and change reality in their favor, which makes for an engaging, and often insane storyline. Vixen and Steel join the cast, which puts us just one Aquaman or Batman away from having the whole JLDetroit in the Arrowverse, though the latter has the emotional maturity of a tween (there's always at least one 14 year old!). The show's take on time travel doesn't quite match the Flash's, which is kind of irksome, but it's entirely mad. We're not far from Bill & Ted here folks, and I for one don't really mind. Of course, the past is almost always represented by the same well-groomed forest park... That could use some work. Legends works best when it doesn't take itself seriously, and that's really what they're going for - case in point, when they let Heat Wave have the recap/show intro 6 years 8 months ago

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