DC's Legends of Tomorrow

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Season 1
Season #: 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
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  1. th3uglytruth
    Apr 3, 2016
    5
    So much potential.....totally got screwed by the casting!

    The main character (time traveller guy) is just so annoying.....why cast him? Can't se this one lasting more than 2 seasons!
  2. diogomendes
    May 28, 2016
    6
    A fun show all in all, but it never quite recaptures the sense of thrill or excitement that made "The Avengers" movie so successful. I know it's a wacky complaint, but it's still based on a bunch of super-heroes teaming up to stop a bad guy from conquering the world. Vandal Savage is probably the weakest link of the show. Notwithstanding his really horrible accent, he doesn't bringA fun show all in all, but it never quite recaptures the sense of thrill or excitement that made "The Avengers" movie so successful. I know it's a wacky complaint, but it's still based on a bunch of super-heroes teaming up to stop a bad guy from conquering the world. Vandal Savage is probably the weakest link of the show. Notwithstanding his really horrible accent, he doesn't bring charisma or energy, or even depth to his character. It would have been more suitable if the Time Masters filled his place. The show demonstrated how easily manipulated Rip's team was right from the start, all thanks to the Time Masters. They would have made for far better antagonists than what we've got.

    It's not that the concept isn't fun, but seeing our heroes travel through time for 16 episodes, attempting to have some advantage against Savage, when they could have just travelled to the day he was born (and I mean, the day he was born from his first lifetime), and killed him, bugs me. As a whole, this show was more about Rip Hunter's question for vengeance, and justice for his family's death. In the finale, they nailed that resolution right, with Rip coming to grips that Jonas and Miranda couldn't be saved, no matter what, and he had to live with that, but not before having a farewell hallucination. That was probably one of the best scenes of the finale. That and the scene where Mick says one last goodbye to Snart.

    Plot logic and villain mostly took a backseat to the action and visuals, which were pretty neat. Beyond that, there was a widening cast of likable leads. All in all, the actors seemed they were having fun. Ray Palmer got the chance to "play science" with Martin. The latter also had a growing relationship with Jax. Sara Lance surprisingly seemed happier than she was on "Arrow". Go figure. Her dynamic with Snart and Mick was a nice touch. Snart and Rory seemed out of place when the show began, as it was tough to imagine how some regular thieves would become legends in the future. The show handled it well, as soon the all so called "plot-device Chronos" was revealed to be Mick from the future. That idea was interesting, but the consequences, not so much.

    On the other hand, Kendra was problematic. Her romance with Ray didn't work for me, but worse than that was her zero character development. Well, at least beyond saying how she used to be a barista, she didn't have much material to do.

    The show needed focus, most of the time. There were so many filler episodes (e.g.: "Star City 2046", "Marooned", ...) and they did no job to further the plot. Because the premise is too simplistic to have a 16-episode season about it, there were issues, and it was those issues that brought it down. "Legends of Tomorrow" certainly made the setup for Season 2 nicely, and I just hope they can pick up from this and start building it to more than just a simple show.

    Score: 6.5/10    … Expand
  3. robogimp
    May 14, 2016
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I’m a fan of Arrow and Flash I really tried hard to like Legends of Tomorrow, but I'm done with it because they are trying to tell stories that their budget and creativity can't accomplish.

    Firstly, Legends of Tomorrow is saddled with a cast of superheroes all with equivalent status characters who all demand screen time, rather than Flash and Arrow which have a central protagonist and a supporting cast giving a natural central focus. The characters never have enough screen time to have real depth, and when they are emoting it feels forced.

    Their effects scenes OK but they never have a real effect on the plot. Typically Firestorm swoops in fires a couple of fireballs at a couple of goons, it's like watching money go up in smoke.

    The script often calls for sci fi, but they cut the wrong corners. For example in a scene where multiple timemasters find that their ships had to be sabotaged they reused the cockpit set by recoloring the set, OK, but then they dress all the future ship captains a loose fitting brown dickies work-shirt, It just looks uninventive. There are so many possible futures, I don't want to spend time in a drab one.

    The writing itself lacks purpose and momentum. Finally they capture Vandal Savage, something they could have done almost any episode, only to waste their golden opportunity by dithering and failing killing him.

    Lastly the whole premise will NEVER have a satisfactory resolution. When Leonard Snart is killed, seemingly the actor wanted off this ship of fools, why don't they just go back 10 minutes and save him? If you can travel time you have infinite redo’s, Schrodinger's Mr Freeze is both alive and dead forever, and this paradox makes for repetitive unsatisfying TV.

    I guess that's the heart of their biggest problem: with a recursive time travel there are no real consequences for failure and reasons to believe that any eventual victory won't be undone.    … Expand
  4. talonps1
    Jan 30, 2016
    5
    I rate it a 5 just because the attempt at making this series and some of the actors are deserving. Besides that positive statement, the rest of the show is just lame. To put lame in context, if you've watched Arrow or Flash then wow, shocker you've seen 99.9% of this show already. Its CW cookie cutter programming, nothing more.
    Now, if they can possibly slow down and actually take their    I rate it a 5 just because the attempt at making this series and some of the actors are deserving. Besides that positive statement, the rest of the show is just lame. To put lame in context, if you've watched Arrow or Flash then wow, shocker you've seen 99.9% of this show already. Its CW cookie cutter programming, nothing more.
    Now, if they can possibly slow down and actually take their time with this series, it might be better than the two for mentioned. If not, then it;ll be one huge hyperactive, frenzied, disjointed, hectic hot mess that will never accumulate into anyone liking or rooting for any of the heroes.
    And oh yeah...some on needs to tell whomever is in charge, when a freeze ray hits a target they're suppose to freeze (watch the Avengers style group battle scenes against multiple opponents. Anyone hit with the freeze or heat gun never burns nor freezes. It's the age old 'tv people treat watchers like idiots')    … Expand
  5. OmegaDerektive
    Jun 9, 2016
    4
    *slight spoilers include for a show you probably shouldn't watch *

    Good time travel stories are hard to do, but watching Legends of Tomorrow I sometimes get the sense the writers are trying hard to make the show fail. The show has an interesting premise that is immediately made challenging by the nature of time travel stories. It tries to establish its own rules of time travel as all    *slight spoilers include for a show you probably shouldn't watch *

    Good time travel stories are hard to do, but watching Legends of Tomorrow I sometimes get the sense the writers are trying hard to make the show fail.

    The show has an interesting premise that is immediately made challenging by the nature of time travel stories. It tries to establish its own rules of time travel as all such stories do. The two most prominent are "Time wants to happen" and "We can't interfere in events we've already taken part in" or "Time solidifies around events and they become permanent". WHAT? Don't worry if you can't remember them though - the show can't seem to remember any sort of logic even one scene from the next.

    Just about every episode one of the characters will ask, "Hey, why don't we just do X?" and someone else will answer, "Because reasons" where "reasons" are some contrived nonsensical BS.

    You will probably get the most enjoyment from this show if you meet two criteria. 1 You are familiar with time travel stories, and all the interesting causality paradoxes, time loops, and discussions of fate and destiny they can spur. 2 You enjoy hate watching shows that miserably fail to come anywhere close to the potential of the time travel genre.

    If you meet those two criteria you will absolutely love this show, and get an ego boost from the (correct) belief you could do a better job writing it.

    I'd like to point a few specific types of "logic" the show uses from week to week that seem like something a 6th grader came up with before being given an F on a writing assignment.

    1- The villain the show centers around, Vandal Savage, is immortal. He can only be completely killed in a very specific manner the heroes are still trying to get the means to accomplish. Otherwise, he's just gonna regenerate like Wolverine only we never get to see that because of the dreaded SFX budget demons. But on more than one occasion they've had him completely helpless and incapacitated only to walk away and leave him alone. WHY? The characters should just drag his lifeless body aboard their time ship in chains, and let him regenerate in a cell while they take all the time they need to arrange his execution. Or they could dump him in concrete on the bottom of the ocean, shoot him into the sun, or leave him drifting in the far reaches of space. All things the show establishes are within their power but no one ever seems to think of.

    2- "We don't know where in time Vandal Savage is!" The formula of the show is the heroes go looking for Savage at some location in a point in time based on a clue. They find him, try to defeat him, fail miserably, and leave. Do they use their knowledge of his location to help them next time, like by going back in time a week or two and getting him with the element of surprise? Nope. They start all over again to try and find him, going farther and farther into the future when Savage already knows who they are and that they're out to get him.

    3- Rip Hunter, the former time master who assembled the group, is a complete moron with ethics more questionable than a pedo bear priest. He goes against his entire order and everything he's sworn to uphold to stop Savage in order to save his wife and son. He could just use his knowledge of future events and advanced technology to save his family in any number of ways but that would be too easy I guess. So instead he assembles a team of B and C list super heroes to erase Savage from history and completely altering the time line, all the while saying over and over again - "You can't do that! We need to protect the timeline"

    On top of that, on two occasions now he's hesitated or flat out refused to kill single individuals in his quest to stop the rise to power of an immortal Hitler, minus the mustache. So Rip Hunter is willing to completely abandon his ideals and all he's sworn to uphold, but to kill someone he already knows is going to do something terrible and aid in the rise of future Hitler before they actually do it - THATS CROSSING THE LINE!

    I'm watching the show because of the completionist in me wants to know everything that happens in the shared universe between Arrow and The Flash, and that's the only basis I could recommend this show to anyone. It's not absolutely terrible, but boy oh boy it sure is bad. It could probably be improved drastically for the second season, but it probably shouldn't get a second season either.

    If I had to say one thing about the show that's really good, it's the performance of the actor playing Vandal Savage. He's perfectly cast and really gets across the menace and intimidation a good villain should. I wondered why I haven't seen him in more stuff and looked him up - he's a danish actor. He plays his part so well you can almost understand when he beats the inept heroes week after week. Then you remember all the plot holes...    … Expand
  6. WJS
    Jan 21, 2016
    6
    There's a certain overwrought charm to this well cast but wildly uneven tale. It's like The Avengers meet Dr. Who all in the DC universe. It a great show when its dealing with the action scenes, but the melodramatic expositional dialogue really doesn't work and it's not nearly as entertaining as The Flash or Arrow which it's been spun off from. Hopefully, with time it will improve.
  7. georgejcoles
    Apr 19, 2016
    6
    All I'm going to say is the guy who uses the ice gun has the most ridiculous and absurd one liners and way of speaking it makes the entire show rather comical. The show as a whole is somehow getting a little better as it progresses though.
  8. mbig
    Jan 22, 2016
    4
    The action sequences and special effects are pretty good for a tv show considering limited budgets the producers have to think about. The acting is acceptable, i guess, considering what the actors have to work with but the dialogues leave a lot to be desired. I'll be looking at the
    next 2 or 3 episodes to see if there are improvements. I'm kinda hoping this gets better because there is    The action sequences and special effects are pretty good for a tv show considering limited budgets the producers have to think about. The acting is acceptable, i guess, considering what the actors have to work with but the dialogues leave a lot to be desired. I'll be looking at the
    next 2 or 3 episodes to see if there are improvements. I'm kinda hoping this gets better because there is potential here. Until they do i can't give this show a passing grade.    … Expand
  9. morninstar
    Mar 8, 2016
    4
    If only I had written this review before the latest episode of this show aired, my rating of the show would have been two points higher. The seventh episode of this season did not impress me at all. The show, as a whole is pretty alright. Good cast, decent premise, and a great mix of characters, as long as they don't delve into Rip Hunter's backstory. I get that he wants to keep his familyIf only I had written this review before the latest episode of this show aired, my rating of the show would have been two points higher. The seventh episode of this season did not impress me at all. The show, as a whole is pretty alright. Good cast, decent premise, and a great mix of characters, as long as they don't delve into Rip Hunter's backstory. I get that he wants to keep his family from dying, but I don't buy the chemistry between him and his wife, that's the only turn off for me as far as the show is concerned.… Expand
  10. cherold
    Feb 4, 2016
    6
    The pilot for this show was promising. It seemed like a pretty good premise, in spite of stuff that didn't make much sense like bringing along dangerous criminals (still waiting for an explanation of that). But the second episode was quite dull, and the special effects were pretty bad, even for television, so I think I'm done.
  11. Gopego
    Jan 22, 2016
    5
    Very disappointed pilot, it has great potential story background but the script is kinda cheesy and predictable. But obviously we all hope this show will get better in the next episode, but still the pilot wasn't good enough
  12. SwarleyStinson
    Jun 29, 2016
    6
    Legends is still decent but it's a real waste of potential. As crazy as it sounded to have Snart and Heatwave on the team, 'good guy' Snart is actually one of the best characters. They barely use Firestorm and he spends all his time as Stein and Jefferson doing normal human stuff. It's like they purposely write reasons to separate them all the time when the obvious thing to do would beLegends is still decent but it's a real waste of potential. As crazy as it sounded to have Snart and Heatwave on the team, 'good guy' Snart is actually one of the best characters. They barely use Firestorm and he spends all his time as Stein and Jefferson doing normal human stuff. It's like they purposely write reasons to separate them all the time when the obvious thing to do would be stay together. They barely use Atom, and Ray does normal human stuff most of the time. They barely use Hawkgirl too. Sarah and Snart are really the main characters and they actually work pretty well.
    Not only is it a team of side character heroes, but its a team of side character heroes not being those heroes. It's more of a standard time travel show, heavily ripping off elements from Dr Who (I'm not sure if time masters were part of DC before or made up for the show, but they are very cheesy and he even steals his Tard...ship and gets fired)
    I think the Vandal Savage premise is what actually threw the show off course and if it was more like the Justice League TV show but just with lesser heroes and more time travel it would be much better.
    Of course now that they have Supergirl these characters are even more odd choices to save the world but hey they didn't know that at the time.    … Expand
  13. eagleeyeviking
    Dec 7, 2016
    6
    The breezily paced Legends of Tomorrow offers high octane action and an epic scope, which should add up to an entertaining ride. However, it stumbles with its overabundance of characters and a surprising hollow tone.
  14. Rabidprimate
    Apr 21, 2016
    6
    The show is slightly above average entertainment but still is entertaining. Decent scripting and acting but its hard to disguise the fact that this is a cash grab riding on the tail of more popular shows. If you want to be entertained it will do it and if given the chance could grow into its own but sadly shows that are just average are rarely given a chance to become their potential. ItThe show is slightly above average entertainment but still is entertaining. Decent scripting and acting but its hard to disguise the fact that this is a cash grab riding on the tail of more popular shows. If you want to be entertained it will do it and if given the chance could grow into its own but sadly shows that are just average are rarely given a chance to become their potential. It is worth watching for its day and slot but do not get too attached for sadly this is the type of show to get the ax before it has a chance to step out of the shadow of its parent shows.… Expand
  15. Sango
    Jul 9, 2016
    6
    Great premise, sub-par execution, I found the dialogue jarring most of the time, it's also not for people who want time travel to make sense, but it has good room for improvement so I wouldn't knock it out yet.
  16. lalalalalalaaal
    Mar 20, 2016
    4
    I really have tried to like this show but I just can't. I seem to be completely in the minority when I say Stein, Jax and the absolutely horrendous white canary are just awful to watch. I have never seen the appeal of Caity Lotz. She is a serious one trick pony with a decent blow-dry. Not sure who she is sleeping with to keep being cast.

    Captain Cold has lost his edge, which is a shame    I really have tried to like this show but I just can't. I seem to be completely in the minority when I say Stein, Jax and the absolutely horrendous white canary are just awful to watch. I have never seen the appeal of Caity Lotz. She is a serious one trick pony with a decent blow-dry. Not sure who she is sleeping with to keep being cast.

    Captain Cold has lost his edge, which is a shame as he was a good character in The Flash.

    Also everyone keeps saying about heatwave being killed off. He hasn't, Dominic Purcel had skin cancer and had some time off. He will be back.

    Renewed for season 2... This means The CW will put a crappy romance on the ship (Caity Lotz obviously - cringe). I really do not know where this show is going - it appears aimless.    … Expand
  17. TheWarDoctor
    Jul 3, 2018
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. They brought back Leonard Snart! Only to absolutely ruin his character! Come on CW. Really? Completely different ideals and viewpoints? An honest, hardworking person? A therapist who uses a puppet to help the team cope with a death in the family? Trying to make Mick go through 30 hours with no alcohol? And that's just a few episodes! Yes, I know he's from another dimension where everything is different, but it just isn't right no matter how I look at it! And what's more, no CaptainCanary?! But y doh?! Not to mention Rip Hunter being an absolute dick in the beginning of the show. Aside from that, it's not too bad. But honestly, I'm watching it for closure, and it's starting to turn into my least favorite among the Arrowverse.… Expand
  18. pur__0_0__
    Sep 21, 2021
    6
    I had begun watching the show after hearing how it is different from the other Arrowverse shows. But honestly I can't say the same about the first season. Seeing it made me think everyone was exaggerating. The first episode itself it had the same problem that plagues all the Arrowverse shows: The character conflict happened because Rip Hunter kept a secret about the characters being knownI had begun watching the show after hearing how it is different from the other Arrowverse shows. But honestly I can't say the same about the first season. Seeing it made me think everyone was exaggerating. The first episode itself it had the same problem that plagues all the Arrowverse shows: The character conflict happened because Rip Hunter kept a secret about the characters being known as legends in the future. He could have told the truth too, it wouldn't have mattered. The season introduced a pretty cool cast of underrated DC characters like Atom, Captain Cold, Firestorm and my personal favourite, Heatwave. The show is meant to show them as time travellers who go in different timelines and screw things up. In this season, however, they have a pretty rocky start. In fact after reaching Season 3 I already forgot about this one.… Expand

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Metascore
58

Mixed or average reviews - based on 22 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 22
  3. Negative: 0 out of 22
  1. TVLine
    Reviewed by: Matt Webb Mitovich
    Apr 6, 2016
    75
    In actual practice, Hunter’s invitation necessitates a great deal of discussion and debate. ... But once said conversations have been had, after the i’s are dotted and t’s crossed, the times ahead promise to be spread across the ages and a whole lotta fun.
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  2. Colorado Springs Gazette
    Reviewed by: Terry Terrones
    Apr 6, 2016
    42
    Cheesy dialogue, poorly choreographed fight scenes and weak characters can’t be hidden by this series’ impressive CGI budget.
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  3. The Salt Lake Tribune
    Reviewed by: Scott D. Pierce
    Jan 28, 2016
    50
    My basic reaction is--meh.... The show suffers from the illogic of time travel. (Why not go back to when Vandal Savage was born and either kill him or set him on the right path?) And it suffers from too many characters and not enough plot to go around.
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