DC's Legends of Tomorrow: Season 1

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DC's Legends of Tomorrow

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The CW | CW | Season Premiere Date: January 21, 2016

Starring: Brandon Routh, Dominic Purcell, Victor Garber

Summary: Rip Hunter's (Arthur Darvill) mission is to form a team that includes Ray Palmer/the Atom (Brandon Routh), Dr. Martin Stein (Victor Garber) and Leonard Snart/Captain Cold (Wentworth Miller) to help save the world and it's future.

Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E16. Legendary
Air Date: May 19, 2016
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S1:E15. Destiny
Air Date: May 12, 2016
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S1:E14. River of Time
Air Date: May 5, 2016

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Collider Allison Keene

Jan 21, 2016

Legends is not meant to be about logic and philosophy. There are other TV shows for that. This isn’t one of them. This is a time-traveling group of sundries looking to kick ass and take names (a bar fight involving Sara Lance, Snart, and Mick Rory is a standout), and in that it succeeds. Read full review

Robert Bianco

Jan 20, 2016

Familiar though they may be, that’s still a lot of characters to reintroduce while also establishing a premise that is sort of a Doctor Who meets Guardians of the Galaxy--with a touch of The Mummy Returns thrown in for good measure. But the show carries it off, setting up its time-travel parameters (they can change events, but not ones in which they’ve participated) as well as its hero/villain conflict. Read full review

Matt Webb Mitovich

Apr 6, 2016

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. Read full review

David Wiegand

Jan 19, 2016

The problem is that Berlanti and Co. just seem to be falling back on a template at this point, and not paying enough attention to the kind of details that have made “Arrow” and “The Flash” so good. If they want or need to fix the show, casting should be at the top of their to-do list. Most of the actors are acceptable; a couple are not. Read full review

Caroline Framke

Jan 26, 2016

Legends still has a ton of potential, largely thanks to its talented cast. Before it can realize that potential, however, the show will have to course-correct from some seriously clunky, scattered missteps. Read full review

Mary McNamara

Jan 21, 2016

There is a family-hour charm among the many wooden performances and something to be said for the show's unapologetic comic book overtones. DC's Legends of Tomorrow wears its intentions, like its future tech, on its sleeve--you're either in for the ride or you're not, no character deconstruction or cinematic analysis required. Read full review

Dan Fienberg

Jan 19, 2016

Legends of Tomorrow can't make its characters jell, can't clarify its narrative mission and can't get out of its own way and stop talking. Read full review

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estrada1138

Jan 25, 2016

What a great first episode! The White Canary looks amazing! The banter that takes place with Firestorm is great. Vandal Savage is an epic bad guy. And captain cold is done absolutely perfectly. A great superhero mashup in the making.

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xbestmanx1

Aug 27, 2018

This show is an awesome addition to the CW Universe and I love it so much ! ! *-*

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Lukatron

Jan 22, 2016

Pretty good first episode so far. Production value is great for a tv series, with decent special effects and good fight scenes and cinematography. The dialogue is fun and cheesy in the way that you expect, but still has some more serious moments. The character development is a little stifledPretty good first episode so far. Production value is great for a tv series, with decent special effects and good fight scenes and cinematography. The dialogue is fun and cheesy in the way that you expect, but still has some more serious moments. The character development is a little stifled by the large cast, and there are some questionable character decisions, but hopefully that will change as the series continues.… Expand

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eagleeyeviking

Dec 7, 2016

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.

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OmegaDerektive

Jun 9, 2016

*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*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

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Nobilis1984

Jan 23, 2016

Another nice try new superheroes to bring in a series on the screen.
The pilot episode this is disappointing. All eight heroes are boring and have the charm of B-movie actors.
The only there is a bad guy and you dealt with him a whole season even sounds better. Overall, a weak startAnother nice try new superheroes to bring in a series on the screen.
The pilot episode this is disappointing. All eight heroes are boring and have the charm of B-movie actors.
The only there is a bad guy and you dealt with him a whole season even sounds better.
Overall, a weak start playing on the same poor level as "Flash".… Expand

3 of 10 users found this helpful37

faith100

Apr 23, 2017

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The series apparently is well budgeted based on the special effects and casting. But what are the producers thinking putting in actors too well known for their roles in another series. For me suspension of disbelief was difficult to achieve. I kept thinking about Prison Break ( a series I loved ) while watching Purcell and Wentworth's characters. The arc plot seems a tad bit cheesy. More substance please.… Expand

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Series Overview
Season 7

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  Air Date: October 13, 2021
Season 6

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  Air Date: May 2, 2021
Season 5

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- Season 5 Overview
  Air Date: January 14, 2020
Season 4

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- Season 4 Overview
  Air Date: October 22, 2018
Season 3

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- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: October 10, 2017
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: October 13, 2016
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: January 21, 2016
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  S1:E16. Legendary
  Air Date: May 19, 2016
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  S1:E15. Destiny
  Air Date: May 12, 2016
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  S1:E14. River of Time
  Air Date: May 5, 2016
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  S1:E13. Leviathan
  Air Date: April 28, 2016
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  S1:E12. Last Refuge
  Air Date: April 21, 2016
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  S1:E11. The Magnificent Eight
  Air Date: April 14, 2016
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  S1:E10. Progeny
  Air Date: April 7, 2016
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  S1:E9. Left Behind
  Air Date: March 31, 2016
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  S1:E8. Night of the Hawk
  Air Date: March 10, 2016
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  S1:E7. Marooned
  Air Date: March 3, 2016
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  S1:E6. Star City 2046
  Air Date: February 25, 2016
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  S1:E5. Fail-Safe
  Air Date: February 18, 2016
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  S1:E4. White Knights
  Air Date: February 11, 2016
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  S1:E3. Blood Ties
  Air Date: February 4, 2016
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  S1:E2. Pilot, Part 2
  Air Date: January 28, 2016
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  S1:E1. Pilot, Part 1
  Air Date: January 21, 2016