DC's Legends of Tomorrow: Their Time Is Now

Apart from my disgust at the direction of this series, I have to say, I can't stand Sara's voice! Do that species of not mainstream people have to adopt that voice?

This show had promise - for the first 20 minutes of the first episode, but after that, the motto, "Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here," kept running thru my mind and I could not turn it off. I stuck it out for 8 episodes, ("Hope springs Eternal") but once again yet another CW show falls victim to excruciatingly poor writing. I'd guess the writing is around the level of a 15 year old, except when they are fighting. Then it drops down to what I remember myself being at 12 and playing Cowboys and Indians. I liked it best when the Indians won, and in this show, well...

The show centers around time travel and the Time Masters, a group who watch over various time periods. So, this should be cool to have people travel thru time, yes? Shouldn't be too hard to make it interesting. No fear. It's not.

There is the customary genius (Victor Garber), the customary Angry Men, and two women, one of whom is an assassin, and the other can, thru a totem she wears, take on the powers of whatever animal she mentally envisions.

The story lines are decent, but one wonders if anyone took acting classes. Each person runs the entire gamut of emotion from A to B, as Dorothy Parker once said of a performance by Katharine Hepburn (look 'er. up if you're that young). That is to say, not much range. The travels thru time never include adapting the speech of the times, and oddly enough, the local people- no matter what century - seem to also speak in 20th century English. This lessens the ability to suspend disbelief. In fact, if you turn the volume off and just watch the expressions, you'd be able to tell the plot just by their actions. I hope to, one day, actually watch a show on CW that doesn't remind me of watching and listening to a group of adolescents. But this is not that show.

I watched up to ep.16 Below average acting, mindbendingly woeful scripts, awful production, CGI circa 1991. I kept watching in the hope it would get better....

Wentworth Miller is cringe inducingly awful. Even Stephen Amells cameo as Arrow cant save this show.

So much potential.... shame

Everyone is better off watching the Marvel flagship show, Agents of Shield.

Its infinitely better in just about every way. I cant help thinking this show would have been better as a cartoon.

I hate the so-called heroes will never sink to felons' level. Shut up all that. It seems to me that (in movies) someone or many have to die before such heroes prevail which he/she should have done in the beginning to stop the threats. In life, everything every action must to chosen between to do or not to do or to do something else. If a hero cannot decide which life is more important and what action should be carry out for the greater good, he/she is useless as any hobo out there. Give up so people won't have to have anymore false hope. I've seen many dumb heroes in movies and TV shows but this one top them all. I'd already delete the TV channel out of my favorites.

I was disappointed when watching the 1st season, I felt I was wasting my time. Characterwise they were hollow! The plot was not good either, and they just kept repeating the same formula most of the episodes with little to no good action. There were at least 2 or 3 episodes that were good in my opinion, but the rest were cringe-worthy. So I hated this show and wanted nothing to do with it, that's why I did not care about Season 2.

Nevertheless, I found myself with nothing else to watch and, for some coincidence, I saw its thumbnail in Netflix with the New Episodes tag, so I decided to give it one more chance. Without knowing, I was binge watching the whole 2nd season and gotta tell you it's really good. Characters are way more entertaining and likable, and they added some new characters to the roster which gave a more dramatic developing of the plot. The actions scenes had improved, not to mention close combat can sometimes be very epic!

If you are familiar with Arrow and the Flash you might know sometimes what to expect, and some situations might be related to those shows, but it makes sense since they are in the same universe. If you are a fan of the 1st season of Legends of Tomorrow then you will love the 2nd one. If you are not, give 2nd season a try, even if you are not finished with the 1st one ;)