I don’t think I’ve ever written about Legends of Tomorrow before, so let me start this review with a little
confession: it is my favourite Arrowverse show, and no one is more surprised by
that than I am. For starters, I only started watching it for two, maybe three
reasons: Arthur Darvill, Sara Lance, and to not miss out on any lore-building
or continuity nods to the other shows (which, back then, were only Arrow, which I loved, and The Flash, which I liked quite a bit,
but not enough to get all the hype for it). What’s more, I couldn’t stand Ray
Palmer on Arrow (seriously, I even
listed him as one of the many things that ruined season 3 for me), and I wasn’t
at all interested in Captain Cold or Heatwave either: they were, in my opininon,
unfairly lauded boring, one-note villains, just like every single other villain
of the week on The Flash. So pretty
much EVERYTHING was against Legends
when it started, and season 1 didn’t inspire too much confidence either. But
along the way, things started to shift imperceptibly. Ray became insanely
likable, Snart and Rory were expanded and built upon as characters I could
actually care about, and when season 2 got rid off all the deadweight and
introduced Nate and Amaya to the cast, well, that was pretty much it. Couple that
with Arrow’s increasingly dark
storylines and stagnating quality, The
Flash becoming pretty repetitive, as well as Supergirl’s subpar debut season, and Legends quickly became one of the shows I most looked forward to
every week.
