DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Premiere Review (Spoilers)

As many of you know, the DC TV universe is growing. First there was Arrow, next there was The Flash. Now we have the show Legends of Tomorrow.

Last Wednesday, the newest addition to the DC TV universe premiered. It starts off with quite a battle, taking place in London in the year 2166. It sets up the storyline of why Rip Hunter, a Time Master, wants to travel back in time pretty quickly, meaning the story moves right into the real action. In the beginning, we quickly meet Gideon, the A.I. that controls the time-traveling ship commandeered by Rip. Fans of the show The Flash will recognize Gideon as the A.I. hidden in Star Labs, supposedly created by Barry Allen in the future. What does this say about Barry’s possible involvement with the Time Masters? In addition, we get to see several familiar faces. From Arrow, Ray Palmer (or the Atom) and Sarah Lance (a.k.a. White Canary) are recruited. From The Flash, Rip recruits Martin Stein and Jefferson Jackson (who combine to form Firestorm), and Leonard Snart and Mick Rory (who are respectively known as Captain Cold and Heatwave). Finally, we have Kendra Saunders and Carter Hall, the reincarnated Hawkgirl and Hawkman. It’s interesting to see this series bring these characters together, as they have been pretty neglected on their respective shows. I personally think with all the time jumping we’ll get to meet even more DC heroes who haven’t appeared in the TV universe. After being brought together by Rip Hunter, the team decides to help. It touches on something deep during the recruitment process. It is revealed that the hero’s lives are worthless. They mean nothing to history, or to the fate of the timeline. But the group rallies around the fact that they used to be worthless, and in this new future they are trying to create, they can mean something.

I think the episode ended with a great message: that you can control your own destiny. Not only that, but I am very excited to see the next episode this Wednesday, because this episode ends with a cliffhanger: Vandal Savage stands in a Norwegian military base in the 1970’s, ravaged by some “unknown” force. He starts to speak a monologue about how humans keep inventing new ways to destroy themselves, one war at a time, then opens a crate with what appears to be a nuclear weapon.