Legends of Tomorrow
is the next step in the amazing experiment that is CW’s shared DC Comics TV
universe. This ambitious project
had a difficult infancy, struggling through a pretty rocky start with the first
couple seasons of Arrow as little
more than a Batman knock-off. Then
Flash happened and it was poor to
mediocre at first, right up until CW hosted its first crossover episodes and
found they could get a winning combination of sitcom antics, melodrama, and
comic book action. Since then both
Flash and Arrow have improved immensely, embracing a broader and more
accepting view of the DC comic universe where pretty much anything from the
comics is free game to adapt to TV.
So far Flash’s
first season and a half alone have featured time travel, psychic apes, the
speed force, and parallel realities while Arrow
has branched out to include Ras Al Ghul, the Lazarus Pit, and Magic. Now, with Legends of Tomorrow CW looks to reinvent the superhero wheel once
more with their own Justice League.
Now, after a bit of a reshuffle owing to the departure of Robbie Amell’s
Firestorm and CW wanting Legends of
Tomorrow to run longer than intended, we’ve got our first trailer for DC’s
first live action multi-hero team-up and it looks amazing.
