Tala Ashe to play Isis on Legends of Tomorrow S3

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Of all the CW superheroes shows I’d count Legends of Tomorrow as one of the most impressive through its dedication to keeping a rotating cast from season-to-season.  It’s a bold approach but one that has worked well for the show as it’s turned in two very enjoyable seasons.  I’d actually count it as the best Star Trek show on the air right now, though we’ll see how Discovery turns out later this year.  Season 3’s upcoming cast rotation sees Rip Hunter exiting the main character ranks for a more antagonistic role while Citizen Steel and Vixen will be returning to the crew of the Waverider.   The newest member of the team comes to us from a relatively new direction for the series- the world of magic, although the ties to Ancient Egypt put her at least in tune with Hawkman and Hawkgirl from back in season 1.  The latest Legend to join the team is Isis- to be played by Tala Ashe. 

1st Details on Flash/Arrow/Supergirl/Legends of Tomorrow Crossover

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This fall marks one of the largest media endeavors we’ve seen on TV since the heyday of Star Trek in the ‘90s.  CW, the kings of television superheroes, will be launching 4 individual series this fall, each one interconnected with the other 3 and all building towards a massive 4 crossover that will add up to a week long event.  This is the culmination of years of work and building, starting with Arrow in 2012, building into The Flash in 2014, launching Legends of Tomorrow in 2016 and now taking on CBS’ Supergirl show.  This will be the third such crossover for CW and, in the tradition of these multi-show team-ups, it’s aiming to handle a pretty hefty task. 

The first CW crossover between The Flash and Arrow in 2014 took on the job of more or less completely redirecting CW’s style of superhero production, making it more light and fun rather than drab and dreary.  The 2015 crossover between the two shows acted as a prequel episode to Legends of Tomorrow, setting up team members Hawkman and Hawkgirl as well as series villain Vandal Savage.  Now, this new crossover takes on the new big issue facing CW’s superhero universe: how do you solve a problem like Supergirl?

Cover Story - Top 12 Rip Hunter Covers

You know, I’m really going to have to figure out some way to thank CW because I’ve managed to wring so many articles out of Legends of Tomorrow it’s ridiculous.  That’s one of the glorious things about a show with as many superheroes with rich and vibrant heroes as Legends of Tomorrow, though it certainly helps having a lot of avenues to discuss the various heroes on the series.  For now it’s time to look at covers once more, this time zeroing in on the leader of the Legends: Rip Hunter. 

Originally created in 1959, Rip Hunter enjoyed a fairly successful solo run in the early ‘60s before fading into obscurity till the 2010s when he popped up in the massively successful 52 comic.  Since then, Rip has been elevated to a constant of the DCU and the comic book equivalent of Doctor Who, that is until Silver Surfer replaced him in that category but that’s a story for another article.  For now, let’s dive into the shallow end and get the cover story on Rip Hunter, Time Master.

5 New Characters Coming To Legends of Tomorrow

At time of writing, Legends of Tomorrow has managed to clear its first major hurdle by completing its 2-part pilot in spectacular fashion.  The team is assembled, the characters are fun and engaging, and the fight scenes spectacular, and the stakes have never been higher within the realm of the CW.  Now that the opening salvo has been fired Legends of Tomorrow is settling in for the long haul, planning a full season’s worth of time travel throughout the crazy corners of DC’s past and introducing even more weird heroes of the DC universe. 

This has always been CW’s greatest strength, a complete embrace of the weirdest and most obscure elements of DC continuity without a hint of irony or self-consciousness over the strangeness of the characters they’re adapting.  That incredible confidence of adaptation seems to be coming to a head now as CW announces 5 new characters to appear in Legends of Tomorrow, some logical like Jonah Hex or Sergeant Rock while other likes Hourman the third and Ma Hunkle are as strange a choice as comic book adaptations are allowed to make nowadays. 

Comics Rainbow - Time Masters

It’s fitting that at the end of one year and the beginning of a new one time travel is a subject of some emphasis.  Back to the Future dominated the national consciousness once more during 2015, Doctor Who found itself reinvigorated with an amazing new season, and Legends of Tomorrow promises to whisk us away on an adventure through time with a mini-Justice League of its own making.  

Given all that I thought I’d take a look at the time travelers of the DC Universe, mainly because they’re a lot more straight forward and understandable than the mangled mesh of nonsense over at Marvel, seriously you do not want to have me explaining the relationship between Kang, Immortus, Ramma Tut, Dr. Doom, and Iron Lad to you.  For now let’s dive in to the Time Masters of DC Comics in all their shades, shames, and successes. 

Legends of Tomorrow 2nd Full Trailer

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.