Season 1 To save his wife and son, as well as prevent the capture of the world of the future by the ruthless tyrant Vandal Savage, a certain Time Lord Rip Hunter goes to January 2016 and assembles a diverse team: Atom, Hawkman, Eagle, Captain Cold, Heat Wave, White Canary and Fire Storm, which at the same time includes two people: a boring professor and a black upstart.
Already the formation of a team of Heroes and Villains looks very curious, but the potential of the Atom, Fire Storm and a couple of winged allows you to turn around good special effects. Local television "Avengers" from DC, whose characters have already managed to light up in "The Flash" and "Arrow". Green Arrow, by the way, also appears in cameo, like some other characters.
But filling the plot with a huge number of characters does not mean that all images will turn out to be successful and interesting. And often it is in attempts to reveal the characters that the main problem of a series can be hidden. For example, when too much attention is paid to the duet of Fire Storm, or when Canaryka trains Orlitsa with regular simply terrible dialogue-squabbles.
Oddly enough, the soul of the team is more likely Snart and Canary than a completely positive Atom, or the sad face of “Nicolas Cage” Harper gathered all together. Captain Cold here is as good as it is possible in the heroic setting. At the same time, Snart does not neglect thieves’ principles, so they and Rory fit successfully into almost every series, despite the complexity of characters compared to the rest of the team.
The White Canary, on the other hand, is notable for her lack of abilities, as such, and only for the skills of the League of Assassins (plus the experience of the first Black Canary). Local "Black Widow", if the hotté, who is also in the "Avengers" with his gun, like a tail of a mare, but cute and cool fights. However, with Sarah, all the non-action scenes are so human and soulful that it is impossible not to mention her as an important part of the team. Even though at first the authors themselves had a difficult idea how to present such a character with a thirst for murder.
However, the bright participant of the show was exactly the main villain. No matter how good the individual members of the team are, the Glavgad now and then gives out such a “doctor lecturer” that at the time he breaks into a big movie at least as the chief gad in “Bondiana”! Savage came out so magnificently played and spelled out that all the main villains of “The Flash” and “Arrow” like Zoom, Twoun and Ras Al Ghul are just unimaginable pathetic nonsense. Well, except that Malcolm Merlin is comparable in coolness, but still a completely different field of berry.
During the first season, the heroes throw along the timelines in a variety of periods: the seventies with propaganda of drugs (helping a young professor to become one of the smartest people on the planet, by the way), the Cold War and the gulag, the wild west and Jonah Hex, “space” temporary pirates with boarding a ship, World War II, and even Star City during the retirement of Arrow, when the hood is wearing something else (the best series of the season, by the way). There will be little Talia Al Ghul, and a horror series from the cult director Joe Dante, and kidnapping themselves from the proschologo, and strong allusions to the Terminator (unfortunately, more often on the Third), as well as the death of team members so that life does not seem like honey.
As a result of such jumps and heterogeneity of episodes, the show turns into a prefabricated hodgepodge and a cabbage much stronger than in an impressive superhero movie. Yes, there are a lot of really good decisions, full of comic characters from cameo to main cast, there are just lucky actors like Martin Donovan, sometimes beautiful plot twists - like with Chronos, but for the most part there are too many snots, dull tarps inside the team and absolutely disgusting dialogue. If you take “adventure” as a key heat characteristic, it is still quite tolerable, but for “hero fantastic action movie” – everything is quite bland.
Palmer irritates with his correctness, Kendra with endless suffering, about how bad the duet of Fire Storm is - you can generally repeat endlessly that the grandfather is a bore, that the upstart teenager is the worst that Legends of the Future can give, and in the end even Snart and Rory are launched into all the seriousness of their "friendly" showdowns, elevating the meladramaticity of the show to some meaningless apogee.
The series turned out to be, at least, not bad, but sometimes too confused, not melodramatic, and sometimes banal and boring. At the same time, the action is not without bright advantages. For example, even a Westerner like me can call an episode in the Wild West one of the best – the final battle there was on top! "Arrow" and "The Flash" look much more holistic and organic throughout their seasons (like "Supergirl"), but "Legends" are good in separate pieces, separate scenes and sometimes just separate episodes against the background of the rest of the sod. On the one hand, this is the whole point of the show to jump from prehistoric times to the advanced future, to try to reflect the atmosphere of the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and so on, but is it always possible and everywhere? Of course not. It often looks by inertia and on the machine in the hope of something good, and most often it turns out just good and watchable. And yet, for now, his chance at the existence of the show undoubtedly deserves.
6.5 out of 10
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