Legends of Tomorrow

[sarren]

A time agent, played by Arthur Darvill (Rory from Doctor Who) collects a bunch of supporting characters from Arrow and The Flash to help him save the future and shenanigans ensue because they have no idea what they are doing and argue a lot but also try to save people and each other and keep screwing up the future and then having to try and fix it again.



I'm only about seven episodes in but it's entertaining and full of pop culture references and in jokes. My faves are Rory and Snart - criminal partners who've been inseparable since they met in juvie when they were 14 years old. They're played by Dominic Purcell and Wentworth Miller who played brothers in Prison Break. One time Rory is in a Soviet prison and the others are plotting to break him out and Snart is like 'this isn't my first prison break'.

Comments

[klia]

Rory and Snart are my favorites, too! They're just so great together. I know some people don't care for the characterizations, but I love the weird affectations the actors are doing -- it just makes those guys that much more fascinating to me.

[sarren]

Do people not like the characterisations because they are different to the comics? I don't read the comics so I only know the actors' interpretation, and they are so much fun! I love Snart's drawl.

[klia]

It's not the characterizations I've seen people side-eyeing, it's the way Miller and Purcell are actually speaking and emoting, which in Miller's case is sort of... camp, for lack of a better word. They're both acting sort of... broadly, I guess, and not everyone likes it?

Which, TBH, I don't really get, because those characters were villains on The Flash, so it makes sense that they're still being played with the same delicious, villainy, OTT-ness on LoT, even though they're the good guys now.