The CW's new TV series "Legends of Tomorrow" has finally released its first full length promotional video. The network has also officially announced its premiere date on January 21, 2016.
Gamespot reports that "Legends of Tomorrow" reveals its exciting trailer. This additional DC superhero TV series on The CW network will join the popular shows "Arrow" and "The Flash." Report says that this 3rd DC series will "occupy the same universe, and will feature a variety of heroes and villains from those shows."
The difference of the "Legends of Tomorrow" from those two DC series is that the team's goal is to stop Vandal Savage from seizing the entire world. So the main characters, the Atom, White Canary, Firestorm, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Captain Cold, and Heatwave will work together with Rip Hunter, the wise-cracking time traveler, in hunting down Savage.
Phil Klemmer, the showrunner of "Legends of Tomorrow," revealed the issues that are attached to developing a TV series that has so many distinctive characters. For Klemmer, the fun is not on managing the characters but it is in the struggle between two opposing characters. "Rip Hunter assembles this team, but he assembles a team of good guys, bad guys, mixed-up people, and it is like herding cats."
The team in "Legends of Tomorrow" is not the same as the "Justice League" whose team are working side by side and very cooperative. With the new team of Rip Hunter, "it really is sort of amorphous, sliding alliances, people who have their own agendas." Having said that, Klemmer finds working this DC series really fun.
As for the 1st promotional video of "Legends of Tomorrow," Wired says that the premise of this new DC series is in the 1st 30 seconds of the trailer. It reveals that immortal DC staple villain Vandal Savage has already ruled the world in 2166. To stop him, the team has to go back in time wherein Savage was still vulnerable or defenseless. With Rip Hunter leading, 9 superheroes have to "traverse spacetime in order to prevent Savage from seizing total control."
Wired notes that this show has "a heavy character investment for a second spin-off of 'Arrow,' but putting a bunch of heroes together in a time machine with a specific mission seems to have just the right tone of outright lunacy."
What do you think of the premise of "Legends of Tomorrow?" Do you think this new DC series will dethrone "The Flash" and "Arrow" as being popular superhero TV series? Share your thoughts in the comment box below.
