"Legends of Tomorrow"'s pilot offers an acceptable introduction to the idea and the characters of the show, but fails in delivering anything more than just an average episode.
The idea is pretty simple: Darvill's Hunter wants to stop Crump's Savage from conquering the Earth in the future, so he travels back in time to 2016 and gets a rag-a-tag of heroes to help him in stopping Savage. The group includes faces from both "The Flash" and "Arrow"'s shows: White Canary, the Atom, the couple of Hawkgirl and Hawkman, Stein & Jackson's Firestorm, and the brothers (and the best of the bunch) Captain Cold and Heat Wave. Hunter tells them they will be Legends and convinces them to jump into his time machine and fly back to 1975, where they will try to get more info about Savage and how to stop him.
As said above, the idea is simple, and the show delivers in introducing those familiar faces again in just a few moments, and in making us care about them. It also puts the basics of the story in a simple and easy to understand manner. Nonetheless, the show's basic story, travelling through time to change things little by little so Savage can be stopped in the future, is kind of flawed, and it will be interesting to see how they develop it without falling into nonsense and absurdity. Also, the action is just acceptable, nothing special and just seems to be put there to fill some empty moments.
The best this pilot has to offer are the characters, and Wentworth Miller's Captain Cold and Dominic Purcell's Heat Wave dominate every time they appear, especially Miller, who plays Cold with a continuous smirk and so much sarcasm it is palpable. Both him and Purcell can act together in their sleep, and with the addition of Caity Lotz's White Canary deliver the funniest moments of the pilot.
The show could be fun enough, in a silly and cheesy way. For now it does an acceptable job in introducing the characters. Let's see where it goes from here.
The idea is pretty simple: Darvill's Hunter wants to stop Crump's Savage from conquering the Earth in the future, so he travels back in time to 2016 and gets a rag-a-tag of heroes to help him in stopping Savage. The group includes faces from both "The Flash" and "Arrow"'s shows: White Canary, the Atom, the couple of Hawkgirl and Hawkman, Stein & Jackson's Firestorm, and the brothers (and the best of the bunch) Captain Cold and Heat Wave. Hunter tells them they will be Legends and convinces them to jump into his time machine and fly back to 1975, where they will try to get more info about Savage and how to stop him.
As said above, the idea is simple, and the show delivers in introducing those familiar faces again in just a few moments, and in making us care about them. It also puts the basics of the story in a simple and easy to understand manner. Nonetheless, the show's basic story, travelling through time to change things little by little so Savage can be stopped in the future, is kind of flawed, and it will be interesting to see how they develop it without falling into nonsense and absurdity. Also, the action is just acceptable, nothing special and just seems to be put there to fill some empty moments.
The best this pilot has to offer are the characters, and Wentworth Miller's Captain Cold and Dominic Purcell's Heat Wave dominate every time they appear, especially Miller, who plays Cold with a continuous smirk and so much sarcasm it is palpable. Both him and Purcell can act together in their sleep, and with the addition of Caity Lotz's White Canary deliver the funniest moments of the pilot.
The show could be fun enough, in a silly and cheesy way. For now it does an acceptable job in introducing the characters. Let's see where it goes from here.