On Dr. Who during the Sylvester McCoy run in the 80's they would cut Sci-Fi stories even when they wanted to do them just because the BBC Drama Department had no Sci-Fi costumes but tons of period piece costumes also there are historical sites everywhere in England. But doing Sci-Fi meant making new costumes and sets which on their budget would never look good.
Clearly only the date at the top of the page and the one in the byline were changing as the shot progressed. Everything else stayed the same. If they wanted to create some kind of ambiguity they could have done that by showing the whole page in flux while it zoomed into the 2019 date.
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Damnit, Zari is probably my favourite character on the show.
At least Tala Ashe herself is sticking around, apparently.
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Well, not quite. I'd imagine we're still going to get Zari but without her time with the Legends, she will end up a very different character. It's not quite as bad but it still messes with all the great character work they did with her where she went from coming across like a bit of a non-entity to being easily one of the most compelling and flat out likable of the Legends.
I don't really care at this point about the DCness of it all. It would be nice to have it more steeped in DC mythology, sure, but seasons 2 and 3 got by pretty well without that. No, the bigger problem is the extraneous characters (Gary should be relegated to a small recurring part, Constantine is a bad fit for the show especially now that the supernatural threat is dealt with and Mona can be chucked out of the nearest airlock) and that the writers badly misread their own show by trying to fit a dark Constantine story into the goofiness of Legends. The cliffhanger was cool in theory but there is no way that this show can deal with a resurrected Hitler, Stalin, even Saddam Husein, if they were included among some of the souls sent back to Earth. Last season I would have said that the writers are way too smart to make such an obvious blunder but this season was such a mess that I can't take anything for granted at this point.
Now, this isn't to say that the season was a total write off or that I didn't enjoy parts of this finale (I still love the core Legends, along with Ava - Nora's OK too but I prefer her as a recurring character - and I loved the bits with Ray and, of all people, Vandal Savage) but it was a massive step down from the past two seasons.
Much to my surprise, of the three CW DC shows I watch, Supergirl was easily the best of them this season, with Legends coming a distant second and with the Flash trailing faaaaar behind both of them.
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I mean, it still kind of bothers me, if only because I don't see the point of continuing to call it a DC show or use certain DC characters if you're not really going to acknowledge or do much with the actual DC mythos.
Granted, this show also never had the best track record with the DC stuff they've actually drawn from (JSA, Per Degaton, making Vixen more complicated then she needed to be, the Hawks, etc.), so maybe I'm just barking up the wrong tree.
Yeah, it just really isn't a strength or even a feature of the show so I just let it go a while back. Honestly, while Supergirl has done a fine job with the Superman mythos (aside for the woefully miscast Jimmy Olsen), the other shows have often deviated a lot from the comics and often in ways that are often fairly baffling. Just look at the Flash's treatment of classic villains Abra Kadabra, Mirror Master and Captain Boomerang! If these shows were really going to steep themselves in an authentic portrayal of comic book lore then, sure, I would be annoyed by Legends' disconnect from DC Comics, but since they aren't I would rather the show just concentrates on doing what it does best: largely comedic and unapologetically bonkers time-travel shenanigans with cool characters and loads of heart.
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For the last few years, it's been Legends ahead of all the other shows. I didn't even really bother to rank the others, but this season really strained my love of it. It's batshit crazy and over the top, which I love, but just from a story standpoint, it hasn't been as good and while I looooooooove the chemistry of the cast and this band of misfits we have come to know and love, especially (for me) Sara, the one true Arrowverse Canary, my love of Caity is fast becoming not enough for the show.