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swashbucklery · 3 years
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Hi! I have a question for you, if that's alright. I've been wanting to get back into watching legends of tomorrow (I watched all of season one and part of season two when it was first airing, but I got a little bored and side tracked and then arrowverse killed off og laurel and I didn't want to watch Sara deal with that lol). Do you think I would be okay starting back with season three? It looks to me like that's when a lot of cool characters come in and things get more fun
Oh my gosh anon. ANON. Nothing makes me happier than to answer the question Should I Watch DC's Legends Of Tomorrow, I love this show SO MUCH and think it's for everybody!!!
So like.
I will say that I genuinely enjoy all seasons of this show, including season one. I know this places me in the minority of fans but I think part of it also depends on like. With every show I think there's a particular facet or trope that fans tend to connect with that pulls them in. And for a lot of shows, the fandom broadly has one or two of the same facets bringing them in but I'd argue with Legends like - the cast is so big and each season is so unique that there are parts of fandom accessing this show for completely different and sometimes opposite reasons.
I love S1 and S2 but part of the reason that I love it is because my access point for Legends is Sara. Character-wise she hits all the tropes that I love and I just - idk. There are lots of other characters that I love, but she's my Big Time Favourite and the things that I love about S1 and S2 are really her arc.
So in terms of reccing a starting season, it's a bit tough because I don't know what your "in" will be, anon.
I love S2 because it really sets up Sara stepping into her own as captain, and also establishes Amaya's backstory and allows her to take her place as a critical part of the team. It is also the season where the show really started to find its feet in terms of weirdness; if you skip ahead I’d still recommend watching 2.09 (Raiders of the Lost Art) as it really is a gem.
(I was going to rec a bunch more episodes and then I realized I was just reccing the entire back half of S2 but. . .IDK it’s a good season! It picks up in quality significantly after the crossover; restarting from 2.09 onwards is actually not a bad approach to it but certainly not required.)
S3 is a great place to start! It brings in Zari pretty early, and for a lot of people she’s another character who kind of brought them in to Legends. Adding another woman shifted the balance away from Men Screaming At Stuff quite a bit more and it made a huge difference in the energy and tone of the show that i think brought a lot of new viewers in.
S3 also adds in Ava and the Bureau and look I think this show is so much more than one wlw ship and has value both because of but also far beyond that, but IF YOU LIKE WHEN WOMEN KISS OR WHATEVER this is the season that also introduces that.
A caveat: We do not speak of Crisis on Earth X; if you decide to get into the show via this season I would highly recommend not putting yourself through this crossover in particular.
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