Fun
Frisky
Nostalgic
Intense
Adventurous
Choked Up
Curious
Romantic
Weird
It’s hard to perfectly encapsulate any show that’s ran 100 episodes, but how to break down a series like DC’s Legends of Tomorrow? TV’s goofiest superhero show jumps from genre to genre on an episodic basis, and often mercilessly mocks itself. So happily, a compilation reel setting up the series’ upcoming hundredth episode rolled out at DC FanDome did just that, starting in self-serious superhero mode before devolving into a bunch of insane nonsense.
In fact, full disclosure here: watching the first half of this clip, I didn’t think it was worth writing up. Like the first two seasons of the show, which leaned more into the idea of “sad Justice League,” the initial minute is your requisite comic book based affair. In case you forgot about Rip Hunter (Arthur Darvill), the man who initially recruited the Legends? There he is. How about the big stakes of the first few seasons? They’re on display, too.
It isn’t about a minute in until Legends starts displaying its true form, which is: utter, batshit, insanity. There’s a glimpse of a giant rat, a horrific looking unicorn biting Gary’s (Adam Tsekham) hand (it later bites off his nipple)… And then at a minute twenty-one, the puppets come in, and there’s no turning back.
I honestly can’t imagine what someone who doesn’t watch Legends thinks is going on, because every episode from then on — and the last minute and a half of this compilation — is bonkers. There’s Bollywood dancing, a fairy godmother, singing, the French revolution, and of course, a giant monster doll named Beebo. It’s glorious anarchy, and that’s the place where Legends lives. Let Arrow, Batwoman and Superman & Lois be dark and earnest. Let Supergirl and The Flash be hopeful. Legends is a trainwreck only in that they’re purposefully steering the train into other trains to see if they can make the biggest explosion possible.
And if that wasn’t enough, there’s a not-so-sneaky tease at the end of the reunion coming in the show’s hundredth episode, featuring Legends past, present, and maybe future.
Chick out the compilation above, and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow airs Wednesdays at 8/7c on The CW.
