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I Love The Legends!

posted 6 years ago by R_Kane (15828)
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I’m watching the Season 4 premiere, and I’m really impressed with how much fun the producers, writers, directors and actors are having with series. I’m at the scene where Tala, Ray, Nate and Sara are all wondering around The Woodstock Music Festival—you know, the event that put music festivals on the cultural map—in 1969, and the four of them are split apart from each other, but using their communicators to regroup with each other, and the image on the screen first shows two separate images, then three, then four, splitting every time one of them joins the conference call. That multi-view screen technique was used in the documentary film, Woodstock! I doubt most folks today have seen that film, so the historical allusion was largely a waste. But they went ahead and did it anyway. Bravo.

[–] Xcalat3 (3736) 6 years ago

That Woodstock Episode was Hilarious, I hope they keep this level of fun through this season.

[–] R_Kane (15828) 6 years ago

Who but The Legends would run into a murdering, human-heart-eating Unicorn? I noticed they also worked The Beatles into the episode, and it was fun that Nat knew every one of them by name. I thought that it was poignant that they also worked in the fact that Janis Joplin—Pearl, herself—would OD within a year after Woodstock; and that, when Constantine’s spell called for an item from “a god,” it came from Jimi Hendrix. One or more of the people involved with the show has/have a real fondness for music. The best episode of the series so far was last season’s episode centered on Elvis. It was done with real affection, not to mention genuine knowledge of Elvis. If only the other CW shows were like The Legends.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

I think there was also a lot in there about Cw and their management trying to interfere, like take these exchanges.

Sara:Geez, who died?
Sighs all around.
Sara: Oh, come on. We just met the Beatles and saved Fourth of July
Nate: No, it's cool; it's just all becoming I don't know. Old hat.
Ray: Yeah, we did spend all of last year just returning displaced people to their proper place in history.
Mick: Four years doing the same old crap.
Zari: Yeah, I'm beginning to think Wally had the right idea Taking time off, clearing his head, traveling the world. Speaking of the same old crap, isn't that what he did last year?
Nate: Look, all I know is, Constantine promised us new, mysterious monsters, so where they all hiding?
Sara: I'm confused. We are all happy that there was only one dragon, right? We don't want to be fighting werewolves in the Alamo.
Nate: Eh.
Ray: Well, it would be good for our ratings.
Zari: What ratings?
Ray:Oh, you don't know? The Time Bureau rates all their employees.
But don't worry. We have a few dedicated fans.
Zari: Yeah, Gary doesn't count.
Mick: Who gives a damn about Time Pig ratings? I want dragons.

and later:

Constantine: Sent that bastard straight to hell, didn't I?
Yup, folks, that is some Grade A magic right there.
Ray: Maybe the Bureau will up our ratings.
Nate: People do love the supernatural.

It's almost like they've taken a talk with TV executives around a table and put the words in the actors mouths.

Dialogue via this script site: https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/episode_scripts.php?tv-show=dcs-legends-of-tomorrow-2016

[–] R_Kane (15828) 6 years ago

Thank you for that, which seems to be a verbatim quotation from the script. You’ve either an outstanding memory, or put in a LOT of work transcribing that, or both. You’re right, I think: this was another stellar moment in the episode. I am shocked that The CW let them keep it in, because I agree that’s it’s spot on the money for how The CW operates. Perhaps I (We?) have underestimated this C-list network. Perhaps it has realized that there is some real value in making fun of itself to an audience and thereby building rapport and trust—and loyalty—with that precious audience. Perhaps they have given Legends of Tomorrow permission to “defy” their parent network, and to say what all of us viewers are already thinking. At the dawn of broadcast TV, on the show Alfred Hitchcock Presents, host Alfred himself made merciless fun of the show’s commercials, acerbic comment beyond the best of Mystery Science Theater 3000, and it was a mega-hit. Legends seems to have been given license to tell it like it is.