Arrow and The Flash have both generated a number of recurring super-powered characters who play an occasional role in events. Now, blasting through the timestream comes Rip Hunter, who collects eight of these secondary supers, including - perhaps a little surprisingly - recurring Flash villains Captain Cold and Heatwave.
Hunter is a renegade agent of the Time Masters, an organisation which protects the timestream from time criminals. He wants his eight recruits to help him prevent the conquest of Earth by Vandal Savage, which (if nothing is done) will occur in 2066. The Time Masters have refused to take action against this event, saying that it is the correct course of history. Hunter's wife and child will be killed by Savage in his conquest, however, and Hunter is desperate to prevent this.
Of course, defeating a man who is capable of conquering the entire planet will be no easy task, and there's also the rather inconvenient fact that Vandal Savage is immortal. Born in Ancient Egypt and somehow imbued with eternal life by a meteor, he can only be slain by the two other people who were present when he received his powers. These two have been reincarnated scores of times over the centuries, and each time they are, Savage hunts them down and murders them. Their latest incarnations are, of course, among Hunter's eight recruits and are feeling pretty keen to pursue Savage rather than the other way around.
Legends of Tomorrow's first season is a bit of a bumpy one. The team are not exactly stellar at working together, shall we say, and a lot of their efforts seem to make things worse for the world, rather than better. Particularly early in the season, the plot of several episodes is "clean up the mess we made last time". There are some decent in-fiction reasons for this, but it does get a bit wearing at times. Still, the cast is pretty fun and ultimately I think it pays off pretty well. I definitely enjoyed it enough to give season two a try.
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