a5c7b9f00b Time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter has to recruit a rag-tag team of heroes and villains to help prevent an apocalypse that could impact not only Earth, but all of time. When heroes alone are not enough… the world needs legends. Having seen the future, Rip Hunter will desperately try to prevent certain events from happening, by time-traveling; Now Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a desperate group of heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat - not only is the planet at stake, but our timeline itself. The Great Question being asked here is can this ragtag team defeat an immortal threat unlike anything they have ever known? Apart from having near poor actors (except Captain Cold), the show lacks good writing and scripts. I understand that a you cannot expect complete sense from a science fiction and that too from a time traveling one. However what I don't understand is how come, if merely by not attaining a party can vanish the ring off professor Stein's finger, then doing all the fancy fighting in cowboy era doesn't set anything or affect anything in the future. <br/><br/>The writers, in pure negligence/laziness or probably due to lack of understanding, are using all time travel and science mambo-jumbo to suite their needs which are contradictory and making no sense even from the standards of fiction. <br/><br/>Certain mistakes like "prince Khufu" being called "carter" and "Chay- Ara" being called "Kendra" across different incarnations is the proof lazy writing.<br/><br/>I never had any expectations from this one but this might have spoiled the entire Flash/Arrow world for me. I hope however that they don'g bring back the dead Canary in the Arrow now. UPDATE: I've continued watching this for the second season and it's gone downhill as far as the writing goes. The plots are getting thinner and the characters have become cardboard cutouts. Dominic Purcell is still pulling off some amazing scenes considering how poorly his character is being written but other good actors like Victor Garber are flailing with the dismal dialogue. I'm downgrading it from a 7 to a 6.<br/><br/>First Season; This is wonderfully over-dramatic and insanely convoluted with gaps in logic and reason. It's a comic book come-to-life. If you've tuned in for award-winning acting and realism, you're not finding it here and you're kind of crazy for thinking you would.<br/><br/>For me, it's fun, energetic and full of inside geek jokes. It's also a bit heavy-handed with the 'redemption/friendship' themes but this is pretty standard in superhero stuff.<br/><br/>If you follow Arrow or Flash, this is going to feel very familiar. Many of the characters were introduced on those shows and the productions are all filmed in Vancouver so they have a similar vibe to them.<br/><br/>My only real complaint about the show is that the 'captain' isn't particularly likable. It feels like they've tried to cross Dr. Who with Indiana Jones but he can't quite pull it off.<br/><br/>Marvel Comics has set the bar very high with Joss Weadon at the helm and this doesn't compete on the same level but it's still entertaining.
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