The Legends of Tomorrow have some big shoes to fill.
So we pick up six months later, and the Legends are acting like time cops.
Theyre going around history, fixing aberrations, dealing with time pirates, all sorts of fun things.
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I will say its fun to see the team wrestling with the new dynamic.
Its part and parcel of our goal this year of how much fun can we make the show?
What are aberrations in the world ofLegends?
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The question is: What did the Time Masters do?
What are the Legends replacing?
Basically, an aberration is the thing thats wrong with history that needs to be fixed.
Thats what the team has tasked themselves with doing is fixing these aberrations.
How do they end up lost in time?
I dont want to say too much except Nazis.
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Nate Heywood will be tasked with finding the Legends.
What can you tease about him?
Fundamentally, we wanted to reinvent the show, and almost treat season 2 like a new season 1.
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When we were talking about it, we were like, You know what we need?
We need a character who is the audience.
We didnt have that last year.
We didnt have a character who was our way in.
We really wanted to tell a story about a guy who comes into his own.
That gave us our whole season premiere.
Nate pieces this all together.
Hes like a time detective.
In the process, he starts to figure out whats become of the Legends.
Hes eventually going to become Citizen Steel and well eventually get to see him meet Commander Steel, right?
We wanted someone who was not connected to the Time Masters, was not connected to our team.
The other thing we wanted to do was tell essentially a secret origin story.
We started off with a team fully formed.
Nate is very different.
The team will eventually be meeting the Justice Society.
How will the Legends react to them?
Weve always said our Legends are screw-ups.
So, our Legends, theyre messy.
As one of the law partners I used to work for used to say, They turn sharp corners.
Everything is done by the book, with precision.
These guys are awesome.
Its a whole team of Boy Scouts, and how fantastic is that?
Ill answer the last question first.
The answer to can four uber-villains get along is probably not.
I dont think Im really spoiling anything to say that.
That said, thats down the road.
Youre going to see a slow building up of the Legion of Doom.
That will come down the pike.
Does that have to do with Flashpoint?
What version of Captain Cold is this thats part of the Legion of Doom?
Is this before he became the hero we know, and how will that affect the team?
I dont know if I want to say that just yet.
Lets run through the characters: Whats in store for Sara this year?
Hes a formidable guy Damien Darhk has lived for 122 years and loomed very large within history.
What will happen if she kills him?
We know that Laurel is going to be on Legends at some point.
How will Sara react to seeing her again?
Its always hard to talk about stuff that is happening so much further out than where we currently are.
How about for Mick?
The fun thing about Rory is that hes a blunt instrument.
Hes pure id, and were really leaning into that this year.
Part of the fun of Rory is seeing him deal with the fact that hes no longer with Snart.
Hes no longer the sidekick.
Hes not a superhero.
Why is he still sticking around?
Thats something that were going to play around with over the course of the season.
But were going to do it in a very sort of Mick Rory-appropriate way.
Hes going to handle it the way he handles anything, which is pure id.
How about for Ray?
Rays got a really fun arc this year.
Ray starts off the season questioning his role on the team.
Hes enjoying being a time cop.
Does he even have a place on the team?
What about for Stein?
Something really big is going to happen to Stein that he probably will not discover until the crossover.
Jay is coming into his own.
This season is very much about Jax coming into his own.
Whats going on with Rip?
Weve got a very cool plan with Rip that I cant talk about without spoiling the season premiere.
Suffice it to say, the season premiere is a big deal.
How different is this version of Vixen?
Look, we love Megalyn [E.K.
We didnt want to just replace her.
Unlike the rest of the JSA spoiler alert shes going to end up joining our team.
It just doesnt compute.
Any other familiar faces returning this season?
Youre going to see Jonah Hex again.
That was very high on our list of things that we wanted to do.
No one else Im prepared to talk about just yet.
What time periods might we be seeing this year?
Lets see, were going to see the Old West again.
Were going to see the 1980s, the 1940s, the 1800s.
Were going to be going to France, Japan, Paris, and New York.
Were really jumping around all over the place.
In the season premiere, we go the furthest back in time weve ever gone.
What can you say how Flashpoint will affectLegends?
Legends of Tomorrowreturns Thursday at 8 p.m.
ET on The CW.
And Caity Lotz will be appearing at EW PopFest along with her CW superhero cohorts in a few weeks.
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