#also i saw that best waverider captain poll. you people are insane. rip is was and always will be. the best.

[krytus]

it ASTOUNDS me that legends of tomorrow season one is SEVEN years old and is still so willfully misinterpreted and regarded as one of the worst seasons of the show. like. the show goes off the deep end pretty quick in s2 it disregards gravity and becomes the "time traveling fuck ups" show but s1? s1 is a perfect, beautiful tragedy. not every element is perfect, and im not saying it is. show had its share of flaws, but the parts it got right? the moments it nailed? unparalleled, especially compared to other dctv flagship seasons.

s1 literally opens with an act of cruelty, an act of senseless murder that sets the tone, quickly and efficiently. this isn't a happy story, although there is joy in it. this is a story where everything will go to shit and a little boy is going to be murdered by a tyrant. no matter what they do, the heroes will not be able to save him. do you. do you see the beauty of it. the heroes are fighting for a better future, an ideal, but the future is the past, too. some things will be changed for the better, but some. can't. won't. but they fight anyways.

its better than arrow's tortured "i have to save this city i have to do it alone friendship is poison" its better than the flash's "grief will find barry and all he will do is suffer" because despite the tragedy that chases them. there is hope, too. i think of that scene where jax warns the father he never got to meet. its not much and it doesn’t save him, but in that moment it mattered. in that moment he had hope. i think of rip trying to sacrifice himself because that little boy who died five minutes into the series is his son, the son he never got to raise, the family that was taken from him and how rip has a choice to lay with the past and be villain's final victim. but he chooses to live. who's up for more, he says, despite everything, wanting to stay with the friends he's made.

ough. insane. unparalleled. legends season one you will always be legendary.