‘DC’s Legends of Tomorrow’
– Coming together to save one of their own
Matt Ryan stars in Season 6 of “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow,” premiering Sunday on The CW.
After locating the Loom of Fate and getting back their slain comrades last season, the Legends face an enemy unlike any they’ve encountered as “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow” opens for Season 6.
Premiering Sunday, May 2, on The CW, the new round finds the superhero crew of the time ship Waverider going in search of their co-captain Sara Lance (Caity Lotz) after she’s abducted by space aliens – who as it turns out have the ability to travel through time. So it will take the collective powers and then some of her co-captain and significant other Ava Sharpe (Jes Macallan), plus occult detective John Constantine (Matt Ryan), reformed arsonist Mick Rory (Dominic Purcell) and historian Nate Heywood (Nick Zano), among others, to retrieve their comrade and save the universe from these intergalactic interlopers.
And these creatures are particularly repulsive-looking, sporting squid-like tentacles, tusks and an exoskeleton, which showrunner Phil Klemmer explains is a nod to the Roger Corman B-movie aliens of the late 20th century.
“Our show doesn’t take itself too seriously,” Klemmer says, “and we wanted to make a point of taking aliens not too seriously, and we didn’t really want it to be heavy or a metaphor for anything.
We just wanted them to be stupid aliens because I guess our impulse as writers is ... always to come to understand their pathology and to rehabilitate them. And at a certain point, we just had to come up with, ‘How can we have just the baddies be baddies?’
“So we kind of shed our desire to complicate everything, and so we just wanted to lean back into the kind of frothy, trashy, low-budget alien stuff. But at the same time that allowed us hopefully to find emotional depth with our (regular) characters.”