Admittedly, adding Stephen Amell as a guest star to any CW show will always boost its ratings in my opinion. The Season two premiere of DC Legends of Tomorrow was no exception. The season started with historian Nathan Heywood (Nick Zano) breaking into Oliver McQueen’s mayoral office to inform him of a historical anomaly which has lead him to believe that all of the Legends of Tomorrow are in serious trouble.
The Atomic Bomb has been exploded in New York in 1942. This event causes Nathan and Oliver to seek out the Legends time-ship and try to discover what has happened to the Legends. They encounter Heatwave (Dominic Purcell) stuck in stasis and wake him to uncover what has happened. The premiere then proceeds to do a flashback of former events where the legends kidnap Albert Einstein. They also encounter Damian Darhk (cross-over with Arrow), whom Sara Lance has been tracking ever since she found out he killed her sister. Damian is the one responsible for selling the atomic bomb to the Russians. Although the Legends are able to stop the bomb from exploding, the only way to do so is for Rip to send all of the Legends to different points in history, put Heatwave in Stasis, and let himself and the time-ship take the full brunt of the bomb’s explosion. What happens to Rip we don’t really know. Has he really been killed? Will we ever see him again? At first I disliked Rip’s character, but he has grown on me as the one person who unites this rag-tag group of heroes, so I am unsure how they will do with out him. Hence the introduction of Nathan Heywood to hopefully create a new kind of unifier.
Perhaps the two biggest bombshells (pun intended) happen in the last two minutes of the premiere, when we find out that The Reverse Flash has partnered up with Damian Darhk (The Flash & Arrow), and when the Legends come face to face with The Justice League! We still don’t know where Hawkgirl, Hawkman, and Vandal Savage are, but the show has definitely lined itself up to be full of new possibilities, new villains and multiple story arcs for the second season.
