DC's Legends of Tomorrow: The Complete Sixth Season - Blu-ray Review

[Michael Scott]

DC's Legends of Tomorrow: The Complete Sixth Season



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Movie
With Arrow wrapping up last year, The Flash on it’s last legs (and let’s not mention the continually under performing Supergirl) DC’s Legend’s of Tomorrow is really the last of the OG Arrowverse shows as The CW keeps trying to introduce more and more shows in the universe with middling results. Legend’s started out as one of the worst of the original series (back when Arrow and The Flash were dominating), but the ensemble cast show soon morphed into its own entity and became one of the single best parts of the weakening Arrowverse. The loosey goosey humor and almost X-Files ish storytelling was loads of fun, and the ability to go into just about any time period and goof around was what garnered it’s fanbase. The show has definitely peaked some time back, but somehow (miraculously) continues to be rather entertaining all things considering.

After spending all of season 5 searching for the Loom of Fate, The Legends are celebrating back in 1977 when Sarah Lance (Caity Lotz) gets sucked up into the sky by a mysterious beam of light. The rest of the crew awakens the next day (with a slight hangover) to find out that Sarah is gone, and the only clue is their realization that the beam of light must have been from an Alien spaceship. Oh, and the alien who kidnapped them happens to be Gary (Adam Tsekham). Yeah, nerdy Gary has been an alien all along who has been trying to Kidnap specimens from the greatest part in human history for a mysterious villain and it’s time for his plan to come to fruition. Naturally Sarah isn’t having any part of “Gary’s” plan in the process of trying to escape his spaceship, ends up dumping an entire batch of collected species from around the galaxy back into the timeline (oh boy, no one saw that coming did they?).

With Sarah and Gary trapped on the other side of the galaxy, Sarah’s lover (and now captain of the ship) Ava Sharpe (Jes MacAllan) has to hunt down each and every one of the accidentally freed aliens that Sarah unleashed, and use them to track down and find the love of her life before It’s too late. Oh, and also have a winter wedding, foil the plan of the mastermind (Bishop, as we all saw in the trailer) behind her abduction, and of course save humanity in time from ANOTHER one of the Legend’s gigantic blunders, all to naturally do the same thing again next season.

As I said, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow is definitely past it’s prime, and feels less super heroish by the day. Instead of it almost feels like blending elements of the Arrowverse in with The X-Files, a sitcom, and then blending everything into frappe mode and splashing it all out onto the screen. It’s worked for the show so far, but the thing is, there’s only so far you can go with the same schtick before it starts to fade a bit. The routine is rote, the stakes never seem that intense, but what REALLY saves the show is some of the cast. Matt Ryan is incredible as John Constantine, and I actually have really grown to like Zari and Behod. The Sara Lance romance angle has been worn to death, but Mick Rory (Dominic Purcell) still delivers more than a few laughs as his hatable/loveable anti-hero, hard drinking self has always been in the show.

Six seasons of Legends has been something I never saw coming, but it’s been a fun ride. Season Six may not be crème de la crème in the 6 years, but it’s still solid popcorn entertainment (unlike some of the new DC Live Action shows on The CW in recent years). The ending with Bishop actually brought back my faith in the show at the end of the arc, and season 7 looks to be more of the same…..simple popcorn fun that doesn’t take itself too seriously.




Rating:

Not Rated by the MPAA




Video:

The show has been typically VERY easy on the eyes, and the traditional great video quality is still up to snuff with the 15 episodes split over 3 discs (not 4 this year since there is no special crossover for the CW Arroverse shows after wrapping that tradition up with Crisis on Infinite Earths last year) and looks fantastic. The bright and colorful show has always thrives on varying shades and hues due to the Wave Rider and other sci-fi locations. Some of the historical moments can look a bit artificially grainy and toned down, but scenes like on board Gary’s ship, or the wave rider itself look bright and shiny. CGI is the one weak spot here as the CW shows have never exactly had the massive budget to look great in that regards, and Legends has a LOOOOOOT of CGI (even more than The Flash). There’s some mild banding in dark scenes, but otherwise this is a great looking season, just like the previous ones.







Audio:

Rinse, repeat, regurgitate. That’s pretty much a pattern for most of these CW shows from Warner in recent years. They have always showcased incredible audio, with Legends of Tomorrow always being one of the top tier shows. Action is loud and aggressive with lots of surround activity ranging from laser blasts to explosions, to just the Wave Rider’s off beat pulsating hum as it travels the time lines. Voices are always above reproach for the talky portions of the episodes, but this is first and foremost a superhero show with LOTS of action, so expect it to be a boisterous and punchy mix.






Extras:

• Gag Reel
• Deleted Scenes
• Never Alone: Heroes and Allies
• VFX Creature Feature
• Animation Split Screen
• Actors Split Screen

Final Score: ​

Legends of Tomorrow has prided itself on being the comfort food of the Arroverse. It’s basically fast food sci-fi superheros and doesn’t take itself serious very much (these last seasons almost AT ALL). Luckily the show’s revolving cast and cheeky humor is a welcome relief from much of the angst and CW melodrama that can plague the other Arrowverse shows (especially The Flash and Batwoman at the moment). The Blu-ray’s technical specs are nearly impeccable as always, with the typical extras that all the DC Live Action shows seem to have on Blu-ray. Fun Watch.


Technical Specifications:

Starring: Katy Lotz, Franz Drameh, Nick Zano,, Dominic Purcell, Tala Ashe, Brandon Routh, Matt Ryan
Created by: Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Phil Klemmer
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 AVC
Audio: English: DTS-HD MA 5.1
Subtitles: English SDH
Studio: Warner Brothers
Rated: NR
Runtime: 640 Minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: November 9th, 2021

Recommendation: Fun Watch