Before I talk about everything that happened last night on television (and some other things) let me just point out the obvious...***HUGE SPOILERS*** if you haven't watched last night's DC Legends of Tomorrow.
Still with me? Good. So last night was the first season finale for the show, and it left us with a bit of a shake up. First, Hawkgirl and Hawkman both split. Not from each other, just from the team. Now that they were rid of Vandal Savage after the team defeated him last night, they wanted to go off and live free from his grasp for the first time in 4000 years. Can't say that I blame them. But then the unexpected happened...at the very end of the show, a second Waverider shows up and out comes Rex Tyler (a.k.a. Hourman) and tells them that he was sent from the future and that he was part of the Justice Society of America (JSA). Didn't see that one coming. Nice touch on leaving the show with a cliffhanger, though. Marc Guggenheim has already said that we can expect to see some more new DC characters in season two of the show, so it looks like Hourman is just the first of many that are going to be introduced.
Something else that surprised me while watching Legends last night, I saw a commercial for Supergirl season two on the CW. They didn't waste any time letting people know that she'll be joining the other DC television shows over there. It was a good commercial, too. It was able to blend Kara in with the Green Arrow and Flash, like she's always belonged there. To be honest, she should have been there all along. CBS was not the place for that show. But now that she's over on the CW, the network's head, Mark Pedowitz, has confirmed that next season we can expect a massive four-show crossover event. It hasn't been confirmed whether it will span across all four shows, or if it will only feature characters from the four shows on just one or two of the programs. It's way too early for them to be deciding that just yet. It has been reported, though, that it will take place some time this December.
DC is doing something with their television properties that Marvel hasn't been able to do with theirs. They've managed to successfully blend them all together into one shared universe. Look, I know that Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is supposed to take place in the same universe as their movie properties, but even so...the show just seems isolated from everything. Marvel is just now starting to do the same thing as DC with their Netflix shows, but it's much darker and doesn't appeal to as wide of an audience as the CW's shows. They also aren't getting the same ratings as the CW's shows. As far as money goes, Marvel still trounces DC in that area, but as far as enjoyable television? DC wins that hands down. Now if they can only get their DCEU on the same track...
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