{"id":50552,"date":"2015-05-07T15:01:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T21:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/07\/dc-and-cw-go-super-person-crazy.html"},"modified":"2015-05-08T15:45:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T21:45:19","slug":"dc-and-cw-go-super-person-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/07\/dc-and-cw-go-super-person-crazy.html","title":{"rendered":"DC and CW go Super-Person Crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But in a good way. I hope.<\/p>\n<p>Following up on <i>Arrow<\/i> and <i>The Flash,<\/i> we will now have <i>DC&#39;s Legends of Tomorrow<\/i> (which managed to beat out <i>Marvel&#39;s Agents of SHIELD<\/i> as an awkward title), which will feature an array of super&#8211;heroes <i>and<\/i> super-villains, rounded up by time-hopping Rip Hunter to avert a dire future.<\/p>\n<p>It has possibilities, and it&#39;s coming from the same teams as have been very successful with the ostensibly-solo shows. Indeed, the cast seems to mostly be side characters and antagonists <i>from<\/i> those shows, meaning plenty of opportunities for cross-overs.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, this is the Future TV that I dreamed of as a kid.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/113067760031784364231\" oid=\"113067760031784364231\">steph wanamaker<\/a><\/span>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.ew.com\/article\/2015\/05\/07\/cw-legends-tomorrow-cordon-crazy-ex-girlfriend'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/IOupqpFppsPEDPVlNZBc3KcdTaN-uDerZ0LYiWwbw5nGPs8XDGl3kKEpL3lo2FOClF29mfuvLKGtjFmEigr_T-_SF98M0AZiDflN5Cdoj0XFT-G-PLF2kU1ToV2K7Ut8ao67c2NR1lfqjMX4KFN194Rfw48KXPBkDaWBw_QsbcQ=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.ew.com\/article\/2015\/05\/07\/cw-legends-tomorrow-cordon-crazy-ex-girlfriend'>CW orders &#8216;Flash&#8217;-&#8216;Arrow&#8217; spinoff &#8216;DC&#8217;s Legends of Tomorrow,&#8217; Julie Plec outbreak drama, more<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nCW is stocking up on superheroes, giving a series order to the Arrow-Flash spinoff DC&rsquo;s Legends of Tomorrow, EW has learned. Julie Plec outbreak&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/JcEWJaeG1Xv'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But in a good way. I hope. Following up on Arrow and The Flash, we will now have DC&#39;s Legends of Tomorrow (which managed to beat out Marvel&#39;s Agents of SHIELD as an awkward title), which will feature an array of super&#8211;heroes and super-villains, rounded up by time-hopping Rip Hunter to avert a dire future. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/07\/dc-and-cw-go-super-person-crazy.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DC and CW go Super-Person Crazy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,852,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-dc-cinematic-univese","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134398,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/23\/ranking-dcs-animated-tv-series.html","url_meta":{"origin":50552,"position":0},"title":"Ranking DC&#8217;s Animated TV Series","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 23-Aug-17 11:00am","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't necessarily agree with this force-ranking (who ever does?), but it's a great reminder of some fantastic (and a few not-so-fantastic) animated series of decades past, and it's worth it just for that. 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