Finished Timeless. One of the best series I've ever seen. Binged the last 6 episodes in one go.
Had a craving for more time travel shenanigans so gave DC Legends of Tomorrow a go. What utter tosh. Absolutely awful, magnified by the excellence that was Timeless. Basically a similar premise: a team goes back to various time periods to thwart a bad guy. But the entire thing suffers terribly from a recent trend in American film and TV: it's painfully contrived, disingenuous, and more forced than a cheap Vaudevillian stage play. It coughs up more phlegmy cliches than a Victorian era consumption patient. Everyone so angsty all the time, everyone is posing for the camera at key moments, like when the bird people start their fight, or when everyone is escaping on to the ship. It's like a child directed this, screaming: "MORE POSING!" I suppose if you like these ****ty comics then this will really stroke your goat, but I found it loathsome in the extreme. Also the opening, showing the antagonist. They show him doing bad things, cool. We know he's the bad guy. But then, as if the audience is expected to be stupid, they show him doing more bad things, and then posing, and then cracking a one-liner. I'm surprised there wasn't a big arrow on screen pointing at him saying: "JUST IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, BAD GUY RIGHT HERE." The villain in Timeless was actually somewhat morally ambiguous, doing bad things but for a good reason. In Legends though it's just trite, with a stereotypical one-dimensional baddy.
Timeless felt natural, just three regular people put in an outlandish situation. It felt serious and believable, despite the premise of time travel. I realise Legends of Tomorrow is based on comic books, but jeez, this is why I've always hated DC comics compared to something like 2000AD. It's just silly. And yet the show is not aimed at kids, because there is a blatantly overt sex scene which would not make it before the watershed. So it's like a kids cereal with a shot of bourbon for adults who have nostalgia for Froot Loops.
I forced myself through the first episode but can't stomach any more. Bleurgh.
I can't believed I typed all this. I needed to vent. This show, and the first episode alone, is one of the worst things I've seen on TV. And they renewed it for a 4th season!
Yet timeless? Struggled to make it to 2 seasons before cancellation. 
Had a craving for more time travel shenanigans so gave DC Legends of Tomorrow a go. What utter tosh. Absolutely awful, magnified by the excellence that was Timeless. Basically a similar premise: a team goes back to various time periods to thwart a bad guy. But the entire thing suffers terribly from a recent trend in American film and TV: it's painfully contrived, disingenuous, and more forced than a cheap Vaudevillian stage play. It coughs up more phlegmy cliches than a Victorian era consumption patient. Everyone so angsty all the time, everyone is posing for the camera at key moments, like when the bird people start their fight, or when everyone is escaping on to the ship. It's like a child directed this, screaming: "MORE POSING!" I suppose if you like these ****ty comics then this will really stroke your goat, but I found it loathsome in the extreme. Also the opening, showing the antagonist. They show him doing bad things, cool. We know he's the bad guy. But then, as if the audience is expected to be stupid, they show him doing more bad things, and then posing, and then cracking a one-liner. I'm surprised there wasn't a big arrow on screen pointing at him saying: "JUST IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, BAD GUY RIGHT HERE." The villain in Timeless was actually somewhat morally ambiguous, doing bad things but for a good reason. In Legends though it's just trite, with a stereotypical one-dimensional baddy.
Timeless felt natural, just three regular people put in an outlandish situation. It felt serious and believable, despite the premise of time travel. I realise Legends of Tomorrow is based on comic books, but jeez, this is why I've always hated DC comics compared to something like 2000AD. It's just silly. And yet the show is not aimed at kids, because there is a blatantly overt sex scene which would not make it before the watershed. So it's like a kids cereal with a shot of bourbon for adults who have nostalgia for Froot Loops.
I forced myself through the first episode but can't stomach any more. Bleurgh.
I can't believed I typed all this. I needed to vent. This show, and the first episode alone, is one of the worst things I've seen on TV. And they renewed it for a 4th season!
Yet timeless? Struggled to make it to 2 seasons before cancellation.
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