Well, since Supergirl isn't on Netflix Sweden for the moment, better jump in the next series and that would be DC's Legends of Tomorrow. Basically the show where all the side-characters disappeared from the other shows. I mean you got Sara Lance and the Atom from Arrow, Firestorm, Captain Cold and Mike Rory from the Flash. Then the Hawk-people from the Vandal Savage episodes, which basically is the plot for the first season. Captain Rip Hunter from the future puts together the group Legends of Tomorrow on his time-travelling space ship in order to save humanity from Vandal Savage that will enslave all humans if nothing is done. He gets Sara Lance, Roy Palmer, Mike Rory, Jax and Martin Stein, Leonard Snart, Hawkman and Hawkgirl. They try to stop Vandal at different times before he ascends to full power and conquers earth. Which doesn't work since the time bureau that Hunter belongs to tries to ensure the timeline as well. So in the end Snart sacrifices his life by blowing up the time bureau space station in the future.
This causes time getting unstable and people and creatures are getting misplaced through time. A new time bureau have been created (somehow Rip Hunter ended up there with Sara Lance becoming the captain of the Waverider, the time-ship) and the legends are put out of commission due to creating this mess to begin with. Until Julius Cesar ends up in Aruba where Mike Rory is on vacation so they get together and starts to put back time as it was meant to be. Meanwhile Eobard Thane (the original looking one as well, don't get why the Flash continued to use the Wells version) together with Damien Darkh and an still evil Captain Cold is looking for the Spear of Destiny or the Spear of Longinus, the spear that pierced Jesus Christ during the crucifixion. We also get John Constantine (back from Arrow) trying to help this possessed girl Astra, that later turns out to be the daughter of Damien Darkh. Which set up the next season where Astra as a grown up resurrect Damien Darkh and prepares to release a demon trapped in the time stream that needs to be defeated by collecting the 6 talismans of the Zambesi, an african tribe where the superhero Vixen comes from (which appeared in Arrow as they fought Damien Darkh).
Fourth season brings in John Constantine again as the release and defeat of the time demon brought magical and fantastical beasts and monsters free into the time stream. There's unicorns, fairy god-mothers and more. Another Legend is Steel, which I don't think is gonna be a reference to the Superman hero Steel. He joins the legends and his father is a politician or something with pulls in Washington and made a pact with a devil to gather the fairy creatures. His father intends to use them for a theme park while the devil intends to create an app that people download where the fine print gives him their souls to take over hell. Then there was one season Sara Lance was kidnapped by aliens contracted by a genius from the future that intends to take over the universe by cloning himself and her. And then the Legends get trapped in 1925 America, their Waverider destroyed by another Waverider and being hunted by a robot J. Edgar Hoover after they killed him by accident. By an earlier version of the genius they used to kill his older self that made him build the Waverider and their computer that now went HAL from 2001 on the Legends.
Overall I think this is the best series so far. It's completely wild, the legends pretty much does more damage to the timeline and has to fix it more often. Legends dies and disappears and new joins. I get invested in the relationship between Sara and Ava. Rory's whole arc up until season 7 is the emotional weight of the series. He loses his best friend in Snart in season 1, he joins the bad guys in season 2 for that reason but defect in the last episode, he gets invested in stopping the homage to slasher movie villain when the slasher kills his school girlfriend... and that reunion pulls him into a father role. And since he is the last original legend when Sara gets kidnapped, he takes it very hard and is the only one that travels through space of the Legends to save her. Then he leaves the series after killing the villain with his alien children after a union with the alien kidnapper that he had to birth.
And I love all of these misfits of society. They try to do their best, and they fall for temptations to alter the timeline to undo wrongs, but the lesson is always that the consequences is to dire. Also, I like that many episodes are based off movies or books. Also fourth wall breaking jokes like the T. P Barnum episode when they just bash Titanic and the guest star is Billy Zane (you know, the Phantom) that was the villain and Martin Stein played by the engineer in James Cameron's Titanic. And since I watched the other shows first it was fun to see what happened to them, like the Atom that I think just disappeared from Arrow. Although, season 6 was kinda weak in the final boss segment since a genius that clones himself is rather non-threatening after demons, devils and already proven enemies. But since he appeared again in season 7 it might be some later pay-off.
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