DC's Legends Of Tomorrow: 5 Things It Needs To Do Differently From Arrow And The Flash
3. No Villains Of The Week
Arrow and The Flash always have their supervillains to battle in the big episodes each season, but there are also plenty of Villains of the Week for standalone episodes to give Oliver and Barry trouble on a smaller scale. Oliver and Barry are stationed in their cities, and so they need breaks from their nemeses every once in a while in seasons of twenty-three episodes. Legends of Tomorrow will have a shorter run than twenty-three episodes, and the series has been sold as an epic ongoing battle of the motley crew of time-traveling good guys against an evil immortal bad guy set on destroying all that is good in the universe. There will be plenty to cover with Vandal Savage and the complications of time travel without bringing in any evil drug dealers or thieves or tricksters as the main opponents of particular episodes. Villains of the Week could detract from the urgency of the Vandal Savage threat and trivialize time travel. Savage can certainly have minions and cronies galore, but he needs to consistently be the source behind the villainy.
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