When DC’s “Legends of Tomorrow” returns for season 3 in the fall, the Legends will have to deal with the consequences of their actions after they broke time in the season finale, and the premiere is going to pick up right where the finale left off.
Even though the Legends will be embarking on a new adventure in season 3, there will be some familiar elements and characters in the new season. It’s already been confirmed that Damien Darhk will be returning, and Kuasa will also be introduced as a villain.
Executive producer Phil Klemmer told CinemaBlend at San Diego Comic Con that the goal this time around is to make sure that the villains have a personal connection to the antagonists.
“Well I think the kernel that we’re going to begin with is Damien Darhk, and we’ve come up with a way that he can come into our show. You know he was kind of glib and a lighter version of himself last season. We want to give him some real teeth and a real sort of sinister presence, and then we want to slowly build out his dark alliance and again, it would be great if we could take people and creatures from Flash and Arrow. We saw the Kuasa, characters that have a personal impact on our guys. That Amaya thought she had this destiny to fulfill, this season she’ll learn that her destiny wasn’t just pure, “I will have a granddaughter who will become Vixen.’ The idea is always mixed. And the idea that her lineage will also, that there will be a line of evil through her family. You want bad guys who have enriched our characters’ story personally, as opposed to just two-dimensional ‘I’m a bad guy who wants to rule the world.’ Our show is frothy, and it’s always personal.”
Damien Darhk definitely has a very personal connection to Sara Lance due to the fact that he killed her sister. The dynamic between Lance and Darhk was explored a few times last season, but there are still a lot of things the writers could do with it.
Regardless of where the story goes, it’s nice to hear that Darhk will be taking on a more sinister tone this season, as both he and Malcolm Merlyn mostly played second fiddle to Eobard Thawne in season 2.
DC’s “Legends of Tomorrow” will return for season 3 on Tuesday, October 10.
After the defeat of Eobard Thawne and his equally nefarious Legion of Doom, the Legends face a new threat created by their actions at the end of last season. In revisiting a moment in time that they had already participated in, they have essentially fractured the timeline and created anachronisms – a scattering of people, animals, and objects all across time! Our team must find a way to return all the anachronisms to their original timelines before the time stream falls apart. But before our Legends can jump back into action, Rip Hunter (Arthur Darvill) and his newly established Time Bureau call their methods into question.
With the Time Bureau effectively the new sheriffs in town, the Legends disband – until Mick Rory (Dominic Purcell) discovers one of them in the middle of his well-deserved vacation in Aruba. Seeing this as an opportunity to continue their time traveling heroics, Sara (Caity Lotz) wastes no time in getting the Legends back together. We reunite with billionaire inventor Ray Palmer (Brandon Routh), the unconventional historian-turned-superhero Nick Heywood (Nick Zano), and Professor Martin Stein (Victor Garber) and Jefferson “Jax” Jackson (Franz Drameh), who together form the meta-human Firestorm.
Once reunited, the Legends will challenge the Time Bureau’s authority over the timeline and insist that however messy their methods may be, some problems are beyond the Bureau’s capabilities. Some problems can only be fixed by Legends.
