Legends of Tomorrow Post 3

Three is an important number in the world of television and film. There’s the rule of thirds for getting the perfect shot, there’s trios of characters like Harry, Ron, and Hermione, and there’s the first three episodes for new television shows.

This kind of makes sense at least.

For a new television show the premiere episode is always daunting, and comes with a lot of pomp and circumstance, but it’s the subsequent episodes that will make and break a new broadcast television show a hit, a bust, or a future example for television students of what not to do.

Legends of Tomorrow has begun to fins it’s groove, but has it found an audience?

Since we can really know exactly how a show is going to preform until it actually when the episode actually debuts. But looking at the other CW show’s that share a universe with Legends of Tomorrow we can compare to see how well this show is fairing. Overall, Legends is down in overall viewers compared to all three DC Comics related content on television, but it’s not doing poorly compared to the CW’s ratings standards. Overall Arrow, The Flash and CBS’s Supergirl all had large rating’s in their respective series premieres before trickling down slowly before settling in at season averages of 3.4 million, 3.8 million, and 8.3 million, respectively, and Legends rounding out it’s first three episodes at 2.8 million. Legends is not far off by any means, and I would even doubt that they are under preforming. They appear to be doing just as expected in the current CW network landscape.

Legends of Tomorrow – Post #1

Pilot-Part 1 

This past Thursday night, a new team of heroes joined the silver screen. DC’s Legends of Tomorrow premiered to 3.14 million viewers and joined fellow DC heroes of the Green Arrow and the Flash.

Superheroes on television is hardly a novel idea, but it appears as if the CW has gotten the formula down to a science. But there comes a time when there is too much superheroes in mass media. In a time where there is so much saturation when it comes to the caped crusaders, it becomes hard to stand out.

Legends of Tomorrow accomplishes that. With a new team of superheroes instead of a single hero destines to save his city, this team consists of both heroes and villains fighting in the past to save the future. Definitely an interesting concept, but it will be interesting to see what happens as this show progresses. With a history of superheroes on the CW, it should be easy for Legends to be competitive in this saturated market.