2 l May
2 - 8, 2021
Northeast Oregon TV Weekly
BY GEORGE DICKIE
Season 6 of “DC’s Legends
of Tomorrow” premieres
Sunday on The CW.
And these creatures are particularly repulsive-looking, sporting
squid-like tentacles, tusks and an exoskeleton, which showrunner Phil
Klemmer explains is a nod to the Roger Corman B-movie aliens of
the late 20th century.
“Our show doesn’t take itself too seriously,” Klemmer says, “and
we wanted to make a point of taking aliens not too seriously, and we
didn’t really want it to be heavy or a metaphor for anything. We just
wanted them to be stupid aliens because I guess our impulse as writers
is ... always to come to understand their pathology and to rehabilitate
them. And at a certain point, we just had to come up with, ‘How can
we have just the baddies be baddies?’
“So we kind of shed our desire to complicate everything, and so we
just wanted to lean back into the kind of frothy, trashy, low-budget
alien stuff. But at the same time that allowed us hopefully to find
emotional depth with our (regular) characters.”
In addition to the abduction/alien storyline, the new season will
feature turns in the director’s chair by Lotz, Macallan and former
cast member Maisie Richardson-Sellers as well as the arrival of a new
character, a pistol-packing Texan named Spooner played by “Chicago
P.D.” alum Lisseth Chavez.
After six seasons, the actors have gotten to know their characters
inside and out and Klemmer says their performances have helped
inform how the writers write them.
“It really becomes a dialog with the performers ...,” he explains.
“The real challenge comes from a new character before you get to see what the performer’s take is. And so
for Lisseth Chavez, who plays Spooner, it’s so interesting because we had the conception of Spooner and
we wrote the premiere. But then when we watched the premiere and we hear her voice ... that allows you
to really start refining it, and our actors are just always digging deeper. ... The truth is you could dig in
with any of these characters.
“You know, you could have a Gary episode,” Klemmer says, referring to the time-bureau agent played
by Adam Tsekhman, “and you might miss the rest of the characters but you’ll be wholly immersed in
Gary’s world. And that’s the cool thing about our show, is it has a kind of endless ability to mutate itself.”
Aliens attack the Waverider in Season 6
of ‘DC’s Legends of Tomorrow’
After locating the Loom of Fate and getting back their slain comrades last season, the Legends face an
enemy unlike any they’ve encountered as “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow” opens for Season 6.
Premiering Sunday, May 2, on The CW, the new round finds the superhero crew of the time ship
Waverider going in search of their co-captain Sara Lance (Caity Lotz) after she’s abducted by space aliens
– who as it turns out have the ability to travel through time. So it will take the collective powers and
then some of her co-captain and significant other Ava Sharpe (Jes Macallan), plus occult detective John
Constantine (Matt Ryan), reformed arsonist Mick Rory (Dominic Purcell) and historian Nate Heywood
(Nick Zano), among others, to retrieve their comrade and save the universe from these intergalactic
interlopers.
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