'Legends Of Tomorrow' Spoilers: EP Reveals The Specifics Of Time Travel, Teases Arrow And Flash Cameos

By Jackie Villegas, Christian Post Contributor Monday, January 25, 2016

In the new DC spinoff series "Legends of Tomorrow," Time Master Rip Hunter (Arthur Darvill) has brought together a group of misfits, including Ray Palmer/Atom (Brandon Routh), Mick Rory/Heat Wave (Dominic Purcell), Leonard Snart/Captain Cold (Wentworth Miller), Sara Lance/White Canary (Caity Lotz), Jax Jackson/Firestorm (Franz Drameh), Martin Stein/Firestorm (Victor Garber), Kendra Saunders/Hawkgirl (Ciara Renée), and Carter Hall/Hawkman (Falk Hentschel) to defeat the immortal villain Vandal Savage (Casper Crump).

As such, time travel is an important aspect of the new series, which will leap through various historical periods, including the era of the Wild West, the Cold War, the '50s, and the future in which Vandal Savage is at the peak of his power. The Legends will use their time-traveling ship, the Waverider, to travel between these time periods.

Executive producer Phil Klemmer explained the rules of the Legends' time travelling adventures to Entertainment Weekly, saying, "Time is concrete that starts to set." He added: "The longer the consequences of that event play out, and once the events of the future are set like concrete, then it's impossible to change them."

According to the "Legends" boss, as in the "Ghostbusters," the heroes will only be able to return to a certain time and place once. "If you try to go back and change something [in which] you were a participant, that has a catastrophic effect," he said.

The ability to time travel doesn't mean that the Legends will be immortal. "People die, they die for real," the "Legends" EP says. That means that a person can't go back in time to tell someone how to avoid, say, getting struck by a bullet, because saving them "winds up blurring the entire universe." And should a person be saved, there is "a cosmic force" that's trying to get things to happen the way they were supposed to, Klemmer revealed.

Klemmer also revealed that the time travel element will allow viewers to see younger or older versions of Oliver Queen/Green Arrow (Stephen Arnell) and Barry Allen/The Flash (Grant Gustin) on the show. "We can go back and see the pre-history of both Arrow and Flash, and we can also go and see what season 50 of 'Flash' or 'Arrow' would look like," he said.

"Legends of Tomorrow" airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. on The CW.