![]() Watching helplessly from a distance is Imra Ardeen, aka Saturn Girl, a telepath from the moons of Saturn. Legion of Super-Heroes – Season One Episode OneĪt a futuristic hospital, an emergency team crashes through the doors with a dying patient, struggling to save his or her life. I’m limiting it to eight episodes, just to make it manageable. Since then, that’s been revised to Season 3 or maybe even Season 4 or 5.Īnyway, we’ll get there when we get there. Finally, I decided to just set the series further back in Legion history, and use my “Earthwar”-based arc for Season 2. My thought was to use flashbacks as necessary to fill in the backstory.īut the more I thought of it, the more backstory there needed to be filled in. But nevertheless, we are going to do our level best to reflect a lot of the richness of the show’s heritage here.Īnyway, when my daughter asked me to do this, my first thought was to use a famous arc known as “Earthwar” as my inspiration, as it covered a broad range of Legion concepts and adversaries. Part of the challenge with the series (and with the idea of adapting it into a TV show) is that it really tries to live up to the “legion” idea from its title–it’s about a lot of super-heroes, who have all got their own futuristic sounding real names, power sets, home planets, origin stories and back stories (and not to mention, multiple iterations across the series’ many reboots). But it’s always been about these futuristic exploits, mixing in a lot of science fiction into its super-heroics, and often having an atmosphere of bright optimism about it (a little reminiscent of Star Trek, in some ways). It’s had a tumultuous publishing history, with a series of fits and starts, and a number of complete continuity resets. In case you don’t know, it’s a DC Comics property which was originally a spin-off of Superboy, about a group of teen-aged superheroes from the future. I’ve talked about the Legion a lot over the years. Well, I’m done with that, but it inspired one of my daughters (the one with the most overt nerd-interests) to ask me to do the same with my favorite comic series, the Legion of Super-Heroes. See, for example, Green Lantern, Astro City, the Fantastic Four or Lost. ![]() Last year, as part of my Weekly Geeky Question series of blogposts, I often found myself (at the behest of My Friend Rod) coming up with plot summaries of non-existent TV shows or movies, or giving my (alternate) take on existing properties. Of course (sadly?), I’m also talking about something that doesn’t exist…. Season One of The Legion of Super-Heroes…the TV Series.Īnd not the animated series from the mid-2000’s, I’m talking about the current, on-going, live-action TV series….
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