DC's Legends of Tomorrow: Season 4 [DVD] [2018] [2019]

If you're even vaguely considering this then you must already know what you're in for with the Legends. Well, for season 4 simply turn everything up to 11. This season is really, really dumb, in fantastic ways. The absolutely ridiculous premises, dramatic tone shifts out of nowhere, monsters and world-ending threats defeated in the silliest of ways, convoluted plots just to excuse wearing comedy costumes or to set up one pun, fourth-wall breaking; it's all here yet again and in bigger helpings than ever before. At the same time this season also manages to fit in more character development and sincere heart than previous seasons. Several characters who didn't have much depth to them before get significant time in this season and in particular Ava and Zari get some much-needed fleshing out.A special mention has to go to all the wonderful bit-parts, cameos, and supporting characters, who are all great this season.Unfortunately they don't quite pull all of it off. Allegedly several parts—key plot points—were rewritten at the last minute, and it shows. The in-universe reason for having a previous actor return as a new character is terribly flimsy and never pays off as their new character ultimately doesn't contribute much beyond the occasional bit of weak sarcasm, and them looking exactly like a previous character is glossed over in minutes. One of the main antagonists gets a hurried redemption arc (even calling it an 'arc' is stretching it; it takes about one episode) simply because the crew liked the actor too much to keep them as a villain, essentially causing this season to have two villains, one with a rushed conclusion and the other with a rushed set-up. Given how varied Legends has been and the show's whole premise of time travel, it's not as much of a problem as it would be for other shows, but it's still a bit jarring.The character of John Constantine also suffers from inconsistent writing, especially when it comes to the action, as one moment he's so powerful he makes every other character seem completely irrelevant and the next minute he'll claim "whoops, sorry, magic has it's limits, squire" and contribute nothing. Again, not totally unusual for the Legends but the inconsistency is pushed to extremes this time.The biggest fault is with the last ten minutes or so of the season, which was allegedly another victim of a rushed re-write from its original concept. I won't spoil it but suffice to say it feels more like the ending of a random mid-season episode rather than the end of a whole season.Overall, I can't imagine anybody liking Legends for three seasons but then not enjoying this one. For the whole first half I could not believe how silly (again, in a good way) they were going while also getting in real character development, and if the entire season had stayed on that track I likely would say it was the best season of any of these CW DC shows. Unfortunately the decision to re-write a couple of critical plot points midway into production and the inconsistent writing of the newcomers means it falls just short of greatness.As far as technical quality goes, I found this streaming version on Amazon to be just a little grainier and darker than other seasons or the TV broadcast, but not so much that it particularly detracted, and audio is mixed a little better this time with dialogue and sound effects not getting lost in backing music like in the previous three seasons.

I'd never heard of this series (honestly) but having discovered the TV version of Constantine (better late than never) and then finding out it was canceled I bought this solely to get more of that unique bolshie magician so perfectly brought to life by Matt Ryan. I really didn't know what to expect and hey ...... surprise: this is great entertainment!Pure fantasy, of course, but you should expect that if you're a Constantine fan. And if you are, he's not just a walk-on guest player, several of the stories revolve quite strongly round him and the other characters are great fun too.No idea why they cancelled the Constantine series. Who knows what goes in in the heads of some of the TV suits. After all, they cancelled Firefly, and probably quite a few other niche shows that I've never had a chance to see. But at least someone had the sense to give John Constantine back his trenchcoat for some more magical adventures with the Legends. Cheers to them for that!

Each season I say I’m not goi g to bother with the legends anymore, but each season they suck me back in. This was one of if not the best season so far. I like that they are rejects and damn well know it

Good season

I enjoy DC legends of tomorrow but it is beginning to get silly now. The nice thing is that the actors and actresses are clearly having great fun in making it and this comes across very clearly on the screen. It makes watching it a pleasure and helps you look past the absurd plots ( or lack of them ) .Personally reckon that they did not know if it was going to be renewed for a 5th series so decided to have a lot of fun which they clearly have done.Hope that the next series has much better plots and story arcs

A three disc dvd box set containing all sixteen episodes of 'DC's Legends of Tomorrow.'. This season is not a jumping on point, and new viewers should start with season one.All episodes run forty mins [approx]. It is a fifteen certificate. Some adult moments. Some violence and gore. The latter is absolutely not gratuitous though.This season sees Sara and her crew helping the time bureau deal with magical creatures that have gotten into reality and history. Because the Legends action's last season broke the doors between worlds that kept them out. As this new mission progresses, a familiar face returns. In the shape of a rather different person. John Constantine becomes a full time Legend. But he's not the most trustworthy person. Ava and Sara's relationship develops. In the way real ones do. And a new menace lurks in the shadows...I love my DC, but did find the first two seasons of this didn't really do it for me. Because it couldn't find the right tone. Time travelling superheroics never quite grabbed, and the attempts to throw humour in didn't work either or weren't funny. Thank goodness I stayed with season three though. Because that season reinvented itself as a time travelling workplace comedy [as opposed to sitcom] and became the first superhero show that wasn't afraid to have fun. So I started to like it a lot. We also got the introduction of what the internet calls #avalance, a most appealing relationship, given that the two stars do have great chemistry together and they make you care for the characters.This season, now it's got the format, goes the whole hog with it. And is the start of what turned into my favourite show on tv for four wonderful years. It's inventive. Imaginative. Never afraid to do something different. Such as an amazingly good musical moments. But to say more would be spoilers. It has a decent season long plotline. It has character arcs. It doesn't have a crossover episode with the other dc shows. But how it deals with that is also clever.New character Charlie allows actress Maisie Richardson-Sellars the chance to stretch her acting muscles a bit more than she got in the last two seasons. And she does a great job there. Matt Ryan, as anyone who has read John Constantine in comic book form will know, simply gets the character spot on. So to have him around full time is awesome.This is just a fun watch, that makes you care for it's characters and gives you a good time with it. And the whole season does a great job of that. Pulling off something clever late on also, and having a fun dig at viewer attitudes also.Pity there's no extras at all on the dvds, but the quality of the episodes makes up for that.Language and subtitle options:Languages: English.Subtitles: English.