The clock is ticking and the finale for Legends of Tomorrow is only hours away. The last episode of season 2 is tonight on the CW at 8pm est. If there’s one thing this show is not short on this season it’s reinvention. But that’s essential to a show that features a bunch of characters who time-travel and have to adapt to different eras.
So what’s in store for the finale tonight? Many news outlets have gotten the time of heads of the show who have revealed a big consensus: major character deaths. Showrunner Marc Guggeinheim gave the best interview (in my opinion) and revealed about as much as we’re going to hear about the finale.
Mashable spoke to executive producer Guggenheim about what fans can expect to see from the Legends of Tomorrow Season 2 finale, why the rewritten reality didn’t affect the other three Arrow-verse shows and more.
Here’s a portion of the interview on Mashable:
After Amaya’s death in the penultimate hour, I’m extremely nervous for the Season 2 finale this week.
Yeah, I’m nervous too.
What made you decide against having this rewritten reality on Legends affect the other Arrow-verse shows? Would that have ventured too much into four-show crossover territory?
Yeah, part of it was that it would turn into a four-show crossover territory. One of the binds that is a result of having this shared universe is, just like with Flashpoint [on The Flash] – which was resolved in enough time that you could imagine Arrow Season 5 took place after Flash 301 – the consequences of what happened in the finale are relatively contained to Legends. One of the things we’re always mindful of is that we love the interconnectivity between the shows but at the same time, we don’t want to obligate anyone to watch three other shows if they only like one of the shows. So for us, apart from the annual crossover which is obviously very interconnected, with the crossovers and easter egg moments, those are really designed to go past the casual viewer but have some payoff for the fan who is watching more than one of the shows.
How did having a shorter order of episodes affect the story that you wanted to tell this season?
23 episodes like we do on Arrow is very hard. It’s hard to maintain that sense of pace and urgency over 23 episodes. But 17 episodes is much more comfortable from a storytelling perspective. I do think it shows in the storytelling because we feel it in the writers’ room. Yeah, short orders! Let’s do it.
Does that mean you want shorter orders for all the Arrow-verse shows, even Arrow?
Oh yeah. A thousand percent. I don’t think it will ever happen, but yes. As a writer, I would certainly not complain. It definitely helps. With Arrow, one of the things that we’re experimenting with like with the B story in Season 5 is we had the Tobias Church (Chad L. Coleman) storyline at the beginning of the season that gave an identity to the first five episodes of the season. That was a little different from the longer arc of Prometheus (Josh Segarra). That’s a long way of saying that one of the things we’re trying to experiment with on Arrow is doing these mini-arcs in service of the larger 23-episode story that allows you to tell a story with a beginning, middle and end that isn’t necessarily 23 episodes long. Maintaining that intensity over 23 episodes is not easy.
You can check out the rest of the interview on Mashable
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