#waverider

THIS TIME. This time i got Sagaras new ref done early in preparation for art fight this year C:

Face shape is now way closer to what i want, and her shoulders are finally streamlined and flow with the silhouette like theyre supposed to! Yessssss!!

I added brand new details this year, the front view is FAR more accurate and both versions of her horns are shown properly. Ive been wanting to include detailed views of her feet and this was the year :3 HANDS!! FEET! SO MUCH FLOOF AAAAAA. The tail got a big update, the underside of it is now a completely different color, which has gotta be the biggest change ive ever done for her design 0:

So I read convergence recently and had to redraw my fav panel!

PLEASE excuse my "backgrounds" I don't know how to do them and this is the best I could come up to at 1am.

Rio is Viktor's waverider. They navigate the submerged and complex caves underneath the clan's canyon.

Waveriders are similar to ikran and bond for life. They remain a unique and unpopular animal to bond to, as few in the clan have a taste for the dark caves. It's a long way to the more secret alcoves within, and the few places where the cave waters re-emerge can be reached by ikran.

Viktor however is tsahik in training and dives deep to access a huge root of Spirit tree.

Happy 10th anniversary to DC's Legends of Tomorrow!!! Join me in watching the greatest show of all time (trust me, they checked) 10 years later!🍾🥳🎉

As I'm sure many of my followers know, DC's Legends of Tomorrow is my favorite piece of media of all time. And to celebrate this phenomenal show turning 10 years old today (🤯), I've started a rewatch and am going to be posting my thoughts on each episode here as I watch them! Now, I know I'm far from the first person to do this, and I might not even be the only one starting a rewatch today. But the way I'm going to do mine is by watching each episode exactly 10 years after it originally aired. That means I'll take a week between each episode, I'll take a few weeks' break for the midseason hiatuses, and I'll wait as many months in between seasons as we did when the show was originally airing. This way, my rewatch won't be finished until March 2nd of 2032! I am by no means asking or expecting anyone who joins me in this (re)watch through to wait that long, but I want to give us time to breathe between episodes/seasons and stay true to what the experience of watching this show was like 10 years ago. And I will, of course, be sharing my own insights about each episode, from my own personal theories, headcanons, and analyses, to any behind-the-scenes info I've learned from watching interviews and the DVD bonus features, attending panels, and the one-on-one conversations I've had with the cast. If you're a die-hard fan of Legends like I am, then you might already know a lot of what I'm going to share, but I hope that I can offer something interesting and worthwhile to both the OG fans and the newcomers alike. This show means more to me than I can possibly put into words, and I'm so excited to rewatch it and give it the love and attention it deserves, and hopefully introduce it to some new fans!!! 🥰

1x01 Pilot, Part 1

More episodes here!

The episode that started everything premiered 10 years ago today, on January 21st, 2016. Now, I'm not going to be recounting the plot of the episodes in this rewatch, since I aim to encourage you to watch the show for yourself, and no summary I come up with could ever do justice to this magnificent show. I am merely here to enhance your experience of watching Legends of Tomorrow!!!

I'd like to start by sharing some information about how the actors approached their characters going into the show. In the San Diego Comic-Con panel they did in 2015, Caity Lotz stated that, since Sara has recently been resurrected via the Lazarus pit (in Arrow season 4), she wanted her to "go just nuts, off the rocker," in Legends of Tomorrow. You'll have to keep watching the show and decide for yourself if she managed that 🤭 She also stated that, despite being the only person without superpowers or advanced tech, Sara is the most dangerous member of the team because she's not afraid to die. This is something that's never directly stated in the show, but can absolutely be felt in Caity Lotz's performance throughout Season One. And when I met Brandon Routh for the first time, I asked him if there had been any aspects of his character that had been his idea, not the writers, and he told me that he essentially changed the core of Ray Palmer's character and turned him into the lovable nerd that we know today. He told me that originally, Ray was supposed to be a "tech know-it-all energized by caffeine," and that he's the one who introduced Ray's "naiveness [and his] zest and excitement for life and learning" to the character. These are character traits that got far more room to shine in Legends than they ever did in Arrow, and are ultimately what make him such an integral part of the team, far more than his tech or genius brain ever could.

Another thing Brandon told me was that the one moment from the show that stands out in his mind as a moment when he couldn't believe what he was doing was the moment he walked onto the Waverider set for the very first time. The Waverider is, of course, the iconic time ship of the Legends, and it has just as much character as the Legends themselves. So much, in fact, that one of the bonus features on the Blu-ray edition of Season One is A Fantastic Voyage: Touring the Waverider Set. I'd highly recommend you watch it if you ever get the chance (it might even be online somewhere, I haven't looked), but there are a few bits of information in this bonus video that I thought were interesting enough to share. First, and perhaps most importantly, the name Waverider is a reference to a character from DC comics of the same name. There are no iconic ships from the comics for them to use in the show, so they wanted to find something else to reference when they named the ship, and they found the perfect thing. Not only is Waverider a fantastic name for a time ship, but in the comics, the character Waverider has worked alongside Rip Hunter and also travels through time! And while we never get a full tour of the Waverider's layout, it is confirmed in this feature that it has three levels. Only the lower level is detailed, being said to hold the engine rooms, the cargo bay, and the brig. We know that the bridge and the parlour are on the top level, and I would imagine so is the med bay, the lab, and the fabrication room, leaving the galley, the bedrooms, and the single bathroom on the middle level. And speaking of the bridge, the chairs they used for it are actually modified aluminum seats from race cars!

And now, onto things I noticed while watching the episode! Not much to go on yet, but I have analyzed a couple of moments from the pilot, and fittingly for this show, they both have to do with family. When Sara, Leonard, and Mick leave the ship to go "get weird in the '70s," Leonard is the one who insists that Jax stay behind. Despite having no real reason to, he's already started looking out for him, and I believe that's because of his natural protective instincts as an older brother. He's used to looking out for his little sister Lisa, and he wouldn't want her going out with them, so he decides that Jax shouldn't either. He is also the only older sibling on the team at this time; Martin, Jax, Mick, Kendra, Carter, and Rip are only children as far as we know, and Sara and Ray are both the youngest of their family (Laurel is, of course, Sara's older sister, and Ray has an older brother named Sydney). And in a less heartwarming discovery, I noticed that Aldus gravitates to Kendra a lot more than he does to Carter, leading me to believe that he wasn't a very good father as Joe Boardman. That lines up with his character, as I can't imagine he would've been any less of an asshole in the 1910s than he is in the 2010s.

Another thing I'm going to do with this rewatch is keep tallies of things that happen multiple times over the course of the show. To start, I'm going to keep a list of all the times and places they visit, excluding anywhere in the present day. In this episode, they visited:

London, England, 2166

Saint Roch, New Orleans, 1975

Norway, 1975

We've also learned about the possible side effects time travel can have on the inexperienced, including:

Bleeding from the eyeballs

Nausea

Vertigo

Temporary blindness

And nothing was added to this category in this episode, but something I absolutely want to keep track of is how many times Sara Lance has died. All of these took place in Arrow, but by the time Legends of Tomorrow started, she had already died four times:

She was believed dead after the Queen's Gambit boat crash

She was believed dead after the Amazo boat crash

She experienced a spiritual death when she joined the League of Assassins

She actually died when she was killed by Thea Queen, under Malcolm Merlyn's control

And now, for a few things I noticed that relate to later episodes of the show! If you're only on this episode, please be warned that there are spoilers under the cut!