Why Legends Of Tomorrow Went With That Major Exit
Major spoilers are ahead for the Season 1 finale of Legends of Tomorrow. Feel free to check out one of our other fine articles if you still need to catch up on the show.
Never let it be said that Legends of Tomorrow is afraid to shake up the status quo. The show had killed characters, brought in new versions of characters and shown us doubles of the same character when we didn’t know that’s what we were looking at. As of tonight’s finale, the time-traveling superhero show has shuffled a major player off the board for the foreseeable future. If you’ll be missing Hawkgirl (Ciara Renée) next year, we all understand, but, according to showrunner Marc Guggenheim, the decision to let the character go was actually pretty easy.
Marc Guggenheim spoke with TVLine about the show’s decision to let Kendra/Priestess Chay-Ara/Hawkgirl fly off with Carter/Prince Khufu/Hawkman at the end of the Season 1 finale. And, after listening to Guggenheim’s words, it seems like they really made the right choice.
The Legends finally vanquished immortal baddie Vandal Savage after trailing him around time all season long and trying to kill him. Kendra dealt the final blow, meaning that she and Carter had, once and for all, won the battle with him that had lasted for thousands of years. After spending several lifetimes on the run for fear of Vandal Savage finding them and killing them, actually having a chance to live their lives like (semi) normal people is going to be hard to resist for either of them. The whole reason Kendra and Carter were on this Waverider journey was to get that lunatic out of their lives for good, and once they did that there was very little motivation for them to stick around on a permanent basis.
Well, as hard as it may be to say goodbye to Hawkgirl, Legends of Tomorrow clearly has some cool Season 2 plans up its sleeves, and I’m sure it’ll be fun to see how they fill the void left by Hawkgirl.
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Covering The Witcher, Outlander, Virgin River, Sweet Magnolias and a slew of other streaming shows, Adrienne Jones is a Senior Content Producer at CinemaBlend, and started in the fall of 2015. In addition to writing and editing stories on a variety of different topics, she also spends her work days trying to find new ways to write about the many romantic entanglements that fictional characters find themselves in on TV shows. She graduated from Mizzou with a degree in Photojournalism.