‘Legends of Tomorrow’ episode 2 reaction: Show boss on Hawkman twist
For one reason or another, we have to say that we just didn’t see the twist at the end of Thursday night’s “Legends of Tomorrow” episode coming. Only two weeks into the CW series, the show made a huge move in killing off Hawkman (Falk Hentschel) at the hands of Vandal Savage. This propels Kendra Saunders a.k.a. Hawkgirl into a very new direction.
So why make this move now? This is something that executive producer Marc Guggenheim had to say in a new interview with Variety:
“The first thing we were searching for was, how do we establish very quickly the stakes of the show, particularly when you have all these people who are so powerful? The idea of losing one of their own spoke to us very strongly … It’s always a decision based on what’s gonna give us the most story, and the idea of Kendra losing the person who is helping guide her through this brand new experience of being a reincarnated hawk demigoddess, taking that support system away from her so that A: she’d have to deal with it and B: she’d have to lean on the other members of our team… that really spoke to us. We realized, as with all things, an idea comes up and if we start going ‘oh, then this can happen, and this can happen, and this…’ that’s when we know it’s the right idea.”
As for whether or not you are going to see Hawkman on the show again moving forward, the answer there is “yes”; however, it’s not going to be in the same exact form of what we saw in Carter Hall:
“The thing about Carter is, he doesn’t resurrect, he reincarnates, and when you reincarnate, you come back as a baby. You haven’t seen the last of Falk, but at the same time, we’re not doing Hawkbaby on the show.”
Ultimately, our takeaway from this is that as we speculated in our episode review, the reincarnated Hawkman will be born in 2016, and not back in the seventies when he died. We figure that the show could find some other ways to see him in the timeline. We’re bummed to lose someone so quickly, but at the same time it makes a little sense to trim one person from what is a pretty large cast.
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