EW’s exclusive script excerpt journeys all the way back to the CW series' pilot.
Read the scene and check out Lotz and co-showrunner Phil Klemmer and Keto Shimizu’s annotations below.
“I was so stressed out season 1 [that] I remember it.
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It gets a little murky in the middle seasons.
Lotz had a blast guiding her former castmates through this scene.
“Everybody really was there and down to play,” she says.
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And I think all of them were happy to see each other as well.
It was such a reunion.”
“Because it was a bit tricky because it’s like, what is this humor?
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How big do we go?
How small do we go?
Nobody has ever gone and lived in this dorm and had all of these life altering moments.'
That’s kind of like what the Waverider is it’s just a dormitory that’s been around.
6.Stepping back into season 1 Sara’s mindset was “weird,” Lotz says.
“She’s such a leader now.
I like Sara now.
I like this version of Sara that is more connected to people and less guarded.
So it was actually kind of tough playing.
It almost like retrogressing.”
You realize that Gideon’s got her biases and favorites.
9.Both Shimizu and Klemmer also note how this scene highlights some of Rip’s deficiencies, like managing personalities.
“Nor did he make many efforts to create that sort of familial atmosphere.
It kind of happened by accident, and it certainly happened after he was gone.
It was sort of something that was forged later on.
He wasn’t necessarily the people person that this team needed.”
DC’s Legends of Tomorrowairs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on the CW.
