LEGENDS OF TOMORROW Season 3 Adds AMERICAN ODYSSEY Actress Tala Ashe As Zari Adrianna Tomaz/Isis

LEGENDS OF TOMORROW Season 3 Adds AMERICAN ODYSSEY Actress Tala Ashe As Zari Adrianna Tomaz/Isis

Tala Ashe has joined the third season of The CW's Legends of Tomorrow as Zari Adrianna Tomaz, also known as DC Comics' Isis. The show will take some liberties with the character's origins, however.

By MarkCassidy - Jun 06, 2017 10:06 AM EST
Filed Under: Legends of Tomorrow
Though she may not actually be referred to as Isis on the show (for obvious reasons), Zari Adrianna Tomaz is coming to Legends of Tomorrow for The CW show's upcoming third season.

According to Deadline, Tala Ashe (American Odyssey, Smash, Law and Order) will portray a very different incarnation of the character that was first introduced in DC Comics as Black Adam's wife. Here, Tomaz will be a Muslim-American woman from the year 2030, who becomes “grey hat hacktivist” in an attempt to combat "humanity’s fear, prejudice, and mistreatment of the planet."

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow will return to The CW Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET this fall.
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ManDeth
ManDeth - 6/6/2017, 10:41 AM
Berlanti should launch a PC preaching show instead of funneling his political views through superhero characters. I don't even want politics I agree with being a part of escapist entertainment like CBMs and CBTV.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 6/6/2017, 10:53 AM
@ManDeth - Then you'll have to stop watching most TV shows and movies altogether. Stories come together from ideas, ideas are informed by our beliefs and the things we think are most worth fighting for. If you're looking for mindless garbage with nothing to say there's a new Transformers movie hitting theaters soon.
Mamamartha
Mamamartha - 6/6/2017, 11:04 AM
@ManDeth - I know right, comics never get political not one time.
ManDeth
ManDeth - 6/6/2017, 11:44 AM
@RorMachine - So you see Legends as some form of thoughtful high art? And Transformers would be better if it inserted some PC propaganda? People seemed to enjoy Jaws, Raiders, Star Wars, ET, Ghostbusters, Batman 89, Nolan's Batman trilogy just fine and those movies did not have political messaging spewing from the mouths of fictional characters. Tim Burton and Nolan didn't lure kids into a theater with the promise of a good Batman movie in order to use Batman as an avatar to preach their political views. Those movies are the cream of the crop in genre entertainment. Like Transformers they didn't have political jargon inserted into them. Indy Jones and Yoda had no dialog bashing republicans or promoting the political beliefs of the left or right. Were they mindless garbage? Would they have been even better if Hollywood liberals were there to insert some dialog attacking republicans in their fight for what they believe in?

People watch superhero TV and film for a good time, not for political sermons on the mount. You seem to be saying the Berlanti series are somehow dependent or driven by political stories and are also better than movies like Transformers because they promote Berlanti's PC views.

First, the Berlanti series are very simplistic slugfests. They are not deep, witty, political thrillers. The preachy PC messaging appears usually only in the form of forced dialog. But you are implying the dialog is somehow critical to the series. That it renders it better than "mindless garbage" like Transformers. That also seems to indicate that it is a fact, that PC messaging is in fact good messaging. Both would be untrue. A TV series like Arrow is basically on the level of an old Jean Claud Van Damme or Mortal Kombat movie. It is just entertainment. And people watch to be entertained, not to listen to Berlanti's dinner table thoughts on today's politics.

If Berlanti has beliefs he wants to fight for he should do seminars. Go out and preach. And when he is at work producing entertainment, he should do like the creators of the best genre entertainment ever, and focus on creating good product that entertains instead of hiding behind fictional superheroes and using them to deliver his politics to others.
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 6/6/2017, 11:50 AM
@ManDeth - The only show that has ever come off as preachy was the 2nd half of Supergirl IMO and I suppose the gun control episode of Arrow a few months ago.

Besides those he nor they have hardly funneled their political views.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 6/6/2017, 11:58 AM
@ManDeth - You're missing my point. Not every movie HAS to include a political message to be worth a damn, but the fact that many of them are going to does not - or rather, should not - detract from their quality or stop you watching them just because you happen to disagree with whatever points they out across. I actually happen to hate those CW DC shows, but not because of that. Basically what I'm saying is, if a writer or director chooses to add some kind of statement into his "escapism" he shouldn't be afraid to do it just because some closed minded individuals will call him/her out for being "PC".

As far as Star Wars goes, you're one of those people than complained because Rogue One was made up of women and minorities aren't you? lol.

Also, you don't think Nolan's Batman movies contained any political undertones? Really?
noahthegrand
noahthegrand - 6/6/2017, 12:46 PM
@ManDeth - All of those movies had messages and something to say.
ManDeth
ManDeth - 6/6/2017, 2:10 PM
@RorMachine - It is one thing to actually create a story that says something about the people and world we live in. It is another to hijack and use fictional characters created by others to simply attack people and promote one's own political, ideological, religious or anti religious ideas. That is more of an attempt at audience manipulation than story telling. And those tactics do work. Are you unaware that Hollywood liberals have actually bragged about why they insert their politics ambush style into film and TV? It is political activism not entertainment. And it is a way for untalented persons like Berlanti and Guggenheim to appease the people with power in the entertainment industry in order to maintain careers. Because they sure didn't help themselves with Green Lantern.

And did you miss the part where I said I don't even want politics I agree with promoted in escapist entertainment?
ManDeth
ManDeth - 6/6/2017, 2:16 PM
@NinnesMBC - The gun episode of Arrow I thought was down the middle but it was forced. I was surprised it wasn't more preachy. But Supergirl went full activist. You can really feel Berlanti's hate with that series and other sites made note of it. I won't watch that series again. The title should read: 'Mark Berlanti's Ideology Starring Supergirl'.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 6/6/2017, 2:17 PM
@ManDeth - I hate that too..when it's too obvious and beats me over the head with it that takes away from the original message anyway. But in this instance, are you suggesting that introducing a Muslim character that cares about the planet is "hijacking to attack"? Diversity and representation is not "PC agenda", no matter how much you right-leaning folks might want it to be.
ManDeth
ManDeth - 6/6/2017, 2:17 PM
@noahthebest - But they were not used as weapons to attack people and to promote a political party while attacking another. They were much better than that.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 6/6/2017, 3:38 PM
@ManDeth - Ok, you may be a free thinker.. but let's call a spade a spade here, wouldn't it be fair to say that most of your views are a little right of center?

Also: "If someone doesn't want to be gay, don't be gay."

Gimme a break dude.
ManDeth
ManDeth - 6/6/2017, 9:05 PM
@RorMachine - If my views conformed to the right I would say so. There is nothing wrong with all people on the right. There are POS on both sides.

noahthegrand
noahthegrand - 6/6/2017, 9:17 PM
@ManDeth -

Star Wars and Indiana jones: Nazis are bad.

Jaws: [frick] sharks. Kill them before they kill us.

ManDeth
ManDeth - 6/7/2017, 11:11 AM
@noahthebest - But the movies were not used by people to attack current political foes or to promote one party's ideology.
noahthegrand
noahthegrand - 6/7/2017, 11:41 AM
@ManDeth - I'd say Nazis are bad is pretty current, an its an ideology.

ManDeth
ManDeth - 6/10/2017, 5:13 PM
@noahthegrand - Nazis are pretty much used by ignorants as a label to attack people they do not like. If the babies who throw around the word had the slightest idea what a Nazi was they would not throw the word around as they do.
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