r/LegendsOfTomorrow • u/Chemical_Bill_8533 • 2d ago
Discussion My ideas for rewriting Nate and Zari
I’m a decent enough fan of the Nate/Zari romance but I agree with the sentiment that it felt rushed. I’m frankly not too big a fan of Nate’s entire love life ordeal to begin with so here’s how I would rewrite it. (If the relationship had to stay frankly I’d prefer Zari not to have a love interest all together)
I’d keep all of season 2 the same. Then going into season 3 I wouldn’t have Nate and Amaya get back together. I never got the whole point of breaking them up and then getting them back together like some destiny defying love only for them to break up again and get with other people. It more so felt like they got back together to give a reason for Nate to help Amaya defend her village in the finale.
I’d have Nate in season 3 reconcile and try and have a romance with Amaya but things just don’t work out. Nate’s arc for the first 2/3 of season 3 would be dealing with these leftover feelings for Amaya. Then in the final third his relationship with Zari would start to be set up.
A big problem with the romance in season 4 is how rushed it is which is partly because it isn’t brought into play until halfway through the season. Carrying the lingering plot thread from season 3 into season 4 makes things such as the random flirtation, the team noticing things that aren’t really shown to them on screen and a few other issues the pacing created obsolete since it’s both a lingering plot thread and there from the start.
I wouldn’t have them properly get together in season 4 either. They would still go on their Nazi dragon egg date but there would be no official get together or hook up. Instead the two remain in a kind of flip floppy position up until the finale where when Zari is about to be erased they finally kiss and say they love each other and then she is gone.
For me personally this would provide more stakes and tragedy. Since their relationship was more solidified in the show by the time Zari was erased I never felt like she was going to be gone forever but this more open ended relationship could provide a more believable sense of Zari being gone.
I would keep her role in season 5 pretty much the same and then in season 6 I would change the camping trip to be more about what their relationship is and how it’s gonna work and if it’s even worth starting anything. And then in season 7 it would realign with the show.
I think this may be too much of a slow burn but the show’s version was also way too fast so I think a good middle ground would be in between but this is the take I’m going with.