I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick.

I don't think you need to watch Arrow and Flash to appreciate what it is Legends has to offer. The beauty of this show - and they do this on Flash, and they did this on Arrow - is that we do spend time on character. We do spend time on backstory. We do take a moment in between the sci-fi special effects to tell you who these people are, so that when something happens to them, you actually care.

My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities.

Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible.

You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.

I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick.

I think that's the beauty of the current setup, is that Legends is meant to be a bit of a revolving door.