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Victor Garber is one of the reasons I have periodically contemplated throwing myself onto too much Arrowverse , so thank you for providing me with some highlights in the absence of bandwidth for TV.

Aw, my pleasure! And Stein was my first favourite in LoT, although Zari later came along and knocked him from top spot, with perfect timing, because I did worry how I would continue the show without any Firestorm on board the Waverider.

Here's another snippet of him singing in the show, from a brief return in the 100th episode.

I mean, Arrowverse is a lot, and of varying quality, so yeah, not the best for someone without stamina for those 20-episode US TV runs! (Though also very undemanding and usually pretty sweet and fun at least.) The good news re. Victor Garber is that, because Legends is a time-travelling show, each episode is a lot more contained than in Arrow/Flash et al, so you could easily cherry pick a few Stein-centric eps if you wanted a bit more of Victor Garber. Each one is usually a parody of a film or a sort of mash-up of similar films. The downside is that he's mostly only in the early seasons, and LoT took off in s3 - they just seem to have embraced the crack in the best way and it was a delight from then till to the end. (s1 had some tiresome elements, although s2 wasn't bad. They just finally worked out what sort of show they were in s3, I think. I had to get the DVDs to watch, which, based on s1-2 I was dubious about, but I kept hearing that it suddenly got good and, wow, they were not wrong.)

For the above reason, I haven't really rewatched s1-2 yet, so I don't remember which eps would do from that, but 3.6 "Helen Hunt" ought to be up your alley - a Firestorm ep (Martin Stein is one half of the fused being Firestorm, along with young black car mechanic Jax) where they bodyswap in a Golden Age Hollywood adventure with Hedy Lamarr and Helen of Troy. Teaser clip here. (THey broke history at the end of s2 and had to spend part of s3 retrieving misplaced historical figures from the wrong time periods. The Legends are nearly as incompetent as Torchwood - their motto is "Sometimes we screw things up for the better.")

if you want, though, here's some Firestorm hurt/comfort where Stein is being tortured and a Five times fic where they are all mixed up via their telepathic connection (although that might not be accessible without context). <3

(I've also been recommended the characters played by Tom Cavanagh)

He's less available in comprehensible contained doses, yeah. (Although it is perfectly possible to watch The Flash alone, should you ever feel the need to chase the recs! Ignore anyone who says otherwise, lol).