What I’m Watching: Legends of Tomorrow (Season Premiere)

Legends of Tomorrow: Season 7, Episode 1 “The Bullet Blondes” (B)

I’m pretty sure this is the shortest time that two separate seasons have premiered that I’ve ever seen, and possibly ever, given the delayed production and air schedules. Fewer than six weeks passed between the end of season six and the beginning of season seven, and this opener felt a whole lot like a direct continuation in a way that hasn’t felt as pronounced as in the past. Sure, Mick and Constantine are gone now, but they’re still stranded in 1925, and they don’t have a ship. I’d love for them to be able to encounter either future or alternate versions of themselves, but I guess for now we’ll have to settle for Gideon being manifested in human form, which should be interesting. It would have been far too easy for there to be a vault with everything they needed in it to travel through time, and pursuing the inventor of time travel in 1925 makes sense as the next logical option. Nate’s knowledge of history apparently didn’t factor in newspapers with photos of the real J. Edgar Hoover, and as a result he ended up killing the very persistent lawman, which is going to be difficult for the team to be able to reverse. As I said, I’m all for alternate timelines and new realities, but I’m not sure if that’s what’s in store for the team or more of just their typically irresponsible antics that lead to more disasters that they’re going to have to work very hard to correct.