First Thoughts on 'DC's Legends of Tomorrow' Season 3 (Episodes 1-9)

Alas, despite all odds, DC's Legends of Tomorrow are back for another season, and so far I've not really had any particular thoughts on it. While Season 2's finale was a bit of let-down (especially after a strong penultimate episode), Season 3 opens up by establishing a new status-quo - and unlike The Flash, maintains it. Since leaving the team, Rip Hunter has established the Time Bureau to more effectively fight off against time displacements, leaving the Legends essentially out of a job.

This however meant that Episode 1 consisted of getting the band back together again, which felt like a bit of a waste of time. Would everyone really just settle in to normal lives after everything they've been through? Apparently so, but not for long as Sara meets up with Ray and Nate to bring everyone back together and sort out the temporal mess they created. Quite how Sara and Ray can lead normal lives without making a bit of a fuss - given both are presumed death - is beyond me, or quite how neither are mentioned or visited by the Arrow cast. 

As Episode 1 reached its conclusion though, it became clear that the series was aspiring to put all odds against the Legends as they move forward, even if it means also incorporating a stuffy Time Bureau agent in the meantime. Sharpe isn't a bad character, or even particularly annoying, as despite a rough introduction, is slowly being developed across the season. As is Rip, who's become fixated on the mysterious Mallus - a slightly ethereal entity voiced by John Noble - and his Darhk accomplices (those by Damien and Nora). I'm interested to see how they end up tackling this new, slightly ambiguous threat. It certainly doesn't feel repetitive, despite Darhk being a big bad for the second season in a row. Mallus could end up being quite a dull villain, but the way he's been built-up over the course of this first half-season has suggested a very different kind of villain to Vandal Savage or the Legion of Doom. Let's hope he stays that way.

There's also the matter of Zari, whose totem seems very similar to Amaya's - despite the two not seemingly being connected otherwise. I think Zari makes for a nice foil to the rest of the team with her frequent dry comments, although quite what her superpowers are isn't really clear. She got a costume in the Crisis on Earth-X crossover, but no sign of a superhero alias. Perhaps that's yet to come. Zari does of course help to fill-out the Legends roster with the departure of both Stein and Jax - whose leaving had been built-up since the start of this season - along with Leo Snart from the crossover (whom I didn't realise based on Part 4's ending had actually gone off with the Legends). Leo makes for a nice addition to the team, although how long he'll be a mainstay on the team remains to be seen. I'd previously heard that Wentworth Miller had left the Arrowverse permanently, but since then I've also heard that he's returning to The Flash at some point, leaving me a little confused as to the status of his character. I guess time will tell...

In probably the most exciting mid-season cliffhanger of all the Arrowverse shows though, John Constantine smuggles his way aboard the Waverider to warn Sara of a child possessed by a strange entity...could this be Mallus? Could Constantine join the team? Will the next episode of Legends be as scary as the trailer suggests? If the answer to all three questions is yes, I'm all aboard for the mid-season return of DC's Legends of Tomorrow: a fun and oftentimes quite silly time-travelling superhero show that may not be anything too incredible, but entertaining enough all the same.