Ten episodes were not enough for the enormity of Season 7. Ten episodes were not enough time to spend with Athena, Maddie, and the 118. But ten episodes is what we got, and we're going to dive into the season as a whole, which started hot, with a multi-episode emergency that put two mains in serious jeopardy, and then barrelled into the finale equally as hot.
..with those same two main in serious jeopardy.
Even though things started with a big emergency, the emergencies felt like they were left on the backburner more than ever during this shortened season, with more time spent on character development. That made for a thoroughly enjoyable season, with the characters always being the heart and soul of the action procedural. That's not to say the emergencies were non-existent.
However, with their limited time, there did seem to be a conscious effort to almost re-introduce the characters to the new ABC audience and bring a lot of older storylines back to the forefront. If you scour the interwebs, you will find a very mixed reaction to the season, but when you break it down, it was far from bad or lackluster, though it was also far from perfect. Join me as I discuss the season's details, and as always, let me know if you agree or disagree with my thoughts in the comments section! To be fair, there were a lot of good episodes during this season, so it wasn't easy to single out one hour when there were a few that you could easily make a case for.
But the penultimate episode was a ga.
