Timeless

[cactuswatcher]

It took me a while to recognize the actor playing old man Rittenhouse. I knew I'd seen him somewhere before, but just couldn't quite think of his name. Then I actually remembered his real name, Armin Shimerman, before I could recall the names of his characters, Quark and Principal Snyder. I kept thinking of the name Principal Flutie, but I knew that was wrong.

I'm not really sure about the show as a whole. It keeps getting more violent and disturbing. It does point out the undeniable dangers of physical time-travel, and the fact that if just anyone could do it there would be chaos. The villain Flynn has no concept of the damage his violence causes except oddly to his own character. Does Flynn so thoroughly know his own ancestors and those of his beloved wife, that he can willy-nilly kill anybody that gets in his way? I probably know more of my ancestors from the 1780s than most, but I surely do not know them all. One of Flynn's dead bystanders could mean his wife would never be born, or he himself would trapped in an anomaly where if he's born he can't avoid killing his ancestor and if the ancestor is killed he can't be born. Don't ask me to puzzle out all the ramifications of that!

Philosophically the show is becoming a nightmare, which is both good and bad. (Where is Masq when we need her?) I just don't know with real world stuff going on that I can personally take much more of it. ;o)

Comments

[ann1962]

I fell asleep watching it last night. I think as the actors get more comfortable with their characters, the stories just repeat and don't seem to be building toward anything other than more chaos. I'm sure they have an endgame, and since they haven't changed up the "current" timeline in a while (assuming they didn't while I was asleep) they probably are heading toward that for the season end.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

It's part of the reason my interest in it is waning, along with Frequency. If it is too dark and depressing...I can't watch. Although oddly, Westworld is working for me at the moment -- maybe because it's a Western/Sci-Fi that is so clearly not connected to this world.

Also, having now read the spoiler...the time travel bit has always posed issues for me. You need to be consistent in the rules, or it doesn't work. And this show is inconsistent. Most television series are. I think Doctor Who and Sarah Connor Chronicles were the only ones, with the possible exception of Outlander (which I didn't stick with), that stayed consistent.

And as ann1962 states above, it's a bit on the dull side. My attention keeps wondering. I've been having troubles focusing since 11/9...so that's part of it.