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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)
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)
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