I think that was the most fun episode yet and, maybe, has brought this series to a point where I'd like to see it continue as it shakes out the growing pains and finds a pace. Dealing with Flemming was pretty fun and liked the "New Bond Movie" bit at the end. Interesting story line, but the overall "arc" of what's going on behind the scenes I'm still dragging on and, still, "I'm doing this to destroy America!" thing. Ughhhhhhh.
I think it'd be a *bit* more interesting if he was doing his time traveling to make those changes to history we all usually say we'd make if given the opportunity and our characters have to make the moral slippery slope choice of ensuring history is kept intact.
We see them dealing with these moral struggles some, particularly with the episode centered around Lincoln and this one with von Braun but it still feels a bit, I dunno, shallow. What if the head bad-guy had gone back in time to kill Hitler before rising to power. Then our characters have to make the difficult choice of saving Hitler because we know how that history plays out and it's impossible to know if things would be better or worse without what he did. WWII and its aftermath saw a lot of global changes on social, economic and technological scales. Had WWII not happened? Who knows what would have happened without that war driving people, without the resulting Baby Boom, without re-appropriating technology acquired during the war into civilian and other use.
Like with von Braun. Sure, he helped the Nazis build bombs and destroy cities but ultimately they led to getting America to the moon. If there had been no war, would there have been as much money, time and effort dumped into his research allowing him to achieve what he ultimately does?
But, nah, let's go with some convoluted conspiracy subplot and the villain wanting to destroy America because.... "Rah, America and patriotism! And screw the existence of other nations!"
