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Rank the New Time Travel Shows.

Guy Gardener

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Travelers.

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Making History.

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Timeless
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Frequency.

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Making History & Time after Time haven't aired yet, but #### it... Favourite at the top, least favourite at bottom. Make a list. I already made mine, it's above. :)
 
I've seen Travelers and couldn't figure out what the hell it's supposed to be about. What good is hopping into someone's body moments before they're scheduled to die... if the body is supposed to be dead? Obviously the body these people use is still alive, so what happened to the original mind inhabiting it?

Two episodes of Timeless... mildly interesting so far.
 
Remember in TOS Tomorrow is Yesterday? They tried to take John Christopher home to 2268, before he had conceived his child that would captain the first mission to Saturn. That would have been bad.

The heroes of the story can make changes to the timeline, because they are following a well thought out master plan. Taking over people with lives left to live, making it so that contributions necessary to the timeline that they should have contributed: vanish, destabilizes the baseline/foundation they want to build off, turning their masterplan to shit, like what happened to Anorax in Voyager Year of Hell several times.
 
I've only seen Timeless and Frequency, but I give the edge to Timeless because Frequency is hewing a little too close to the plot of the film for my tastes. They could do well with some side adventures unrelated to the central arc. And it's kind of infuriating that they haven't just arranged for the Mom to take a vacation with distant relatives for a month and a half to avoid being the serial killer's next victim.
 
One annoying thing about Timeless is the sheer ugliness of the time machine. At least in Galactica 1980, the bikes the Galacticans rode on had an invisibility mode. This huge eye-shaped thing just sits there out in the open for everyone to see. What happens to history if someone takes a picture of it or manages to get inside?
 
Hmmm.

Sorry, Time Walker, I made some assumptions about Travelers, that didn't pan out, after seeing the second episode. The travellers are not beaming into literally dead people of course, you know that. Just persons who should be dead if they had not intervened. :)

Blondie is Traveler 438, and the Director, their Boss still in the future, sending back still more Travelers, is immune to changes to the time line, and can get pissy when the future around him, her or it reconfigures because of choices made by his, her or it's time agents in the past go a little cockeyed. So yeah, it's probably a moral choice to only use those that should have died, but because the Director is aware of his her or it's own present (in the future) still being shit and still in need of further alterations in the past to make everything more better, he she or it is going to keep Ahabbing it until the future is wonderfully perfect.

Souls are made up, hippy bullshit, so what is being sent back in time are recordings of human personalities using human technology. Now I'm wondering if the Director is recording human consciousnesses off still alive people in the future, or if he, she or it, just found a server farm place-holding for cyberheaven full of digitized personalities. I'm wondering if the Director is AI, so I'm also wondering if the Director is from a lot further into the future than from where he, she or it is conscripting digitized humans from, since Blondie is a doctor, because there's one thing I know about most apocalypsese is that Schools tend to close down as society falls.

The present around the Director is constantly changing depending on what the 1000 time agents that he she or it sent into the past, whereafter he rewards or punishes those time agents accordingly to the success or failure of their missions. Oh. They can't fail. A messenger will be sent back to tell them that they are on a path to failure and they should re-access their judgement... The reason (maybe?) for the compartmentalization, is that there might be a 1000 time agent/travelers at any point in the past, but what if the Director only has 50 digital recordings of the same 50 people that he, she or it can send back in time? That's a good reason not to talk to other groups if there are three hundred copies of your personality walking around Earth at any one point who might be bummed to discover that they are not unique and special.
 
Hmmm.

Sorry, Time Walker, I made some assumptions about Travelers, that didn't pan out, after seeing the second episode. The travellers are not beaming into literally dead people of course, you know that. Just persons who should be dead if they had not intervened. :)

Blondie is Traveler 438, and the Director, their Boss still in the future, sending back still more Travelers, is immune to changes to the time line, and can get pissy when the future around him, her or it reconfigures because of choices made by his, her or it's time agents in the past go a little cockeyed. So yeah, it's probably a moral choice to only use those that should have died, but because the Director is aware of his her or it's own present (in the future) still being shit and still in need of further alterations in the past to make everything more better, he she or it is going to keep Ahabbing it until the future is wonderfully perfect.

Souls are made up, hippy bullshit, so what is being sent back in time are recordings of human personalities using human technology. Now I'm wondering if the Director is recording human consciousnesses off still alive people in the future, or if he, she or it, just found a server farm place-holding for cyberheaven full of digitized personalities. I'm wondering if the Director is AI, so I'm also wondering if the Director is from a lot further into the future than from where he, she or it is conscripting digitized humans from, since Blondie is a doctor, because there's one thing I know about most apocalypsese is that Schools tend to close down as society falls.

The present around the Director is constantly changing depending on what the 1000 time agents that he she or it sent into the past, whereafter he rewards or punishes those time agents accordingly to the success or failure of their missions. Oh. They can't fail. A messenger will be sent back to tell them that they are on a path to failure and they should re-access their judgement... The reason (maybe?) for the compartmentalization, is that there might be a 1000 time agent/travelers at any point in the past, but what if the Director only has 50 digital recordings of the same 50 people that he, she or it can send back in time? That's a good reason not to talk to other groups if there are three hundred copies of your personality walking around Earth at any one point who might be bummed to discover that they are not unique and special.
I appreciate your time (;)) and effort to explain this to me, but I don't think I'm going to be able to continue watching this program. The channel I saw it on is only available to me until October 31 as a free preview, and I don't expect to subscribe to it. Timeless is available on a channel I can get with basic cable, so I'll keep on with it.
 
Man, i really want to talk about Travelers but there is no thread. Since this is a joint Netflix show, I hope it shows up on Netflix soon for everyone else?
 
Man, i really want to talk about Travelers but there is no thread. Since this is a joint Netflix show, I hope it shows up on Netflix soon for everyone else?

It's on Showcase in Canada (along with Supergirl) and airing on Monday nights.
 
^Yeah, I am watching it now actually. It seems its not available outside of Canada yet is what I meant to say.
 
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Travelers is ok. it feels (tone) a lot like Continuum, even has the guy who played Jason in Continuum in it.
 
Pretty good episode of Travelers this past week, trying to alter the asteroids trajectory. We learn alot more about what's going on. Travelers jumping into everyone from the old religious group and all the military guys at the end, but did they turn the key to late? I still get that Continuum vibe with this show.
 
Travelers jumping into everyone from the old religious group and all the military guys at the end, but did they turn the key to late?
This is the part I didn't understand. What was the point for protocol 3 if the military guys end up dying anyways. The team knew everyone was going to die if they didn't get out of the blast zone? But It did make for an awesome 'ending'. It seems like the key was turned late, but it is possible it didn't work. I guess we will find out in '2 months'.

I'm guessing its the setting/writing styles. Alot of Canadian shows give off the same vibe to me.
 
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