Spoilers Timeless Season 2 - SPOILERS

[Greg Cox]

Although I'm still puzzled as to why, after saving it the first time, NBC buried the show at 10 pm on Sundays.

Not the obvious place for a show with lots of kid appeal. (Cue flashbacks to NBC saving STAR TREK, then relegating it to a Friday night "death slot.")

The more things change . . .. ?

 

[Dick Whitman]

Sony owns and produces the show. I am surprised they did not have another outlet lined up instead of NBC even before season 1 ended. Their official Twitter account says they support the show and it’s fans. But at this point it’s going to be hard to convince anyone outside of NBC to spend money on it. It was given 2 chances and failed and other potential distributors are very aware of it.

 

[Aragorn]

I had fun watching the show but the writing was not very good. People on other websites are acting like NBC just canceled The Wire.

And aside from the one episode that took place in 1981, I would totally forget about Agent Christopher.

Agent Christopher is like the boss on a police show that is only there to oversee the case that the main stars handle 99% of anyway with or without the boss, and any character development is a distant second or third for importance in an episode. Aidan Quinn is probably the most overqualified one of them all.

 

[Christopher]

Although I'm still puzzled as to why, after saving it the first time, NBC buried the show at 10 pm on Sundays.

Not the obvious place for a show with lots of kid appeal. (Cue flashbacks to NBC saving STAR TREK, then relegating it to a Friday night "death slot.")

The more things change . . .. ?

The thing is, a single show doesn't exist in a vacuum; it's competing for time slots with all the other shows. The reason ST was bumped to Friday night was because the producer of Laugh-In insisted on getting the good slot that ST was supposed to get, and he had more clout than Roddenberry.

 

[Photoman15]

But they didn't have to put in the Friday death slot.

 

[Christopher]

But they didn't have to put in the Friday death slot.

Like I said, they have to balance all the shows in their schedule, and something has to end up there. We laypeople have no business armchair-quarterbacking decisions when we don't know all the factors that go into making them. We mustn't mistake our lack of awareness of a reason for the lack of its existence.

 

[Timewalker]

It's too bad, but there's always fanfic (there are a lot of decent Timeless stories on fanfiction.net).

The only time I was extremely upset about a show being canceled after a cliffhanger ending was 20 years ago, when it happened to The Crow: Stairway to Heaven. The show actually had been renewed, but then some sort of sequence of business decisions involving production companies and studios happened and when the dust settled, the new owners decided they didn't want to bother with it.

So while it wasn't exactly a cliffhanger, the series did end with Shelley Webster jumping off the bridge in the Land of the Dead to return to the real world, to be with Eric Draven. No idea if she would also be a Crow when she arrived; presumably that's one of the things that would have been explained.

There was talk of a TV movie to wrap everything up, but it never happened. It was infuriating, as there were so many directions they could have gone in Season 2.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Sigh. This is what I expected, but it's sad to see it become official. I really liked that bunch of characters.

As for the cliffhanger, luckily in this case it works just as well as a twist ending-- with a ray of hope.

 

[Christopher]

NBC has announced that Timeless will be getting a 2-hour finale after all, to air during the holiday season:

https://tvline.com/2018/07/31/timeless-renewed-season-3-finale-movie-date-nbc/

 

[Q2UnME]

NBC has announced that Timeless will be getting a 2-hour finale after all, to air during the holiday season:

https://tvline.com/2018/07/31/timeless-renewed-season-3-finale-movie-date-nbc/

Just read about this over at EW.com. This is good news for fans. The cliff hanger ending to season 2 left far too many questions and plotlines unanswered. A whole lot of loose ends to tie up in 2 hours, I just hope it isn't a jumbled mess because of it. I'll be tuning in.

Q2

 

[Aragorn]

If my memory is correct, didn't The Pretender have a two-hour TV movie to wrap up all their loose ends and it wasn't very good? But then they had a second TV movie which didn't have that burden and it was good?

 

[Marc]

If my memory is correct, didn't The Pretender have a two-hour TV movie to wrap up all their loose ends and it wasn't very good? But then they had a second TV movie which didn't have that burden and it was good?

My recollection was that there was still many unanawunan questions after both movies.

 

[LJones41]

NBC has announced that Timeless will be getting a 2-hour finale after all, to air during the holiday season:

https://tvline.com/2018/07/31/timeless-renewed-season-3-finale-movie-date-nbc/

Considering how much I disliked the whole Jessica Logan is Rittenhouse thing, I don't know how I feel about this news.

 

[Romulan_spy]

NBC has announced that Timeless will be getting a 2-hour finale after all, to air during the holiday season:

https://tvline.com/2018/07/31/timeless-renewed-season-3-finale-movie-date-nbc/

I am very happy about this. I hope we get a really great finale that truly wraps up the show in a satisfying way. Obviously, I hope they save Rufus. I also hope the finale ends the Rittenhouse threat once and for all, and gives Lucy and Wyatt a happy ending together.

 

[ATimson]

If my memory is correct, didn't The Pretender have a two-hour TV movie to wrap up all their loose ends and it wasn't very good? But then they had a second TV movie which didn't have that burden and it was good?

I don't know about The Pretender. But Stargate: SG-1 had a 2-hour direct-to-DVD wrapup movie, and Farscape had a 4 hour finale with the Peacekeeper Wars miniseries. While both could have benefited from more runtime, they both did a serviceable job of wrapping up the loose ends.

 

[Christopher]

But Stargate: SG-1 had a 2-hour direct-to-DVD wrapup movie

Which is not quite the same thing, because it was the first of two DVD movies, and there were plans to do more, but they were scuttled by MGM going bankrupt, IIRC.

 

[Marc]

I don't know about The Pretender. But Stargate: SG-1 had a 2-hour direct-to-DVD wrapup movie, and Farscape had a 4 hour finale with the Peacekeeper Wars miniseries. While both could have benefited from more runtime, they both did a serviceable job of wrapping up the loose ends.

Though stargate could have been wrapped up during the last series as they knew the end was coming. Farscape with cancelled after the season finalle end.

 

[Christopher]

Though stargate could have been wrapped up during the last series as they knew the end was coming.

They also knew the DVD movies were coming, so they decided not to rush the resolution.

 

[bigdaddy]

If my memory is correct, didn't The Pretender have a two-hour TV movie to wrap up all their loose ends and it wasn't very good? But then they had a second TV movie which didn't have that burden and it was good?

Your memory isn't good. There were two movies made, none wrapped anything up as there were supposed to be 4 movies total that wrapped everything up but the last two got canceled.

All I remember was The Pretender became Jesus in the last movie.

Though stargate could have been wrapped up during the last series as they knew the end was coming. Farscape with cancelled after the season finalle end.

SG-1 was planning for a final 11th season, they thought it was in the bed and it was canceled after they already filmed at least half the season, if not much more. So instead of rushing an ending in probably less than 6 episodes they knew they were getting DVD movies.

It was canceled after the 200th episode air, but who knew how many more episodes were filmed by the time it aired.

Also the wrap up movie is awful and could have used another 5-6 rewrites.

 

[RJDiogenes]

It is the show that will not die. This is great news.