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Time After Time: Season 1

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Travel through centuries, decades and days with a young H.G. Wells in the time machine he created. Using creative elements from many of Wells's classic stories, Time After Time creates a fantasy world surrounding the events that inspired these great literary works. We look at the world of today through the eyes of yesterday while fully charged with danger and centered in thrills, satire, humor - and most of all - an epic love story.
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Anyone give the two-hour premiere a try? I'm not sure what to think of it. They really blew through the 1893 segment to get to the present, which is rather messy with whatever kind of time travel rules they have set in place. I also find the lead actor a bit boring. The initial ratings suggest this show will be one and done.

The only thing interesting so far is the mysterious third party tracking the time travelers.
 
I think the rules they established for time travel are fairly simple - for the moment - the time machine itself doesn't travel through time, merely the occupants, explaining how it travels between Camden, 1893 and New York, 2017, and that whilst you can travel back and alter history, it's not wise to travel to the same point repeatedly a it would break time.

I'm pondering if Anders Enterprise's might actually be something directly related to the Stevenson/The Ripper - and not to Wells himself - and that naming Anders' husband Griffin suggests that they might end up developing him into The Invisible Man.
 
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Anyone give the two-hour premiere a try? I'm not sure what to think of it. They really blew through the 1893 segment to get to the present, which is rather messy with whatever kind of time travel rules they have set in place. .
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To be fair, the original 1979 movie did the same thing. In fact, the first hour was pretty much a condensed version of the movie, beat by beat, while the second hour broke new ground. I noticed that Nicholas Meyer got a writing credit for Part One; I wonder if he was actually involved with the remake or if it was just that the first hour was so closely based on his original script that the WGA awarded him a co-writing credit?

Was Karl Alexander credited for writing the original novel? I looked for his name in the opening credits, but I could have missed it.
 
tenmei said:
I think the rules they established for time travel are fairly simple - for the moment - the time machine itself doesn't travel through time, merely the occupants, explaining how it travels between Camden, 1893 and New York, 2017...
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But it did disappear from Wells' basement and then reappear when Stevenson got away.
 
I recorded it but have not watched it yet. The original movie is a favorite of mine. Yet I am dubious if this will work as a tv series. It does not help that there are close to it seems a half dozen time travel shows on right now! Nothing I have read in reviews is too positive.

It is never explained in the movie but based on what we are told there must have been a malfunction in the Time Machine. That even though it disappeared with Wells it was discovered in "modern day London" without Wells. In the film it was moved to San Francisco for that exhibit and later Wells arrived inside. That alone might be plausible but that it also happened for Jack the Ripper first but did not disappear from San Francisco to return for Wells never made much sense.
 
Perhaps it only vanishes from the point of view of someone watching the departing time machine - as it synchronises with its future (or past) self.

So the time machine exists from 1892 to 2017 (and onwards) - with Wells and Stevenson being able to use it to travel to points between. The time machine itself doesn't cease to exist in 1891 when, first Stevenson and then Wells travel in it, it just takes a moment to synch with its own future self and deposit any passengers there. Whilst doing so, it appears to temporarily vanish from the point of view of anyone observing - and, you're right, Wells did observe it reappearing (I had forgotten this point), but he is also the only person to witness the process from outside for the moment, but given we know that nobody in them museum reacted when he or Stevenson arrived (despite it frosting over) it doesn't appear as if it just appears out of thin air.

It's not a TARDIS.
 
^ That makes the show sound more interesting. And they'd need something like that if they want to sustain it long-term. As suggested though, it looks like they won't get that chance.
 
I watched now a little better than I expected. I am curious to see were it goes and will continue to watch. I doubt it will last long though. It's ratings were not good. It's such a bad time in the season to a new series. It's hard not to speculate they partially waited for Timeless' season to be over.

Not really a spoiler. In the movie the love interest is named Amy Robbins. Which was the real name of Wells' second wife. On this show the love interest is named Jane. I have read a lot about Wells over the years and must of forgotten until I saw it again in many places online - Wells real nickname for Amy was Jane...
 
Enterprise is Great said:
Looks like they're planning on bringing in other Wells creations into the show:

http://www.eonline.com/news/833741/...ls-greatest-hits-for-the-ultimate-book-report
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Oh, great, one more entry in the "H.G. Wells's actual trips through time or encounters with time travelers/aliens inspired his science fiction" subgenre. Doctor Who did that ages ago in "Timelash," and Legends of Tomorrow did it after a fashion in season 1. A similar idea was the basis of the TV series The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, which was a pretty lame show, largely because very few of its plots related to anything in Verne's actual body of work.
 
I would like to see inspirations for more than just his science fiction ideas. They could draw some parallels between the huge disparity between the small number of wealthy people in this country and the vast working class who supports them, to the Morlocks and the Eloi.
 
The pilot was made sooooooooo long ago.

Did they have a Hilary scenes prepared for in case she had won the election?
 
One wonders if they will go so far as to bring in Martian invaders--perhaps as the cliffhanger at the end of the season?
 
Christopher said:
Oh, great, one more entry in the "H.G. Wells's actual trips through time or encounters with time travelers/aliens inspired his science fiction" subgenre. Doctor Who did that ages ago in "Timelash," and Legends of Tomorrow did it after a fashion in season 1. A similar idea was the basis of the TV series The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, which was a pretty lame show, largely because very few of its plots related to anything in Verne's actual body of work.
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But the book this is based on, and the original movie, was released five years prior to Timelash, twenty years prior to The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne and thirty six years prior to Legends of Tomorrow. If anything, the introduction of other elements of Wells' work is a logical extrapolation of the concept of the novel.
 
tenmei said:
But the book this is based on, and the original movie, was released five years prior to Timelash, twenty years prior to The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne and thirty six years prior to Legends of Tomorrow. If anything, the introduction of other elements of Wells' work is a logical extrapolation of the concept of the novel.
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Yes, obviously, but this isn't the book, it's a new work inspired by the book, and with no involvement from the book's author, who died in 2015. So the decisions made by its creators are their own responsibility, not Karl Alexander's. They need to expand beyond the single story in the book, and they've chosen to do so by using a rather unoriginal trope. I don't find that encouraging.
 
I thought it was interesting that all of the women that Dr. Stephenson aka the Ripper had targeted in modern day Manhattan were WOCs. Interesting.
 
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