Asserting absolute certainty feeds only our egos. Admitting doubt feeds our wisdom.
Spoilers Timeless: Season 1 on NBC
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Asserting absolute certainty feeds only our egos. Admitting doubt feeds our wisdom.
This week's episode was definitely better then the last.
It was nice to get to see Rufus's home life. We've seen lots with Lucy, so it was a nice change of pace to get to see someone else outside of the mission.
We also got some nice story movement with all of the secrets coming out.
It was nice to get to see Rufus's home life. We've seen lots with Lucy, so it was a nice change of pace to get to see someone else outside of the mission.
We also got some nice story movement with all of the secrets coming out.
I'm glad to see I wasn't the only one who had trouble identifying him. I know they wanted this to be a big surprise, but with them being so mysterious in the last episode, I was expecting this. I was expecting it to be Flynn, but this is really so close I don't really see it being any different.
Yeah, that was weird. I thought maybe I missed a reference to it being a document.
I was more surprised we didn't get this reveal, than I was by the reveal of Lucy's father.
I did get a kick out of the missing 18 minutes being a conversation about Rittenhouse.
Yeah, we are finally getting some background story other then Lucy's. Which is good.
Is this there first time they mention the rule about not being able to travel back to a time when 'the teams' exist? Seems like the first time they said it in show.
Is this there first time they mention the rule about not being able to travel back to a time when 'the teams' exist? Seems like the first time they said it in show.
They obviously need a team of highly trained pre-teens for special missions. That could even be a spin-off:
Timeless: The Tween Years
From the pilot...
It's a little unclear what that means from a time perspective. Is the demarcation date the date-of-birth, the date-of-insemination, the day the female egg becomes usable, etc.
Yep. They did something similar in the Justice League episode Hereafter. In the future, Vandal Savage invented a time machine, but he couldn't send somebody back to a moment in time in which he/she already existed.
Yep. They did something similar in the Justice League episode Hereafter. In the future, Vandal Savage invented a time machine, but he couldn't send somebody back to a moment in time in which he/she already existed.
Yep - I completely forgot about that.
Watched the most recent episode. Pretty decent and interesting. Not a fan of the "monolithic, all-powerful, secret organization" trope but it seems to be starting to hit a stride here and, possibly, our characters on a path to side with the bad-guy on some level or another?
I was replying to you, not the QL comment by Scout101.
Rufus can drive the time machine, he can go back 4 hundred years and create his on conspiracy to destroy Rittenhouse and take over America.
This isn't going to be a Chinese whispers thing, and the group was originally called Rotten house?
This isn't going to be a Chinese whispers thing, and the group was originally called Rotten house?
That was my idea about 2 pages ago.
Are you replying to something I edited out?
I did burble on, decided that it was rubbish, and erased it from space but not time.
How bizarre.
Lucy arrogantly believes that she is from the original timeline, and doesn't want to open any cans of worms, that will pull the timeline she is living in even further away form her home timeline, that needs to be restored so that she doesn't feel uncomfortable, no matter the consequences to the entire planet.
Man, that intel would have been valuable. If you think about it -- if they destroy Rittenhouse, then funding for building the time machine would not exist. Unless some OTHER mysterious organization takes its place instead and funds it. Then back to square one.
On the "can't travel back to a time you're already in..." thing.
It seemed instead of trying to relax it or ignore they actually.... tightened it?
When it was originally brought up I took it as they can't go back to re-try because they're already there it'd cause a compounding of paradoxes that had unpredictable results. That's what I took from the "no second chances" thing; not that you couldn't go back to a time you already exist in at all. Which is pretty much on par with the "same matter cannot occupy the same space" thing from Timecop.
There's no "logical" reason why they couldn't travel back to a time they already exist in so long as they don't interact with the other version of themself (again causing paradoxes.) And it seems limiting as far as the time periods we'll see. We're really not going to see more of the 70s or the 80s and 90s at all?
I still suspect sooner or later they'll technobabble out of that handicap. Sort of like never nailing down how "fast" warp speeds are or how the technology in Trek works, it ties your hands. So this self-imposed handicap is going to be story block sooner or later and they're going to need to ditch it.
It seemed instead of trying to relax it or ignore they actually.... tightened it?
When it was originally brought up I took it as they can't go back to re-try because they're already there it'd cause a compounding of paradoxes that had unpredictable results. That's what I took from the "no second chances" thing; not that you couldn't go back to a time you already exist in at all. Which is pretty much on par with the "same matter cannot occupy the same space" thing from Timecop.
There's no "logical" reason why they couldn't travel back to a time they already exist in so long as they don't interact with the other version of themself (again causing paradoxes.) And it seems limiting as far as the time periods we'll see. We're really not going to see more of the 70s or the 80s and 90s at all?
I still suspect sooner or later they'll technobabble out of that handicap. Sort of like never nailing down how "fast" warp speeds are or how the technology in Trek works, it ties your hands. So this self-imposed handicap is going to be story block sooner or later and they're going to need to ditch it.
Define square one.
They had had maybe hundreds of jaunts in their time machines before Lucy turned up, Lucy's square one is Matt Frewer's square 200.
If they stop the invention of time travel, just be choking the money supply even... Or Rufus killing his grandfather... That has no effect on the travelers in the past.
They are going to return to the present, with a time machine, but that command centre will not be there, and they will be alone, and the shape of time will be what it looked like hundreds of jumps before Lucy turned up, which could still also be very unfamiliar.
